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Scott PowersSeptember 20, 2017

While Puerto Rico got hammered by Hurricane Maria, U.S. Rep. Darren Soto defended his re-election campaign fundraiser he is holding Wednesday night in Kissimmee, home to Florida’s most concentrated Puerto Rican population. Soto, a Democrat from Orlando, said he’s been in constant contact with Puerto Rico officials and readying federal financial support for the country’s […]

Scott PowersAugust 23, 2017

Is Florida going too far pushing STEM education? Is the state steering too many students toward university educations when they can get better-paying work in the trades without taking out $60,000 in student loans? Is the state ignoring its current workforce needs while trying to educate students for future economies? Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Putnam […]

Associated PressAugust 21, 2017

A suspect in the fatal shooting of two police officers in Florida will be staying in jail after a judge denied him bond Sunday, saying there was probable cause for his first-degree murder charge Everett Miller wore handcuffs and shackles during a first-appearance hearing that lasted a minute and a half. When it was over, […]

Associated PressAugust 19, 2017

A police officer in Florida died from his injuries Saturday, a day after his colleague was killed when a suspect fired at them during a scuffle while they were on patrol. The suspect was later arrested at a bar. Sgt. Sam Howard died Saturday afternoon at a hospital where he had been taken following Friday […]

Scott PowersAugust 1, 2017

Republican congressional candidate Wayne Liebnitzky criticized the rent U.S. Rep. Darren Soto is paying for his Kissimmee office as “unusually extravagant expense of peoples’ money,” while the congressman defended the office Tuesday for its convenience and service to the district. Soto is spending $4,638 a month for his primary district office, plus $866 a month […]

Scott PowersApril 13, 2017

While attending the ribbon cutting of a new high-tech center new Kissimmee that has at least $75 million in state and local taxpayer money behind it, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum praised such incentives and two embattled state entities, Enterprise Florida and VISIT Florida, as tools that cities need. Gillum, the Democratic mayor to Tallahassee, was […]

Scott PowersApril 13, 2017

From the outside, BRIDG may not look like a high-tech building that Osceola County, Central Florida and state officials are counting on as a “transformation” of the area’s economy. It looks like an office building. But the BRIDG building, the first structure in the Neo City high-tech industrial park east of Kissimmee on U.S. Highway […]

Associated PressApril 13, 2017

The last of South Florida’s drug-smuggling “Cocaine Cowboys” has been arrested — some 26 years after he went on the lam — while on a 40-mile bike ride with his wife near the Orlando suburb where they apparently lived under assumed names. The Miami Herald reports Gustavo “Taby” Falcon, 55, was booked into the Orange […]

Scott PowersApril 7, 2017

Former Osceola County chairman, Florida state representative, and Kissimmee Mayor Frank Attkisson was killed Thursday night when the bicycle he was riding was struck by a car, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Attkisson, 61, was riding on Kissimmee Park Road near St. Cloud around 6:30 p.m. Thursday when his bike was struck from behind […]

Scott PowersMarch 22, 2017

Insisting that the people on Puerto Rico can endure no more austerity measures, a coalition of Puerto Rican, labor, and religious groups marched in Kissimmee Wednesday to protest the federal plan being pushed to resolve the commonwealth’s debt crisis. “Puerto Rico Stands at the edge of a precipice,” declared Wanda Ramos, a leader of the […]

Tag: Kissimmee

Darren Soto defends fundraiser as not affecting his efforts for Puerto Rico

Adam Putnam urges education focus on today’s Florida jobs

No bond for suspect in officers’ fatal shooting in Kissimmee

Suspect in killings of 2 Fla. officers arrested at bar

Wayne Liebnitzky criticizes the $4,600 a month in rent Darren Soto pays for Kissimmee office

Andrew Gillum sees Enterprise Florida, VISIT Florida as ‘tools’ cities need

Osceola officials cut ribbon on high-tech ‘molecular manufacturing’ center

Last of drug-smuggling ‘Cocaine Cowboys’ arrested in Florida

Frank Attkisson killed in bicycle-car crash

Puerto Rican alliance protests austerity measures on island