Article: Orlando mayor: We have not taken the `safe' path.

Byline: Bobby Coker and Beth Kassab

ORLANDO, Fla. _ As 2003 comes to a close, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer is capping off a year that began with a giant budget deficit and finished up with deals for three new downtown projects that would expand the city's skyline.

He took office when the city was $23.6 million in the red, forcing him and the City Council to slash projects and cut nearly 250 positions.

He took criticism for asking some city commissioners to keep secret the financial details of a deal with developer Cameron Kuhn to remake a key city block at Orange Avenue and Church Street. Dyer also came under fire for a plan to demolish historic ...

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