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Monday, March 24, 2025

Orange County Mayor contest | Florida's Gen X homebuyers craze | SpaceX set to launch NROL-69 mission

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Next year’s Orange County Mayor contest could draw big names

The interested or rumored list includes Val Demings, Stephanie Murphy, Mayra Uribe, Tiffany Moore-Russell, and Emily Bonilla.

Newest craze for Florida's Gen X homebuyers: Live like a retiree

Builders are enticing a younger demographic with pickleball, wine clubs and a resort lifestyle.

SpaceX set to launch NROL-69 mission with sonic booms possible today

SpaceX is set to send up a classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office from the Space Coast that could bring sonic booms across Central Florida on Monday.

SpaceX targets end of month for private astronaut polar orbit mission Fram2

The Fram2 mission headed by a Chinese-born cryptocurrency entrepreneur and three of his friends is targeting Monday, March 31 for liftoff from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39-A.

Everglades therapy: Veterans combat PTSD by wrangling invasive Burmese pythons

A South Florida Water Management District python removing contractor leads a team of python-hunting veterans in the Florida Everglades as part of his nonprofit Swamp Apes. Searching for invasive Burmese pythons is a rewarding and therapeutic outlet for veterans who struggle with anger and PTSD.

Point: Public unions are not like private unions \| Commentary

Public labor unions resist any change that threatens their control, even if it benefits employees, taxpayers and the public.

Counterpoint: America needs public-sector unions \| Commentary

Strong public-sector unions help build a thriving middle class, stabilize local economies, and protect the services we all rely on. Instead of undermining them, we should be fighting to strengthen them

In entertaining 'Gigolo,' the songs snappily tell the story \| Review

I recall David Lee Roth singing "I'm just a gigolo" in the days of my youth, but the former Van Halen frontman with his flowing '80s tresses didn't have the panache of Zach Nadolski in the title role of "Gigolo" — the highly enjoyable musical onstage at Winter Park Playhouse. Nadolski is surrounded by equally […]