{"id":289056,"date":"2026-05-29T16:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/289056\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T16:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:38:07","slug":"talking-central-florida-podcast-state-budget-property-taxes-surrogacy-and-winter-park-historic-preservation-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/289056\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Central Florida podcast: State budget, property taxes, surrogacy and Winter Park historic preservation \u2013 Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this week\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Romy Ellenbogen from the Tampa Bay Times joins the show to talk about her reporting on the Florida attorney general\u2019s move to compare surrogacy to human trafficking and modern-day slavery.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TalkingCentralFlorida\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Talking Central Florida<\/a> is hosted by Steve Mort. The show gets in-depth analysis from the journalists covering our region\u2019s most important issues.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>View every podcast from the show at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TalkingCentralFlorida\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">youtube.com\/@TalkingCentralFlorida<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this week\u2019s episode of Talking Central Florida, Jason Delgado from Spectrum News discusses the budget and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[29,114,266,115,139,141,140,99,109,80971],"class_list":["post-289056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-florida-news","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-politics","tag-social","tag-talking-central-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}