Scott PowersJanuary 24, 2019
11min421
"I trusted the confidence that John Hitt had over those years in Bill Merck."
Tag: UCF
Scott PowersJanuary 24, 2019Scott PowersJanuary 22, 2019
10min321
"There are four people who got fired that should have raised the questions."
Scott PowersJanuary 18, 2019
9min620
"President Whittaker, our Board of Trustees and I did not know and were never told."
Jacob OglesNovember 25, 2018
3min191
Many of the political world’s differences erased as leaders rallied instead around the loyalties that truly matter—college football allegiances. But an on-field injury that caused the entire sporting world to pause also led to introspection on the part of pols. Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer took note on Friday evening of a major knee injury for […]
Scott PowersNovember 13, 2018
6min572
It might be from fraying, old, nylon boat ropes. It might be from clothing. It might be from straws and plastic grocery bags. Whatever the sources, a University of Central Florida research team is investigating an alarming – record – level of pastics discovered in oysters in the northern end of the Indian River Lagoon. […]
Jacob OglesNovember 3, 2018
4min586
Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to former president Barack Obama, rallied voters at the University of Central Florida around Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum, sharing a stage with politically active rapper Common and former HUD Secretary Julian Castro. Jarrett, a key figure Obama’s transition team after his 2008 election, will visit a Tampa phone bank later […]
Scott PowersOctober 31, 2018
4min296
Declaring that he believes them to be the most progressive generation in history, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders told a rally of University of Central Florida students Wednesday that the future is in their hands. “I happen to believe that the younger generation of America today is the most progressive generation in the history of America,” […]
Scott PowersOctober 23, 2018
6min472
Former astronaut and retired U.S. Navy Capt. Mark Kelly, who started a gun law reform political action committee “Giffords PAC” with his wife, Democratic former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, after she was shot in a 2011 assassination attempt, said in Orlando Monday night that believes he has seen the country’s and Florida’s political mood moving […]
Scott PowersSeptember 27, 2018
3min203
Puerto Rican and Virgin Islander students who fled to Orlando to attend the University of Central Florida will get up to four more years of in-state tuition rates from the university, giving them the chance to finish degrees as de facto Floridians. UCF’s Board of Trustees voted unanimously Thursday to extend the in-state tuition rate […]
Scott PowersSeptember 17, 20185min208
Fresh off July’s federal court ruling that Florida’s college campuses can host early voting sites, the University of Central Florida announced one will be open on its campus for the Nov. 6 election on the Orlando campus. UCF and Orange County Supervisor of Elections Bill Cowles announced Monday the Live Oak Event Center on the […]