Wes WolfeApril 12, 2023
5min0
Benefield won with 67% of the vote over challenger Kenny Radwanski.
Tag: charter amendmentsA nice warm evening in Tallahassee on a very busy street while taking this shot.
Wes WolfeApril 12, 2023
Daniel Figueroa IVNovember 3, 2021
12min1071
Choices ranged from changing how City Council is elected to creating racial and economic equity programs.
Daniel Figueroa IVNovember 1, 202113min943
Seven amendments, including changes to elections and the way the charter is reviewed, are on the ballot.
Ryan NicolNovember 6, 2019
4min539
Hialeah residents decided on five charter amendments and four City Council seats Tuesday.
Janelle Irwin TaylorOctober 26, 2018
4min425
Two proposed charter amendments in St. Petersburg appear poised to pass this election, according to the latest St. Pete Polls survey. More than half of those surveyed said they voted in favor of a lease extension for the entire pier area, for a longer lease for the Harborage Marina in downtown. Both amendments are innocuous. The pier amendment would […]
Scott PowersJanuary 8, 2018
7min275
A three-year fight over non-partisan elections in Orange County may be headed for the Florida Supreme Court — with the prospect of affecting county elections throughout the state. Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs announced Monday she wants the state’s high court to consider whether Orange County — and other charter counties like it — can […]
Scott PowersJanuary 4, 2017
8min273
Wednesday is the day that Orange County’s voters figured they had turned their sheriff, tax collector, property appraiser, clerk of courts, supervisor of elections and comptroller into non-partisan, term-limited county officials – but it’s not happening. And it is unclear if it will ever happen. Late Tuesday Judge Bob Leblanc of Florida’s 9th Circuit Court […]
Scott PowersJuly 18, 2016
3min298
BusinessForce, the political action arm of Central Florida’s chambers of commerce, has voted unanimously to support all three proposed charter amendments Orange County voters will consider in the November election. Two of the amendments are the Orange County Charter Review Commission’s reaction to a recent judge’s ruling that threw out an earlier charter amendment, approved […]