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A.G. GancarskiJuly 17, 2017

On Monday, Jacksonville City Council President Anna Brosche gave her thoughts on the new City of Jacksonville proposed budget from Mayor Lenny Curry. The $1.27B budget — up almost $80M from previous years — will see 100 new police officers and 42 new firefighters as part of an add of 175 jobs. As well, Curry intends to […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 17, 2017

On Monday morning, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry released his first budget since pension reform passed: a $1.27B budget, up from the $1.2B budget the previous year. With budget relief available after pension reform, Curry made the decision to invest in long neglected city infrastructure and employees, spending more than in the previous two years and adding […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 17, 2017

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On Monday, the cycle begins anew for the relationship between Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry and the City Council. Curry drops his third budget — and this time, there is more room to maneuver than there had been the previous two years, in which pension obligations choked out most of the room for discretionary spending. The hit […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 16, 2017

ABC News reported Saturday evening that Lanny Wiles, the husband of Florida Trump Campaign Chair Susie Wiles, saved a seat for a Russian lawyer at the heart of the current scandal involving Russia, the President’s son, son-in-law, and campaign manager. “The husband of the former Florida chair of the Trump campaign obtained a front-row seat […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 14, 2017

Is Pope Francis a Catholic? Or is the Pontiff a communist? Jacksonville City Councilman Bill Gulliford has a take. “I am a Catholic and he is a Communist,” Gulliford said of Pope Francis on Facebook Thursday, reacting to an online publication (M2 Voice) that said the Pope asserted that “world government must rule the United States ‘for their own […]

Phil AmmannJuly 14, 2017

As the Jacksonville City Council wraps up its two-week break, Councilmembers will get a first peek at Mayor Lenny Curry’s budget Monday. They already know at least some of what to expect: a $100 million capital improvement budget and $8.4 million for Edward Waters College. Now the question is: Will everyone play ball? A.G. Gancarski […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 13, 2017

Jacksonville City Councilman Bill Gulliford got shut out of Council committees for the next year, a consequence of having worked against the election of new Council President Anna Brosche. But that’s not stopping Gulliford from offering insights into not just local issues, but the global scene. A recent example of that hit Facebook Thursday morning, when Gulliford […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 13, 2017

Action News Jax reporter Jenna Bourne posted a flier Thursday on Facebook that revealed an energetic 11th hour fundraising strategy for Corrine Brown. Brown, who faces hearings on motions for acquittal and a new trial on Aug. 7, will have three fundraising events in the weeks ahead of time, per the flier. Sat. July 22 sees an “after […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 13, 2017

In 2014, Jay Fant beat Paul Renner in a special election in Florida House District 15. Improbably given the pitched nature of that campaign, Fant and Renner became friends thereafter — a friendship consolidated as Renner moved downstate from Jacksonville to Palm Coast, where he got elected to the House from there. Fait and Renner had different […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 13, 2017

In news sure to delight masochists, those paying penance, and those few reporters tasked with covering Jacksonville City Hall, the City Council has rolled out its schedule of budget hearings for August. All hearings begin at 9 a.m. and are scheduled to end at 5 p.m. This coming year sees a reconfigured Finance Committee, with […]

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Lenny Curry’s third budget brings more spending, more cops, ‘safer neighborhoods’

Lenny Curry’s third budget: Another year of ‘winning’?

Former Florida Trump campaign chair Susie Wiles talks Russia scandal, ABC News story

Jacksonville Councilman doubles down on describing Pope Francis as a ‘communist’

Jacksonville Bold for 7.14.17 — Playtime is over

Jacksonville councilman claims Pope Francis is a ‘Communist’

‘Queen Corrine’ Brown asks donors to ‘deliver’ for legal defense

Once primary opponents, now Paul Renner is backing Jay Fant for Attorney General

Jax City Council schedules August budget review