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A.G. GancarskiNovember 30, 2016

Jacksonville’s TaxSlayer Bowl will announce its teams on Sunday. And there is a strong chance the matchup could have a Sunshine State feel. The bowl will select one Atlantic Coast Conference team and one Southeastern Conference team. The four ACC options: Georgia Tech, Miami, North Carolina and Virginia Tech. The four SEC options: Kentucky, Auburn, Florida, and Arkansas. […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 30, 2016

Northeast Florida Sens. Aaron Bean, Rob Bradley, Audrey Gibson, and Travis Hutson all have new committee assignments. Happily for Northeast Florida, the first three listed will be in a position to have say over the upper house’s purse strings in the coming Session. Bean will be one of three First Coast Delegation Members on the Appropriations Committee, with leadership […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 30, 2016

The ethics office in Jacksonville’s city hall is still going strong, and director Carla Miller is getting international attention this week. Miller will be headed to Panama City — the one on the isthmus, not the one due west on the panhandle — this week to moderate a panel at the United Nations’ 17th International Anti-Corruption conference […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 30, 2016

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry isn’t changing his administration’s game plan ahead of legislative delegation meetings Wednesday and Thursday. On Tuesday, Curry said his asks would be “consistent with what I’ve been doing since I’ve been in office. Public safety, infrastructure will be top topics of discussion.” “Yes, I would say you should be there,” Curry […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 30, 2016

A post-election infographic from the Republican Party of Duval County raises more questions than it resolves about what happened on Election Day. The most provocative assertion: supporters of Hillary Clinton and, in the two elections before that, Barack Obama, were guilty of “novelty voting.” Clinton and Obama, centrist and corporatist Democrats by many reckonings, were apparently […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 29, 2016

Another day, another pension pratfall for the city of Jacksonville. And this latest one will have big cost impacts, perhaps expanding the $2.85 billion unfunded liability. Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry is incensed about the latest cost overrun from the perpetually beleaguered Jacksonville Police and Fire Pension Fund. “It has come to my attention,” Curry wrote in […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 29, 2016

A recurring issue in Florida presents a particular type of tragedy: babies dying during open heart surgery. The issue extends far beyond Florida, sadly. CNN noted that in 2015, some hospitals had death rates over 12 percent. And to put that number in perspective, half of the hospitals that perform pediatric heart surgeries nationally do not […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 29, 2016

Tuesday saw negotiators from the City of Jacksonville squaring off with the Jacksonville Supervisors Association in collective bargaining. And substantial progress was made on key elements during two sessions. As with the other bargaining units, the city is negotiating with in the wake of the passage of August’s County Referendum 1, a considerable gap looms between what […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 29, 2016

In 2014, the Florida Legislature enacted a pilot program designed to make it easier for foster children to get driver’s licenses and auto insurance. In 2017, Sen. Aaron Bean seeks to make that program permanent, via Senate Bill 60, to ensure children in “out-of-home care” permanently have a way to secure driver’s licenses and defray the […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 29, 2016

The Duval County School Board, when fully staffed, is a seven-person body. However, just one resignation or absence can turn the DCSB into a six-person panel. And, in the event of a controversial or closely contested issue, a 3-3 tie is quite likely. The board wasn’t at full strength earlier this year, after Rep. Jason Fischer […]

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Florida vs. Miami a possible matchup for TaxSlayer Bowl

Northeast Florida Senators to feature heavily on Appropriations Committee

Jacksonville ethics officer headed to Panama for anti-corruption panel

Infrastructure, public safety to feature in Lenny Curry delegation pitches

Duval GOP: ‘Obama and Hillary’ supporters were ‘novelty voting’

Lenny Curry: Pension costs have ‘crippled’ Jacksonville

Aaron Bean introduces pediatric cardiac care bill

Jacksonville and its supervisors get closer to a deal on Tuesday

Program for driver’s licenses for foster children could be made permanent

Bill would divest tiebreaking power from Duval School Board chair