Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda

1 week ago | miamiherald.com | Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda

A tax package advancing in the Florida Senate could shake up how Orange County spends tens of millions of dollars in hotel tax revenue, potentially directing money from tourism advertising to mass transit and other transportation needs. The changes, green-lighted by the Senate’s Finance and Tax Committee on Tuesday, could allow more than $50 million to be shifted from Visit Orlando, the region’s tourism development organization, to public projects like expanding SunRail.

1 week ago | heraldonline.com | Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda

ORLANDO, Fla. - Survivors of the 2016 Pulse nightclub massacre and the families of those killed must now decide if they want to tour the property before it is demolished, leaving them a "hard" and "painful" choice about whether to commemorate the ninth anniversary of the shootings with a look inside the shuttered building. Orlando plans to offer the visits from June 12 to 14, when it holds annual remembrance events to honor the 49 people killed.

2 weeks ago | bradenton.com | Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda

Samantha DiGeorge is happy to be right where she’s supposed to be - in a theater. “The past few years I’ve been surviving,” she says. “The past three weeks I’ve actually been living.”DiGeorge has spent the past few weeks designing the set for “Birds of North America,” the featured play at Theater on the Edge as it reopens to the public after a hiatus of nearly three years. The drama opens April 12.

2 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda

Samantha DiGeorge is happy to be right where she’s supposed to be - in a theater. “The past few years I’ve been surviving,” she says. “The past three weeks I’ve actually been living.”DiGeorge has spent the past few weeks designing the set for “Birds of North America,” the featured play at Theater on the Edge as it reopens to the public after a hiatus of nearly three years. The drama opens April 12.

2 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda

The mayor of Orange County is arguably the most powerful elected position in all of Central Florida. Compared to the mayor of Orlando, the county mayor oversees three times as much money and four times as many people. For that reason, there are gobs of candidates eyeing the $248,000-a-year post Jerry Demings will relinquish next year. Seriously, the potential field is so crowded, it looks like a clown car. But not all the potential candidates are clowns.