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A.G. GancarskiAugust 21, 2017

Last week in Jacksonville politics, it was the Anna Brosche show. She was at the center of every news cycle for a provocative proposal to mothball Confederate monuments. There are some who would say that, just as Jacksonville was set to experience a solar eclipse Monday afternoon, there was a commensurate eclipse of political capital for […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 18, 2017

On Friday, the Jax Chamber issued a statement after its Board of Directors meeting, backing the City Council President’s call for an inventory of Confederate monuments. However, they did not call for removal of those monuments — as the Council President did on Monday … before seemingly walking back that position under fire this week. […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 18, 2017

Friday afternoon saw the Jacksonville City Council Finance Committee mull the JAXPORT capital budget — and the big item of interest was dredging. Councilman Tommy Hazouri — not a member of that committee — visited and raised standing questions he’s had about a lack of public discourse on dredging. And he wasn’t the only Council member […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 18, 2017

On Thursday, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry teased an “important announcement” Friday regarding after-school program funding. Curry Tweeted a picture of himself with Finance Committee member Reggie Brown and members of the Boys and Girls Club, suggesting a compromise solution that would, perhaps, preempt Finance Chair Garrett Dennis‘ latest bid for more after-school funding by essentially providing the […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 18, 2017

Friday morning saw the Jacksonville City Council’s Finance Committee review the Mayor’s proposed capital budgets for JEA. The discussion sprawled close to 90 minutes — double the allotted time — and was one in which budget line items were often directly related to equity in services throughout the city. ____ JEA was up first. The […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 17, 2017

State Sen. Aaron Bean introduced his first bill ahead of next year’s Legislative Session, and it’s one that could help special needs children in courts of law. The Pro Bono Matters Act of 2018 (SB 146) is designed, per a press release from Bean, “to provide case related due process costs to attorneys who provide pro bono […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 17, 2017

Florida Gov. Rick Scott has often spoken of President Donald Trump as his long-awaited “partner in the White House.” And that partnership was again exemplified Thursday with Scott taking a jaunt to New Jersey to lunch with the vacationing President. A statement from Scott’s office stressed that Scott’s visit was “solely to promote Florida.” “Governor Scott had lunch […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 17, 2017

Jacksonville’s Parks and Recreation Department is in the headlines a bit more this summer than usual. For one thing, there is a public safety crisis at parks, specifically those in Northside and Northwest Jacksonville. For another thing, Council President Anna Brosche prioritized improving the park system in her inauguration speech. And for still another thing, Brosche […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 17, 2017

The Thursday morning agenda for the Jacksonville City Council’s Finance Committee’s budget review was filled with an assortment of departments. The Public Defender and the State Attorney. The Tax Collector. The Supervisor of Elections. All of these and a couple more besides. Of the greatest interest: the PD and the SAO, both of those offices […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 17, 2017

Another day, another key endorsement for Wyman Duggan in the race in Jacksonville’s state House District 15 — Thursday’s is courtesy of state Sen. Aaron Bean. Bean joins U.S. Rep. John Rutherford, state Rep. Jason Fischer, and Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry in backing Duggan, who very quickly is coalescing the entire establishment behind him. “Wyman Duggan is a committed conservative […]

A.G. Gancarski

Confederate monuments and an eclipse of political capital in Jacksonville

Jax Chamber backs Confederate monument ‘inventory’; Anna Brosche modifies position

Dredging draws intense scrutiny in JAXPORT budget review

‘Gangs can’t have our kids’: Lenny Curry boosts Jax after-school program funding

Jax City Councilors mull JEA budget, ‘broken promises’ of Consolidation

Aaron Bean introduces bill to help special needs children in court

Rick Scott lunches with Donald Trump ‘solely to promote Florida’

Public safety drives Jax City Council Parks budget discussion

Jax City Council mulls Public Defender, State Attorney budgets, processes

Aaron Bean backs Wyman Duggan in HD 15