Orlando

Terry RoenSeptember 6, 2017

Hard Rock International is moving its corporate headquarters from Orlando to Hollywood in 2018. The casino, hotel and restaurant conglomerate made the announcement on its website. It will bring staffers together by joining with its ownership, The Seminole Tribe of Florida and the Seminole Gaming organization. Hard Rock has been based in Orlando since the […]

Scott PowersSeptember 6, 2017

Newly-filed Florida House District 29 Democratic candidate Patrick Brandt said he’s running because he believes Republicans in Tallahassee oppose “nearly everything I stand for.” Brandt, 47, a lawyer from Longwood, filed earlier this week to oppose Republican state Rep. Scott Plakon. Brandt said he is engaging with Gainesville Democratic political consultant Bryan Eastman and bringing […]

Scott PowersSeptember 6, 2017

Former Republican U.S. Senate candidate Todd Wilcox is expanding his private defense and intelligence specialist company with the acquisition of a rival company. Wilcox’s primary company Patriot Defense Group announced the acquisition of Virginia based Silverback 7 marking the beginning of a 10-year strategy to grow its Maitland headquarters. The company will add 13 high-wage […]

Drew WilsonSeptember 5, 2017

A super PAC backing Republican Mike Miller‘s congressional campaign was launched last week. Paperwork registering the political committee, “Central Florida Solutions,” was filed Friday and lists Abby Dupree as both the treasurer and custodian of records. Dupree holds the same titles at Gov. Rick Scott’s “Let’s Get to Work” as well as the committee backing a […]

Scott PowersSeptember 5, 2017

With DACA recipients pleading, sometimes in tears, for the right to stay in the United States where they grew up, a coalition of pro-immigration groups and Democratic lawmakers gathered on Orlando City Hall’s front steps Tuesday to denounce President Donald Trump‘s phased-out repeal of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. At the same time, the […]

Scott PowersSeptember 5, 2017

Insisting he endorses based on the person, not the party, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer Tuesday threw his support behind Democrat Anna Eskamani in the House District 47 race. Dyer’s endorsement was no surprise, as Eskamani signaled last week that the Democrat mayor of 14 years, and a former state lawmaker himself, was coming to her […]

Drew WilsonSeptember 5, 2017

Republican Rep. Scott Plakon has drawn his first Democratic opponent in House District 29, which covers part of Seminole County including Lake Mary and Longwood. Patrick Brandt entered the race on Sept. 1 and is so far the only candidate running against Plakon, who is going for a third term in his second stint in […]

Scott PowersSeptember 5, 2017

If Republican nominee Bobby Olszewski wasn’t such a prohibitive favorite, the upcoming special election for Florida House District 44 would be filled with intrigue. The Democratic nominee, Paul Chandler, is an affable man, a former teacher and a successful businessman with strong backgrounds in education and the intricacies of health care money, two of the Democrats’ […]

Scott PowersSeptember 1, 2017

Having lost her fight in the Florida Supreme Court to prevent death penalty prosecutions in her circuit, Orlando’s State Attorney Aramis Ayala vowed Friday to remove herself completely from the decision process. Ayala said her new policy of turning all potential death-penalty cases over to a panel of assistant state attorneys in the 9th Judicial […]

Scott PowersAugust 31, 2017

Gov. Rick Scott has the authority to transfer murder cases away from the office of Orlando’s State Attorney Aramis Ayala because she refuses to pursue capital punishments, the Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday. Ayala greeted the ruling by declaring she was changing her policy, and would set up a special panel to review the death penalty […]

Orlando

Hard Rock International to move Orlando headquarters

HD 29 Democrat Patrick Brandt to campaign on springs, schools, health care

Todd Wilcox expands private defense and intelligence business

New committee started to back Mike Miller’s congressional bid

Pro-DACA rally in Orlando seeks full immigration reform

Buddy Dyer casts backing to Anna Eskamani in HD 47

Scott Plakon gets first challenger in HD 29

House District 44 special election features intrigue

Aramis Ayala takes herself completely out of death penalty decisions

High court backs Rick Scott, Aramis Ayala vows new policy