Mike SchneiderJuly 28, 2020
4min533
The economic calamity of 2020 followed a soft 2019.
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Epcot, Disney's Hollywood Studios the last to reopen.
Mike SchneiderJune 29, 2020
6min836
A veneer of good manners usually prevails. Not lately.
Mike SchneiderMay 18, 2020
4min229
Disney warns, COVID-19 is "can lead to severe illness and death."
Mike SchneiderApril 27, 2020
5min216
Bureau halted field operations for the national head count in mid-March.
Mike SchneiderMarch 22, 2020
8min486
The media age in the community is about 72.
Mike SchneiderJune 22, 2017
4min262
Florida’s Latino population grew fastest last year in counties in the exurbs of Orlando and Tampa, according to U.S. Census figures released Thursday. The new figures also showed strong Latino growth rates in counties outside Jacksonville, but those areas had comparatively small Hispanic populations to start with. Among counties with more than 100,000 residents, St. […]
Mike SchneiderJune 7, 2017
11min213
Ricardo Negon never kissed his boyfriend in front of conservative relatives. Carlos Guillermo Smith was once attacked by anti-gay students at a college party. After coming out in high school, Marco Quiroga left his mother’s home and became temporarily homeless. Many gay Latinos in Orlando have endured indignities, rejection or violence because of their sexual […]
Mike SchneiderMarch 12, 2017
5min223
A federal judge in Orlando on Friday revoked bond for the wife of the gunman responsible for the Pulse nightclub massacre, the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. U.S. District Judge Paul Byron reversed the decision of a magistrate judge in Oakland, California, last week to release Noor Salman on $500,000 bond and ordered […]
Mike SchneiderDecember 9, 2016
6min209
Six months after her brother and his longtime partner were killed in Orlando’s gay nightclub massacre, Jessica Silva is re-opening the couple’s beauty salon. Half a dozen black salon chairs are in place. One of them faces a large photo of the brother Juan Rivera Velazquez and his partner Luis Daniel Conde, who died June 12 in the worst mass shooting […]