Orange tourist tax panelist quits, says 'deck seems stacked'

A former Orlando Sentinel columnist resigned from a mayoral advisory panel studying possible uses for uncommitted tourist tax millions, saying “the deck seems stacked” to expand the Convention Center again. “Since the committee began, the [Convention Center] has had an outsized presence, both in presentations and marketing materials. We also have been told, time and again, about its economic ...

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