Orange County Mayor Jerry L. Demings, who ended his gubernatorial campaign in June because of a diagnosis of prostate cancer during a routine medical check-up, thanked well-wishers after his Tuesday surgery to remove the gland. “I appreciate the outpourin... See more
Trinity Audioplayer ready... Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings’ newly impaneled tourist-tax task force got lessons Tuesday in tax law, economics and politics at their first meeting where six of the 24 applicants for a share of the public bounty were dropp... See more
Trinity Audioplayer ready... Urged by Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings to trim his budget as best he could, Sheriff John Mina hacked his initial funding appeal to run the region’s biggest law enforcement agency next year by $38 million, though he promise... See more
Trinity Audioplayer ready... Orange County commissioners by “resounding consensus” moved Tuesday to resolve once and for all the vexing deterioration of Tymber Skan on the Lake, a rotting community of condominiums near Lake Catherine that has been plagued... See more
Trinity Audioplayer ready... As Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings prepares to reconvene a task force this month to recommend how to spend future tourist-tax revenues, collections in May shattered another record, according to figures released Tuesday by th... See more
