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Month: August 2020

#OSNow PODCAST: DeSantis blames ‘data dump’ for coronavirus spike, COVID-19 testing at UCF, Red Lobster troubles, and are virtual eviction hearings fair? (Ep. 478)

#OSNow PODCAST: DeSantis blames ‘data dump’ for coronavirus spike, COVID-19 testing at UCF, Red Lobster troubles, and are virtual eviction hearings fair? (Ep. 478)

Daily Orlando Sentinel Now podcast: Gov. Ron DeSantis blames ‘data dump’ for coronavirus spike, COVID-19 testing at UCF, Red Lobster troubles, and are virtual eviction hearings fair?

Debt-ridden hotels lobby for taxpayer bailout

Debt-ridden hotels lobby for taxpayer bailout

Back-to-back refinancings allowed the Fontainebleau’s owner to cash out nearly $200 million in equity from the property. But they also left the company locked into a rigid repayment schedule — one that has become an albatross amid the Covid-19 pandemic. But taxpayers may come to the rescue.

Eviction and foreclosure hearings will be held virtually, raising questions over whether that’s fair

Eviction and foreclosure hearings will be held virtually, raising questions over whether that’s fair

With eviction and foreclosure filings expected to start pouring into Florida courts, the way hearings will be conducted is going to be vastly different than before the coronavirus pandemic upended normal life. Under an emergency order from the state’s Supreme Court that largely suspended in-person proceedings, renters and homeowners will plead their cases not from inside a courtroom but, in most situations, in front of a computer screen.