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A.G. GancarskiDecember 20, 2016

The saga of Jerome Brown BBQ, the family business of Jacksonville City Councilwoman Katrina Brown, took a turn for the legalistic Tuesday. Action News Jax and News4Jax report that the BBQ company’s warehouse on Jacksonville’s Westside was raided Tuesday morning. The raid appears to be multi-jurisdictional, involving the FBI, the IRS, HUD, the Small Business Administration and […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 20, 2016

Compared to other members of Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry‘s administration, Policy Director Robin Lumb has a behind the scenes role. He’s rarely at meetings of the city council – an irony, of sorts, given his term spent among that body. However, Lumb has been working on the policy side, on issues that largely are under the radar […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 20, 2016

Those who were around in the 1970s remember the ubiquitous ERA YES buttons and bumper stickers promoting the Equal Rights Amendment. Though the ERA never made it to the U.S. Constitution, as the amendment failed to be ratified by 3/4 of the states by 1982, the ERA will yet again be considered (and likely not […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 19, 2016

Friday saw an official meeting between Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry and former Mayor Alvin Brown. And with that meeting, a message to #jaxpol: the bitterness of the 2015 election was finally consigned to memory. The picture above: worth a thousand words. Acrimony expunged, replaced by bonhomie. The campaign for Jacksonville mayor was the most expensive local campaign […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 19, 2016

It’s been a rough stretch for the Jacksonville Children’s Commission, and the week before Christmas brought even more coal for its stocking. This month had already seen the Jacksonville City Council’s Finance Committee taking JCC CEO Jon Heymann to task for an unusual amount of “emergency” appropriations bills in recent years, and keeping the council in the […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 19, 2016

New Clay County Sheriff-elect Darryl Daniels is still assembling his “dream team” of “subject matter experts.” Worth noting: some of these stalwarts will be coming in from other counties, not unlike the sheriff himself, whose quarter-century of law enforcement experience is from Duval County. As with Daniels’ legal counsel, State Attorney Angela Corey, many of these experts […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 19, 2016

Former Jacksonville Jaguars’ head coach Gus Bradley almost got four years to implement the three year plan he said he had when he got hired. With two meaningless games left in a 2-12 season, mired in a nine-game losing streak, after another gut punch of a loss to yet another mediocre team the Jags looked up […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 19, 2016

Two familiar names will have shifting roles in the office of Sen. Marco Rubio, as the Florida Republican prepares for his second term. Alberto Martinez, who had been chief of staff, will become a senior adviser to the senator. And Rubio’s 2016 campaign manager, Clint Reed, will take the chief of staff position. Rubio offered comment on […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 16, 2016

As an indication of the predictive power of our Rising Stars series, look no further than Vincent Evans. The Florida A&M alum has been a mainstay of state and local government in Tallahassee. Now the (former) aide to Tallahassee City Commissioner Curtis Richardson has announced his next move. And it’s to the next level. In his May […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 16, 2016

Yet another freshman legislator from Northeast Florida beat the Christmas rush and filed for re-election in 2018. House District 19 Rep. Bobby Payne, a Palatka Republican who cruised to a 45 point victory over Democrat Hubert Snodgrass in November, filed for re-election on Thursday. Payne, who survived a competitive primary against former RPOF Chair Leslie Dougher and Katherine Van […]

A.G. Gancarski

Family business of Jacksonville City Councilwoman raided

Behind the scenes, Robin Lumb guides Jacksonville’s public policy

Equal Rights Amendment gets another introduction in Florida Legislature

Reading the tea leaves of the Lenny Curry-Alvin Brown meeting

Lenny Curry demands audit of Jacksonville Children’s Commission

New Clay undersheriff is a Duval County transplant

Jacksonville and the Jaguars must re-brand again after Gus Bradley firing

Marco Rubio rolls out staff changes

‘Rising star’ Vincent Evans will head to Washington D.C. with Al Lawson

Bobby Payne files for re-election in HD 19