Scott PowersMarch 25, 2020
5min2028
The Stay-at-home order will take effect Thursday at 11 p.m. in Orange County.
Tag: Orange County MayorThe Sam M. Gibbons United States Courthouse is located at 801 North Florida Ave., in Tampa, Fla. (Brooke Johnson/Fresh Take Florida)
Scott PowersMarch 25, 2020Scott PowersAugust 12, 2019
7min614
'What we're trying to do is stop that abuse,' Eric Rollings said.
Scott PowersJuly 26, 2019
6min958
Expectations are high for Demings in a close partnership with Buddy Dyer
Scott PowersDecember 4, 2018
5min397
When it came to talking about how far he’d come, the son of a taxi driver from the hardscrabble Orlando neighborhood Washington Shores, to Orange County’s most powerful office, newly sworn-in Mayor Jerry Demings finally cracked for a moment Tuesday. Demings, who just two hours earlier ended a 10-year tenure as Orange County sheriff and […]
Scott PowersNovember 16, 2018
8min509
The Orange County mayoral transition team appointed by Mayor-elect Jerry Demings has finished work on its report to him, outlining scores of proposed changes in county government focusing on such things as affordable housing, mass transit, green initiatives and more business culture. The 60-page draft report was reviewed for a final draft Friday morning at […]
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 PowersSeptember 17, 2018
3min251
Orange County Mayor-elect Jerry Demings is setting out to help shape the Orange County Commission with which he’ll work. He’s hosting a fundraiser set for next week to support Mayra Uribe‘s quest to be elected in District 3. Demings, currently the Orange County Sheriff, was elected Mayor of the county in the Aug. 28 election, when […]
Scott PowersAugust 28, 2018
3min610
From the beginning, this was Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings’ race to lose, and he did not disappoint his supporters Tuesday, sweeping to an easy win as the next Mayor of Orange County in a three-way contest. Demings, sheriff for 10 years, easily defeated Orange County Commissioner Pete Clarke and businessman Rob Panepinto. The only […]
Scott PowersAugust 1, 2018
5min607
Calling affordable housing one of the two most critical issues facing Orange County, mayoral candidate Rob Panepinto laid out a detailed housing plan Wednesday and pledged to push for $20 million a year in funding. Panepinto, a Winter Park entrepreneur and leader among Central Florida’s business and nonprofit groups, declared that, as a critical issue […]
Scott PowersMay 11, 20183min317
Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings kept the turbochargers firing on his Orange County mayoral campaign fundraising drive in April, bringing in more than $189,000 during the month in his campaign and political committee combined. The April hauls pushed Demings’ mayoral campaign close to the $1 million mark in money raised and put big distance between […]