Joe Mario Pedersen
Health ReporterOriginally from South Florida, Joe Mario came to Orlando to attend the University of Central Florida where he graduated with degrees in Radio & Television Production, Film, and Psychology. He worked several beats and covered multimedia at The Villages Daily Sun but returned to the City Beautiful as a reporter for the Orlando Sentinel where he covered crime, hurricanes, and viral news. Joe Mario has too many interests and not enough time but tries to focus on his love for strange stories in comic books and horror movies. When he's not writing he loves to run in his spare time.
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Orange County and Orlando are in dispute over who controls thousands of acres of land known as Sunbridge. On Tuesday, the county approved starting a procedure to resolve the conflict. -
Seven months before the general election, and Central Florida groups are already rallying both sides of the abortion issue ahead of an "emotional" election. -
Ukrainian amputees are learning to walk again in Orlando. Soldiers arrive seeking prosthetics and rehabilitation after suffering complex injuries from the war with Russia. The nonprofit Revived Soldiers Ukraine says it's receiving more double amputees and now faces an uphill battle when it comes to funding its prosthetic rehab program. -
Florida's new dashboard has information on undocumented people using Florida's Medicaid-receiving hospitals, but policy experts point to inconsistencies in the dashboard's reporting. -
As American focus shifts from the Ukraine-Russian war to the Israel-Hamas war, a Ukrainian prosthetic nonprofit in Orlando is struggling to give amputees legs to stand on. -
The Florida Supreme Court released multiple decisions Monday regarding the abortion landscape including upholding the 15-week abortion ban and approving a proposed amendment that would let voters decide to enshrine the right to abortion healthcare in the state constitution. -
Orlando Health has expanded its Hospital at Home Care program allowing more patients in Central Florida to recover in the comfort of their own home. -
On Tuesday, U.S. Congressman Maxwell Frost held a roundtable for Central Florida's Haitian community to brainstorm ideas for those seeking refuge from the ensuing violence and chaos in Haiti. -
It's been nearly a year since Florida began reviewing Medicaid eligibility, and since then nearly half-a-million children have lost insurance. Many of them have fallen into a gap without coverage, including some with cancer. -
Has the pollen been worse this year? Central Florida Doctors think so and are seeing more cases of allergy complaints this year then before.
