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• 90.7’s ballot coverage continues in Florida’s House District 30, where Democratic incumbent and public school teacher Karen Caster Dentel faces Republican Challenger and Longwood commissioner Bob Cortes. Read More »
• Recently, Orlando Weekly reported about a proposed development project for Ivanhoe Village. Chance Gordy, a local developer, has expressed interest in buying up multiple warehouse buildings in the neighborhood and he’s hoping to replace them with a world-class mixed-use development featuring green space, restaurants, retail and apartments. The project will certainly alter the character of the little neighborhood just north of downtown, and residents immediately expressed concern that the businesses at the heart of the thriving economy in that area – mostly creative businesses, including the Venue and Steadfast Brands clothing, to name just a couple – will be displaced. Gordy has been meeting with neighborhood stakeholders to talk about making spaces within the new development to accommodate the arts … Read More »
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• An Atlas V rocket carrying a GPS satellite launched from Cape Canaveral air force station Wednesday, a day after a rocket carrying supplies for the International Space Station blew up seconds after lifting off in Virginia Read More »
• NK-33 engines, originally destined for a Soviet-era moon shot that never got off the ground and later used in the Antares, are suspect, some scientists say. Read More »
• The Fed has been buying up bonds by the trillions since the financial crisis started in 2008. Today, it affirmed that it was going ahead with plans to end its third round of stimulus. Read More »
• A former Florida A&M University band member says she submitted to a ritual prosecutors describe as hazing because she felt shunned for not doing it. The testimony came Wednesday in the trial of another former band member charged in the 2011 death of drum major Robert Champion. Read More »