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☆ Florida Lays Groundwork to Resume Migrant Flights
  + stars: | 2023-05-11 | by ( Jon Kamp | Arian Campo-Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Cities near the Mexican border such as El Paso, Texas, are bracing for an influx of migrants as Title 42 border restrictions are lifted. WSJ’s Alicia A. Caldwell explains how officials are preparing. Photo: Paul Ratje/Bloomberg NewsFlorida is taking steps to resume its migrant-relocation effort, including picking three companies to handle logistics and adding more funding to the program, eight months after the state flew 49 migrants from Texas to Massachusetts. The state posted a request for proposals for its migrant transportation program on March 31, seeking contractors that could provide an array of services to relocate migrants by air or ground. A single-page letter from the Florida Division of Emergency Management posted online Monday shows three companies received what is called a notice of intent to award contracts for the program.
☆ Disney Earnings to Shed Light on Streaming Progress as Restructuring Continues
  + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Robbie Whelan | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
After a year of maneuvering on both sides, Walt Disney Co. is suing Florida Gov. Photo Composition: Rachel RogersWhen Walt Disney Co. reports second-quarter earnings Wednesday afternoon, all eyes will be on streaming, but not for the usual reasons. Investors will be looking for the entertainment giant to show meaningful progress cutting losses in its direct-to-consumer business, which includes flagship streaming service Disney+, as well as other platforms such as Hulu, ESPN+ and India’s Hotstar. Since Disney+ launched in November 2019, most of the attention has been on the service’s rapid pace of growth. Over the past couple of quarters, direct-to-consumer losses have narrowed, from $1.47 billion in the October quarter to $1.05 billion in the holiday quarter.
☆ Disney to Make Hulu Content Available Within Disney+ Platform
  + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Robbie Whelan | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
After a year of maneuvering on both sides, Walt Disney Co. is suing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. WSJ’s Arian Campo-Flores explains what’s behind the lawsuit. Photo Composition: Rachel RogersWalt Disney Co. said it would make Hulu content available within Disney+ in the U.S. by the end of the year, the latest effort by newly returned Chief Executive Robert Iger to get the company’s streaming business to profitability. “We will soon begin offering a one-app experience domestically that incorporates our Hulu content via Disney+,” Mr. Iger said during a call with investors to discuss the company’s latest quarterly results.
☆ Disney Reports Narrower Streaming Loss Amid Price Increases
  + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Robbie Whelan | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
After a year of maneuvering on both sides, Walt Disney Co. is suing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. WSJ’s Arian Campo-Flores explains what’s behind the lawsuit. Photo Composition: Rachel RogersWalt Disney Co. dramatically reduced losses in its streaming business, largely the result of price increases for Disney+ and other products implemented in December, as newly returned Chief Executive Robert Iger continues to overhaul the entertainment giant’s finances. The company’s direct-to-consumer segment, which includes streaming, lost $659 million in the quarter ended April 1, far less than the $845 million loss that analysts polled by FactSet had anticipated.
☆ Disney Says DeSantis, Allies Are ‘Weaponizing the Power of Government’
  + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Robbie Whelan | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
After a year of trying to outmaneuver each other, Walt Disney Co. is suing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. WSJ’s Arian Campo-Flores explains what’s behind the lawsuit. Photo Composition: Rachel RogersWalt Disney Co. has fired back at Florida Gov. That measure, which seeks to retroactively void a contract that Disney signed to lock in planning approvals to potentially expand its theme parks and hotels in Florida, escalated a year-long fight between Disney and Florida Republicans.
☆ Ron DeSantis Signs Bill Nullifying Disney Development Agreements
  + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Arian Campo-Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
After a year of trying to outmaneuver each other, Walt Disney Co. is suing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Ron DeSantis signed legislation nullifying agreements Walt Disney Co. struck that allowed the company to retain some control over future development in the district covering its Orlando-area theme parks. The move opens another front in the Republican governor’s yearlong battle with the entertainment giant. It is the second effort aimed at invalidating the agreements, after a board that oversees the district—whose new members were named by the governor—last week declared the accords null and void.
☆ Ron DeSantis’s Oversight Board Moves to Sue Disney
  + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Arian Campo-Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Chairman Martin Garcia, third from left, said the board aims to enforce its declaration that development approvals Disney struck with a previous board were null and void. Photo: Zack Wittman for The Wall Street JournalThe board overseeing the district covering Walt Disney Co.’s Orlando-area theme parks authorized its lawyers to sue the entertainment giant in state court, without explaining what the suit would allege. The lawsuit, expected in a central Florida court, would mark the latest salvo in the escalating battle between the company and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis .
☆ Ron DeSantis’s Oversight Board Sues Disney
  + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Arian Campo-Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
WSJ’s Arian Campo-Flores explains what’s behind Disney’s lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Photo Composition: Rachel RogersThe board overseeing the district covering Walt Disney Co.’s Orlando-area theme parks sued the entertainment giant in state court, accusing the company of striking a “backroom deal” in an effort to preserve its ability to essentially self-govern the district. The lawsuit, filed on Monday in the Ninth Judicial Circuit Court, which includes Orange and Osceola counties, marks the latest salvo in the escalating battle between Disney and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis .
