What do you wonder about Miami and the Sunshine State? Curious305 will investigate.
By Michelle Marchante and
Forrest Milburn
Curious305 is a community-powered reporting series that will answer questions submitted by readers like you about Miami-Dade, South Florida and the rest of the Sunshine State.
Holly Braford
What do you wonder about, Miami? We want to know what’s on your mind.
The Miami Herald has launched Curious305, a community-powered reporting series that solicits questions from readers about Miami-Dade, Broward, the Florida Keys and the Sunshine State. The crowdsourcing project is just one way we’re working to involve you, our readers, in our journalism.
Here’s how Curious305 works: You send us a question and our journalists research and report the answer.
There’s no such thing as a question too big or too small. Maybe you’re curious about something in your community or neighborhood, like, “Why are all the addresses in Coral Gables on white stone slabs on the ground?” or “Who invented Miami’s first ventanita?”
Whether you’ve lived in South Florida your whole life or recently moved here, there’s a lot to be discovered. Our community reporting series will put you in the driver’s seat as we take a ride through the storytelling process together.
So, if you’ve seen something in your neighborhood or community that made you go, “I wonder why ... ” “Is it true...” or “How can I ...”, share your question with us by filling out the submission form below. We’ll be in touch.
This story was originally published April 5, 2021 at 2:34 PM.
Michelle Marchante covers the pulse of healthcare in South Florida and also the City of Coral Gables. Before that, she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, crime, education, entertainment and other topics in South Florida for the Herald as a breaking news reporter. She recently won first place in the health reporting category in the 2025 Sunshine State Awards for her coverage of Steward Health’s bankruptcy. An investigative series about the abrupt closure of a Miami heart transplant program led Michelle and her colleagues to be recognized as finalists in two 2024 Florida Sunshine State Award categories. She also won second place in the 73rd annual Green Eyeshade Awards for her consumer-focused healthcare stories and was part of the team of reporters who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for the Miami Herald’s breaking news coverage of the Surfside building collapse. Michelle graduated with honors from Florida International University and was a 2025 National Press Foundation Covering Workplace Mental Health fellow and a 2020-2021 Poynter-Koch Media & Journalism fellow. Support my work with a digital subscription
Forrest is the senior audience growth and engagement producer on the audience team, where he cares deeply about building reader loyalty and community engagement. He comes to the Miami Herald from the University of Texas at Austin. He most recently worked on the audience team at The Washington Post; but his Texas roots run deep, interning at papers across the Lonestar State.
