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A.G. GancarskiSeptember 13, 2017

FloridaPolitics.com patched into a call Tuesday involving the Jacksonville City Council and a representative of the Mayor’s Office; the hot topic was JEA power restoration. A representative of the Mayor’s Office noted that Curry had been “stern” with JEA CEO Paul McElroy, whose storm restoration efforts seemed to be moving slowly Tuesday. More than 163,000 customers […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 13, 2017

Rep. Kim Daniels was among the myriad Jacksonville politicians at a Wednesday presser promoting an Irma relief fund. However, she was the only one who had claimed that “prophets” knew that Irma would hit Florida. “Nothing happens except God reveal it to prophets first,” Daniels observed as the death-dealing superstorm enveloped the peninsula. We asked Daniels […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 13, 2017

Hurricane Irma left its mark on Jacksonville: massive floods in low-lying areas, wind damage, and other impacts. And Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry — now fully in what he calls “recovery mode” — seeks to ensure that impacted Northeast Floridians have what they need to defray immediate impacts and recover their lives. On Wednesday at the Legends […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 12, 2017

Hurricane Irma’s impact stopped being felt in Jacksonville Monday afternoon, and it was soon thereafter that Gov. Rick Scott was in town. Scott, who added Duval County to his ask for a major disaster declaration post-Irma on Monday evening, visited a local hurricane shelter with New York Mets’ minor league prospect Tim Tebow, a legend in these […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 12, 2017

Tuesday afternoon saw what likely will be one of the last briefings on Jacksonville City Council members on Hurricane Irma. And it was a doozy — complete with recriminations and frustrations over another round of slow power restoration from JEA. Recovery is underway, with JEA crews having resolved roughly 20,000 outages during daylight hours Tuesday, […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 12, 2017

Daring rescues from floodwaters and a general co-branding of the media and the government characterized Monday, as Irma churned away from Jacksonville at long last. But attention turned to more quotidian details Wednesday — namely the large swathes of town still out of power. Southside neighborhoods, from Brierwood to Mandarin, along with large swathes of […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 11, 2017

On Monday, Florida Gov. Rick Scott visited Jacksonville, just after announcing that Duval was among the counties added to his major disaster declaration ask from the White House in the wake of Hurricane Irma. The complete list of counties: Broward, Clay, Duval, Flagler, Palm Beach, Putnam and St. John’s Counties. This ask comes a day after […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 11, 2017

As Jacksonville policy makers struggle to deal with the consequences of a historic hurricane, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry noted Monday afternoon that the city is still in “rescue” mode. “A Cat 3 surge and Tropical Storm conditions,” Curry said, has been unseen locally in 150 years. “That’s why we gave people plenty of time to evacuate,” […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 11, 2017

In its perilous path north across the Florida peninsula, Hurricane Irma certainly wreaked havoc in major cities. However, Sen. Rob Bradley knows better than most how hard hit rural counties were by the storm. Many of those counties are in his district, which includes swaths of Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Lafayette, Levy, Marion, Suwannee, and […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 11, 2017

A walk through Jacksonville’s Avondale neighborhood Monday morning revealed the destruction Hurricane Irma had wrought. But even as the storm was headed out, more danger follows Monday afternoon, via record high tides. Avondale, along with Riverside and Downtown, got the worst of the flooding; Avondale also got some of the most brutal winds, the kind […]

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Lenny Curry ‘frustrated’ with lack of clarity on power restoration timetable

Kim Daniels asserts again that Irma striking Florida was God’s will

Lenny Curry rolls out Irma relief fund

After Irma, state politicians descend on Jacksonville

Lenny Curry, Jax City Council frustrated with slow pace of power restoration

With 163K still in the dark, Jax slogs out of Irma

Rick Scott adds Duval, other east coast counties to disaster declaration ask

Jacksonville in ‘rescue’ and ‘assessment’ mode, post-Irma

Rob Bradley: People will be ‘stunned’ by rural impacts of Irma

Jacksonville riverfront residents face new threats from record high tide