Gabrielle RussonJuly 18, 2024
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Pat Williams lived an incredible personal and professional life.
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Gabrielle RussonJuly 18, 2024
Christine Jordan SextonNovember 3, 2023
6min0
Overton was remembered Friday for his unparalleled access to agency staff and legislative leadership as well as his his honest, upfront style.
Scott PowersAugust 13, 2022
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Harrison has been a fixture in Central Florida transportation planning for decades.
Scott PowersNovember 15, 2021
6min2011
He was 'like a bulldog,' said Democratic Sen. Linda Stewart.
Associated PressJanuary 12, 2021
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The dominant pioneer of the super PAC era.
Scott PowersJuly 23, 2018
7min1029
Scott Plakon recently confessed that when he was in high school he was the kind of geek to whom cheerleaders wouldn’t give the time of day. Normally. Susie Rushing was a cheerleader, but not that kind. She was the fairy tale kind, he recalled. Susie Rushing Plakon, 57, wife of state Rep. Scott Plakon of […]
Scott PowersJuly 22, 2017
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 […]
Florence SnyderNovember 15, 2016
3min184
Death really does come in threes. This week, people who care about journalism are mourning the loss of Paul Hogan, Gwen Ifill, and J.T. Rushing. Hogan was one of our last links with an era when a kid could volunteer at the Marietta (Georgia) Daily Journal, bypass college, and rise to become the editor of […]
Scott PowersApril 20, 2016
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Jerry Greene called his sports column in the Orlando Sentinel “From the Cheap Seats,” and that’s what he provided readers for decades: the fans-eye-view of the action, on and off the field. Greene, 74, an Orlando Sentinel sports reporter and columnist for most of the past 40 years, died Wednesday morning after an extended illness, […]