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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

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

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

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 […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 20, 2015

The big story from the Friday meeting of the Jacksonville Police & Fire Pension Board of Trustees: the appointment of an interim executive director and administrator: Beth McCague. McCague, a veteran finance professional, was approved by a vote of the board to start on Dec. 1, and to serve for up to a year, or […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 20, 2015

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Jacksonville City Councilman Reggie Brown has a problem in his sprawling District 10, which encompasses parts of NW Jacksonville, the Northside, and the Westside. To have an effective town hall meeting, he has to set up three events. The folks off Soutel Road, and the folks in Pickettville, have different concerns, preoccupations, and issues. And […]

Melissa RossNovember 19, 2015

Jacksonville’s Read It Forward Jax Coalition is composed of some real heavy hitters across the 904, such as Kerri Stewart, chief of staff to Mayor Lenny Curry; Susie Wiles, chairwoman of the Donald Trump campaign in Florida; and many more. But the coalition’s creator has the respect of them all: attorney and former Duval County […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 19, 2015

The HD 11 race to succeed Janet Adkins involves five GOP candidates running hard right. And then there’s Donnie Horner. Horner, who switched to the Republican Party recently, is the most moderate candidate in the race. And a good example of that moderation will surface on Thursday night, when Horner addresses the Jacksonville Young Voters […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 19, 2015

A narrative circulating before Lenny Curry‘s election contended that Jacksonville wasn’t getting all it could out of the annual economic development trips to London. Some said, perhaps for political reasons, that former mayor Alvin Brown was ill-suited to make the sale to multinational companies that otherwise might be persuaded to relocate to or launch operations […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 19, 2015

Raymond Johnson, an ardent anti-HRO activist and Confederate flag enthusiast, might not seem to have much in common with Reverend R.L. Gundy, who very recently flipped on the Human Rights Ordinance after doing consulting work for the Human Rights Campaign. The two men may disagree about adding six words to the Human Rights Ordinance. But […]

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The KKK flyers and the Jax HRO

Case for Jax HRO expansion has been made

Bill Clinton in Jax: “I want to defeat ISIS”

Navy prepping environmental impact statement for Atlantic Fleet training

Jax pension board’s interim director called “breath of fresh air”

Reggie Brown calls attention to Council mail out inefficiencies

Read It Forward Jax Coalition moves ahead

HD 11 hopeful Donnie Horner to address Young Voters Coalition

Lenny Curry, Jax establishment shine in latest British business deal

In Wes White campaign, politics make strange bedfellows