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A.G. GancarskiDecember 20, 2016

Compared to other members of Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry‘s administration, Policy Director Robin Lumb has a behind the scenes role. He’s rarely at meetings of the city council – an irony, of sorts, given his term spent among that body. However, Lumb has been working on the policy side, on issues that largely are under the radar […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 19, 2016

Friday saw an official meeting between Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry and former Mayor Alvin Brown. And with that meeting, a message to #jaxpol: the bitterness of the 2015 election was finally consigned to memory. The picture above: worth a thousand words. Acrimony expunged, replaced by bonhomie. The campaign for Jacksonville mayor was the most expensive local campaign […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 19, 2016

It’s been a rough stretch for the Jacksonville Children’s Commission, and the week before Christmas brought even more coal for its stocking. This month had already seen the Jacksonville City Council’s Finance Committee taking JCC CEO Jon Heymann to task for an unusual amount of “emergency” appropriations bills in recent years, and keeping the council in the […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 19, 2016

New Clay County Sheriff-elect Darryl Daniels is still assembling his “dream team” of “subject matter experts.” Worth noting: some of these stalwarts will be coming in from other counties, not unlike the sheriff himself, whose quarter-century of law enforcement experience is from Duval County. As with Daniels’ legal counsel, State Attorney Angela Corey, many of these experts […]

Staff ReportsDecember 19, 2016

It’s fair to say Lenny Curry had one heck of the year. He did everything from addressing the public pension funding shortfall to bracing his community for a 100-year storm. And now the 46-year-old Jacksonville mayor can add one more thing to his list of 2016 accomplishments: INFLUENCE Magazine’s 2016 Politician of the Year. The biggest […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 19, 2016

Former Jacksonville Jaguars’ head coach Gus Bradley almost got four years to implement the three year plan he said he had when he got hired. With two meaningless games left in a 2-12 season, mired in a nine-game losing streak, after another gut punch of a loss to yet another mediocre team the Jags looked up […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 16, 2016

As an indication of the predictive power of our Rising Stars series, look no further than Vincent Evans. The Florida A&M alum has been a mainstay of state and local government in Tallahassee. Now the (former) aide to Tallahassee City Commissioner Curtis Richardson has announced his next move. And it’s to the next level. In his May […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 16, 2016

Yet another freshman legislator from Northeast Florida beat the Christmas rush and filed for re-election in 2018. House District 19 Rep. Bobby Payne, a Palatka Republican who cruised to a 45 point victory over Democrat Hubert Snodgrass in November, filed for re-election on Thursday. Payne, who survived a competitive primary against former RPOF Chair Leslie Dougher and Katherine Van […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 16, 2016

Jacksonville’s Eastside faces challenges on par with any area in Jacksonville. One census tract has 51.2 percent of its residents below the poverty line, an 18 percent unemployment rate, and a $23,158 median household income. Another nearby tract is even worse. 65.3 percent of residents fall below the poverty line, and 60.3 percent are unemployed. […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 16, 2016

For the first time since the acrimonious election of 2015, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry and his predecessor, Alvin Brown, met in the mayor’s suite. Curry and Brown, in a brief appearance in the lobby of the mayor’s office, smiled for the camera, with Curry saying they were “just catching up.” Curry’s spokeswoman, Marsha Oliver, noted that “Mr. Brown […]

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Behind the scenes, Robin Lumb guides Jacksonville’s public policy

Reading the tea leaves of the Lenny Curry-Alvin Brown meeting

Lenny Curry demands audit of Jacksonville Children’s Commission

New Clay undersheriff is a Duval County transplant

Lenny Curry is INFLUENCE Magazine’s Florida Politician of the Year for 2016

Jacksonville and the Jaguars must re-brand again after Gus Bradley firing

‘Rising star’ Vincent Evans will head to Washington D.C. with Al Lawson

Bobby Payne files for re-election in HD 19

LISC unveils ambitious redevelopment plan for Jacksonville’s Eastside

Alvin Brown, Lenny Curry meet, putting election behind them