Florida PhoenixFebruary 4, 2024
23min0
Winners of recent Orange County war share their lessons for taking on the powerful and well-funded opponents
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Florida PhoenixFebruary 4, 2024
Scott PowersNovember 3, 2020
5min1057
Voters approve Split Oak Forest, 'rights of nature' protections.
Scott PowersJuly 2, 20205min1484
A sneaky preemption provision in a new law threatens an Orlando environmental cause.
Scott PowersMay 9, 2020
8min1140
It's the second bold environmental issue to be placed on Orange County's November ballot.
Scott PowersMarch 5, 20206min1712
The measure would grant unprecedented protections to the Wekiva and Econlockhatchee Rivers.
Scott PowersAugust 16, 20197min819
'You have to have parity between a natural water body and a corporation.'
Scott PowersMarch 1, 2019
7min418
The town would cover an area between UCF and Bithlo.
Scott PowersDecember 29, 2016
19min324
Story co-written by Orlando-Rising staff reporters Scott Powers and Lawrence Griffin. In Orlando, 2016 will always be remembered as the year of the Pulse gay nightclub massacre, and Pulse redefined everything; but it’s not the only major event to have shaped politics in Orlando during the year. Here are a few events that defined politics […]
Scott PowersAugust 2, 2016
2min315
Democratic state Senate candidate Chuck O’Neal has picked up the endorsement of SaveOrangeCounty, a grassroots environmental group striving to stop urban encroachment into rural and natural areas of Orange County. The organization has endorsed O’Neal in the Aug. 30 Democratic primary race for Senate District 11, which covers much of western Orange County, including the […]
Scott PowersJuly 13, 2016
6min277
Orange County’s Maginot Line against development east of the Econlockhatchee River has fallen. The Orange County Board of Commissioners voted 4-3 Tuesday night to support two new developments, dubbed by county planners as Lake Pickett South and Lake Pickett North, that will allow thousands of new homes to be built east of the Econlockhatchee. The […]