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A.G. GancarskiDecember 8, 2017

Is momentum slowing down for Wyman Duggan, thus far the sole Republican running to replace Attorney General hopeful Jay Fant in House District 15? November fundraising for Duggan, a Jacksonville lawyer, was the weakest of his four months as an active candidate. (That could be attributed to a traditional holiday season trough in fundraising, however.) Still, the […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 7, 2017

Build Something That Lasts, the political committee linked to Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry both spent and raised money robustly in November. Checks cut were more interesting than deposits, which, by and large, came from the usual suspects. For the first time since August, Curry’s committee cleared six-figures, raking in $112,000. The committee has just under $475,000 […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 7, 2017

Railroad company CSX embraced a “precision railroading” model, one that led to staff cuts and a seeming uptick in trains lingering on tracks blocking roadways. Since then, citizens in the Jacksonville/Baldwin area — and well beyond — have kvetched, per an email from John G. Kalinowski, an Assistant State Attorney in Florida’s 4th Judicial Circuit. In […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 7, 2017

Jacksonville may be mulling a change its employment drug test procedures soon, and that could bring revenue to the courts. That’s the gist of an internal email chain obtained by FloridaPolitics.com. However, there are caveats that may preclude this from happening. On Nov. 29, Diane Moser — head of employee services for the City of Jacksonville […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 7, 2017

Finally subject to a successful foreclosure auction Wednesday: The Davie “parsonage” of Spoken Word Ministries, the church run in part by Rep. Kim Daniels. Since Dec. 2016, the mortgage holder, Freedom Mortgage Corporation, had sought to foreclose on the property. The bank finally recovered the property for $800,200 at auction. However, those efforts had been successfully […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 6, 2017

Rep. John Conyers, increasingly embattled by serial sexual harassment claims, announced his immediate retirement from Congress Tuesday. Despite the various claims made against the Michigan Democrat, many leading members of the Congressional Black Caucus thought, per POLITICO, that a double standard was in play, with Conyers being held to a higher standard than white politicians (Blake Farenthold, Al […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 6, 2017

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry brought his political adviser into the administration Wednesday, naming Brian Hughes as his Chief of Staff. Hughes begins in his new position January 2, 2018. “To me and dozens of other elected officials, Brian Hughes has been a senior adviser on important matters of public policy and communications,” said Curry. “Working with me, Brian […]

Drew WilsonDecember 6, 2017

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Jacksonville Republican Rep. Jason Fischer is currently unopposed for re-election to House District 16 but that didn’t stop him from adding another $25,000 last month to push his campaign past $100,000 mark in total fundraising. Fischer, currently in his first term, raised $24,850 and spent $7,648 during November, bringing his to-date total to $113,902 raised […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 5, 2017

Six November nominees to the Jacksonville Kids Hope Alliance board were up in committee Tuesday. All of them sailed through with nary a no vote, putting them on the Consent Agenda at next week’s City Council meeting. Most of them were completely uncontroversial. And the one who was controversial going in wasn’t controversial at all in […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 5, 2017

The opioid overdose crisis in Jacksonville has taxed city resources on a number of fronts, including those not visible to the public, such as the Medical Examiner’s office. Numerous city hall conversations this year have spotlighted the pressures created by the unnatural and unbudgeted deaths of the overdose crisis. WJXT reported on a cry for […]

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Republican Wyman Duggan adds $8,950 to HD 15 campaign nest egg

$112K raised in November for Lenny Curry committee; new chief of staff gets paid

‘Arrangement’ between CSX, 4th circuit lawyers on blocked railroad crossings

Jacksonville mulls letting courts handle employee drug screens

Foreclosure final on state Representative’s ‘parsonage’

Al Lawson breaks with Congressional Black Caucus on John Conyers

Brian Hughes, ‘bad boy of comms,’ to be Lenny Curry’s chief of staff

Jason Fischer adds $25K for his HD 16 re-election bid

Mayor’s ‘Kids Hope’ board picks sail through Jacksonville City Council panel

No more room at the morgue: Crisis in Jacksonville