William “Bill” Olson was declared the winner of Tuesday’s primary with 48 % of the vote. Candidate Votes Split William P. “Bill” Olson ✓ 20,723 48% Christopher Wright 9,669 22% Jose Castillo 8,588 20% Sergio E. Ortiz 3,678 8% Olson, of Davenport, retired from the U.S. Army after 27 years of service. According to his campaign […]

Republican Bill Olson took the long course to the Republican primary victory Tuesday night to run for Congress in Florida’s 9th Congressional District. Olson, the first of four Republicans to file to run in CD 9 when he entered in March 2019, put together the only serious campaign and raised the only serious money. And in the end,

Republican congressional candidate Bill Olson continued to put campaign finance distance between himself and a bevy of other Republicans seeking a shot at Democratic Rep. Darren Soto in Florida’s 9th Congressional District. In the first quarter of 2020 Olson, a retired Army veteran and former guest relations worker at Walt Disney World, raised $45,070 for a run in Florida’s 9th Congressional

If Americans were honest with themselves, would they admit that they benefit from illegal immigration? According to a recent article in The Federalist, they would.  The author says, “All Americans — not just large farms and meatpacking plants — benefit from illegal immigration by paying lower prices for food. If industrial farms and meatpacking plants across

Florida is a commercial powerhouse. “Economic Impacts of Commercial Real Estate,” an annual study published by the NAIOP (National Association of Industrial and Office Parks) Research Foundation, measures the contribution to GDP, salaries and wages generated, and jobs supported from the development and operations of commercial real estate—office, industrial, warehouse and retail. The study estimates

LAKELAND — With the next election still 17 months away, U.S. Rep. Darren Soto already faces two Republican challengers. Sergio Ortiz of Kissimmee and Bill Olson of Davenport have both filed paperwork to run in the 2020 race for U.S. House District 9. Soto, a Democrat from Kissimmee, won decisively in the previous two elections.

Are we seeing a productivity break out or fake out? Fingers crossed that it’s the former, and that we’ll see a lot more quarters like Q1. Productivity increased at a rapid 3.6% annualized during the first three months of this year. On a year-ago basis, this put productivity growth at 2.4%, the fastest pace since early 2010

Veterans of all political stripes overwhelmingly support reform that would allow military health benefits to be used outside the VA healthcare system, new polling shows. Reform efforts have come under new scrutiny in recent weeks due to comments made by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), who has indicated a willingness to oppose changes to the VA. “If

The U.S. economy started 2019 with a bang. A report from the Commerce Department shows the economy grew at an annual rate of 3.2% percent in the first three months of the year; that’s a full point faster than it was growing at the end of last year. And as NPR’s Scott Horsley reports, it’s