Will the last person to leave the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District please turn out the lights? Since the new Board took over in February, more than 40 employees have left the District, taking more than 400 years of service to the Reedy Creek Improvement District. Employees who have left the District have reported that it has become “politicized” and ...

Back in August, the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District paid conservative law professor Donald Kochan to write a report on the history of the Reedy Creek Improvement District and its relationship with Walt Disney World over its 56 years of existence. For his efforts, the Board paid Kochan $115,000. But right from the beginning, Kochan’s report aimed to find any ...

One of the key storylines from the 2024 Republican Primaries is the race for second place. Former president Donald Trump has first place locked up, at least in the early primary states of Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. But the race to be the Trump alternative has taken over the headlines. The second-place finisher would presumably step in if ...

The dispute between The Walt Disney Company and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has had several twists and turns, some of them have bordered on absurd, but what it has really revealed are some of the more significant issues in Central Florida. While the Florida governor stripped Disney World of its self-governing District, many stood idly by and watched, either out ...