Disney opens up wallet again, including to GOP who backed ‘don’t say gay’ law • Politically connected contractor gets another lucrative Florida warehouse project
 Orlando Sentinel Evening Update Wednesday, June 12, 2024 | | |
| | | | Challenger closing in on Rick Scott | Disney opens up wallet again | Connected contractor scores again with warehouse project | | | | Florida Atlantic University poll finds U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., is in a tighter-than-expected contest with his leading Democratic challenger, former U.S. Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell. Former President Donald Trump still leads President Joe Biden in the state. And Republicans want Casey DeSantis to run for governor in 2026. | | | | | The Walt Disney Co. provided thousands of dollars in benefits for lawmakers across the state as the company slowly restarted contributions to Florida politicians after a two-year pause. | | | | | TALLAHASSEE — Politically connected LifeScience Solutions received a lucrative no-bid contract from the state to build and manage a warehouse for the Florida Division of Emergency Management's hurricane response needs. The Florida Cabinet unanimously voted without discussion to buy 40 acres in Auburndale along Interstate 10 for the project, which the Legislature approved in this year's regular legislative session. The Legislature earmarked $116 million for the project, including $75 million for the property, as well as $5 million to manage the facility. The Dallas-based company already has a $82 million contract to build a warehouse to store prescription drugs for […] | | | | | The court is headed into its final few weeks with nearly half of the cases heard this year undecided, including ones that could reshape the law on everything from guns to abortion to social media. | | | | | Family and friends and our community remember the victims of Orlando's Pulse nightclub massacre – the 49 lives lost on June 12, 2016. Here are their stories. | | | | | "Our community has healed in the eight years since the Pulse nightclub shooting. But for Central Florida residents, healing does not equal forgetting. | | | | | In the aftermath of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting, it was easy to take pride in Orlando as a beacon of tolerance. Today, the infighting and delays of a memorial to remember the 49 who were killed that day are hard to ignore. | | | | | That outcome, and another trial for Hunter threaten to hang over Biden's campaign, posing a painful messaging test in his race against Trump. | | | | | Jerry West, who was selected to the Basketball Hall of Fame three times in a storied career as a player and executive and whose silhouette is considered to be the basis of the NBA logo, died Wednesday morning, the Los Angeles Clippers announced. | | | | | Advocates for rural development boundaries are outraged the governor-appointed elections supervisor wants ballot language by Friday — a deadline the county almost certainly can't meet — or he'll keep the issue from voters. | | | |
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