COUNTY 

Orlando Sentinel  

Should man have to pay Seminole County for the right to fix his fixer-upper? 

When Morgan Voke bought a run-down house with a leaky roof and the vacant lot next door at tax deed sales, he figured he’d renovate the properties, improving a small pocket of the historic Black neighborhood of East Altamonte. 

 

NWF Daily News 

SS United States delayed again by high winds, new date set for Feb. 19 

FORT WALTON BEACH — Mother Nature shows no mercy. 

 

WCJB 

Union County Commission honors former commissioner, names IFAS extension office after him 

LAKE BUTLER, Fla. (WCJB) – Jimmy Tallman is gone from the Union County Commission but will not be forgotten. 

 

LEGISLATION 

Health News Florida 

‘Florida Farm Bill’ includes proposal to ban fluoridation of water systems  

Local governments in Florida and across the country recently have debated — and, in some cases, stopped — the longstanding practice of adding fluoride to water supplies. 

 

WMNF 

Seminole Republican files bill to limit areas where corporate-owned housing is allowed 

A bill filed by a Seminole Republican Representative Berny Jacques would limit where big corporations could own homes in Florida.