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A.G. GancarskiNovember 4, 2015

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry appointed the city’s first African American spokeswoman, in the form of the tireless Marsha Oliver. From the easy requests to the tough questions, Oliver handles them with promptness and aplomb, and as she settles into her role, she is moving into a leadership position herself. One example of such: her invitation […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 16, 2015

A proposal to appoint four new members to Jacksonville’s Planning Commission will be considered at next week’s City Council meeting, Florida Politics has learned. The moves comes despite two of the members slated for replacement have not yet resigned. The situation will likely dismay and inflame critics of the Lenny Curry administration’s board appointment policy. […]

Melissa RossSeptember 2, 2015

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry, whose inauguration motto was “One City, One Jacksonville,” recently made a very high-profile and symbolic hire to drive that point home when he appointed Marsha Oliver as his new spokesperson. Oliver is not only a registered Democrat, she’s also the first African-American female to hold the spox job at City Hall. […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 21, 2015

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Florida Politics has learned that Bill Spann, the spokesman for Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry, has agreed to be director of the Military Affairs and Veterans Department for the city. A letter from Curry states, regarding Spann, that “from day one, Bill told us his one true passion was to serve our active duty military, Guard and Reserve, veterans, […]

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