{"id":419339,"date":"2026-10-05T16:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T16:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/419339\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T16:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T16:24:07","slug":"talking-central-florida-tourism-taxes-and-vying-for-the-us-space-academy-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/419339\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Central Florida: Tourism taxes and vying for the US Space Academy \u2013 Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently on Talking Central Florida, Winter Park Voice Editor Beth Kassab discusses if counties and municipalities have more power to decide how Tourist Development Taxes are spent.<\/p>\n<p>She details how local governments are pressing for greater flexibility in TDT spending.<\/p>\n<p>And as Florida competes with states including Alabama, Ohio and Louisiana to host the new U.S. Space Academy, what could it mean for the Space Coast? Brendan Byrne from Central Florida Public Media talks about the latest news on the space beat, plus his new podcast about how humans might respond to the discovery of alien life.<\/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":"Recently on Talking Central Florida, Winter Park Voice Editor Beth Kassab discusses if counties and municipalities have more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,266,115,139,141,140,554,109,1769,80971],"class_list":["post-419339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-science","tag-social","tag-space","tag-talking-central-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419339","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=419339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}