ORLANDO, Fla. (FNN) – Orlando City Mayor Buddy Dyer and District 5 Commissioner Regina Hill welcomed baseball back in full swing as they kicked off 2021’s youth baseball program, which had been suspended for over a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “We know last year [had] a physical effect on kids not being able…
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ORLANDO, Fla. (FNN) – Over 500 families were helped with canned food, vegetables, oranges, and other free food at a drive at New Covenant Bible Fellowship Church on West Oak Ridge Road in Orlando Saturday, courtesy of State Representative Daisy Morales (D-Orlando), who partnered with local organizations Farm Share and Lady Storm Foundation to distribute…
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ORLANDO, Fla. (FNN) – The Pine Hills senior community will have a new affordable housing project by the end of the year. Construction began in the future site of Hawthorne Park, on Silver Star Road and Pine Hills Road, which aspires to become the new town center of the area. Orange County Mayor Jerry Demmings…
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (FNN) – Senate Bill 48, Educational Scholarship Programs, is ready for consideration on the Senate floor after the Committee for Appropriations reviewed it favorably with 11 yeas and 8 nays. The bill, authored by State Senator Manny Díaz, Jr. (R-Hialeah), expands student eligibility and parental choice for K-12 scholarship programs that serve students…
Read more TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (FNN) – Senator Manny Díaz, Vice Chair of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Education, presented Senate Bill 48, called the Educational Scholarship Programs Bill, which establishes the new McKay-Gardiner scholarship program for students with disabilities and other new regulations. The new scholarship program joins two existing programs, the McKay, which allows students with disabilities…
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (FNN) – The state of Florida has paid 82% of the total funds, almost eight billion dollars, obligated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) since 2004, according to a presentation by Kevin Guthrie, Deputy Director of Emergency Management, in the Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development of the Florida Senate.…
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (FNN) – The Florida employment sector has grown 12.6% in the last year, the equivalent to 700,000 new jobs across all sectors, according to a presentation of the Department of Economic Opportunity in the Florida Senate Committee on Education. Adrienne Johnston, director of the Division of Workforce Services of the DEO, indicated that…
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (FNN) – Florida Secretary of Corrections Mark Inch elaborated on the complexity of prison bed capacity in the state, insisting that the problem is not a linear one that can be solved by “simple math,” and that linear equation “just does not reflect reality and leads to bad decisions.” “If our system were…
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