/tags/carrie-meek Carrie Meek en-US WLRN Tue, 30 Nov 2021 23:19:40 GMT /2021-11-30/carrie-meeks-legacy-floridas-gambling-deal-in-trouble-and-e-scooters-quick-comeback-in-miami We remember one of South Florida’s greatest leaders and pioneers, Carrie Meek. The gaming compact between Florida and the Seminole Tribe is in trouble. Plus, Miami's ban on scooters was short-lived. Tue, 30 Nov 2021 23:19:40 GMT /2021-11-30/carrie-meeks-legacy-floridas-gambling-deal-in-trouble-and-e-scooters-quick-comeback-in-miami Leslie Ovalle Atkinson /news/2021-11-29/carrie-meek-pioneering-black-former-congresswoman-has-died Meek, the grandchild of a slave and a sharecropper's daughter who became one of the first Black Floridians elected to Congress since Reconstruction, died Sunday. She was 95. Mon, 29 Nov 2021 12:11:19 GMT /news/2021-11-29/carrie-meek-pioneering-black-former-congresswoman-has-died The Associated Press