Buddy, can you spare a crime?
If you want to beg in Orlando, you need a license. If you don’t get one, you go to jail. One year ago Orlando instituted a highly unusual regulation on its beggar population. Since June 26, 1996, anyone desiring to panhandle in the city had to get a permit from the police. The ordinance extended…
Seminole’s silent partner
Seated with Seminole County officials gathered June 10 for the first of two public hearings on proposed adult-entertainment and nudity ordinances, attorney David Cortman might have been mistaken for another in the cast of county bureaucrats. But Cortman is a legal consultant — albeit unpaid at this point — assisting, if not directing, the preparation…
No security in virtual reality
As you know, our friendly bankers have been trying to shove us small depositors out of their institutions, insisting we bank at their ATM machines, rather than expecting to have branches in our communities staffed by actual human beings. It’s conventional banker wisdom that ATMs are the essence of efficiency, and that we customers just…
