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Scott PowersOctober 20, 2016

What a party bus this will be. A Democratic Party bus, filled with mayors from Florida including Orlando’s Buddy Dyer, Miami Beach’s Phillip Levine, Tampa’s Bob Buckhorn, and St. Petersburg’s Rick Kriseman, has begun a cross-state tour to campaign for Hillary Clinton. Hillary for America announced Thursday that those four and 19 other mayors and former mayors […]

Scott PowersOctober 4, 2016

Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer‘s annual State of the City Address has been postponed until after it’s certain the city is OK. The mayor’s office announced Tuesday it and the Downtown Orlando Partnership are postponing the speech that was scheduled for Wednesday, as Hurricane Matthew continues its uncertain march past or into Florida later this week. […]

Larry GriffinSeptember 30, 2016

Friday’s Tourist Development Council ended positively as the board agreed to reallocate Tourist Development Tax funding to help complete the second phase of the Dr. Phillips Performing Arts Center and establish a bid for multiple sporting events. The funds as agreed upon include an additional $45 million to go towards the Dr. Phillips center, which […]

Scott PowersSeptember 9, 2016

In the next move in Orlando’s tourism money chess match, Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs has agreed to put $45 million toward finishing Orlando’s Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. The move, assuming Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer agrees and the appropriate boards all sign off, means the postponed-into-limbo final phase known as the acoustic […]

Associated PressAugust 14, 2016

Two months after the massacre at a gay Orlando nightclub, residents say this city of newcomers is bonding in unprecedented solidarity, upending an old adage attributed to a former governor: “Florida isn’t so much a community as a crowd.” Elements that often unite communities — sports teams, food culture, generations of residents living in the […]

Larry GriffinAugust 12, 2016

Friday was the two-month anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting on June 12. At a Tiger Bay luncheon and panel, community leaders Buddy Dyer, Teresa Jacobs, Orlando Police Chief John Mina, Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings, and Carlos Carbonell spoke about the tumultuous path of the summer so far and what the plans are going forward in how […]

Scott PowersAugust 8, 2016

Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer has endorsed U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy for Florida’s U.S. Senate race, eschewing Orlando’s hometown congressman, U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson. The Murphy campaign announced Monday that Dyer’s endorsement joins those of 21 other Florida mayors, including Bob Buckhorn of Tampa, Rick Kriseman of St. Petersburg, Jack Seiler of Fort Lauderdale, Andrew Gillum […]

Associated PressAugust 4, 2016

Orlando’s mayor says he wants the city to purchase the Pulse nightclub and create a permanent memorial for the 49 people who were killed there during a June shooting. The Orlando Sentinel reports that Mayor Buddy Dyer mentioned the city’s interest during a radio interview that aired Wednesday. Dyer said he’d like the gay nightclub to remain in its […]

Mitch PerryAugust 3, 2016

With a presidential and U.S. Senate election to focus on, Florida Democrats don’t appear to be thinking too much about who might be their standard bearer for governor in 2018. Other than pure name recognition, how else to explain that in a statewide survey of Democrats conducted by St. Pete Polls earlier this week, former Republican […]

Larry GriffinJuly 27, 2016

The City of Orlando has decided that for right now, three medical marijuana dispensaries is enough for the Orlando area. After Gov. Rick Scott passed the Charlotte’s Web law in 2014, which allowed medical marijuana for medical patients when no other treatment would suffice, three dispensaries ended up getting licensed to the area: one on […]

Tag: Buddy Dyer

Buddy Dyer, Phillip Levine, Bob Buckhorn, others on Mayors for Hillary bus tour

Buddy Dyer postpones state of city speech due to Hurricane Matthew

TDC passes plan for Tourist Development Tax money to fund Dr. Phillips center, sports events

Teresa Jacobs agrees to put tourist tax money to finish Orlando’s Dr. Phillips Center

In Orlando, unprecedented unity after nightclub shooting

Buddy Dyer, Teresa Jacobs talk path forward for Pulse at Tiger Bay panel

Buddy Dyer endorses Patrick Murphy in Florida’s U.S. Senate race

Buddy Dyer wants City of Orlando to buy Pulse nightclub for memorial

Charlie Crist leading statewide survey of 2018 Democratic gubernatorial candidates

City of Orlando puts moratorium on any more marijuana dispensaries until after November vote