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Disney Says Florida Cannot Dissolve Reedy Creek Without Addressing Debt Load

The ongoing feud between Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) and the administration of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took another twist as the company is questioning the process that will eliminate its special status tax district in June 2023.

Benzinga

Disney tells investors Florida’s attempts to repeal private district are unlawful

Move could thwart state’s retaliation against company’s opposition to ‘don’t say gay’ law

The Guardian - US

DeSantis' war on "woke" is anti-American

Vladimir Putin sent up a missile this week, and Florida's governor just had to shoot off one of his own

Salon

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After years of progress on gay rights, how did the US become so anti-LGBTQ+?

A slew of bills are rolling back recently won freedoms for gay people. Is America ready to fight for LGBTQ+ rights all over again?

The Guardian - US

‘Bigotry does not know state borders’: Anti-LGBTQ legislation troubles queer, trans Angelenos

LOS ANGELES -- Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Californians have watched with alarm and sadness in recent weeks as lawmakers in the Midwest and South have debated the rights of LGBTQ people within their borders.

Los Angeles Times

Fabiola Santiago: My money is on Disney, mimosas and margaritas as DeSantis hits voters in the pocket

I’ll take Disney theme-park magic over Gov. Ron DeSantis’ fascist excesses anytime — and happily wear silly, flowered mouse ears on my head all day to broadcast my enthusiasm.

Miami Herald

POINT: Why are Republicans so obsessed with gender issues?

What makes a woman a woman? That’s the question Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn asked Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing. Alabama governor Kay Ivey signed legislation that threatens doctors and nurses with up to 10 years in prison for aiding transgender young people in transitioning. Florida’s…

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Florida approves more math books but provides no explanation

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A series of elementary school math textbooks previously rejected by Florida won state approval this week and can now be purchased by school districts that want books to match state standards.

Tribune News Service

Voters seek injunction over changes made to North Florida congressional districts

Focusing on a North Florida district that has become a legal and political battleground, voting-rights groups and other plaintiffs are seeking a temporary injunction to block a congressional redistricting plan pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Miami Herald

Disney targeted by QAnon believers using meme-stock tactics

For weeks now, followers of the fringe conspiracy group QAnon have been spinning theories and falsehoods about Walt Disney Co. online, whipping up a frenzy of negative sentiment against one of America’s best-known corporations.

Tribune News Service

Disney government in dark about effect of law dissolving it

At the first meeting of Disney World’s private government since Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law a measure to dissolve it next year, officials were still confused about what the new legislation meant, even as some ripple effects were starting to be felt

The Independent UK

DeSantis plan to punish Disney hits snag

DeSantis' plan would hit taxpayers with $1 billion bill — but it gets "worse than that"

Salon

Elon Musk’s Twitter coup has been a boon for conservative extremists

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jair Bolsonaro, and Ron DeSantis have seen sizable bumps this week.

Input

Disney’s governing district says Florida cannot get rid of it until bond debts are paid

Officials have warned that getting rid of the taxing district the company imposed on itself would be a huge tax liability for neighboring residents

The Independent UK

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Reason

Florida Faces First Amendment, Contract, and Budget Issues in Dissolving Disney District

Plus: Russia accuses NATO of war by proxy, Elon Musk's confusing comments on free speech, Biden bans incandescent light bulbs, and more...

Chicago Tribune

Editorial: To end a Mickey Mouse situation, Disney and DeSantis must talk and compromise

The goofy impasse between the Walt Disney Co. and the state of Florida — two venerable entities whose fates are inextricably intertwined — is providing lots of red meat for Fox News, MSNBC and divisive partisans on both sides — but it’s bad for America.

Ballotpedia

Redistricting news from Florida and Kansas

By: Samuel Wonacott

Chicago Sun-Times

Censoring books is bad for students, teachers and democracy

As long-time educators, we are alarmed by the rapidly increasing political censorship in education. You should be, too.

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Miami Herald

Disney tells investors Florida can’t dissolve special district without paying debt

MIAMI — As Florida legislators were rushing through passage of a bill to repeal the special district that governs Walt Disney World last week, they failed to notice an obscure provision in state law that says the state could not do what legislators were doing — unless the district’s bond…

Tribune News Service

Pinellas County commission votes to sue Florida over new election law

TAMPA, Fla. — Pinellas County commissioners voted Tuesday to sue the state over its new elections reform law, which includes a provision they say illegally targets Pinellas to accommodate the political ambitions of one state legislator.

Ballotpedia

Florida enacts new congressional map

Florida enacted new congressional districts on April 22, 2022, when Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed a proposal approved by the legislature into law. Florida was apportioned 28 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives after the 2020 census, one more than it received after the 2010 census. This map will…

Tribune News Service

Ron DeSantis’ fight with Disney helped him break fundraising records

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ massive political clout has been on full display.

Salon

DeVos + DeSantis = Defund the schools

Florida governor joins Trump's education secretary in online push for her plan to privatize Michigan public schools

Tribune News Service

Editorial: A Trump judge rated ‘not qualified’ got it wrong on masks

COVID-19 caught the United States unprepared and unwilling in some ways to defend itself against the viral pandemic that has now taken nearly a million American lives. More than 400,000 had been lost by the time Joe Biden, on his first day as president, ordered face-masking across an array of…

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: In Florida, DeSantis punishes Disney — by giving it a big tax cut

Up in their corporate suite, executives of the Walt Disney Co. must be laughing themselves silly.

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