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A.G. GancarskiAugust 7, 2017

Rep. Clay Yarborough, a Jacksonville Republican representing State House District 12, hauled in $7,500 in July fundraising. Among the bigger names from the nine donors: Foley and Lardner and Florida Foundation for Liberty (the committee of future House Speaker Paul Renner). Yarborough has raised nearly $49,000 this cycle, and has just under $41,000 of that on hand, […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 7, 2017

U.S. Representative John Rutherford has settled in quickly to his role in Congress and this recess week finds the Jacksonville Republican burnishing his foreign policy chops with a trip to the Middle East. Per a press release from Rutherford’s office, the congressman leaves for Israel Monday “as part of a delegation of Members of Congress to […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 7, 2017

A Democrat who lost in 2015 to Reggie Brown in the race for the District 10 seat on the Jacksonville City Council District 10 is trying again in 2019. Celestine Mills filed recently to run for the open seat. Brown is term-limited from running again. Mills failed to get any donor class traction in her previous […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 6, 2017

On Monday afternoon, in Jacksonville’s federal courthouse, Corrine Brown and her supporters and detractors will be one step closer to learning whether or not she can avoid time in prison. Earlier this year, Brown was found guilty on 18 of 22 counts related to conspiracy to defraud via what prosecutors describe as a fake charity: […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 4, 2017

In a sense, Jacksonville’s City Hall these days is like an extended game of poker between Mayor Lenny Curry and Finance Chair Garrett Dennis. We have seen a few examples of jousting between the GOP Mayor and the Democratic Councilman of late. Dennis’ play for $200,000 of emergency money for swim lessons earlier this summer fell, in part […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 4, 2017

The dispute, at least in theory, was over window tint. However, what one Northeast Florida pastor experienced has brought new attention to old conflicts between Jacksonville police and African-American residents. Rev. Darien Bolden of Fernandina Beach had stopped with his nephew on 19th Street in Jacksonville to look at investment properties. That’s when an officer expressed […]

Phil AmmannAugust 4, 2017

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry is all about loyalty, and much of this edition comes back to the idea of one’s squad as a result. For example, there’s Curry’s candidate in the House District 15 race to succeed Jay Fant, who is running for Attorney General instead of pursuing re-election. And then there’s the push to […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 4, 2017

Interesting times in Duval County, where State Rep. Jason Fischer has been calling for an audit of Duval County Public Schools. And it appears there is a showdown imminent between the Duval Delegation and the Mayor’s Office on one side and the Duval County School District on the other. In a letter sent Thursday to the […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 3, 2017

Bad news for Jacksonville residents who had hoped to support Corrine Brown by paying as much as $100 to see gospel nostalgia act Shirley Caesar on Sunday. The show has been cancelled. Or maybe postponed, according to Brown. Brown had hoped/predicted she would sell out the 4,250 seat Bethel Baptist Church by Thursday; whether she did or […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 3, 2017

Jacksonville City Councilman Bill Gulliford has been instrumental in spearheading Jacksonville’s response to its opioid overdose epidemic. He was successful in formulating a pilot program for in-patient treatment for addicts who are ready to accept help, and he is now chairman of a special Council committee on the opioid epidemic. As is typical with Gulliford, he […]

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Clay Yarborough rakes in $7500 in July for HD 12 re-election bid

John Rutherford heads to Israel

A ‘calling’ drives Celestine Mills to run again for Jacksonville City Council

For Corrine Brown, the sentence has already begun

Garrett Dennis, Lenny Curry ‘on two different pages’ regarding afterschool funding

After cop points gun at preacher, calls for ‘diversity training’ in Jacksonville

Jacksonville Bold for 8.4.17 — Squad goals

Kim Daniels becomes first Democrat to call for Duval Schools audit

The day the music died: Corrine Brown cancels fundraiser concert

Jacksonville mulls lawsuit against opioid producers