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A.G. GancarskiSeptember 19, 2015

As the question of whether or not Jax Planning Commission Chair-Elect Lisa King will get removed from her position or not percolates, an unknown group called “OurCity OneJax” has began distributing a video slamming “Party Boss” Lenny Curry for cronyism. After having “promised to unite the city” in his inaugural address, the OurCity OneJax video charges that […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 19, 2015

One of the things that critics of Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry bring up is that he was a former county and state party chair. During the campaign, the tagline was “Party Boss Lenny Curry.” One thing’s for certain: the Duval Democrats don’t have to worry about their current chair, Neil Henrichsen, getting elected mayor. Neil […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 19, 2015

I first encountered Bernie De La Rionda almost a decade ago, not in a strictly journalistic capacity. He was the prosecutor in a trial, which lasted the better part of a week, which involved the murder of the girlfriend of one of my best friends. The man who killed her, a 17 year old named Kimothy Simmons, […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 18, 2015

FloridaPolitics.com has learned that the Bold Sports and Entertainment Group has been talking with senior staff of the Lenny Curry administration about bringing an ECHL — known before 2003 as the East Coast Hockey League — franchise to Jacksonville. The ECHL is essentially a midlevel minor league for professional hockey. Bob Ohrablo, representing the group, […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 18, 2015

A Friday personnel move in Jacksonville, as Craig “CJ” Thompson has been selected as the new director of intragovernmental services, replacing Paul Martinez, who left at the end of July. He was brought aboard Thursday, and the announcement was made Friday. Among his many tasks will be handling challenges in Fleet Management and Informational Technologies, […]

Melissa RossSeptember 18, 2015

New Jacksonville Planning Commission Chairwoman-elect Lisa King took to the radio airwaves Friday to make her case as her seeming showdown with Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry enters a new phase. King, as Florida Politics A.G. Gancarski has been reporting, refused to resign from the commission at Curry’s request. (She was joined by Commissioner Joey McKinnon, also asked […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 18, 2015

Marco Rubio and Carly Fiorina created considerable enthusiasm at this week’s debate party sponsored by the Duval County Republican Party, according to Chairman Lake Ray. “It was a great event,” Ray said Friday. Although the results of a straw poll taken of the more than 100 participants on Wednesday were tabled until the October Republican […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 18, 2015

The drama of the week in Jacksonville revolves around the contretemps between the Lenny Curry administration and Planning Commission Chairwoman-elect Lisa King. Drama. From what Florida Politics hears, it extended into City Council offices on a rain-soaked Thursday afternoon, with a certain Republican councilman fretting over King being in the council suite of offices to […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 18, 2015

As the Lenny Curry administration’s rebooted Jacksonville Journey takes shape, key initiatives are being considered by the Oversight Committee. During Thursday afternoon’s meeting of the group, two big ones that came up were an RFP to facilitate ex-offender re-entry programs, and a Jacksonville Journey commitment to the Jacksonville Public Library’s Project L.E.A.P. The ex-offender re-entry […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 18, 2015

Laveranues Coles was a legendary wide receiver by Jacksonville standards. After his high school career at Ribault, Coles went on to Florida State University, where, after he took the fall for shoplifting with Peter Warrick (an incident which earned FSU the Steve Spurrier sobriquet “Free Shoes University”), he vowed never to return. Despite the abrupt […]

Jax

Mystery video slams “Party Boss Lenny Curry” for “cronyism”

Neil Henrichsen’s tepid response to Lisa King situation explains why Duval Dems lose

Bernie de la Rionda, despite the critics, defends the death penalty

East Coast Hockey League to come to Jacksonville?

Craig Thompson is new Jacksonville director of intragovernmental services

Lisa King: “I may have the votes”

Duval GOP Chairman Lake Ray talks presidential debate

Lisa King drama continues with email campaign to Jax City Council

Jax Journey vision takes shape with libraries, ex-offender re-entry

FSU alum Laveranues Coles looks to open Jax showbar