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Orlando is out $200,000 for breaking lease, letting school in free
Seeded on Sun Feb 7, 2010 8:14 AM EST (The Orlando Sentinel)
With no public discussion, Orlando has booted a nonprofit driving school from a city-owned building near downtown so it could turn the property over to a new charter school being launched by a high-ranking city official.
Gutierrez to pursue a baseball team, not Grayson
Seeded on Wed Feb 3, 2010 9:22 AM EST (The Orlando Sentinel)
South Florida transplant Armando Gutierrez says he wanted to serve in Congress – but he also saw a chance to find a way to bring major league baseball to Orlando.
Republican Bruce O'Donoghue joins race vs. Grayson
Seeded on Sun Jan 31, 2010 10:17 AM EST (The Orlando Sentinel)
After months of indecision, the owner of a traffic-signal company in Winter Park has given the green light to a run against U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, the outspoken freshman Democrat from Orlando.
Rep. Alan Grayson: Fight Now or 'Kiss Your Country Goodbye' to Exxon, Wal-Mart
Seeded on Fri Jan 22, 2010 9:19 PM EST (AlterNet.org)
Responding to the Supreme Court's ruling Thursday to overturn corporate spending limits in federal elections, progressive firebrand Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) immediately highlighted a series of moves to "avoid the terrible consequences of the decision."
Activists accuse Orlando lawyer of crashing Tea Party
Seeded on Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:42 AM EST (The Orlando Sentinel)
Things are getting messy over at the Tea Party. A group of Tea Party-movement types have filed a federal lawsuit against an Orlando attorney who was shrewd enough a while back to form a new political party under the name "Florida Tea Party."
Pols want to rig votes -- and use your money to do it
Seeded on Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:11 AM EST (The Orlando Sentinel)
There's a good chance Florida politicians are going to spend your money telling you how to vote this year. It doesn't matter whether you'd like to make up your own mind. It doesn't matter whether you already have.
Rivals squabble over who can use 'Tea Party' label
Seeded on Thu Jan 21, 2010 9:19 AM EST (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
A battle over who can use the "Tea Party" label in Florida has boiled over into federal court.
Mica: Let's consider toll-road leases, I-4 pay lanes
Seeded on Thu Jan 21, 2010 8:55 AM EST (The Orlando Sentinel)
U.S. Rep. John Mica of Winter Park is trying to shake up transportation in Central Florida, from suggesting the leasing of tolls roads to even adding pay lanes to Interstate 4. It is doubtful any of it will happen any time soon, if at all.
AP IMPACT: Road projects don't help unemployment
Mon Jan 11, 2010 3:40 AM EST
Ten months into President Barack Obama's first economic stimulus plan, a surge in spending on roads and bridges has had no effect on local unemployment and only barely helped the beleaguered construction industry, an Associated Press analysis has found.
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Florida Republican activists call for unity
Seeded on Sun Jan 10, 2010 3:25 AM EST (MiamiHerald.com)
ORLANDO -- It's the unity, stupid. After months of bloodletting in the U.S. Senate primary and a backlash that toppled the state party chief last week, Florida Republicans urged one another Saturday to join forces in 2010 against their true nemesis: the Democrats.
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