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Volusia County political consultant Maureen France elopes with longtime beau

HOLLY HILL, Fla. -- At 55 and out of the marriage scene for a decade now, the last thing political consultant Maureen France wanted to deal with was the hassle of a wedding, especially with family and friends in two separate locates more than 600 miles apart. So she and her longtime beau eloped.

Orlando Sentinel story glorifies Sheriff Mike Chitwood's scumbags gimmick

ORLANDO, Fla. -- The Orlando Sentinel, is yet another media outlet that buys into Sheriff Mike Chitwood's public relations name calling schtick at the expense of real crime stories stories and issues in his agency. And the mess he left behind in Daytona Beach, where violent crimes shot through the roof under his final two years as chief of police (19 homicides). This story above, like others, feature the PIO, leading the cheers like a PR flak. If this were really community-generted, why are there no citizen voices quited or even refenced in the story?

With the sale of Jax's Florida Times Union & the St. Augustine Record to Gatehouse Media (owners of the Daytona Beach News-Journal), could the Orlando Sentinel be next?

By HENRY FREDERICK
Headline Surfer
Column: People, Places & Things

ORLANDO, Fla. -- With the sale of Jacksonville's Florida Times Union and the St. Augustine Record to Gatehouse Media, owners of the Daytoa Beach News-Journal, could the Orlando Sentinel be next? 

Maybe. Maybe not.

ANALYSIS: PO Council's Chase Tramont's white supremacy FB condemnation rant, replete with name calling, allowed politicians Fred Costello & Derrick Henry to seize the moment

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Chase Tramont, a Spruce Creek High School teacher and family man, who came onto the political scene last year and overwhelmingly won a municipal seat in Port Orange with his down-to-earth guy next door campaign style, took local social media by storm over the weekend with a no-holds-barred Facebook tongue-lashing of the white supremacists whose Charlottesville, Va., street clashes turned deadly when one of their own used his car as a battering ram plowing into a group of anti-hate protestors that resulted in a woman being killed and bone-crunching injuries to others.