The chambers of commerce for Winter Park and Orlando are starting the year with new initiatives led by John Davis at Orlando Regional Chamber of Commerce; and Betsy Gardner Eckbert, president and CEO of Winter Park Chamber of Commerce.
Davis is the new executive VP of the Orlando chamber, a division…
An Orlando bankruptcy judge said she’s troubled by testimony from Abdul Mathin, developer of the proposed $400 million iSquare mall and hotel, because he acknowledged commingling money from several different businesses during testimony in a bankruptcy case, among other things.
Mathin spoke under…
A federal lawsuit accuses a Florida State trooper of beating, tasing, and whipping an auto-repair shop manager in Melbourne for years, while on duty and in uniform.
It further accuses Trooper Cleveland “Butch” Johnson Jr. of telling the shop manager, Richard Hickman, to buy his daughter’s Girl…
Sometimes, Alicia and Rob Beers talk about work at home, but they try to limit it.
“At the end of the day, if we’re having a glass of wine and discussing work, one of us might say, ‘OK, let’s stop talking about work,’ and we just stop,” Alicia Beers said.
Together they run Hand & Stone spa in Kissimmee,…
New federal data shows wages in Orlando are below national average – except for waiters and cooks.