Scott W. Boyd

The controversial 4-3 vote this month to deny sick-time proponents a spot on the Orange County ballot likely would have turned out differently if one of the two District 3 candidates running for the post on Nov. 6 were already in office. The two men...

Orange County leaders are going to wrestle again today with how to find more court space for big trials and take on the politically-sensitive issue of where best to house its public tax collection and property appraiser operations. Orange-Ocsceola Chief...

Orange County Commissioner Ted Edwards has put a small crack in what appeared to be a relatively solid deal that was emerging to re-ignite the $175 million in stalled Citrus Bowl renovations. It’s not clear if that fracture will grow or not. The...

Qualifying for the fall ballot started at noon today, and the Orange County race everyone will be watching this week is for, oddly enough, tax collector. The 95-year-old incumbent Earl K. Wood announced earlier this year that he would retire and not run...

A House bill that would allow school districts to furlough teachers for economic reasons is in the state education committee. State Rep. Scott Boyd, R-Lancaster, and 35 other lawmakers introduced legislation that would also allow districts to consider...

Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Sorry we're late, Things were a little on the hectic this side this morning and were punctuated by a presentation for Little Miss Capitol Ideas' first-grade class that required us to dust-off some seriously underused.....

Talking to Orange County's top Republican elected leaders, you'd have little clue that one of the most pivotal votes in the 2012 Republican presidential primary was playing out in their back yard. Three Republican Orange County commissioners say they back...

Good Monday Morning, Fellow Seekers. With the legislative petitioning process underway, but also existing in some bizarre kind of limbo, now seemed as good a time as any to update the list of lawmakers who have decided to call it......