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Melissa RossSeptember 15, 2015

He’s a man who seems to be everywhere these days. Weighing in on every hot-button issue from Medicaid expansion to Planned Parenthood. Pushing a “cold case” task force. But this month, Jacksonville state Sen. Aaron Bean is also tripping the light fantastic. Yes, Bean is one of the North Florida “stars” who will compete Saturday night […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 4, 2015

In football, offensive coordinators often like to script their first 15 plays. That allows them to see what the defense will allow them to do, and what the defense won’t. Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry, who coaches his son’s youth football team, is acutely aware of that principle, as he shows the Bold New City of the […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 2, 2015

In Jacksonville, Ron Littlepage is generally held up as the dean of local opinion columnists. When he writes something, people pay attention. That was the case with his Tuesday column, in which he wrote: Mayor Lenny Curry has famously declared: “One City, One Jacksonville.” Now two months into his administration, a disturbing trend has developed as […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 1, 2015

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Of all of his legislative accomplishments, State Rep. Lake Ray takes as much pride in his work for JAXPORT and Florida ports in general as any of them. He is an evangelist for bringing JAXPORT into alignment with the requirements that today’s shipping companies have: It’s important for the port itself, for manufacturing, for jobs, […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 28, 2015

From all accounts, former Clinton Administration member Nancy Soderberg is “ready for Hillary.” Word is that she’s going to be putting in work on the campaign. She’ll have more time to do just that in the coming months, as the Lenny Curry administration let the former Deputy National Security Advisor know this week that her services no […]

Julie DelegalFebruary 5, 2014

You’ve got to hand it to him: Charlie Crist is scrappy. Striking back against the Republican Party in the web-video wars, the former-and-would-be Florida governor lobbed a grenade: “[R]emember, it was guys like Rick Scott who crashed our economy.” In a video, the Florida GOP, which helped put Crist in office the first time, essentially […]

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Aaron Bean puts on his dancing shoes

With budget all but finished, what’s Lenny Curry’s next step?

Ron Littlepage parses semantics of “One City, One Jacksonville”

Lake Ray talks port strategy, Nancy Soderberg

Nancy Soderberg, ready for Hillary, bounced from JAXPORT board

Julie Delegal: Scrappy is not enough, but Jacksonville’s got plenty