Central Florida Seen & Heard

As part of Central Florida Seen and Heard: Vote Your Budget, we look at the Florida property tax exemption referendum, better known as Amendment 3, could save one woman $165 per month, but make city and county budgets unstable.

As part of Central Florida Seen and Heard: Vote Your Budget, we look at policies that lessen or worsen hunger among low-income families and the approach taken by candidates in Florida’s 3rd Congressional District.

Businesses are increasingly replacing entry-level jobs with AI tools. But the trend is getting harder to ignore, including for Florida’s U.S. Senate candidates.

Central Florida Seen & Heard: Vote Your Budget is the fourth installment of our annual series where we take a deep dive into issues important to people who live in this region.

Orlando remains the country’s fastest-growing large metro in the U.S., but urban sprawl has made it hard for public bus transit to keep up.

As Central Florida’s commuter rail turns 11, it’s begun to study a major expansion costing billions of dollars.

Residents are tired of waiting for a pending road project to connect Lake and Orange counties together. But making Central Florida commutes less costly is a feat much easier said than done.

Central Florida Seen & Heard: Costly Commute is the third installment of our annual series where we take a deep dive into issues important to people who live in this region.

Water issues are inherently connected, and flooding can impact water quality.

Water follows gravity, taking the path of least resistance. But that path can change, based on how we develop land and alter elevations in Central Florida.

Listen to the first episode of our new special podcast, Part 2 of Central Florida Seen & Heard: Rising Water.

This year, with an above-average hurricane season predicted, warnings and other information about those dangers could be a matter of life or death.

Project:Camp runs special camps throughout the country aimed at helping kids process their trauma after a storm.

As flooding and erosion threaten the Florida coastline, the city of Satellite Beach is trying to step in to protect the area from going under water.

Amid booming growth, residents and environmentalists blame recent floods on development, but local governments and developers say they're following the rules.

On the space coast, engineers and anthropologists are trying to combat rising sea levels that threaten to wash away launch pads at the Kennedy Space Center and thousands-years-old village sites in the Indian River Lagoon.

Climate change is impacting Central Florida municipalities’ budgets and is expected to cause major financial losses as cities rely on property taxes from coastal structures that may be underwater in the future.

How many times can communities flood from severe weather before a lasting solution arrives? Local leaders are spending millions of dollars on flood mitigation based on historical storm data, but that data may not provide the needed protection moving forward.

As rapid development strains infrastructure, some Central Florida communities rely on flood maps with outdated data. But even the most current maps can’t predict where flooding will happen next.

Central Florida Public Media is exploring the impacts of climate change and rising water on our region.

Faith is a recurring theme for the Arroyos, ever since, back in Mexico, their parents would lead them in prayer together.

As part of our series, “Central Florida Seen and Heard: The Immigration Divide,” three Mills-50 business owners share their stories and contributions to Orlando culture.

Florida’s new immigration law has been in place for a month now. As part of our series Central Florida Seen and Heard: Immigration Divide, we take a look at the impact on undocumented students.

Since the Immigration Law went into effect, Florida's undocumented workers are fearful of going to the hospital. Healthcare workers say that affects us all.

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