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A.G. GancarskiMarch 17, 2018

Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, a Democratic candidate for Governor, spoke in St. Augustine Saturday about the importance of the vote of black women — and the importance of “allyship.” Engaged turnout among black women was seen as a contributing factor to the Democrats taking a U.S. Senate seat in Alabama last year; to that end, Gillum […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 16, 2018

$12.5 million for Jacksonville’s Talleyrand Connector, an ambitious reconfiguration of Hart Bridge offramps that would route traffic on surface streets by the stadium and toward the port, escaped Gov. Rick Scott‘s veto pen Friday. The money is 1/4 of the $50 million Jacksonville anticipates needing for the total project. Jacksonville is pursuing $25 million in infrastructure […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 16, 2018

Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, a 2018 candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor, will visit St. Augustine Saturday. Gillum will participate in a discussion on the power of the vote of black women in the morning, and will follow that up with a walking tour of civil rights monuments and sites early in the afternoon. The […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 16, 2018

Physical violence will be expressly prohibited on city property in Jacksonville if a resolution filed by Councilman Garrett Dennis this week to the City Council passes. Resolution 2018-171 would support policy designating city property “hit free zones.” This would create “areas in which no adult shall hit another adult, no adult shall hit a child, no child […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 16, 2018

On Thursday, a Jacksonville City Council panel again delved into the relative merits of selling JEA, the local utility. As has been the case throughout this discussion, flashpoints of tension abounded, kicked off by a familiar antagonist of the Mayor’s Office. The tension led to not one but two witnesses refusing to testify, given the committee […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 15, 2018

Jacksonville City Councilman Bill Gulliford cut a solitary figure at the front of the Lynwood Roberts Room, as a few dozen stakeholders and interested parties convened to discuss the city’s continual struggle with affordable housing. Gulliford, not for the first time, described “neighborhoods in serious decline” locally, as spotlighted by the Block by Block study. And […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 15, 2018

A Jacksonville City Council special committee on parks continued its inquiry into the system Thursday. Council President Anna Brosche, when she took over the gavel last July, identified parks as a priority; the committee continues to explore ways to restore Jacksonville’s massive though unevenly maintained system of 400 parks, one that ranks among the worst in […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 15, 2018

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry and Sheriff Mike Williams both showed quiet February fundraising for their re-election bids. Curry, who filed this month for re-election, did not report fundraising yet for his campaign account. The same holds true for the local “Jacksonville on the Rise” committee set up to support the re-election (though with a six-figure ad buy, […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 15, 2018

Does “implicit bias” affect law enforcement? The justice system at large? On Thursday evening at Edward Waters College, a five-person panel of local experts (Chief Judge Mark H. Mahon, State Attorney Melissa Nelson, Public Defender Charlie Cofer, Sheriff Mike Williams, Senior District Judge Henry Lee Adams, Jr. and A. Wellington Barlow, Esq.) will explore the […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 14, 2018

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry made a trip to Washington D.C. earlier this week, and has been the case before, he met with members of the Donald Trump administration. The subject, as it so often has been, was infrastructure — both the Talleyrand Connector project that the city seeks $25 million for in infrastructure money via the Department of […]

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Andrew Gillum talks importance of ‘allyship’ with black women in St. Augustine

Talleyrand Connector money comes to Jacksonville from Tallahassee, survives veto process

Andrew Gillum plans Saturday St. Augustine swing

Jacksonville to mull making city property a hit free zone

Jacksonville City Council panel to subpoena JEA CEO Paul McElroy

Jacksonville affordable housing crisis continues, outside of media spotlight

Jacksonville City Council panel wrestles with park security, vandalism woes

Quiet February fundraising for Mike Williams, Lenny Curry

Jacksonville panelists to talk ‘implicit bias’ in justice system

Positive signs for Talleyrand Connector money from Lenny Curry’s latest D.C. trip