{"id":335786,"date":"2026-07-10T14:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T14:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/335786\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T14:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T14:55:09","slug":"talking-central-florida-voter-guide-deporting-haitian-tps-holders-and-tax-holidays-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/335786\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Central Florida: Voter guide, deporting Haitian TPS holders and tax holidays \u2013 Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this week\u2019s episode of Talking Central Florida, the Orlando Sentinel\u2019s Executive Editor Roger Simmons discusses the work of creating a comprehensive, in-depth voter guide ahead of elections this year.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Eduardo Gamarra, professor of politics and international relations at Florida International University, discusses the tens of thousands of Haitians in Florida facing potential deportation and what it could mean for our state\u2019s economy and for Haiti itself.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, Donovan Myrie from WKMG News 6 looks at Florida\u2019s new approach to tax holidays and whether changes adopted by the Legislature in 2025 could have an unintended impact on hurricane preparedness.<\/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, the Orlando Sentinel\u2019s Executive Editor Roger Simmons discusses the work&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,114,266,115,99,109,80971],"class_list":["post-335786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-social","tag-talking-central-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335786","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=335786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}