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Beth Reinhard - Political Writer

Beth Reinhard is The Miami Herald's political writer. Born and raised in South Florida, she received a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. She has been a reporter since 1991 and has worked at newspapers in central New Jersey, Washington, D.C. and West Palm Beach. She joined The Herald in 1998 and has written a Saturday column on politics since 1999.

Mary Ellen Klas - Tallahassee Bureau Chief

Mary Ellen Klas has been covering Tallahassee politics since 1988 -- when Tom Gallagher was running his first insurance commissioner race and Bob Martinez was Florida's first modern-day Republican governor. A native of Minnesota, Mary Ellen came to Florida as a business reporter for the Palm Beach Post in 1986, after graduating from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York. She became the Palm Beach Post's Tallahassee bureau chief in 1990 and, from 1994 to 2004, she worked as a senior reporter for the Post and for Florida Trend. Mary Ellen joined the Herald as Tallahassee bureau chief in 2004. She is married to Orlando Sentinel Bureau Chief John Kennedy and they have two daughters.

Lesley Clark - Washington Correspondent

Lesley Clark is the Herald's national correspondent in Washington, D.C., keeping tabs on Florida's two senators, its House members and federal issues and policies that affect the state. Before landing in D.C. in February, she spent four years in the Herald's capital bureau in Tallahassee and two years in Miami, covering state government and politics.

Marc Caputo - Tallahassee Bureau

Marc Caputo is a reporter in The Herald’s Tallahassee bureau. Hailing from Key West, he graduated from the University of Miami, earning a general studies degree with a specialty in James Joyce studies for which he wrote an undergraduate thesis (quite incomprehesible, upon reflection) on mysticism in the 10th Chapter of Finnegan's Wake. Having wound up in journalism for need of a paying job, he worked for newspapers in Key West, Naples, Arizona and West Palm Beach before joining The Herald in 2003.

Amy Sherman - Broward County Government Reporter

Amy Sherman covers Broward County government. She was born in Amherst, MA. and moved to Minnesota to attend college at Macalester in St. Paul. She worked for the St. Paul Pioneer Press before moving to Florida in 2004 and joining the Miami Herald.