Disney, Universal report leg injuries, loss of consciousness on rides • DeSantis signs school chaplains bill opposed by pastors, Satanists, ACLU
 Orlando Morning Report Friday, April 19, 2024 | | |
| | | | Orlando's Michelin galaxy expands | Disney, Universal report includes leg injuries, loss of consciousness | DeSantis signs school chaplains bill Good morning. It's Friday, April 19, 2024. The weather forecast calls for sunshine with a high of 92 and low of 64. Click here for more weather. Want to go deeper? Why not sign up for one of our focused newsletters such as Go For Launch on the latest space news. Sign up here | | | | Four new restaurants were added to Orlando's expanding galaxy of Michelin-starred venues during Thursday night's ceremony at Tampa's Edition Hotel, bringing the Sunshine State's total to 26. | | | | | Leg injuries and lost consciousness were among the conditions listed on required state report filed Disney World and Universal. | | | | | Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law Thursday allowing volunteer chaplains to counsel students in public and charter schools, despite warnings from a pastors group, the ACLU and the Satanic Temple that it would violate the First Amendment. | | | | | The DeSantis brand, battered by constant attacks and political miscalculations, is looking a bit better. A Florida Atlantic University poll found voter approval is up and disapproval is down. Lots of Republicans say they'd vote for Casey DeSantis for governor in 2026. | | | | | A Florida Atlantic University poll found that the proposed state constitutional amendments on abortion rights and recreational marijuana on the 2024 Florida ballot are running short of what they need to pass. Each has less than 50% support for each; passage requires 60% of the vote. | | | | | An Orlando lawmaker is criticizing Florida universities for trying to boost student participation in a politically charged state survey by offering tickets for a $500 bookstore raffle at their schools. | | | | | Offer runs through mid-December, and the price varies with the date. | | | | | Bob Graham was the last governor who owed his election to a runoff primary, which the Legislature imprudently abolished in 2002. We're much less likely to ever again see a solid, hard-working consensus-builder like Graham, and Florida is poorer for it. | | | | | The judge in Donald Trump's hush money trial has ordered the media not to report where potential jurors have worked. Judge Juan Merchan also asked journalists on Thursday to show some discretion on what they say about the potential jurors as he tries to seat a jury pool of people who can remain anonymous. Two jurors who had earlier been seated were dismissed on Thursday, with one expressing concern about people she knew questioning her about whether she was on the jury. Besides showing the difficulties in seating an anonymous jury, the actions may put news organizations in the difficult position of not reporting something they heard in an open courtroom. | | | | | U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington denied defense lawyers' request to put the civil cases seeking to hold Trump responsible for the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on hold while the criminal case accusing him of conspiring to overturn his election defeat to President Joe Biden plays out. | | | |
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