When Mayor Buddy Dyer thinks of Orlando, he sees the cow pastures it came from and the flying cars that, he says, are on their way.

The Pulse Memorial rainbow crosswalk honoring the 49 lives lost in the 2016 nightclub shooting has been removed and painted over by the state, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer says.

Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer released a statement Thursday after the state painted over the rainbow crosswalk in front of the Pulse nightclub site overnight. “We are devastated to learn that overnight the state painted over the Pulse Memorial crosswalk on ...

Community leaders in Orlando are celebrating the city’s growth. Mayor Buddy Dyer delivered the State of the City Address Tuesday morning. He reflected on the city’s 150th birthday.

Dyer pledged to remove barriers and modernize land use zoning to help private developers under his initiative called Orlando Unlocked. The program is helping to build more townhouses and apartments — like in the up-and-coming Packing District that recently opened a YMCA, a food hall and 800 housing units on the city’s west side, Dyer said.

Orlando repurposes buses as mobile shelters offering 42 beds for the homeless in collaboration with the Christian Service Center.

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City Beautiful Voices choir, composed of City of Orlando Employees, opens the State of the City ceremony performing America the Beautiful at The Plaza Live in Orlando, Fla. Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025. /Orlando Sentinel) Orlando Poet Laureate Sean Welcome shares a poem to and introduces Mayor Buddy Dyer at the 2025 State of the City Address at The Plaza Live in Orlando,