Lobbying tab for 2009 session: $108 million
TALLAHASSEE — Phone giants, utilities, tobacco companies and a sugar giant led the charge among industries that spent about $108.7 million on Florida lobbyists this spring. State data covering the...
View ArticleOrlando’s ‘No Name Club’ for men stirs more frustration; Update mayoral foe...
See updated comment below Today’s Orlando Sentinel story about movers and shakers in business and political circles partying at men’s only, upscale shin-digs raised some eyebrows, but all the feedback...
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Orange Comm. Fernandez wants No Name Club organizer to brief leaders on...
Orange County Commissioner Mildred Fernandez is asking the lobbyist who helped organize the so-called “No Name Club” parties to name the lobbyists and politicians who attended the men-only events...
View ArticleInnovation Way East’s lobbying tab: $124K, amended report says
Developers behind the controversial Innovation Way East project spent $124, 547 on their effort through to lobby Orange County commissioners through the end of last month, according to a “supplemental”...
View ArticleOrange’s Innovation Way East vote from six views
There’s a lot of competing interests in the Innovation Way East development issue that comes to a vote today before Orange County Commissioners. For starters, it’s sure to be an issue in the race for...
View ArticleMost Orange Dist. 4 hopefuls say no to Innovation Way East
Update below in italics Orange County Commissioners are slated to vote later today on the controversial Innovation Way East development, a 6,343 residential-unit proposal that could become a hot...
View ArticleOrange lobbying-ethics debate melts down fast
Orange County leaders were poised to consider a raft of ethics and lobbying revisions to its existing ordinance, but as soon as it started this afternoon, two key provisions were pulled from the...
View ArticleSegal keeps trying to label Jacobs a lobbyist in Orange mayor race
Orange County Commissioner Bill Segal has picked an early line of attack for the county mayor’s race, and it’s to convince voters that his opponent Teresa Jacobs is a lobbyist with a conflict of...
View ArticleFor Maxwell, $10K cake re-ignites call to axe elected ag post
Many people are talking about The Mosaic Co.’s ham-fisted effort to give Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam’s 9-year-old daughter $10,000 for a chocolate cake. But Sentinel columnist Scott Maxwell is...
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Final rules for Orange’s heated redistricting process revealed
An advisory panel picking new Orange County Commission district boundaries is about to make its final map recommendations Wednesday night, and the chairman has laid out how he wants it all to play out....
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