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A.G. GancarskiDecember 3, 2015

World AIDS Day was on Tuesday this year, and most people understood the significance of it, including in Jacksonville. However, there was one notable exception, one given a national forum by The New York Times. One who has been among the leading voices against the expansion of the Human Rights Ordinance to address the needs […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 3, 2015

The most notable thing that happened at the Holiday Party thrown by Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry and the Jacksonville City Council, which included scenes inside the St. James Building and outside in Hemming Plaza, was the least scripted. As Curry began his remarks before throwing the switch to light the tree, an excitable gentleman called out […]

Melissa RossDecember 2, 2015

Vowing to fight on via a federal lawsuit, U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown has released an incendiary reaction to the state Supreme Court’s redistricting ruling that reconfigures her North Florida district from one that snakes from Jacksonville south to Orlando, into an east-west Jax-to-Tallahassee district with fewer African-American voters. Here is the statement in its entirety, […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 2, 2015

Where Florida Begins. The Bold New City of the South. The Florida You’ve Always Wanted. The last few decades in Jacksonville have been a graveyard of aspirational slogans and taglines, with one commonality: a lack of real resonance beyond the region, and a hard callous of skepticism among locals. truJAX, a partnership between the Jacksonville […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 2, 2015

Fourth Circuit public defender Matt Shirk has been under fire so long it’s hard to remember when he wasn’t. A shower scandal will do that to you. He has yet to file for re-election, and he dodged one significant challenge when Mike Weinstein took a job in the Lenny Curry administration. Even after Weinstein demurred, Shirk still hedged […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 2, 2015

Can Jacksonville’s City Council be bought? When it comes to the Human Rights Ordinance, at least one out-of-state outfit thinks so. As first reported by WJXT, a Dallas outfit called Newstarter.com posits a provocative proposition: “Millionaires buy politicians. Now the PEOPLE can too! Buy City Council votes to pass the Human Rights Ordinance in Jacksonville,” says […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 1, 2015

After Land Use and Zoning, four Jacksonville City Council committees have deliberated the $90 million package of stadium improvements for EverBank Field. And four have approved it, despite the best efforts of dissident Councilman Danny Becton. On Tuesday evening, Land Use and Zoning was the final committee hurdle to be cleared for the bill, which commits […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 1, 2015

Promises made; promises kept. On Tuesday afternoon, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry launched Jax Journey 2.0, and on hand were most of Jacksonville’s City Council members, along with many members of the mayor’s senior staff, former Sheriff John Rutherford, and Duval County School Superintendent Nikolai Vitti. The initiative, a continuation of the original Jacksonville Journey, launched during the John Peyton administration, […]

Melissa RossDecember 1, 2015

For a couple of years now, Jacksonville megadeveloper Peter Rummell would cringe a bit when people would ask what was up “with that new development of yours, Healthy Town.” “That’s not going to be the name!” he’d say. Now, “Healthy Town” is out and “The District” is in. Actually, the planned community on Jacksonville’s Southbank will […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 1, 2015

Rules, the third Jacksonville City Council committee deliberating the bill, approved the EverBank Field amphitheater package on Tuesday afternoon without even a moment of committee discussion. The bill allocates $90 million for stadium improvements, including a new amphitheater, a covered practice field, and other enhancements to the Sports Complex. With no discussion at all, Rules […]

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HRO opponent Raymond Johnson victim blames on World AIDS Day

Scenes from Jax City Hall holiday celebration

Corrine Brown: Court ruling “direct attack on minority voters”

truJAX attempts to define Jacksonville’s DNA, vision

Charles Cofer says Matt Shirk is “all icing and no cake”

Can Jacksonville’s City Council be bought?

Tensions flare as Jax land use and zoning panel OKs $90M stadium deal 5-1

Lenny Curry launches Jax Journey 2.0

Jacksonville developer Peter Rummell debuts “The District”

With no discussion, Jax Rules Committee greenlights Jags stadium improvements