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Scott Powers

Scott Powers is an Orlando-based political journalist with 30+ years’ experience, mostly at newspapers such as the Orlando Sentinel and the Columbus Dispatch. He covers local, state and federal politics and space news across much of Central Florida. His career earned numerous journalism awards for stories ranging from the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster to presidential elections to misplaced nuclear waste. He and his wife Connie have three grown children. Besides them, he’s into mystery and suspense books and movies, rock, blues, basketball, baseball, writing unpublished novels, and being amused. Email him at scott@floridapolitics.com.

Orlando airport expecting record Christmas time traffic

Scott Powers
12/19/2018
Orlando Tourism
The Orlando International Airport is expecting a record 2.7 million passengers to pass through during the 19-day Christmas holiday season that begins Friday, 6 percent more than last year. The passenger traffi... Read More
Brightline

Brightline expects trains to roll into Orlando as soon as 2021

Scott Powers
12/13/2018
Orlando Tourism
Brightline expects to start construction this winter on its planned, privately owned, higher-speed passenger railroad connecting South Florida to Orlando and envisions the first trains to start rolling into Orl... Read More

Brightline Tampa-Orlando proposal discusses Disney, SunRail stops

Scott Powers
11/29/2018
Disney World
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Brightline's proposal to build and operate a higher-speed passenger train from Tampa to Orlando includes provisions for three possible stops in the Orlando area, including one that could serve Walt Disney World... Read More

Airbnb report: Vacation rental home activity surges in rural Florida

Scott Powers
09/24/2018
Hotels
Vacation rental home business is surging even in Florida's rural counties according to a new report from the vacation rental-home marketing firm Airbnb, which showed its business growth had more than doubled in... Read More

Kennedy Space Center adding Delta II rocket to Visitor Complex

Scott Powers
09/17/2018
Orlando Tourism
After Saturday's successful final launch of a United Launch Alliance Delta II in California, the venerable rocket is being retired, and the final vehicle will be displayed at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Co... Read More

NASA blasts Parker Solar Probe toward the sun

Scott Powers
08/12/2018
Orlando Tourism
Under clear skies that must have made it visible throughout much of Florida, a Delta IV Heavy rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral early Sunday morning sending the Parker Solar Probe to the sun to explore the... Read More

Parker Solar Probe launch scrubbed; next chance is Sunday morning

Scott Powers
08/11/2018
Orlando Tourism
Saturday morning's planned launch of a rocket from Cape Canaveral to send the Parker Solar Probe to the sun was scrubbed with less than two minutes left in the countdown due to a technical issue. NASA report... Read More

NASA solar probe heads for the sun early Saturday morning

Scott Powers
08/10/2018
Orlando Tourism
Carrying a science project that has NASA officials and scientists more excited than they have been in a long time, a huge rocket is set to blast off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in the early-morning ho... Read More

Central Florida hoteliers pick Jerry Demings, Teresa Jacobs

Scott Powers
07/23/2018
Hotels
The Central Florida Hotel & Lodging Association PAC has endorsed Jerry Demings for Orange County mayor, Teresa Jacobs for Orange County School Board chair, and dozens of other candidates for state a... Read More
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