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2025 Municipal Election Guide. We have expanded our voting guide beyond local legislator races to include elections for school board, county commission, state attorney, supervisor of elections, public defender and Ninth Judicial Circuit and Orange County Court judges.

6 days ago · A neighborhood grows in East Winter Garden. Long neglected, the city’s historically Black community is slowly coming back — one house at a time.

If you voted to overturn the 2020 election, that's an automatic Nope in the endorsement department from VoxPopuli. Congressman Daniel Webster was one of the 147 Republicans who voted to overturn the election results after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection. We can't think of any more potent example of dereliction of duty.

6 days ago · With talk of heroes and calls for unity and remembrance, Ocoee marked the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Local officials and residents gathered at the Withers-Maguire House where 2,977 miniature American flags dotted the lawn — one for each life lost in the terrorist attacks.

6 days ago · You may still be able to get a cocktail in Winter Garden until 2 a.m. despite new restrictions on alcohol sales and consumption intended to preserve the city’s “family friendly environment.”

6 days ago · Winter Garden last week appeared poised to end its $1 million recycling disposal program as an ordinance to discontinue collections cleared its first hurdle with the city commissioners’ unanimous vote.

6 days ago · On the two-year anniversary of the fall of Roe. Formerly anti-choice, Congressional candidate Barbie Harden Hall shares what the Dobbs decision could have meant for her high-risk pregnancies and why she’s campaigning to keep abortion legal now.

6 days ago · Norine is an award-winning journalist and author with 30-plus years experience as a print and digital media reporter. Norine’s writing has been published in daily newspapers (Orange County Register, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Miami Herald), LGBTQ weeklies, The Village Voice and national magazines, including Redbook, Marie Claire, More, Family Circle, Prevention, Shape and Reader's Digest.