Icy concoctions that confound
How to describe Jeremiah’s Original Italian Ice? It’s like a sorbet only more slushy. It’s not a snow cone, although it does come in a cup. And it’s more fun than an Ice-ee, with not-too-sweet and refreshing flavors such as mango, kiwi, tangerine, watermelon, red raspberry and passion fruit. Whatever you call it, it’s different…
Trading away home rule on trade
The mountainmen had some sensible advice: “Never drop your gun to hug a grizzly.” But America’s powers that be have done just that in failing to protect our sovereignty — they dropped their gun and hugged the World Trade Organization.;;WTO is an exclusive, secretive tribunal in Geneva empowered to settle international trade disputes, but its…
The price isn’t right in farm buyout fight
Five Zellwood farmers have filed a lawsuit to force the state to buy them out, and if a judge rules in their favor it could cost taxpayers $11 million more than the $91 million already set aside for the purchase. The suit, filed Sept. 4 in Florida Circuit Court by Long Farms, Robert Potter and…
AIDS group to ride their own way
The Florida AIDS Ride will be hitting the road again in 1998, minus the for-profit promoter whose take deflated the expectations of the intended beneficiaries of the fund-raiser. Six Florida groups, including AIDS Resource Alliance of Orlando, which had hoped to benefit from the first two rides managed by the California-based Pallotta Teamworks, decided Tuesday…
Broken promises on a roll
In passing an ordinance banning skateboards from downtown nine years ago, then-Orlando Mayor Bill Frederick and a City Council including now Mayor Glenda Hood promised the city would find a place for a park where the skateboarding public could spin its wheels. ;;Although politicians are known for empty promises, the organizers of a petition drive…
Clubbing the Club
The Orlando City Council remained divided Monday in passing the city’s anti-rave ordinance by a 5-2 vote. But the members were able to agree on the ultimate result of the law, which will force all downtown bars to close their doors at 3 a.m.: The city’s drug problem will be undeterred by the action, the…
