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Bars oppose later drinking hours for downtown competitors
Orlando's plan to extend last call at downtown bars to 3 a.m. isn't the first time the idea has been raised. When Mayor Buddy Dyer was first elected, his transition team recommended a 3 a.m. closing time — but it became so controversial the idea...
Tags: Bars and Clubs, Tampa, Demographics, Lifestyle and Leisure, Business
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Orange Clerk of Courts Lydia Gardner remembered at memorial
Mourners packed First United Methodist Church of Winter Park on Friday to attend a memorial service for Orange County Clerk of Courts Lydia Gardner, who died last week at 68 after a long battle with cancer. The service, which featured heartfelt...
Tags: Orange County (Florida), Teresa Jacobs, Local Government, Online Media Industry, Winter Park
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Oprah program gives Crocs to kids
An initiative meant to spark children's imaginations gave away 100 pairs of shoes to kids in Parramore on Thursday. Children at the Callahan Neighborhood Center wrote essays explaining how they use their imaginations for the event, part of Oprah...
Tags: Oprah Winfrey
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What we think: Brodeur, Stewart top class
On Sunday we graded Central Florida's state senators on their performance during this year's session of the Florida Legislature. Today we'll grade some from the House, based on their priorities and effectiveness in the 2013 session, which concluded...Tags: Andy Gardiner, Orange County (Florida), Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation, Titusville
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Simulator shows Orange teens the dangers of texting, driving
A close friend of Colonial High School senior Lora Abdulhak was killed by a driver who was texting. But it wasn't until she tried a simulator that imitates the hazards of texting while driving that Abdulhak, 18, vowed to stop doing it herself. The...
Tags: T-Mobile, Teaching and Learning, Students, Transportation Accidents, Verizon Communications
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Orlando scrambles for new soccer-stadium plan
Now that the Legislature has rejected state funding, the backers of the push to build a $110 million soccer stadium in Orlando are frantically searching for a Plan B. But Mayor Buddy Dyer said he's not willing to sacrifice quality. Dyer was reacting...
Tags: Florida Citrus Bowl, Sports, Teresa Jacobs, Soccer, Amway Center
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No Major League Soccer in Orlando? Blame the Miami Marlins
In many ways, sports teams and leagues are like children. You have the spoiled brats who are used to getting everything they want when they want it. And when they don't, they hold their breath, stomp their feet and threaten to take their ball and go...
Tags: Television Industry, National Football League, Sports, Jeffrey Loria, Daytona International Speedway
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Lawmakers end session without passing stadium subsidies
TALLAHASSEE – The Florida Legislature ended its 2013 session Friday by passing an elections do-over and the largest budget in state history, but without delivering tax subsidies to the Miami Dolphins, Orlando soccer boosters and a cadre of other...
Tags: Sports, Economy, Business and Finance, Government, Voting, John Thrasher
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Major bills await Florida Legislature's final day
TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Legislature used its next-to-last day Thursday to pass a watered-down texting-while-driving ban, a plan to slim down the state-run Citizens Property Insurance and legislation that strips local governments of the power to...
Tags: Jack Latvala, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Government, Dan Marino, Voting
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House killing Democratic bills, but not those for special-interests
Tallahassee Bureau ChiefTALLAHASSEE -- A showdown over expanding health-care to more than 1 million Floridians slowed the Legislature to a crawl for a second day Wednesday, with the fate of an elections reform, a sick-time fight, sports stadium tax breaks and other bills hanging...Tags: Andy Gardiner, Orange County (Florida), Business, Daytona International Speedway, Elections
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House erupts over tax-cut vote after daylong slowdown
TALLAHASSEE — A showdown over expanding health care to low-income Floridians slowed the Legislature to a crawl for a second day Wednesday, with the fate of an elections-reform package, sports-stadium tax breaks and other bills hanging in the...
Tags: Health Insurance, Andy Gardiner, Orange County (Florida), Coconut Creek, Daytona International Speedway
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Gardiner: Central Florida Expressway is likely dead
Tallahassee Bureau ChiefTALLAHASSEE -- Sen. Andy Gardiner said Wednesday that a push to merge the tolling authorities of Orange, Osceola, Seminole and Lake counties may be dead for the year -- thanks to resistance from House Majority Leader Steve Precourt and a House slowdown...Tags: Andy Gardiner, Highway Transportation, Rick Scott, Politics, Orlando
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