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A History of Disney’s Reedy Creek Improvement District – Part 2, going to the Florida Legislature
Now with the land secured and enough financing to ensure that Walt Disney World would open entirely debt-free Roy Disney and the company‘s general counsel Dick Morris began work on the next phase of the Florida Project. A full-on charm offensive on the Florida legislature. The companies’ appetite for expansion had grown with the eating […]
A History of Disney’s Reedy Creek Improvement District, Part 1
Editors note: With the recent efforts of Governor DeSantis and the majority party in the legislature to end Disney’s special taxing and governance district, in the next week we will be examining the history of the Reedy Creek Improvement District It all started with a Mouse…and an Improvement District. When it is clear out you […]
The Florida Squeeze, the corporate media and “independent” journalism
Consolidation in the media business and particularly in new media has become a normal course of business. Part of this consolidation has been pushed by corporate interests and those who seek to influence politics like the Koch Brothers, Disney and News Corp. Political coverage across the board it can be surmised has been skewed by […]
The Florida Squeeze 