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Scott PowersFebruary 19, 2018

Republican House District 47 candidate Mikaela Nix announced Monday she is kicking off her campaign with a fundraiser featuring Orange County Commissioner Pete Clarke, Orlando Magic executive Pat Williams, former Clerk of Courts Eddie Fernandez and several current and former municipal leaders on her host committee. Nix is planning her event for 5:30 p.m. Wednesday […]

Scott PowersFebruary 19, 2018

Calling racism a societal plague, Democratic state Senate candidate Melissa “Mel” Martin offered what she called her anti-racism platform as a recognition of Black History Month. Martin, of Cocoa, is running against Republican state Sen. Dorothy Hukill in Senate District 14, covering southern Volusia and northern Brevard counties. A retired major in the U.S. Marine […]

Scott PowersFebruary 19, 2018

The League of Women Voters of Florida led a coalition of groups responding to last week’s Parkland mass shooting by urging the Florida Constitution Revision Commission to take up a proposed amendment to ban assault weapons. But at the commission’s second public hearing on its 37 proposals, held at the Maxwell C. King Center in […]

Scott PowersFebruary 19, 2018

Republican Florida House District 47 candidate Stockton Reeves VI announced he is kicking off his campaign with a kick-off event Thursday evening with a host committee that includes Dean Cannon, Tom Gallagher, Ken Pruitt, Kevin Beary and scores of others. The rally, set for 5 p.m. at Hannibal’s On the Square in Winter Park, is […]

Scott PowersFebruary 18, 2018

In a potential breakthrough bipartisan agreement on gun issues following last week’s horrendous high school mass murder in Parkland, Republican Congressman Carlos Curbelo tweeted his support for a bill Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy is pushing to renew federal research into gun violence. The apparent deal was struck via Twitter late Friday and Saturday after U.S. […]

Scott PowersFebruary 16, 2018

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gwen Graham has expanded her response to Wednesday’s high school massacre from vowing to ban assault weapons if she is elected to calling on current Gov. Rick Scott to immediately suspend their sales. She also declared that Scott’s “legacy will forever be covered in blood” if he and the Legislature do not […]

Scott PowersFebruary 16, 2018

Orlando Democratic U.S. Rep. Val Demings is lining up with the latest Democratic bill to restrict guns, a measure that would allow families to raise concerns about members who are found to be dangers to themselves or others and for judges to order police to confiscate those persons’ guns. Introduced by U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal, a […]

Scott PowersFebruary 16, 2018

Declaring that Republican leadership in Tallahassee has “transformed Florida into a petri dish of experimentation for the NRA” and “utterly failed to address public health and mental health care,” Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chris King said Friday he would fight the gun lobby, veto their bills, and seek to expand coverage and ban assault weapons. The […]

Scott PowersFebruary 15, 2018

Matthew Fitzpatrick, a former teacher and vice principal in Orange County, has filed to run for the countywide chair position on the Orange County School Board. Fitzpatrick, 50, of Apopka, is an Orange Technical College administrator who previously ran for the School Board District 7 seat in 2016, losing to Christine Moore. He enters a […]

Scott PowersFebruary 15, 2018

The University of Central Florida Presidential Search Committee on Thursday narrowed a list of more than 40 applicants for the school’s presidency to eight semifinalists including the university’s current Provost and Executive Vice President Dale Whittaker and four candidates whose applications were not previously released. Whittaker, the number-two executive at UCF since 2014, is joined […]

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Mikaela Nix sets kickoff fundraiser for Wednesday with Pete Clarke, Pat Williams

SD 14 Democratic candidate Mel Martin proposes anti-racism platform

League of Women Voters urges gun ban amendment, Carlos Beruff dismisses it

Stockton Reeves kicking off HD 47 campaign with Dean Cannon, Tom Gallagher, Ken Pruitt, Kevin Beary

Carlos Curbelo pledges to back Stephanie Murphy’s CDC gun violence research bill

Gwen Graham: Rick Scott should address AR-15s or his legacy ‘will forever be covered in blood’

Val Demings pushes bill to seek gun restraining orders on people deemed dangerous

Chris King releases post-Parkland proposal to address mental illness, ban guns

Matt Fitzpatrick to run for Orange County School Board chair

UCF presidential search narrows to eight candidates including Provost Dale Whittaker