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Archive for Friday, April 28, 2017
Intersection: Lake County’s No-Kill Animal Shelter, Scott Maxwell On Bondi & Orlando Band ‘The Pauses’
Lake County’s animal shelter is moving towards no-kill status. What does a no-kill shelter entail and how does a shelter achieve that goal?
Published in Intersection Podcast
Published in Intersection Podcast
Intersection: Lake County’s Push For No-Kill Animal Shelter
Lake County’s animal shelter is working to maintain a no-kill status. We explore what that means for animal welfare and for the people who work with the shelter. And we talk with an assistant state attorney in neighboring Orange and Osceola Counties about how animal welfare prosecutions are carried out.
Published in Central Florida News, Intersection
Published in Central Florida News, Intersection
Volusia County Homeless Get Help Replacing Identification Documents
Volusia County homeless who don’t have identification documents have the chance to get them replaced this morning. IDignity Volusia will hold an event from 9am to 1pm at the First Presbyterian Church of Deland to help people get replacement birth certificates, driver’s licenses, immigration records and social security cards.
Published in Central Florida News
Published in Central Florida News
Orlando’s Climate March Will Take Place In Pine Hills
Twenty-one climate marches will take place across the state Saturday including one in Orlando. They’re in conjunction with The People’s March for Climate taking place in Washington D.C.
Published in Central Florida News
Published in Central Florida News
Rick Scott Defends Reassigning Aramis Ayala’s Cases In Court
Governor Rick Scott is defending his decision to reassign 23 capital murder cases to a neighboring state attorney.
Published in Central Florida News
Published in Central Florida News
How To Land A Rocket Booster
SpaceX successful launched and landed a "flight proven" rocket booster, the second time this particular booster has seen action and making space flight history. But just what goes into the engineering feat of landing a 180 foot tall booster that's rocketing through the sky?
Published in Are We There Yet, Space
Published in Are We There Yet, Space
‘Textalyzer’ Aims To Curb Distracted Driving, But What About Privacy?
Police may soon have technology to tell if a driver involved in an accident had been using a mobile device behind the wheel. Privacy advocates worry about letting police snoop on people's phones.
Published in NPR News
Published in NPR News
Cassini Craft Beams Closest Images Ever Taken Of Saturn
Flight Overbooked? Perfect: These Frequent Flyers Want To Get Bumped
A select group of travelers spends considerable effort trying to get bumped from overbooked flights. The payoff: vouchers that can range from hundreds to thousands of dollars.
Published in NPR News
Published in NPR News
Orange County Property Appraiser Rick Singh Suing PACs
Orange County Property Appraiser Rick Singh is suing political action committees and their anonymous supporters for running a “smear campaign” against him during the 2016 election. The complaint names two PACs called Leadership For Florida Future and For a Better Orange County, as well as their anonymous financial backers. The libel suit says the PACs acted maliciously when they falsely accused Singh in mailers and television ads of changing his first name to hide a federal lawsuit, financial debt and a felony arrest, among other things. Singh’s lawyers estimate the PACs, which were not registered properly, spent about $3.4 million in dark money to discredit the incumbent before he was re-elected. The property appraiser and his lawyers wouldn’t name any ...
Published in Commentaries, From the Pages of Orlando Weekly
Published in Commentaries, From the Pages of Orlando Weekly
