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Florida House Republicans this week rejected Democratic efforts to increase our notoriously low unemployment assistance.Governor Ron DeSantis had already…
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Orlando Weekly is putting on their annual day of arts and culture called Artlando this weekend. There will be performances, artist tents, food, and more.…
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Orlando lost one of its strongest voices over the weekend. Billy Manes a journalist, activist, provocateur, died over the weekend shortly after parting ways with the LGBT publication Watermark. Before Watermark he wrote for Orlando Weekly it was in that capacity that for years WMFE listeners heard Manes on our air.
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Do your kids want to see how Grandma lived when she was young, vibrant, tanned, lithe… available? Then take them this Saturday to a new exhibit that…
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25 years ago, Orlando was a different city – there was no Dr. Phillips Performing Arts Center or Amway Center, Universal Orlando was just opening its…
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After enjoying the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal last weekend, Shadi Petosky was traveling back home Monday when TSA officials at the…
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In February 2014, SPARK Movement, an organization that fights negative representations of girls in the media, released a report analyzing 4 years’ worth of Google doodles. The whimsical art that greets Google users most mornings often pays tribute to significant figures in world history, yet SPARK noticed just 17.5 percent of those honored between 2010 and 2014 were women. So they built an app called “Women on the Map,” released last month, that sends an alert to users’ phones any time they pass a place where women have made history.
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There’s a war being waged in federal court in Orlando – one that you may have thought was over years ago, when a jury concluded for the public in 1998 that for decades cigarette manufacturers knew that their products were harmful and addictive and that they’d been hiding that information from the public.
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When you flush your toilet or turn your tap, be sure to thank the Orlando Wetlands Park. The 1,650-acre property in Christmas in east Orange County used to be a cattle pasture. Then the city of Orlando purchased the land for $5.1 million in 1986 to help treat water on a larger scale in response to population increase and the Clean Water Act of 1972.
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While we all sit on our hands and wait to see if either the legislature or the general-election voting public in 2016 will actually legalize medicinal…