Central Florida, Orlando Players - Feb. 2009

Diane Sears | 2/1/2009

» Gov. Charlie Crist has appointed Tim Jackson, CEO of Orlando-based planning firm Glatting Jackson Kercher & Anglin, to the Florida Energy and Climate Commission for a term that ends in 2011.

Tim Jackson

» WESH-TV Channel 2 has replaced its news director, Barbara Maushard, with Bob Longo of WTAE-Channel 4 in Pittsburgh. Maushard was promoted to vice president of news for parent company Hearst-Argyle Television.

» David Gray Ross, a former Maryland circuit judge who serves as an executive in residence and instructor at the University of Central Florida, is working as an adviser to Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Daschle, reviewing child welfare, Head Start and child support with three other experts.

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