‘The Outsiders’ wins best musical and ‘Stereophonic’ best play as women make strides at Tony Awards • A new airport could spark the economy in a rural part of Florida. Will the workforce be ready?
 Orlando Morning Report Monday, June 17, 2024 | | |
| | | | Seminole faces budget cuts | Tony Awards winners | New airport could spark rural Florida county Good morning. It's Monday, June 17, 2024. The weather forecast features cloudy skies with a high of 91 and low of 73. Click here for more weather. Want to go deeper? Why not sign up for one of our focused newsletters such as Political Pulse on the latest election and government news. Sign up here. | | | | Since 2015, Seminole has tacked an extra cent onto the state sales tax on most purchases that's funded tens of millions of dollars in infrastructure improvements. | | | | | 'The Outsiders' musical is based on the beloved S. E. Hinton book is about rival gangs of haves and have-nots in 1960s Oklahoma. The win meant Angelina Jolie, a producer, landed her first Tony, too. | | | | | A rural Florida county is hoping a new $300 million airport will transform its economy and create more than 1,400 new, high-skilled jobs. But to make good on its promise, Hendry County's educators will have to overcome some harsh realities. A third of Hendry County's working-age adults lack a high school diploma, while almost half speak a language other than English at home, among the highest in Florida. As the airport project pursues approval, community groups and schools are working to fill teacher shortages and making investments in adult education. | | | | | Blue Bamboo will lease space in the former Winter Park Library after beating a competing proposal from Rollins College for a new museum. | | | | | The Mennello Museum presents two exhibitions with natural themes: John James Audubon's "Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America" and Mark Messersmith's "Long Summer." | | | | | Winter Park Playhouse hosts the annual Florida Festival of New Musicals this June, including the return of a revamped "Julie Bunny Must Die." | | | | | Notwithstanding the methodological rigor and success record of the forecasters, conspiracy-peddling voices will politicize the issue of how many hurricanes are expected. | | | | | The adage that "nothing is certain except death and taxes" ought to be updated for our modern times to: Nothing is certain except death, taxes, and government-generated climate alarmism. | | | | | The 4-time major champ played the tourney's first 69 holes without missing a putt inside 4 feet before missing 2 in his last 3 holes. | | | | | The Panthers return home to South Florida up 3-1 in the final with another opportunity to win the first championship in franchise history in front of their home fans. | | | |
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