Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority

This past week, in a transparent show of corruption and sickening abuse of power, Rep. Dean Cannon and Rep. Mike Horner engineered the inclusion of an amendment into a transportation bill on the floor of the House that will, if adopted by the Senate,...

Teresa Jacobs was elected Orange County mayor with 68 percent of the vote. 68 percent. Once in office she automatically became a member of the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority. Recently she pushed for a new policy that would prohibit authority...

Sunday's column revealed that Gov. Rick Scott's new appointment to the beleaguered Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority has multiple conflicts of interest with the agency he now oversees. Specifically, engineer Scott Batterson has private...

Gov. Rick Scott faced a big decision when deciding whom to appoint to the scandal-plagued Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority. The agency, after all, has been rocked with controversies in recent years. A grand jury went so far as to describe a...

TALLAHASSEE — A government-efficiency task force put Orlando's main road-building authority on notice Wednesday night as it scrounges for ways to consolidate or squeeze billions in savings out of state agencies. The 15-member group of former and...

Today's paper carried a story — “Expressway bonds downgraded” — where leaders of the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority tried to claim that the risky bond deals they struck were really just standard practice in local...

Sunday's column about aspiring House Speaker Chris Dorworth's newest public disclosure – and the mysterious $713,000 worth of new assets he listed after being virtually broke the year before — drew a very intense response. Hundreds of comments...

The financial condition of metro Orlando’s road building agency is precarious, its rising tolls aren’t building the Wekiva Parkway as promised, and its reputation hasn’t recovered since a grand jury documented a fundraising scandal there...

Before ever taking office, Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs lost her first choice for a crucial county attorney post. Her pick Kevin Shaughnessy was dogged by concerns that keeping his partnership role at the Baker & Hostetler firm — while...

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Rick Scott on Monday tapped Scott Batterson, 35, a civil engineer, to fill an open seat on the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority, a post that could help decide the fate of a toll increase next year for the long-planned...