Son of Seminole County Sheriff arrested on charges of reckless driving and evading the cops • Scott Maxwell: Kill the constitution? A rewrite is Florida’s latest nutty idea | Commentary
Orlando Morning Report Thursday, July 20, 2023 | | |
| | New Black history standards | Sheriff's son arrested | Maxwell on rewriting state constitution Good morning. It's Thursday, July 20. The weather will see PM thunderstorms with a high of 92 and low of 77. Click here for more weather. | | Florida approved new standards for African American history Wednesday that state officials called "robust" and claimed address "the darkest part of our history," but critics said they will leave public school students with a whitewashed version that does not deal with the "ugliness of what has happened to Black people" nor focus much on the last 150 years. | | | The 19-year-old son of Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma turned himself in to the authorities following an investigation that determined he sped away from a cop attempting to conduct a traffic stop Wednesday morning. | | | So you may have missed the latest head-shaker to come out of the Florida Legislature — a proposal to do away with Florida's current constitution. | | | A federal judge won't limit his previous ruling that temporarily blocked a Florida law he has determined violated the constitutional rights of drag performers. | | | The lawsuit asks a judge to order the state to establish a reliable statewide database to determine whether felons are eligible to vote. | | | The National Hurricane Center began keeping tabs on a system off the coast of Africa expected to head toward the Caribbean with a chance of becoming the season's next tropical depression or storm. The new tropical wave is located a few hundred miles south of the Cape Verde Islands producing clouds and showers over the […] | | | A Central Florida airport with the word "Orlando" in its title was rated the best in the state, but it wasn't Orlando International Airport. | | | Let's hear it for UCF quarterback John Rhys Plumlee who left a boatload of NIL money on the table so UCF's collective – the Kingdom – could spread it around to his teammates. | | | As summer heat kicks into overdrive with record-breaking temperatures, Orlando has a number of destinations that can help in cooling down. | | | |
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