Mucked up
The state and apopka armers’ algae-fueled talks are bogged down and mucked up. Last year Florida swallowed hard and found $91 million to buy the muck farms on the northern end of Lake Apopka. The idea: buy out the farmers and finally stop the pollution that has helped turn the lake into the state’s greenest.…
The corporate buddy system
Down on your luck, Bucko? Been fired and finding it hard to get rehired anywhere? Trying to make ends meet in the lean, mean, corporate ’90s with only a few weeks’ severance pay? Well that’s because you’re on the wrong end of the corporate ladder! If you were at the top, you could actually enjoy…
In era of AIDS, risk of deceit grows
Two years ago, the AIDS Resource Alliance was visited by a “physician” demonstrating a contraption called an ozone generator. “We laughed him out of the office,” recalls Matt LaVictoire, client-services coordinator. “He didn’t have an office. He said he was working out of his car.” While they spotted the con, many Floridians were among those…
Redefining privacy in a police state
The private records of two families have become part of an investigation begun a year ago after police seized more than $35,000 from a rental car stopped on the Florida Turnpike. And although the only criminal charge resulting from the stop — a misdemeanor marijuana charge — has been dropped, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department…
Skin flick to air beyond Disney’s grasp
After a week in a Disney-induced funk, the Central Florida Film & Video Festival has rescheduled its opening-night showing at a theater in Winter Park. “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls,” arguably the most famous film by Russ Meyer, “the King of the Nudies,” now will be shown at 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26 at…
City to rave it for later
With the fate of the downtown late-night scene in the balance, Orlando City Commissioner Betty Wyman has moved to avert the potential failure of a hotly contested ordinance that would kill the nationally renowned rave culture. Wyman had been planning a vacation to Thailand for months. Yet not until Thursday did she ask Mayor Glenda…
