Mayor Teresa Jacobs delivered her “State of the County” address last Friday focusing on her “year of transformation” without addressing many realities facing our community and families around Orange County. In fact, this is nothing more than the “year of gentrification” and debt explosion, thanks directly to Mayor Jacobs’ rubber… [read more]
While nepotism in politics is sadly nothing new, most agree that it’s time to stop rewarding the children of politicians. But nepotism becomes far more serious when there is an obvious quid pro quo involved. Newly uncovered information related to Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer’s son’s employment and the City of Orlando deal with the… [read more]
In a petition to City Hall, property owners are demanding the City of Orlando return historic bricks that were removed by Mayor Buddy Dyer from Church Street. Dyer deviated away from the long-held and public plans when he had the bricks removed in December. This is the latest hot-button issue… [read more]
Is Dyer’s secret Venues debt more than just a problem for local taxpayers and future budgets? It appears that Buddy Dyer has violated the Florida Constitution with these secret debt loans and the entire Venues Agreement could now be in jeopardy as well. The financial house of cards in Orlando… [read more]
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer’s destruction of historic Parramore continues to rage on, now including the grand theft of Parramore’s historic bricks to use in other parts of the city! Making the matter even worse, Dyer’s administration is lying once again about the reasons. Another horrible broken promise by Buddy Dyer… [read more]
The Orlando Predators are moving away from their home at the Amway Center in downtown Orlando. The arena football team’s owner David Pearsall confirmed the Predators will play at CFE Arena, located on the main UCF campus. Pearsall recently acquired the Predators and was very excited based on the statement… [read more]
Mayor Dyer likes to claim the city of Orlando is becoming a sports city – but he doesn’t seem to be a true fan of our local teams. I mean, he did build a $500+ million new Amway Center, which is home to the Orlando Magic, Orlando Predators arena football… [read more]
In Orlando, it pays to be buddies with the mayor. Yesterday, the Orlando City Council passed its latest wave of corporate welfare as they gave away office space in the half billion dollar Amway Center for just $1 a year. That’s right, one dollar a year for rent in one of… [read more]
While I was running for Mayor of Orlando, I met some incredible people in our community. I was not just asking for votes or support, I was getting to know them and their struggles, their hopes and their dreams. A group of workers I got to know were betrayed by… [read more]
But why now and what about Parramore? Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer continues to spend taxpayer money. His current trend is to buy homes around the city and demolish them for future new development and the latest target is a row of historic houses on downtown property to expand Lake Eola Park.… [read more]