Don’t take our Disney perks, employees urge DeSantis’ tourism board • Central Florida radio newscaster loses home, pets to fire
 Orlando Morning Report Thursday, August 24, 2023 | | |
| | | | GOP debate | Disney perks threat | WMFE host loses home, pets to fire Good morning. It's Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023. The weather today calls for partly cloudy skies with a high of 92 and a low of 76. Click here for more weather. | | | | The Republican presidential candidates vying to be the leading alternative to front-runner Donald Trump tangled on abortion at the first Republican primary debate Wednesday night, underscoring the party's challenges on the issue after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year. | | | | | Employees at Gov. Ron DeSantis' tourism oversight district are urging leaders not to strip them of their theme park passes and Disney discounts, calling the longtime program a treasured benefit that drew them to work there. | | | | | More than 200 people have donated to support WMFE's morning news anchor Talia Blake as she copes with losing her dogs and house to a fire. | | | | | GOP lawmakers blasted Mount Dora for signing off on a program in which participating businesses post a sticker and help LGBTQ crime victims. | | | | | Aldi's acquisition of Winn-Dixie could put the discount grocery chain in contention for the second most grocery stores in the Orlando area. | | | | | Home sales in the Orlando area fell in July as buyers face the second highest interest rate in the region in 20 years, a report from last week says. | | | | | Two Osceola County nonprofits that left a trail of unresponsiveness, alleged misrepresentation and lack of transparency, failed to secure tourist-tax dollars for their annual events. Celebration Foundation and Celebration Exotic Car Festival Wish Foundation received little-to-no funding from the Osceola County Tourist Development Council in August after failing to meet reporting requirements, a practice that one of the nonprofits has had issues with in the past. | | | | | Tropical Storm Franklin passed over the Dominican Republic on Wednesday while the National Hurricane Center tracked 3 more systems. | | | | | Then, as now, having Tim Tebow on those championship teams masked a lot of Urban's issues. Tebow was not only a great Gator; he was the ultimate fumi-Gator for a Meyer program that often reeked from the stench of players running afoul of the law. | | | | | Going into his third year with the Knights, the former Auburn coach has lofty goals: "I've got this dream and this vision where it's like, 'Let's shock the whole college football world and win it here.' I really believe we can do it." | | | | | Listening to past and present sounds from Universal as removed coaster gets haunted house treatment | | | |
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