Florida PhoenixFebruary 4, 2024
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Winners of recent Orange County war share their lessons for taking on the powerful and well-funded opponents
Tag: Full Sail University
Florida PhoenixFebruary 4, 2024
Guest AuthorApril 19, 2021
5min2234
A booming film, television and digital media industry would bring more high-wage jobs to the state.
Renzo DowneyNovember 24, 2020
3min815
Haddock is the co-chairman of Full Sail University and Jones is in the financial industry.
Scott PowersJuly 21, 2020
6min1035
No big developer or tourist money has appeared.
Scott PowersSeptember 18, 2018
10min863
Orange County Mayor-elect Jerry Demings has announced his transition advisory team to be lead by Orlando entrepreneur Harold Mills and the last Democrat to hold the post he won in the August election, Linda Chapin. The bipartisan, 37-member team is full of leaders of Central Florida businesses and nonprofits including those from Walt Disney World, […]
Scott PowersNovember 30, 2016
10min1085
An event in Congresswoman-elect Stephanie Murphy‘s infancy keeps redirecting her life, a life that has the 38-year-old business professor heading to Washington to represent Orlando and Central Florida as the first Vietnamese-American woman in Congress. When she was six months old, her family fled Vietnam on a refugee boat. Stephanie, her mother, father, brother, and dozens of mostly […]
Scott PowersJuly 18, 2016
6min745
When Rollins College professor and investment executive Stephanie Murphy came out of almost nowhere in late June to become the Democratic nominee in Florida’s 7th Congressional District, she had three groups ready to support her. Support her they did, as Murphy raised more than $126,000 in the first nine days of her campaign to show […]
Scott PowersFebruary 4, 2016
2min328
The 3200 block of University Boulevard in east Orange County has become a battleground over U.S. support for Israel, fought with billboards. This week a pro-Israel group called StandWithUs erected a billboard declaring, “The U.S.-Israel Relationship Creates Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs In America,” countering a billboard that went up in December, a half-block farther west, […]