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A.G. GancarskiJune 22, 2017

The long-awaited dredging of the St. Johns River to 47 feet near JAXPORT delights most politicians, yet appalls the St. Johns Riverkeeper. On Thursday, the Riverkeeper decried the “deep dredge runaround” of late from pro-dredging forces in the press. The press release describes dredging advocates as “frustrated by the lack of funding support” for the […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 22, 2017

On Jun. 29, Jacksonville’s Florida Yacht Club will be about more than yachts: the exclusive location will hold a fundraiser for one of Duval’s own sons as he mounts a statewide campaign for Attorney General. State Rep. Jay Fant‘s event, which promises “fellowship” and an opportunity to “hear about the campaign,” runs from 5:30 to 6:30 […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 22, 2017

The best quote in Jacksonville politics will hold court Thursday evening on the Eastside. Former Mayor Jake Godbold will appear at the Jacksonville Historical Society event, “An Evening with Mayor Jake,” from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. in what promises to be an unvarnished look into the glory days of post-Consolidation Jacksonville politics. The event will be […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 21, 2017

After committee stops for the legislation that seemed, at times, like outtakes from an Edward Albee script with all the personal attacks, Councilman Bill Gulliford‘s bill to slot $1.5M into a 6 month pilot program to treat opioid addiction cleared its final committee Wednesday. Less successful: Councilman Garrett Dennis’ bill to allocate $200,000 for swim lessons for […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 21, 2017

Electric buses in Jacksonville? They could be here sooner than one thinks. Richard Clark of the Jacksonville Transportation Authority contacted Mayor Lenny Curry for support on a federal grant application last week. “JTA is submitting a Low-No grant application for electric buses that will help serve the Amazon facility on the Northside. This will be the […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 21, 2017

On Tuesday, Jacksonville City Councilman Reggie Gaffney addressed a whistleblower lawsuit regarding his non-profit. The whistleblower alleged that Gaffney’s Community Rehabilitation Center failed to properly train her when she was re-assigned to deal with HIV-positive people. Then, when she sought recourse, she alleged to have been rebuffed — including by Gaffney, the executive director of the non-profit. […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 20, 2017

The real story in Jacksonville’s City Council on this committee week goes deeper than the bills under consideration, extending to a radical shift coming in both committee leadership and how business will be conducted. On Monday, Council President-Designate Anna Brosche announced her new committees starting after this legislative cycle. The next Finance Chair, Garrett Dennis, had some […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 20, 2017

Term limits were imposed by voter plebiscite on the Jacksonville City Council decades back, yet Councilman Matt Schellenberg believes that institutional knowledge outweighs voter predilection. To that end, he introduced — for the second time in just over a year — legislation to repeal two-term limits. This would be for councilors, School Board members, and Constitutional […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 20, 2017

Community Rehabilitation Center – the non-profit of Jacksonville City Councilman Reggie Gaffney best known for its cameo appearances in the Corrine Brown trial and a Medicaid overbilling scandal – is back in the news. The subject this time: a late-May whistleblower lawsuit in Florida’s 4th Circuit, filed by an employee who alleges that she was “unlawfully terminated” […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 20, 2017

On Tuesday in Jacksonville, U.S. Rep. John Rutherford — an ally of President Donald Trump — discussed the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, and the parallel investigations of the Trump Administration. “I want them to look at Russia’s attempt to interject themselves into our election process through cyberactivity and all that,” Rutherford said, “but […]

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St. Johns Riverkeeper rails against ‘deep dredge runaround’

Jay Fant slates Jacksonville yacht club fundraiser for late-June

‘Evening with Jake Godbold’ in Jacksonville Thursday night

Jax Council bad blood spills over into fractious Finance Committee meeting

JTA seeks city support for electric bus grant

Inconsistencies plague Reggie Gaffney’s response to whistleblower lawsuit

The uncivil war: How Jacksonville City Council committees got ugly this week

Jax City Council again mulls removing two-term limit

Reggie Gaffney disclaims responsibility for non-profit’s alleged training and HR failures

John Rutherford: ‘Not concerned’ about Russian collusion with Donald Trump campaign