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Peter SchorschMay 24, 2016

The major news coming out of Jacksonville City Council Tuesday won’t be who becomes next Council president. That will be the current vice president, Lori Boyer. Instead, it’s a matter of who will be vice president, in a race between two veterans: at-large Democrat John Crescimbeni and Westside Republican Doyle Carter. The pledge count: pretty close. After Danny Becton had signed on with Crescimbeni Friday, […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 24, 2016

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The discussions on Jacksonville City Council funding a new stage in Hemming Park, while Friends of Hemming Park ran off of sponsorship money from that stage, seemed esoteric in council committees. However, on Monday, clarity was provided by Chris Hong in the Florida Times-Union: “The organization in charge of downtown’s Hemming Park made a revelation on Monday: It needs […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 24, 2016

Looks like things are going well with bestbet’s sales pitch to the Jacksonville City Council. Six co-sponsors are already on board with the bill, Jamie Shelton of bestbet said in a Tuesday morning meeting. bestbet will pitch itself as a good community partner in seeking approval of the bill by the Council and in selling a November referendum […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 24, 2016

Though Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry hasn’t said the Jacksonville beach communities would suffer from any aspect of the potential extension of the half-cent sales tax, at least one beach community mayor, Harriet Pruette of Neptune Beach, is in a “trust but verify” mode. A letter from Pruette to Curry wants to know Curry’s “plans to ensure that […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 23, 2016

Democrat J.R. Gaillot, whose last race for U.S. Congress four years ago saw him defeated by Ted Yoho, filed to run last week in House District 13, thus presenting a primary challenge to incumbent Jacksonville Democrat Reggie Fullwood. In 2012, Galliot was covered by the Wall Street Journal, where a fascinating biography was revealed. “Gaillot was born in New York […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 23, 2016

JAXBIZ announced Monday two new Jacksonville area endorsements in state House races: Donnie Horner in House District 11 and Jason Fischer in House District 16. “These candidates, along with the group we previously endorsed, will present strong leadership opportunities for Northeast Florida in the Legislature in the coming years,” JAXBIZ Chair Denise Wallace said. “Our entire slate […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 23, 2016

Jacksonville is on the fiscal brink. Everything from the “emergency audit” that Mayor Lenny Curry commissioned in 2015, to the pitch for the pension tax made this year, says so. Yet austerity isn’t the watchword everywhere in the city, even as rank-and-file city employees haven’t gotten raises this decade. **** In what some will see as […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 23, 2016

On Monday, Jacksonville’s mayor’s budget review committee convened to discuss issues related to the budget. The major allocation of interest: $750,000 moved from a reserve line item to an operating line item within the Shipyards environmental cleanup project. This money will complete Florida Department of Environmental Protection assessment work and will also help with “remediation […]

Melissa RossMay 23, 2016

Death penalty opponents in Jacksonville are rallying Thursday night at an event honoring the late Shelby Farah. Titled “Not In My Name,” the evening is billed as “bringing awareness about the death penalty and the trauma inflicted on victims and family members within the criminal justice system.” Farah was just 20 when she was murdered […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 23, 2016

The Jacksonville City Council Vehicles for Hire special committee met on Monday, progressing on vehicle inspections and stalling out on background checks. Any optimism the committee might be headed toward disbanding anytime soon was quickly squelched, as advocates for the taxicab and transportation network company sectors, and council members, settled in to rehearse well-worn arguments […]

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Aerial photo courtesy Jesse Biter.

Jacksonville Bold for 5.24.16 – Two men enter, one man leaves

Hemming Park’s funding crisis to get $100K reprieve from Jax Council

bestbet positioning itself well with Jax City Council on slots referendum

Neptune Beach mayor to Lenny Curry: Pay up

Dem J.R. Gaillot files in House District 13 against Reggie Fullwood

JAXBIZ endorses Donnie Horner, Jason Fischer in state House races

Angela Corey’s employees to get $354K in ‘retention raises’ and ‘salary adjustments’

$750K moved into operating budget for Jax shipyards cleanup

Jax death penalty opponents to rally in honor of the late Shelby Farah

Jax Vehicles for Hire committee agrees to yearly rideshare vehicle inspections