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A.G. GancarskiSeptember 15, 2016

Rep. Corrine Brown and her chief of staff, Ronnie Simmons, are staring down 24 counts for fraud and misrepresentation related to the One Door for Education charity. And now, they are staring down a status conference, slated for Oct. 25 at 2 p.m. at Jacksonville’s federal courthouse. Neither Brown nor Simmons have to attend. Counsel for the defendants and […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 15, 2016

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The Jacksonville Daily Record reports Jacksonville’s University Club, a local institution of power and prestige for nearly a half-century, is slated to close Dec. 20. For political junkies, the closing of the space on the 27th floor of the Southbank’s Riverplace Tower has an especial effect: it will force the monthly First Coast Tiger Bay […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 15, 2016

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The Jacksonville City Council will take yet another in an endless series of looks at the contract for the Friends of Hemming Park on Thursday afternoon. Though the long-suffering group, which manages the 1.54 acre park called “the Front Door to City Hall” by many politicians, is earmarked to receive $250,000 for six months of operation […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 15, 2016

The signature image of the presidential campaign right now came from the 9/11 memorial event last weekend: An “overheated” Hillary Clinton’s knees buckling, auguring a collapse while her entourage was placing her in a SUV to rush her for unspecified medical treatment at her daughter’s apartment. Some have questioned her stamina and health in the days since. […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 14, 2016

Florida lawyer Chris Chestnut may soon be suspended from The Florida Bar. Supreme Court Chief Justice Jorge Labarga tapped Fifth Circuit Judge Don Briggs to immediately appoint a referee for the case on Wednesday. Once that referee is appointed, the referee will hear, conduct, and try the matter within seven days. Seven days later, a report and recommendation to the Supreme Court […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 14, 2016

Jacksonville City Councilwoman Anna Brosche ran a textbook campaign to get elected in her at-large race, projecting an image of serene competence in an electoral battle against the then-incumbent, Kimberly Daniels. Brosche, a CPA, won in last May’s election handily, and since getting on the council, has not missed a beat. While some elected to the […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 14, 2016

Former Jacksonville mayoral Chief of Staff Chris Hand is a believer in representative democracy. Concomitant with those beliefs, a belief in reform, which he outlined this week in the Orlando Sentinel. The entire piece is worth a read, as Hand outlines problems with elections in the Sunshine State in 2016 … and potential solutions. One issue that bedevils […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 14, 2016

In every crisis, there is an opportunity. And the City of Jacksonville seeks to exploit the crisis the state of North Carolina faces, after its legislature passed anti-LGBT legislation earlier this year. As First Coast News reports, the NCAA is prepared to move seven championship events — including NCAA basketball tournament action, as well as soccer, lacrosse, […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 14, 2016

Jacksonville has well-documented blight issues: so well documented, in fact, there was a city council special committee to deal with that issue alone. Though legislation was passed earlier in 2016 regarding the city’s inventory of 436 tax-reverted parcels, the reality is that the number of properties with active liens on them dwarf that. Liens can be imposed […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 13, 2016

On Tuesday night, the Jacksonville City Council unanimously approved an ordinance intended to keep a firmer legislative hand on boards and commissions. The genesis of this bill was the 2013-14 Task Force on Consolidated Government, which found some boards were effectively useless, with sporadic meeting schedules. The bill amends the ordinance section on Boards and Commissions — to add […]

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Status conference set for Oct. 25 in Corrine Brown, Ronnie Simmons trial

Jacksonville’s University Club to close; where does First Coast Tiger Bay go?

Jacksonville City Council panel to review Hemming Park contract Thursday

Hillary Clinton has the ‘endurance of a triathlete,’ says Michelle Kwan

Florida Bar expedites suspension hearing for Chris Chestnut

Anna Brosche talks budget, council leadership, and HRO

Chris Hand outlines a path toward electoral reform

Could lack of HRO expansion hurt Jacksonville with NCAA? Lenny Curry’s not worried.

Jacksonville considers ‘batch foreclosures’ to solve residential blight

Jax Council to take firmer hand on boards, commissions