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A.G. GancarskiNovember 23, 2015
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9min410
The fifth meeting of the Jacksonville Transportation Authority Skyway Subcommittee and Skyway Advisory Group happened on Monday, as the JTA gets ever closer to divining an action plan for the 30-year-old people-mover. Options run the gamut, from decommissioning the structure and leaving it subject to its own obsolescence, to replacing the cars, to expanding the […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 23, 2015
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2min356
The Concerned Taxpayers of Duval County have arrived at a “semi-settlement” of their “Text-ghazi” lawsuit against the  Jacksonville City Council members involved in forbidden texting during budget deliberations Sept. 21. Scott Wilson, Tommy Hazouri, Joyce Morgan, and Aaron Bowman agreed to terms. “Four of the nine city council members who were being sued over texting about […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 23, 2015
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2min194
The Senate campaign of Ron DeSantis scored another key endorsement, via the FRC Action PAC. The FRC Action PAC opposes Common Core, and describes itself as giving “our members the ability to support deserving, pro-family statesmen. It also allows our supporters to counterbalance the numerous special interest groups on the left that have long used PAC […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 23, 2015
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In an exclusive interview with FloridaPolitics.com on Monday morning, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry condemned as the “lowest forms of human behavior and bigotry” recent bomb threats and Klan flyers targeting the community conversations about potential expansion of the Human Rights Ordinance to LGBT people. Saying that “public safety is my top priority,” Curry noted the Jacksonville […]

Melissa RossNovember 23, 2015
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2min231
Everything old is new again, the saying goes. In North Florida, that also holds true for crime prevention initiatives. Sources tell Florida Politics that Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry is set to announce new details about a revamped Jacksonville Journey initiative on Dec. 1 The program, debuted under the mayoral administration of John Peyton, began as […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 22, 2015
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The Ku Klux Klan, arguably the first domestic terror group, has weighed in on Jacksonville’s community conversations on HRO expansion. Weighed in literally, according to reports, putting flyers from “the Loyal White Knights of the KKK” in bags and throwing them, mixed in with rice, in people’s yards. This is on the heels of a bomb threat just […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 20, 2015
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7min632
If the HRO expansion passes, a turning point in the public discourse might have come from someone who tried to silence it. It’s ironic, really, that white male opponents of the expansion of the Jacksonville Human Rights Ordinance objected to locating the so-called community conversations in what they called “high-crime neighborhoods.” The worry was that those delicate […]

Melissa RossNovember 20, 2015
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3min188
The nation’s 42nd president was appearing before the well-heeled Ponte Vedra crowd to talk about health disparities, and how to fix them, via his Clinton Health Matters Initiative. But, of course, Bill Clinton couldn’t resist a few political remarks. Like this opener: ‘We are all interdependent, even if we build a 5-foot brick wall across […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 20, 2015
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1min290
Last week, the Navy sent Jacksonville public officials a letter announcing that it is in the “beginning stages of preparing” an environmental-impact statement for Atlantic Fleet training and testing. This training encompasses the sea space and airspace over the Atlantic Ocean and the eastern North American coast, the Caribbean, and the Gulf of Mexico, and […]


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