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August 19, 2023

Morning report: Live Local Act | Tropics Update | Downtown Orlando Thai restaurant

Hurricane center still eyeing 4 systems that could become tropical depression • Downtown Orlando Thai restaurant is 1st to have after-midnight liquor permit suspended
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Orlando Morning Report

Saturday, August 19, 2023

Live Local Act | Tropics update | Downtown Orlando Thai restaurant

Good morning. It's Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023. The weather today calls for sunshine with a high of 92 and a low of 76. Click here for more weather.

Orange County sets rules for statewide Live Local Act. Some worry they're too restrictive.

Developers looking to use Live Local to build on commercial property within 100 feet of a single-family home would be limited to constructing only townhomes or quadplexes, according to a newly-adopted Orange County policy.

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Hurricane center still eyeing 4 systems that could become tropical depression

The National Hurricane Center keeps tracking four weather systems with potential to form into the year's next tropical depression or storm including one that will bring rain as it moves across South Florida this weekend.

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Downtown Orlando Thai restaurant is 1st to have after-midnight liquor permit suspended

A Pine Street restaurant had its after-midnight permits suspended Friday, making it the first violator of Orlando's new late-night rules.

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Lolita the orca dies at Miami Seaquarium after half-century in captivity

Lolita, an orca whale held captive for more than a half-century, died Friday at the Miami Seaquarium as caregivers prepared to move her from the theme park in the near future.

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Publix tells customers to leave their pet dogs at home

Publix, a supermarket as much a part of Florida culture as Disney World, sunshine and snowbirds, is taking a stand on dogs.

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Orlando survey seeks feedback on amenities for planned Under-I park

Orlando survey asks about public support of bike trails, pedestrian paths, public art and other amenities for proposed Under-I park.

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Disney fires back that it should be declared winner in Florida lawsuit

Disney asked a judge Friday to declare it the winner in its ongoing legal battle with the tourism oversight board handpicked by Gov. Ron DeSantis to run the company's development interests in Central Florida.

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Donald Trump plans to skip GOP debate for interview with Tucker Carlson

Former President Donald Trump plans to upstage the first Republican primary debate Wednesday by sitting for an online interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, according to multiple people briefed on the matter.

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DeSantis' Disney chief suggests ethics commission 'weaponized' memo

Instead of resigning, Glen Gilzean is questioning whether Florida's ethics commission "weaponized" a memo that said he was ineligible to serve as both the state's ethics chairman and administrator of Gov. Ron DeSantis' tourism oversight district.

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How a $400k Disney job derailed DeSantis' ethics appointee | Commentary

Carl Hiaasen has long said the biggest challenge for Florida novelists is that few fictional plotlines are wackier than our state's reality. Florida proved that once again this past week when we learned the chairman of Florida's ethics commission has been violating the state's ethics laws, according to the state's own ethics lawyer. I feel […]

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