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A guest finds a shady spot as a respite from the heat in front of a colorful mural adjacent to the Connections Cafe at Epcot at Walt Disney World, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., Monday, July 10, 2023. The weather forecast calls for more of the same this week across Central Florida, with sticky humidity, highs in the low 90s and a chance of afternoon and evening thunderstorms. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP)

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Disney asks a judge to toss a lawsuit from board of DeSantis appointees
By MIKE SCHNEIDER - Associated Press
Fri,07/14/23-7:10AM , 223 Reads
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Disney asked a Florida judge on Friday to toss out a lawsuit against the company’s efforts to neutralize a takeover of Disney World’s governing district by Gov. Ron DeSantis and his appointees.
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A pedestrian walks through Town Brookhaven, a mixed-use residential and shopping complex, on Wednesday, June 28, 2023, in Brookhaven, Ga. Brookhaven added new parcels in late 2019, but the 1,200 residents who came with the annexation weren't included in the 2020 census. The city of more than 57,000 people in metro Atlanta was among scores of cities, states and tribes that challenged their numbers from the census. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz)

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Chance to challenge 2020 census numbers is ending, with funding for states and cities at stake
By MIKE SCHNEIDER - Associated Press
Thu,06/29/23-12:19AM , 322 Reads
The window for local, state and tribal governments to challenge their 2020 census figures closes after Friday, and with it the opportunity to correct mistakes in population totals that could cost them millions of dollars in federal funding.
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Mickey and Minnie Mouse perform during a parade as they pass by the Cinderella Castle at the Magic Kingdom theme park at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., on Jan. 15, 2020. After appointees of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took over Walt Disney World’s governing district in 2023, its firefighters were among the few employees who publicly welcomed them with open arms. But that warm relationship is in jeopardy now as a new administrator has reopened negotiations on a new contract that promised pay raises and more manpower for the more than 200 unionized firefighters and other first-responders. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

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DeSantis proposes Disney trial schedule that puts start date in 2025, after elections
By MIKE SCHNEIDER - Associated Press
Wed,06/28/23-4:04PM , 324 Reads
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Attorneys for Gov. Ron DeSantis have asked that a trial involving Disney be postponed until the middle of 2025, well after the GOP presidential nomination race wraps up and voters have picked a winner in the November 2024 general election.
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Share of US employees working on-site drops from 84% to 74% in pandemic's first year
By MIKE SCHNEIDER - Associated Press
Tue,06/27/23-2:17PM , 331 Reads
Workers in the fields of computer science, real estate, finance and insurance experienced the greatest bumps in working from home during the first years of the pandemic, while it barely budged for laborers in occupations like stockers, truck operators and order fillers, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures released Tuesday.
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