☆ How Ron DeSantis Could Unlock $86 Million for a Presidential Run
  + stars: | 2023-04-29 | by ( Julie Bykowicz | Alex Leary | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
After a year of trying to outmaneuver each other, Walt Disney is suing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. WSJ’s Arian Campo-Flores explains what is behind the lawsuit. Ron DeSantis is poised to jump into the Republican presidential primary in the coming months with an $86 million pot of donor money—and a legally questionable strategy for using it. The cash, currently sitting in a Florida political committee fund, would need to take a circuitous path to help him: It is illegal to use money raised for a state election to run for federal office, meaning Mr. DeSantis can’t simply transfer it into a presidential campaign account.
☆ DeSantis’s Miscalculation: ‘Disney Is Playing the Long Game’
  + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Arian Campo-Flores | Robbie Whelan | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suggested it would be a short fight when he first threatened to strip Walt Disney Co. of the power to govern its magic kingdom of theme parks, waterslides and hotels around Orlando. A year later, Mr. DeSantis is enmeshed in a drawn-out conflict with the entertainment giant that has shifted from the political realm into the courts, with no end in sight.
☆ Disney Files Suit After DeSantis’s Oversight Board Voids Theme-Park Agreements
  + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Arian Campo-Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Photo: APWalt Disney Co. sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis after a new board he named to oversee the district housing the company’s Orlando-area theme parks declared null and void agreements Disney struck in February. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, accuses the Republican governor of conducting a “targeted campaign of government retaliation” as punishment for the company’s decision to speak out against a law passed last year with the governor’s backing that bars classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in early elementary-school years.
☆ Ron DeSantis’s Disney Oversight Board to Consider Nullifying Agreements
  + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Arian Campo-Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Photo: APAn oversight board named by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is scheduled to meet Wednesday and consider a proposal to declare null and void agreements struck by Walt Disney Co. in February that retained much of the company’s control over the land near Orlando that houses its theme parks. At its meeting last week, the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District board of supervisors, which oversees a special tax district that includes Walt Disney World Resort, criticized agreements cemented by the company shortly before the new board, aligned with Mr. DeSantis, took over. Disney went before the board’s prior leadership, which it essentially handpicked under a previous structure that the state Legislature and Mr. DeSantis overhauled, and secured approvals for the next 30 years on zoning, infrastructure and air rights that the company might need if it chooses to expand Disney World.
☆ Disney Sues Ron DeSantis After Oversight Board Voids Theme-Park Agreements
  + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Arian Campo-Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Photo: APWalt Disney Co. sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis after a new board he named to oversee the district housing the company’s Orlando-area theme parks declared null and void agreements Disney struck in February. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, accuses the Republican governor of conducting a “targeted campaign of government retaliation” as punishment for the company’s decision to speak out against a law passed last year with the governor’s backing that bars classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in early elementary-school years.
☆ DeSantis-Allied Board Plans to Nullify Disney’s Prior Development Deal
  + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Arian Campo-Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Photo: Associated PressAn oversight board appointed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis advanced plans to nullify agreements Walt Disney Co. made under prior leadership, which allowed it to retain significant control over the land near Orlando where its theme parks are located. The Central Florida Tourism Oversight District board of supervisors, who met Wednesday, criticized the agreements cemented by Disney in February, shortly before the new board took over. The agreements included a 30-year land-development contract locking in zoning, infrastructure and air-rights approvals that the company might need if it seeks to expand its Walt Disney World Resort.
☆ Twitter Chief Elon Musk Tries to Reassure Advertisers
  + stars: | 2023-04-18 | by ( Arian Campo-Flores | Patience Haggin | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Elon Musk discussed the advertising industry with NBCUniversal executive Linda Yaccarino at a Miami Beach, Fla., conference on Tuesday. Photo: Rebecca Blackwell/Associated PressMIAMI BEACH, Fla.—Twitter Chief Executive Elon Musk made his latest appeal to advertisers on Tuesday, seeking to reassure them that the platform is a hospitable and valuable vehicle for their brands. Many advertisers pulled their ads from Twitter after Mr. Musk’s takeover of the social-media platform was completed in October, either out of concern that Mr. Musk might weaken content moderation, potentially leading to more hate speech on the social-media platform, or because of the uncertainty surrounding the company’s direction under its new leadership. Advertising represented almost 90% of Twitter’s revenue in 2021.
☆ Gov. Ron DeSantis Signs Florida Six-Week Abortion Ban
  + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Laura Kusisto | Arian Campo-Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis late Thursday signed into law a bill banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, a strict measure that could earn him support from Republican primary voters if he runs for president but that also carries political risks among the broader electorate. The legislation was a priority this session for the state’s Republican-led legislature, and political observers think it could boost Mr. DeSantis’s prospects in a presidential primary. Antiabortion leaders said it would also help assuage concerns that Mr. DeSantis has lagged behind some other Republicans nationally in fighting for restrictions on abortion.
