On this week’s episode of Talking Central Florida, Jason Delgado from Spectrum News discusses the budget and the fight ahead in the Legislature over homestead property taxes as Florida lawmakers are preparing to give final approval to the Florida budget before sending it to Gov. DeSantis for his signature and likely line-item vetoes.
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Also, Romy Ellenbogen from the Tampa Bay Times joins the show to talk about her reporting on the Florida attorney general’s move to compare surrogacy to human trafficking and modern-day slavery.
And Beth Kassab from the Winter Park Voice discusses the debate over historic preservation in Winter Park, which is taking on new urgency as homes face demolition.
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Talking Central Florida is hosted by Steve Mort. The show gets in-depth analysis from the journalists covering our region’s most important issues.
The show is a production of the News Collaborative of Central Florida with support from Central Florida Public Media, the Orlando Sentinel, the Winter Park Voice, and the Central Florida Foundation.
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