Orlando

Peter SchorschJuly 24, 2017

The Republican Party of Seminole County announced Monday that U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio will attend its Lincoln Day Dinner celebration in Altamonte Springs next month. The Lincoln Day Dinner will be held at the Hilton Orlando Altamonte Springs on Aug. 22, with doors scheduled to open at 6:30 pm and the dinner set for 7 […]

Scott PowersJuly 24, 2017

Are Osceola County and eastern Polk County ready for a determined, old-school feminist representing them in the Florida House of Representatives? Democrat Barbara Cady, 59, of Kissimmee, filed last week to run against Republican incumbent state Rep. Mike LaRosa in House District 42. She’s bringing a wealth of Democratic Party and feminist-leadership connections to run […]

Peter SchorschJuly 22, 2017

Democrat Anna Eskamani opened a political committee this month which will allow her to raise funds for her campaign in Orlando-based House District 47. Eskamani sent in the paperwork to open “People Power for Florida” in June and the Florida Division of Elections acknowledged the committee and added it to its database on July 13. […]

Scott PowersJuly 22, 2017

Orlando has lost its boldest conscience and Florida’s LGBTQ community its most passionate and omnipresent voice with the passing of Billy Manes. Manes, 45, most recently editor of Watermark, the state’s leading LGBTQ newspaper, and before that a longtime columnist for Orlando Weekly, the city’s leading alternative journalism medium, died Friday. He was with his husband, Anthony […]

Scott PowersJuly 21, 2017

Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer declared Friday that the state of the city is united, and that that unity, drawn from Orlando’s darkest day, is needed as the city confronts its future with challenges of transit, homelessness, housing and a development of a high-tech economy. “Two words,” Dyer concluded in his annual State of the City […]

Scott PowersJuly 20, 2017

Democrat Anna Eskamani‘s House District 47 campaign announced Thursday it will be holding an August fundraiser with co-chairs including Alan Grayson, Alex Sink, Bob Poe, and Steve Schale. The August 15 fundraiser will be held at The Abbey, a popular downtown Orlando watering hole, especially for Democrats. Eskamani, a Planned Parenthood director of external affairs […]

Scott PowersJuly 19, 2017

Republican Sanford businessman Scott Sturgill announced Wednesday he is running for Congress in Florida’s 7th Congressional District, setting up a primary showdown with state Rep. Mike Miller of Winter Park. Sturgill, owner of a company that produces work safety equipment such as hard hats, made his announcement at the Sanford Regional Chamber of Commerce surrounded […]

Scott PowersJuly 19, 2017

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Sierra-Nevada Corp. has caught a flight to space for its space plane, Dream Chaser, which will be the first spacecraft available to NASA and the the commercial sector since the space shuttle that can fly and land like an airplane. The company picked United Launch Alliance to provide the rockets to lift the Dream Chaser […]

Peter SchorschJuly 19, 2017

An obstruction charge will remain against the wife of a man who massacred dozens at a Florida nightclub last year, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Paul Byron denied a request from Noor Salman to dismiss one of the two criminal charges she faces. She is scheduled for trial in March on the […]

Scott PowersJuly 18, 2017

The rapidly-growing Venezuelan community in Central Florida sent a message home and to Florida and American politicians with a vote Sunday they said drew more than 28,000 people who waited hours in line at six poling places to vote overwhelmingly to condemn the government and policy of that country’s dictator Nicolás Maduro. Led by radio show […]

Orlando

Marco Rubio to headline Seminole County GOP Lincoln Day Dinner

Barbara Cady bringing Democratic, feminist connections to HD 42 run

HD 47 hopeful Anna Eskamani opens political committee

Florida LGBTQ journalist, Orlando institution, Billy Manes passes

Buddy Dyer urges united Orlando to go forward

Anna Eskamani announces star-studded fundraiser for HD 47 candidacy

Republican Scott Sturgill announces for CD 7

Sierra-Nevada’s space plane ‘Dream Chaser’ to launch atop Atlas V

Judge won’t dismiss count against Pulse gunman’s wife

More than 28,000 Venezuelans in Central Florida vote to oppose Nicolás Maduro in straw poll

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