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Scott PowersMarch 25, 2016

The Orlando region continued in February as the state’s leading job-producing metropolitan area and saw the region’s unemployment rate fall to 4.4 percent, Gov. Rick Scott‘s office said Friday. Numbers released by the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity show that Orlando’s metro area added 30,000 workers and 40,000 jobs since February 2015, and the result […]

Scott PowersMarch 22, 2016

A nearly 24,000-acre mixed-use development plan was announced Monday for two areas of Orange and Osceola counties that are rural holdings for the Mormon Church. Tavistock Development Co., which developed the nearby Lake Nona and Lake Nona Medical City projects in Orlando, submitted plans to Orange County on Monday to develop 4,787 acres off State […]

Associated PressOctober 4, 2015

Duke Energy Florida wants to build a solar power facility in an Orlando suburb. The utility company said last week that it had filed permits to construct the Osceola Solar Facility by early 2016. It will be built on 17 acres in Kenansville. The construction of the Osceola County facility is part of an overall […]

Guest AuthorMarch 31, 2015

Dear legislator: A number of years ago I was playing golf at Solivita, a community near Poinciana on the Polk County side of Osceola County. The area looked strangely familiar, especially the cypress swamps and pine woods between the holes. As I came up one fairway and looked into an oak hammock, I saw the […]

Guest AuthorMarch 31, 2015

Dear legislator: A number of years ago I was playing golf at Solivita, a community near Poinciana on the Polk County side of Osceola County. The area looked strangely familiar, especially the cypress swamps and pine woods between the holes. As I came up one fairway and looked into an oak hammock, I saw the […]

Tag: Osceola County

Orlando area adds 40K-plus jobs, sees unemployment rate fall to 4.4 percent in February

New 24,000-acre development announced for Mormon lands in Orange, Osceola counties

Duke Energy wants to build Osceola County solar facility

Rick Dantzler — Dear Legislator: Where will Fla. kids learn to hunt and fish?

Rick Dantzler: Dear legislator, where will Fla. kids learn to hunt and fish?