Tag: journalist

Scott PowersDecember 1, 2017
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Travel writer, speaker, history enthusiast, and motorcyclist Gary McKechnie has filed as a Democratic candidate to run for the Florida Senate against Republican state Sen. Dennis Baxley in Senate District 12. McKechnie, 55, of Mount Dora, is promising a platform that will be heavy on Florida-centric advocacy and perhaps lighter on Democratic ideology, in a […]

Scott PowersJuly 22, 2017
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5min248
Orlando has lost its boldest conscience and Florida’s LGBTQ community its most passionate and omnipresent voice with the passing of Billy Manes. Manes, 45, most recently editor of Watermark, the state’s leading LGBTQ newspaper, and before that a longtime columnist for Orlando Weekly, the city’s leading alternative journalism medium, died Friday. He was with his husband, Anthony […]


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