Scott Maxwell
Orlando Sentinel
Orlando, FL, United States
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Don’t expand the convention center again. Orange County has other needs.
Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings wants to take a fresh look at how the county spends billions in hotel taxes. Good. The last thing we need is another expansion of the convention center. → Read More
Florida speaker vows to clean up business slush fund. We’ve heard this before.
Florida House Speaker Paul Renner is vowing to cut off Enterprise Florida. But he and GOP lawmakers have talked tough before and yet still send tax dollars to Enterprise Florida and Visit Florida. → Read More
Crime at 55 West the latest black eye for downtown Orlando
Crime and complaints at Orlando’s much-touted and publicly subsidized 55 West apartment building has prompted a rash of police calls from residents. It’s not clear where anyone else cares. → Read More
A renewed push for physician-assisted suicide in Florida
After a 76-year-old in Daytona Beach was arrested for carrying out what she says were her terminally ill husband’s wishes to end his life, Sen. Lauren Book filed a bill to allow physician-assisted suicide in Florida → Read More
A 9-year-old girl. A murdered Orlando journalist. We must do more than weep.
A triple murder in Orlando’s Pine Hills community has people wondering what they can do to stop the violence. Plenty. Here are some ways to volunteer, donate, make a difference. → Read More
UCF President John Hitt’s legacy goal: ‘That I gave a damn.’
A tale of two presidents: John Hitt’s legacy goes beyond UCF’s campus while Richard Corcoran seeks to cash a $699,000 paycheck waging ideological wars at tiny New College → Read More
Florida’s hypocritical legislators ban guns in their own chambers
Florida’s GOP legislators want to allow permitless carry - but not around them. They want to preserve a state law that allows anyone who brings a gun to their meetings to be arrested. → Read More
Boys & Girls Clubs saved Gary Cain. He gave decades back
Retiring CEO Gary Cain says the Boys & Girls Club of Central Florida helped save his life. So he spent his life serving the clubs. → Read More
Author John Green has words for those trying to ban his book in his hometown
A school board member in Florida wants to ban John Green’s award-winning book, “Looking for Alaska,” from school libraries - including the schools Green attended as a child. → Read More
DeSantis’ drag-show obsession targets Orlando Philharmonic
Ron DeSantis turns his anti-LGBTQ culture wars on Orlando Philharmonic, threatening to pull the nonprofit’s liquor license because the it allow drag queens to use its theater at Christmas → Read More
Convention center workers see pay rise to $18/hour. Disney will likely follow.
Food workers at Orlando-Orange County Convention center will soon earn at least $18 an hour. Disney workers want the same. → Read More
Remembering Orlando’s Harvey Massey as a corruption-fighter
Orlando pest-control magnate Harvey Massey left a legacy in business and philanthropy, but also in fighting for good government and against corruption. → Read More
Scandals ‘took a toll’ on departing FPL exec ... the poor thing
On the heels of scandals, Florida Power & Light CEO Erica Silagy announces his retirement. The company says the past year ‘took a toll’ on the poor guy. → Read More
Florida’s Environmental Regulation Commission hasn’t met in 6 years
Gov. Ron DeSantis is spending billions on the environment. But Florida’s Environmental Regulation Commission hasn’t met in 6 years, and state waters are getting dirtier. → Read More
Florida’s teacher shortage - the problem state leaders won’t solve
Teacher vacancies have soared in Florida, tripling over the last 5 years. Gov. Ron DeSantis and legislative leaders haven’t offered any meaningful solutions. Or consider it a problem. → Read More
Supreme Court overrules Moody, says death-row’s Zeigler deserves DNA testing
Questions of have long surrounded the conviction of Tommy Zeigler, who has been on Florida’s death row for 46 years. Now he’ll get new DNA testing over objections from Attorney General Ashley Moody. → Read More
NRA lobbyist battles Florida high schoolers ... over state bird
For 23 years, Central Florida students have tried to make the threatened Florida scrub jay the state bird. Their primary foe has been gun lobbyist Marion Hammer, who has beat them every time. → Read More
Total government control: The DeSantis/drag queen philosophy
Forget parental rights. DeSantis wants government - not parents - to decide what teens can see. So why stop at drag shows? Raunchy musicals, comedians and movies should be censored next. → Read More
Where I stand and what I believe — a columnist’s annual disclosure (2023)
Orlando Sentinel columnist Scott Maxwell offers his annual New Year’s disclosure for 2023 about his beliefs, his finances, his family and his politics → Read More
Gillum’s bogus legal argument, Bondi continues to embarrass
A judge called Democrat Andrew Gillum’s claim that he was being unfairly prosecuted ‘meritless.’ Meanwhile Pam Bondi is caught up in Jan. 6 mess. Neither was worthy of votes. → Read More