☆ Deepening Florida Drought Hits Ranchers, Growers
  + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Arian Campo-Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
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☆ Disney CEO Iger Calls DeSantis’s Moves Antibusiness, Anti-Florida
  + stars: | 2023-04-03 | by ( Robbie Whelan | Arian Campo-Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Robert Iger called Florida’s actions against Disney over the past year “antibusiness” and “anti-Florida” in his first in-depth comments about the company’s ongoing battle with Gov. Ron DeSantis . “While the company may have not handled the position that it took very well, a company has the right to freedom of speech just like individuals do,” Mr. Iger said at Disney’s annual meeting of shareholders, in response to a question about the dispute.
☆ How Florida Became America’s GOP Hot Spot
  + stars: | 2023-04-01 | by ( Arian Campo-Flores | Alex Leary | Anthony Debarros | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
On a recent day in the Miami area, conservative activist Charlie Kirk shared morning coffee with commentator Dave Rubin before meeting with Republican donors who relocated to Florida from the Northeast. He recorded his radio show and hosted an event for the former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro , then capped the night off at dinner with conservative influencers who recently moved in-state. “I feel like how I used to feel in New York,” said Mr. Kirk, who splits his time between Arizona and Florida. “I can just keep myself busy all day long.”
☆ How Disney Dodged Ron DeSantis and Kept Control of Its Florida Land
  + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Robbie Whelan | Arian Campo-Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Walt Disney Co. for now has outmaneuvered Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the battle for control over the more than 24,000-acre parcel of land near Orlando where Walt Disney World Resort is located. In February, Disney went before a local board and secured approvals for the next 30 years on zoning, infrastructure and air-rights that the company might need if it chooses to expand Disney World, giving the company an advantage that has become clearer in recent days.
☆ Ron DeSantis, Florida GOP, Breathing New Life Into Tort Reform
  + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( Arian Campo-Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and allies are taking aim at what they see as frivolous cases and excessive damage awards. MIAMI—Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Republican leaders in the state are pushing legislation to rein in what they say is excessive litigation that is hurting the state’s economy and imperiling its allure to businesses considering relocating here. At a time when tort-reform efforts around the U.S. have generally slowed from past decades, Florida GOP lawmakers are considering a bill in the legislative session starting this week aimed at reducing what proponents consider frivolous cases, excessive damage awards and high attorney fees.
☆ DeSantis, Florida GOP, Breathing New Life Into Tort Reform
  + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( Arian Campo-Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and allies are taking aim at what they see as frivolous cases and excessive damage awards. MIAMI—Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Republican leaders in the state are pushing legislation to rein in what they say is excessive litigation that is hurting the state’s economy and imperiling its allure to businesses considering relocating here. At a time when tort-reform efforts around the U.S. have generally slowed from past decades, Florida GOP lawmakers are considering a bill in the legislative session starting this week aimed at reducing what proponents consider frivolous cases, excessive damage awards and high attorney fees.
☆ Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, GOP Leaders, Breathe New Life Into Tort Reform
  + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( Arian Campo-Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and allies are taking aim at what they see as frivolous cases and excessive damage awards. MIAMI—Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Republican leaders in the state are pushing legislation to rein in what they say is excessive litigation that is hurting the state’s economy and imperiling its allure to businesses considering relocating here. At a time when tort-reform efforts around the U.S. have generally slowed from past decades, Florida GOP lawmakers are considering a bill in the legislative session starting this week aimed at reducing what proponents consider frivolous cases, excessive damage awards and high attorney fees.
☆ Ron DeSantis, Florida Officials Seek to Dismiss Lawsuit From Martha’s Vineyard Migrants
  + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Jon Kamp | Arian Campo-Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A group of migrants was flown to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts last year. Ron DeSantis and other Florida officials said a federal lawsuit over migrants the state flew from Texas to Massachusetts last year should be dismissed, arguing in legal filings the Boston court lacks jurisdiction and that migrants were told where the planes were going. Perla Huerta, a woman migrants said recruited them onto the Martha’s Vineyard-bound flights, filed a separate motion in the Boston federal court Tuesday to dismiss the case. The lawsuit was brought by some of the 49 migrants and an advocacy group in September. The contractor Florida hired to arrange the flights and the company’s chief executive also asked for the case to be dismissed.
☆ Ron DeSantis Appoints Allies to Oversee Disney’s Special-Tax District
  + stars: | 2023-02-27 | by ( Arian Campo-Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law legislation ending Walt Disney Co.’s control of a special-tax district near Orlando and named new members to the state-controlled board that now governs it. “The corporate kingdom finally comes to an end,” Mr. DeSantis, a Republican, said at a bill-signing event at a fire station in Lake Buena Vista. “There’s a new sheriff in town and accountability will be the order of the day.”
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