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A.G. GancarskiMay 31, 2017

With Jacksonville candidates mulling a challenge to Tallahassee Democrat Rep. Al Lawson in Florida’s 5th Congressional District, Lawson begins his fundraising in earnest June 1 with a fundraiser heavy on big names in the State Capital. Among those names: State Reps. Ramon Alexander and Lorraine Ausley; FSU basketball coach Leonard Hamilton; State Sen. Bill Montford; and Allison Tant, the most recent […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 31, 2017

Northeast Florida, like the rest of the state, waits for Gov. Rick Scott to review the budget from the Florida Legislature. Scott has been typically vague on his real disposition on the budget: the new-school “Veto Corleone” hasn’t ruled out a full-on veto, or line item vetoes. And in recent months, Gov. Scott has been […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 30, 2017

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson visited Jacksonville Tuesday afternoon, meeting with doctors at UF Health Jacksonville’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit to discuss the ever-increasing problem of newborns addicted to opioids. The issue is an especial challenge at UF Health – the sole “safety-net” hospital in Northeast Florida, where the vast majority of patients are either on Medicaid or […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 30, 2017

Memorial Day weekend in Jacksonville was brutal for the expected reasons, with at least a dozen people shot and four of them killed over the holiday. In a city where virtually every politician who ran for office in 2015 messaged on the theme of public safety, what’s clear is that there is still work to […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 30, 2017

Jacksonville State Rep. Jason Fischer is wrapping up his first year in the State Legislature, and a Friday morning conversation in a local coffee house saw the freshman Republican in a reflective mode – both about the just concluded Legislative Session, and about local politics. One positive sign Fischer sees: the ascension of a political […]

Phil AmmannMay 26, 2017

The sun rises, as we are told, every day in downtown Jacksonville. But for the City Council class of 2011, slated for term-limits in 2019, those sunrises are beginning to fade. Chosen Tuesday, the Council officers — who first took office in 2015 — show that the balance of power has shifted, the baton has […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 25, 2017

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Yet again, Florida lawmakers have a message for Washington: base F-35 jets in Jacksonville. The entire Florida Delegation signed on to a letter to Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson making the case for Jacksonville to house these fighter jets. The letter contends that Jacksonville’s 125th Fighter Wing “best meets the F-35 basing requirements at the lowest cost […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 25, 2017

The political career of Jacksonville City Council President-Designate Anna Brosche hasn’t been all that long, but has been characterized by a triumph per year. In 2015, Brosche shocked some observers by defeating the iconoclastic Kim Daniels in the pastor’s re-election bid to the City Council. In 2016, Brosche – a CPA and a managing partner at […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 24, 2017

For those interested in the long-delayed dredging of the St. Johns River to deepen the JAXPORT channel from 40 to 47 feet for bigger PANAMAX ships, some good news is on the way via $17.5M in the Army Corps of Engineers FY 2017 Work Plan. Florida Congressmen Ted Yoho, Daniel Webster, John Rutherford and Al Lawson collaborated on a letter to […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 24, 2017

Stakes were high in the Jacksonville City Council Leadership Elections, and no one besides the candidates bet as big as Bill Gulliford. When pledging support for the runner-up in Tuesday’s vote for Council President months back, Gulliford said that he wouldn’t accept a standing committee assignment in an Anna Brosche administration. Gulliford walked that back Wednesday in an email […]

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Al Lawson draws on Tallahassee base for first re-election fundraiser

Will Rick Scott’s veto pen affect Northeast Florida priorities?

In Jacksonville, Bill Nelson takes aim at opioid addiction among newborns

After weekend of gun violence, Jax Sheriff to take ‘crime prevention walk’

Jason Fischer reflects on a ‘strong’ Legislative Session

Jacksonville Bold for 5.26.17 — Sunrise, sunsets

Florida Delegation unites in call to base F-35s in Jacksonville

Anna Brosche discusses how she won the Jacksonville City Council Presidency

$17.5M of federal funds slotted for JAXPORT dredge

Jax Councilman Bill Gulliford mulls ‘year in exile’, ‘lesser committees’