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A.G. GancarskiSeptember 2, 2015

In Jacksonville, Ron Littlepage is generally held up as the dean of local opinion columnists. When he writes something, people pay attention. That was the case with his Tuesday column, in which he wrote: Mayor Lenny Curry has famously declared: “One City, One Jacksonville.” Now two months into his administration, a disturbing trend has developed as […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 1, 2015

The first day of September was a bad day on Wall Street. Yet September began with good news for Florida Gov. Rick Scott, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry, and Metal Container, which makes among other things 1.5 million aluminum bottles a day for the beer barons at Anheuser-Busch. Metal Container brought Scott and Curry together with a […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 1, 2015

The Jacksonville Public Library has had a rough decade. Ten years of budget cuts have taken the beleaguered JPL past the point of efficiency into the realm of austerity. However, of late there has been hope, says Barbara Gubbin, JPL director. In welcoming Mayor Lenny Curry, Gubbin mentioned that she and her staff have been on “tenterhooks,” […]

Melissa RossSeptember 1, 2015

Ousted Atlantic Beach Commissioner Maria Mark had a run-in with the police Monday night. As The Florida Times-Union reported, police say Mark tried to confront a resident who supported Mark’s opponent, new Commissioner-elect John Stinson. Mark told the T-U the last straw was a “hateful sign” in the homeowner’s yard that “stated Mark should have […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 1, 2015

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Of all of his legislative accomplishments, State Rep. Lake Ray takes as much pride in his work for JAXPORT and Florida ports in general as any of them. He is an evangelist for bringing JAXPORT into alignment with the requirements that today’s shipping companies have: It’s important for the port itself, for manufacturing, for jobs, […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 31, 2015

If you’re getting a sense of deja vu, it’s not unfounded. Monday’s Jacksonville City Council Neighborhood Improvement and Community Enhancement Committee meeting revisited a lot of popular topics. One such topic: the Snipe Signs legislation. Councilman John Crescimbeni updated the committee on the progress made toward enhancing fines last week in discussion. Councilman Bill Gulliford observed that […]

Melissa RossAugust 31, 2015

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The Florida attorney representing a Kentucky court clerk in a standoff over same-sex marriage says it’s a matter of religious liberty. “It’s getting to the question of, if you hold an elected office, how far do your constitutional rights go?” attorney Roger Gannam of the Orlando-based firm Liberty Counsel told FloridaPolitics.com. Kentucky’s Attorney General may […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 31, 2015

On Monday afternoon, the Jacksonville Transportation, Energy, and Utilities committee considered 2015-313, which would allow a nonexclusive Grant of Easement to support the JEA 42-inch force main river crossing, which conveyed to JEA a utility easement and two temporary construction easements, in, over, and under portions of Metropolitan Park and an Everbank Field parking lot. The […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 31, 2015

On Tuesday morning, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry will kick off the 2015 JAX READS! program with a variety of community groups, including BANNED; Remembering for the Future Community Holocaust Initiative; WJCT; The Florida Times-Union; the Friends of the Jacksonville Public Library; and the Jacksonville Public Library Foundation. The book being read countywide this year is Brown Girl […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 31, 2015

During her campaign for Jacksonville’s City Council, Republican Anna Brosche represented what many moderates and liberals thought was a new type of Republican. Her enthusiasm for expanding the Human Rights Ordinance to the LGBT community delighted many Democrats who were appalled by the atavistic position taken by then-incumbent Kim Daniels, who described the HRO as a “very […]

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A state investigator, right, works with a Florida resident to look out for fraud after Hurricane Helene. Photo via Florida Chief Financial Officer,.

Ron Littlepage parses semantics of “One City, One Jacksonville”

Rick Scott, Lenny Curry trumpet job creation in NW Jax

For Lenny Curry and Jax Public Library, JAXREADS embodies 1C1J

LGBT equality movement stirs cross-currents in Florida

Lake Ray talks port strategy, Nancy Soderberg

Jax NICE Committee mulls snipe signs, covered vehicles again

Orlando-based Liberty Counsel takes same-sex marriage fight to U.S. Supreme Court

Jax TEU approves JEA sewage line easement

2015 JAX READS! program starts Tuesday, to feature “Brown Girl Dreaming”

Citing “personal conflict,” Anna Brosche will not attend Equality Florida’s 9/26 Jax Gala