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A.G. GancarskiOctober 6, 2015

The first Charlotte’s Web workshop, held jointly by the Planning Commission and the Land Use and Zoning committee of the Jacksonville City Council in August, was less than auspicious. Discussion of “grass stations” and facile comparisons of children who need medicine to recovering heroin addicts waiting for their methadone fixes were the highlights. This time […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 6, 2015

Whispers prior to Tuesday’s Jacksonville City Council Rules Committee meeting predicted a council member or two might say something about the wave of board and commission replacement appointments that dominated the agenda. Planning Commission Chairwoman Lisa King, whose replacement by Donald Adkison was on the agenda for the second reading, was in the house. So was […]

Melissa RossOctober 6, 2015

One month, one city, two panels looking at the future of energy, with two very different tones. This October, Jacksonville will host the Florida Energy Summit. The event, sponsored by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and the JAX Chamber, is billed as “convening energy leaders from across the state and around the nation to share ideas on […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 6, 2015

The slogan of the Jacksonville Block by Block event, put on by the Jessie Ball Dupont Fund and the Reinvestment Fund, is a simple six word declaration. Our homes. Our neighborhoods. Our opportunities. On Tuesday morning, a cavalcade of Jacksonville civic leaders converged at the Jessie Ball Dupont Center (formerly the Haydon Burns Library) in […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 5, 2015

At Monday’s NICE Committee meeting, the ongoing public information campaign regarding blight was discussed. Seemed innocuous enough on its surface. In practice, though… The city of Jacksonville’s Director of Blight, Denise Lee, presented the administration’s position regarding the importance of public information, even as committee members, such as Councilman Tommy Hazouri, wanted to know more […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 5, 2015

As the Lenny Curry administration wrestles with how to bring the JEA Board in line, a “highly confidential” report from the MAEVA Group (which was brought up during Monday’s Finance Committee meeting) regarding the Jacksonville publicly owned utility underscores some key issues with the utility. The report from August argues that JEA could operate more efficiently, contributing money saved toward […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 5, 2015

The long-awaited JTA presentation to the Jacksonville Transportation, Energy, and Utilities Committee on the way forward for the much-maligned Skyway finally occurred on Monday afternoon. Scheduled originally for a committee meeting in September, scheduling confusion pushed back the original presentation. The options on the table range from overhauling vehicles, creating new vehicles, decommissioning the Skyway once obsolete, […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 5, 2015

Last week, as Hurricane Joaquin raged in the Atlantic, a 790 foot cargo ship called El Faro departed Mayport with a crew of 33. It would be El Faro’s last voyage, as it disappeared near the Bahamas as the storm wreaked its havoc. Search efforts have been ongoing. And fruitless. And Congresswoman Corrine Brown demands action. Citing […]

Melissa RossOctober 5, 2015

It’s presented as the next program in the OneJax Institute’s “Civil Discourse” series. But an upcoming forum on the UNF campus called Gun Control: A Loaded Topic, could get a bit heated. The free event, moderated by UNF president and former Jacksonville mayor John Delaney, will feature both supporters and opponents of the so-called “campus carry” […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 5, 2015

The first Northeast Florida State House hopeful to file a fundraising report for September, HD 12 Republican Don Redman, had an easy time of it. Redman, a Jacksonville Republican who served two terms on City Council from 2007 to 2015, has raised just over $8,000 since launching his campaign in January, 2015. However, he had nothing to report […]

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Family members appear behind a pile of debris outside their home in Steinhatchee, Fla., Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, after Hurricane Helene slammed Florida's Big Bend as a Category 4 storm Thursday night. (Ashleigh Lucas/WUFT News)

Jacksonville’s second MMJ workshop leads to draft ordinance for Charlotte’s Web

Tommy Hazouri: Lenny Curry board moves “emasculate” consolidated government

Jax climate and energy panels: a tale of two conferences

Jacksonville Block by Block validates city housing, neighborhoods policy approach

Sparks fly in Jax NICE Committee

What a “highly confidential” JEA report says about Jacksonville’s future

Jacksonville Transportation Authority presents Skyway options to Council TEU committee

Corrine Brown proposes federal inquiry into El Faro disaster

OneJax/UNF forum on gun control timely, tense

HD 12 Don Redman fundraising flatlines in September