{"id":317127,"date":"2026-06-23T18:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T18:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/317127\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T18:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T18:39:16","slug":"maxwell-here-we-go-again-orange-county-looks-to-ensure-hotel-taxes-cant-pay-for-local-needs-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/317127\/","title":{"rendered":"Maxwell: Here we go again. Orange County looks to ensure hotel taxes can\u2019t pay for local needs. \u2013 Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Maxwell: The last time Mayor Jerry Demings convened a hotel-tax task force, members were told they shouldn&#8217;t think about things this community truly needs. So they another half-billion dollars expanding the convention center. It&#8217;d be beyond negligent to do so again.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article is only available to subscribers\n                    <\/p>\n<p>\n                            Offer valid for non-subscribers only\n                        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott Maxwell: The last time Mayor Jerry Demings convened a hotel-tax task force, members were told they shouldn&#8217;t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[483,114,266,482,12151,139,141,140,24162,109,76410],"class_list":["post-317127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-commentary","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-opinion","tag-opinion-columnists","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-scott-maxwell","tag-social","tag-social-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317127","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=317127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}