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A.G. GancarskiJuly 28, 2015

If Jacksonville’s score on the Human Rights Campaign’s municipal equality index were a dated slang term, it would be 23 Skidoo. But 23 isn’t just Michael Jordan’s old number; rather, it is the score Jacksonville got on a draft version of the MEI, I reckon there are cities that do worse on this metric. Nairobi, […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 27, 2015

Jacksonville’s issues with disparate outcomes, in terms of education and socioeconomic achievement, are well-documented. On Monday afternoon, potential solutions were explored, as veteran Duval County School Board members Constance Hall and Paula Wright hosted a quartet of new City Council members: At Large Councilwoman Anna Brosche, District 7’s Reggie Gaffney, District 8’s Katrina Brown, and District 9’s Garrett Dennis. The point […]

Melissa RossJuly 27, 2015

Northeast Florida State Attorney candidate Wes White says the issue of untested rape kits in Florida’s Fourth Circuit runs far deeper than his many beefs with Angela Corey. “I think we live in a country where it requires 35 women to bring a claim against someone like Bill Cosby before law enforcement officials will pay […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 27, 2015

Many Jacksonville residents are excited about the Jaguars resuming practice and play in the coming weeks. But for those who want a spectator sport sooner, there likely is no better place to be than the St. James Building on Tuesday, where the first City Council meeting of the new group will be underway. Unlike what […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 27, 2015

Every weekday morning, I have a tradition. I look into the soulful eyes of President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew as I decide what to have for breakfast. No, it’s not because I have a Nixon/Agnew fetish; that’s beside the point. It’s more because I like to eat breakfast on the cheap and convenient to Jacksonville’s […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 27, 2015

For the second time in less than a month, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry looks set to establish a working relationship with a legislative body with a getting-to-know-you lunch. On Tuesday at noon, Curry will lunch with the Duval Legislative Delegation. The lunch will take place in the mayor’s office suite, in the large conference room, and will […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 25, 2015

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The never ending saga of Raymond Johnson, a Jacksonville Republican operative who has made news most recently for planning a celebration of the Confederate flag, continues to devolve in a remarkably public fashion. Johnson, a self-described political consultant, likely will be plying his trade outside of the constraints of the Republican Party of Duval County […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 25, 2015

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Sitting at a table in Chamblin’s Uptown across from Jacksonville’s Hemming Park, where a vigil for Sandra Bland will be held Sunday at 6:00 p.m., event organizers Chevara Orrin and Melissa Adams spoke of why Bland’s death in police custody moved them so. Orrin positioned Bland’s death as another example of the “constant assault on […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 24, 2015

One of the many hot-button issues during the Jacksonville mayoral campaign between Lenny Curry and Alvin Brown was whether or not Mayor Brown would take a pension from the Florida Retirement System. As Nate Monroe of the Florida Times-Union reported in March, Mayor Brown’s office had said that he had “enrolled in the plan without realizing that taxpayers” […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 24, 2015

Duval County Republican political consultant Raymond Johnson has been turning heads with recent activities, such as his planning of a “history of the Confederate flag”-themed meeting of the Westside Republican Club on Monday, which was intended to capitalize on the publicity surrounding the “Muslim-free” gun shop in Inverness. Additionally, Johnson has made news via his attempted fatwa […]

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How Jacksonville could solve its HRO problem

Duval School Board members, new Council members plan “campaign” over lunch

Wes White: Untested rape kits flap shows violence against women not taken seriously

Jacksonville City Council’s new class debuts Tuesday

Chamblin’s Uptown remains a Jacksonville original

Lenny Curry to lunch with Duval legislative delegation

Raymond Johnson compares Duval GOP “establishment” to Nazis

#SayHerName: Sandra Bland vigil on Sunday in Jacksonville

Alvin Brown fulfills promise, reimburses FRS pension

Duval GOP having internal discussions about Raymond Johnson