Despite last month’s decision by the Municipal Planning Board, the relocation of Orlando Union Rescue Mission’s homeless shelter is not a done deal yet. An official appeal has been filed against two items approved by the Orlando MPB on December 15th which rezone the proposed Parramore location and allow the development… [read more]
As a longtime District 2 resident, Alex Rivera has been committed to improving his local community for years, and now he is stepping up to bring a message of change to Orlando’s upcoming municipal elections. Rivera is running against incumbent City Commissioner Tony Ortiz. Rivera’s campaign message seeks to focus directly on… [read more]
This weekend more than 1,500 teen leaders from 157 cities and five countries are in Orlando taking on pressing youth issues at Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s (BGCA) 48th Annual Keystone Youth Conference. This year’s gathering is one of the largest youth leadership conferences in the U.S. Organizers and attendees believe today’s youth are more… [read more]
Major local environmental issues including the Parramore contamination and Orlando brownfields will be discussed on an official panel at the 2015 National Action Network conference in New York City. Lawanna Gelzer, President of the NAN Central Florida Chapter, has been invited to join an Environmental Justice panel discussion, titled Killing US Softly:… [read more]
The request to follow state law may seem simple, but the political wrangling is just beginning. Last year, the Florida legislature approved legislation, signed by the Governor into law, providing honorary designations of various roadways and transportation facilities while directing the Department of Transportation to install suitable markers. State Senator Darren Soto… [read more]
The division and further destruction of the Parramore community was outlined visually for the first time in an official map during a presentation by Project DTO at City Hall, an appointed committee of Mayor Buddy Dyer. The map further illustrates the gentrification efforts of Mayor Dyer and the City of Orlando… [read more]
College Park residents will gather for a January 12th informational community meeting hosted by Rethink the Princeton, a group currently appealing a recent City Hall development decision approving a massive new development for their neighborhood. The meeting will start at 7pm at the College Park Community Center (2393 Elizabeth Avenue), and organizers… [read more]
WFTV Eyewitness News Channel 9 investigated the cronyism in Orlando City Hall involving the hiring of Mayor Dyer’s unqualified former campaign manager for a $70k Community Venues position. WFTV 9 Investigates uncovered more damaging facts in the cronyism hiring, complicating the ongoing controversy. WFTV’s investigation picked up on two articles originally published… [read more]
The City of Orlando is finally admitting they have a problem: a $52 million budget gap. Mayor Buddy Dyer’s years of mismanagement and out of control spending have finally reached a level the City can no longer deny. And as bad as this budget crisis is, these numbers do not… [read more]
College Park residents should tune in to a newly proposed development that could reshape the neighborhood. On board from the Pollack Shores Real Estate Group is a 228-unit development of apartments for the College Park neighborhood in the area between Smith and Princeton, east of Edgewater. But for many residents who attended the community meeting on… [read more]