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Scott PowersMarch 28, 2016

Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings, Property Appraiser Rick Singh and Tax Collector Scott Randolph cannot, as elected officials, sue Orange County over an election that changes the natures of their offices, a judge ruled Monday. However, Singh and Randolph can continue to challenge the election results as individuals, Circuit Court Judge Keith White ruled in Orange […]

Scott PowersMarch 28, 2016

State Rep. Randolph Bracy is throwing his support behind state Sen. Darren Soto of Orlando in the Democrats’ Congressional nomination race in Congressional District 9. Bracy, an Orlando Democrat, cited his work with Soto in the Florida Legislature, particularly for their joint effort to pass a bill to make it easier for undocumented youth to […]

Scott PowersMarch 25, 2016

The Donald Trump–Marco Rubio–Ted Cruz–John Kasich show that came to Florida this winter provided a boost of more than 100,000 registered voters for the Republican Party of Florida while the Hillary Clinton–Bernie Sanders affair gave no such bounce for the Florida Democratic Party. Florida’s final voter registration counts going into the state’s March 15 presidential primary […]

Scott PowersMarch 25, 2016

United Launch Alliance announced Friday afternoon it was postponing its next rocket launch from Cape Canaveral — one set to carry a military satellite — because of an engine-burn problem that occurred during Tuesday night’s rocket launch. Tuesday’s launch, of an Atlas V rocket, successfully boosted an Orbital ATK spacecraft into orbit for what is called the […]

Scott PowersMarch 25, 2016

The Orlando region continued in February as the state’s leading job-producing metropolitan area and saw the region’s unemployment rate fall to 4.4 percent, Gov. Rick Scott‘s office said Friday. Numbers released by the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity show that Orlando’s metro area added 30,000 workers and 40,000 jobs since February 2015, and the result […]

Scott PowersMarch 25, 2016

U.S. Rep. John Mica likes taking constituents out to lunch (or breakfast, dinner or coffee). He also loves having his re-election campaign pay for it. The latter preference has Mica, a 12-term Republican from Winter Park, explaining why his re-election campaigns are paying for scores of “meals with constituents” tallying tens of thousands of dollars […]

Scott PowersMarch 24, 2016

There now are an estimated 4,350 bears in Florida with dramatic increases in some areas of the state, wildlife officials said Thursday. That number, included in a new state bear census, led the officials to describe the population as abundant, robust and growing. That Florida black bear census reflects the state’s population before last fall’s controversial […]

Scott PowersMarch 24, 2016

Former U.S. Rep. Jim Bacchus, who served two terms in a Central Florida district in the mid-1990s, has endorsed Susannah Randolph in the Democratic primary race for Orlando-based Congressional District 9. Bacchus served from 1991 through 1995 when Florida’s Congressional Districts 11 and then 15 covered much of the area now covered by CD 9, […]

Scott PowersMarch 23, 2016

State Rep. Rene Plasencia has found a new way to spend independent political action committee campaign money while he seeks election in a new district: he used it to buy a school bus. Plasencia’s Commitment to Opportunity, Action and Community Health PC (COACH PC) spent $6,735 on Feb. 18 to purchase, at the Campus Auto Retail […]

Scott PowersMarch 22, 2016

As a full moon lit up the sky over Cape Canaveral, an Atlas V rocket blasted off late Tuesday night to bring supplies and scientific equipment to the International Space Station. At 11:05 p.m., the rocket streaked up from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and through light fragments of clouds over the Atlantic Ocean, carrying an Orbital […]

Scott Powers

Judge boots Orange County officers from lawsuit, but Scott Randolph, Rick Singh stay

Randolph Bracy endorses Darren Soto in CD 9 race

Presidential primary lifts Republican voter registration as Democrats sag

Engine burn issue during Tuesday’s rocket flight leads United Launch Alliance to delay next launch

Orlando area adds 40K-plus jobs, sees unemployment rate fall to 4.4 percent in February

John Mica defends use of campaign money to pay for hundreds of meals

Florida’s bear population now 4,350, abundant, robust and growing, officials say

Susannah Randolph gets endorsement from Jim Bacchus in CD 9 race

Rene Plasencia uses political action committee money to buy school bus

Atlas V rocket blasts Orbital ATK Cygnus into space to resupply space station