Army/Disney Layoffs. Shades of Green, the Army-operated military resort on the grounds of Walt Disney World, is shutting down while a $50,000,000 renovation project is undertaken. The resort has been a tremendous success — turning away guests after filling up its waiting list — and so they're expanding, but shutting down while they're at it and laying off 265 employees. Disney's scrambling to find jobs for all the laid-off workers at their own resorts, but it seems likely that a lot of them will be out on the street, a pretty grim situation in Orlando, where the unemployment rate has doubled in the past two years.
(Thanks, Amanda!)