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Larry GriffinJuly 22, 2016

There are more than 300 candidates running for the 160 seats in the Florida House and Senate. And, try as we will, FloridaPolitics.com won’t be able to interview all of them. So we are asking every candidate, including incumbents, to complete a questionnaire we believe offers an interesting, albeit, thumbnail sketch of who they are and […]

Bill RuftyJuly 21, 2016

Candidate events don’t always involve the rah, rah, “give ‘em hell” speeches. They sometimes reflect the candidate’s interest in public issues, like Gov. Bob Graham’s work days. But the campaign of Dr. Dena Grayson, Democratic candidate for the 9th Congressional District, is planning a different public event: a free clinic. The clinic will run 2-5 […]

Associated PressJuly 21, 2016

A senior resident at an Orlando hospital is still wearing the bloody shoes he wore as he treated victims from the Pulse nightclub shooting. Shortly after the June 12 shooting, Dr. Joshua Corsa wrote a moving Facebook status and posted a photo of his sneakers that were bloodied as 44 patients from the gay nightclub […]

Scott PowersJuly 21, 2016

Democrat Val Demings has earned the endorsement of Connecticut’s Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy in her run to win Florida’s 10th Congressional District in Orlando. Murphy has become one of the congressional leaders calling for gun control, a passionate position he’s held since the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. He’s organizing […]

Scott PowersJuly 21, 2016

Betsy VanderLey has won the endorsement of the political action committee of the Central Florida Hotel & Lodging Association in her quest to be elected to the Orange County Board of Commissioners in District 1 on the west side. The endorsement comes from an organization that represents almost 80 percent of the 118,000 lodging rooms […]

Scott PowersJuly 20, 2016

Darden Restaurants lost a tax dispute with Orange County Wednesday that will result in the Orlando-based restaurant chain company having to pay $330,000 in back taxes and put $18.7 million of tangible personal property back on the county tax roll. The dispute led to Orange County Property Appraiser Rick Singh suing the company over tangible […]

Associated PressJuly 20, 2016

The parents of a toddler killed by an alligator at Walt Disney World said Wednesday that they don’t plan to sue the Florida theme park resort over the death. Matt and Melissa Graves of Omaha, Nebraska, said in a statement that they want to focus on their family’s future health. A family spokeswoman, Sara Brady, […]

Scott PowersJuly 20, 2016

The campaign of Democratic congressional candidate Dena Grayson announced Wednesday she will be hosting a free health clinic Sunday in Florida’s 9th Congressional District, where she hopes to be elected. While arranging the health clinic, Grayson is promoting her support for the Affordable Care Act and her criticism of Florida’s Republican leadership, including Gov. Rick […]

Scott PowersJuly 20, 2016

Democrat Bob Poe is releasing his first television commercial in the Orlando-based Florida’s 10th Congressional District with a declaration of outrage over assault rifles and a promise to seek to ban them and to require universal background checks for gun purchases. Poe, an Orlando businessman and former chairman of the Florida Democratic Party, is pushing the […]

Associated PressJuly 19, 2016

Authorities had just breached the wall to the Pulse nightclub, and patrons who had been trapped inside with gunman Omar Mateen started to flee. SWAT team members carried a man with four gunshots in his legs, hip and shoulder to Officer Luke Austin. The man was bleeding profusely. Austin grabbed him and said, “Stay with […]

Orlando

Meet Shea Silverman, NPA candidate running for House District 49

Bill Rufty: A CD 9 campaign ‘free clinic’ with Dena Grayson

Doc still wearing bloody shoes 6 weeks after Pulse shooting

Val Demings gets Sen. Chris Murphy’s endorsement in CD 10 for gun policies

Betsy VanderLey gets endorsement of hotel association in Orange County commission race

Darden Restaurants loses tax dispute with Orange County

Parents won’t sue Disney over son’s death by gator

Dena Grayson to host health clinic in CD 9 contest

Bob Poe’s first TV commercial in CD 10 race takes on assault weapons

Nightclub shooting police reports: hysteria, blood, bodies