Tag: Orlando

Florence SnyderJune 27, 2016
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The Department of Children and Families (DCF) is not the worst offender in Florida’s never-ending War on Open Government. It just gets caught in the act more often than fellow offenders at the state, county and municipal levels. That’s because DCF is one of the few agencies left which ever has to contend with watchdog journalism. DCF chieftains, […]

Larry GriffinJune 23, 2016
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Forty-eight hours ago, the building at 507 Michigan St. was just an empty storage area. Now it has transformed into the new Family Assistance Center, intended to help survivors and others connected to the Pulse nightclub shooting. At a news conference Thursday morning, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs stood together […]

Scott PowersJune 22, 2016
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Most of Florida’s Democratic members of Congress are among 168 House of Representatives Democrats and 34 Senate Democrats staging a sit-in on the House Floor Wednesday, and U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson took the occasion to remind the others of Orlando’s Pulse nightclub massacre victims, by name. Besides Grayson, of Orlando, the protest includes his U.S. […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 22, 2016
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As one of many Democrats participating in the Wednesday evening sit-in on the House floor, Rep. Corrine Brown urges a vote on what she called “commonsense gun legislation” before the House recesses. “Congress must not leave Washington, D.C. without voting on commonsense gun violence prevention legislation to save lives. Mass shootings have become unacceptably commonplace in our […]

Scott PowersJune 22, 2016
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Orlando’s commuter rail service, SunRail, has its first executive director, Nicola Liquori, currently a Florida Turnpike Enterprise executive. Florida Department of Transportation Secretary Jim Boxold appointed Liquori to be executive director of SunRail, putting her in charge of keeping the trains running on time even as the operation expands its line to the south and […]

Mitch PerryJune 22, 2016
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Our latest form of participatory democracy takes place in Tampa tonight, where scores of people will comment on whether or not the Hillsborough County Metropolitan Planning Organization should include the Tampa Bay Express project in what is known as their Transportation Improvement Plan. If past is prologue, the majority of speakers will be against the project, and the MPO […]


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