Gabrielle RussonNovember 5, 2024
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The County Commission races are nonpartisan on the ballot, but politics were unavoidable.
Tag: Orange County Board of Commissioners
Gabrielle RussonNovember 5, 2024Gabrielle RussonNovember 5, 2024
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Voters will decide Districts 1, 3 and 5 on the Orange County Commission.
Gabrielle RussonOctober 29, 2024
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'The goal is to ensure that as many nonprofits as possible have access to the benefits of publicly owned venues.'
Gabrielle RussonSeptember 5, 202411min0
One ethics watchdog said the free tickets raise red flags.
Gabrielle RussonMay 13, 2024
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Orange County Commission seats in Districts 1, 3 and 5 are up for election this November.
Scott PowersMarch 7, 2017
4min489
New Orange County Commissioner Emily Bonilla has to be getting used to being a kicked-around rookie on the Board of Commissioners, especially as an outspoken Democrat on a Republican-dominated panel, but Tuesday she got taken down by all of her fellow commissioners. “I feel it is pretty disrespectful,” Bonilla told them during Tuesday’s meeting, after […]
Scott PowersMarch 6, 2017
2min551
A fourth candidate has filed to run for the Orange County Commission’s District 4, with the entry of Lake Nona criminologist Nicolette Springer. Springer, 39, a Democrat, is running for the southeast Orange County district seat being vacated in 2018 by Republican Commissioner Jennifer Thompson, who is term-limted. She joins three other Orlando Democrats who […]
Scott PowersFebruary 21, 2017
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Facing the increasingly obvious conclusion that its 30-year-old animal services shelter is no longer adequate, Orange County is moving ahead with plans to replace it, but a new one could cost up to $35 million and take several years. The Orange County Board of Commissioners heard that news Tuesday while also reviewing information that showed […]
Scott PowersJanuary 4, 2017
8min273
Wednesday is the day that Orange County’s voters figured they had turned their sheriff, tax collector, property appraiser, clerk of courts, supervisor of elections and comptroller into non-partisan, term-limited county officials – but it’s not happening. And it is unclear if it will ever happen. Late Tuesday Judge Bob Leblanc of Florida’s 9th Circuit Court […]
Scott PowersOctober 5, 2016
2min206
Betsy VanderLey has won the endorsement of the International Drive Chamber of Commerce in her bid to win a seat on the Orange County Commission in the Nov. 8 election. The chamber picked VanderLey over her opponent, Bobby Olszewski, for the District 1 seat covering western Orange County. “The International Drive Resort Area Chamber of Commerce […]