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• Florida representatives Stephanie Murphy, Michael Waltz, Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, and Matt Gaetz called on the FBI to declassify information about which counties were affected.
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• Demings said the money collected from a sales tax referendum would help pay for more buses, trains, and pedestrian walkways. He also called on county employees to make a minimum wage of $15 dollars an hour by 2021.
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• Orange County Deputy Fire Chief James Fitzgerald was recommended by County Mayor Jerry Demings.
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• Orange County Property Appraiser Rick Singh says his office has recovered more than a billion dollars since 2013 by investigating whether people paid their taxes properly. That’s as Singh himself is accused of improprieties.
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• A recent report named the Orlando metro area as the worst place in the country for affordable housing, with many locals struggling to find homes and rentals within their budgets. Jodi Peña-Castaldi with Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida explains the impact of the affordable housing crisis.
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• Statewide, Hepatitis A cases were three times higher than in 2018 than the five-year average. But in Orange County, there were 123 cases in 2018 — more than 55 times the normal amount of cases. And in 2019 so far, we’re already at 15 times the five-year average of cases.
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• Florida public schools are continuing to struggle to fill open teaching positions. More than 2,000 classrooms remain without a certified teacher five months into the school year.
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• Orlando Health is considering building a new hospital and six free-standing emergency rooms throughout Central Florida.
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• It’s official. Jerry L. Demings was sworn in Tuesday as Orange County mayor. The former sheriff quoted Walt Disney in saying he plans to make Orange County the experimental prototype community of tomorrow.
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• Observers gathered at the Orange County Supervisor of Elections office as the machine recount got underway Monday morning.
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