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A.G. GancarskiJuly 24, 2015

The Human Rights Campaign, the largest civil rights organization working to achieve equality for LGBT Americans, has prepared a draft version of the 2015 Municipal Equality Index scorecard, and the preliminary numbers are a damning indictment of the Alvin Brown administration’s work, or lack thereof, in that area. Jacksonville scored just 23 by this measure. The “good news” […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 24, 2015

The first thing you would have seen walking into the Salem Center for the Monday Duval County Republican Executive Committee meeting would have been Raymond Johnson. You couldn’t have missed him. He stood directly across from the glass doors, with a poster board and a petition opposing Jack Webb, a candidate for GOP chair,. Objecting […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 23, 2015

Outside the Duval County Courthouse on Thursday morning, State Attorney’s Office candidate Wes White had harsh criticism for the incumbent, Angela Corey, about her office’s handling of rape kits. First Coast News reported this week that in about 2,000 cases, DNA evidence was left “sitting on a shelf,” unexamined for proof of rape. That follows […]

Melissa RossJuly 23, 2015

As Donald Trump rides high in the polls and takes his presidential campaign to the Texas border, one prominent Florida political analyst says it’s important to have some perspective on the 2016 race. “Everybody needs a reality check,” says Matt Corrigan, UNF political science professor and author of Conservative Hurricane: How Jeb Bush Remade Florida. “Polls […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 23, 2015

Events this summer have brought the long-simmering debate over the Confederate flag to a hard boil, and the predictable backlash from the hard right, especially but not exclusively in the Southeast, is in full swing. We saw it days ago, when an Inverness gun store owner declared his shop a “Muslim-free zone.“ And we almost […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 23, 2015

The Wednesday afternoon meeting of the Jacksonville City Council Capital Improvement Plan Special Committee was not a spectator sport. The CIP committee does a lot of the heavy lifting, respective to giving the larger council guidance on capital improvement projects, debt service, internal controls, cash transfers, and so much more. There are no discussions in […]

Melissa RossMay 19, 2015

Duval County Sheriff John Rutherford has been a vocal critic of Mayor Alvin Brown and a supporter of his hand-picked successor Mike Williams in the Jacksonville mayor and sheriff’s races. Tuesday morning though, Rutherford turned an eye toward the next election cycle, revealing for the first time his next move as he leaves the Jacksonville […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 24, 2015

Lenny Curry has pulled ahead of incumbent Alvin Brown in the Jacksonville mayoral race, a poll by Curry’s consulting firm indicates. As Melissa Ross reported Friday afternoon, “a polling document” provided to FloridaPolitics.com by Curry’s consultant Data Targeting Research contends that the Republican’s “positive name recognition continues to steadily increase and for the first time – in our […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 24, 2015

District 8 Councilwoman Denise Lee is a loyal Democrat, but she has a message for Alvin Brown regarding his recent radio ad, heard exclusively on local black radio: It’s “race-baiting” and “should be pulled.” “It is race-baiting,” Lee said in a telephone interview Friday afternoon. “I understand that a campaign is war,” but these “race-baiting tactics” are […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 24, 2015

Lies, damned lies, and statistics. You will find all three in the Thursday editorial by the Florida Times-Union offering full-throated support of red light cameras. It uses fragmentary data to draw sweeping conclusions about the efficacy of those revenue generating devices, contradicting its own earlier reporting, which links Jacksonville’s red-light camera vendor, RedFlex, to a web […]

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Jax scores 23 on draft version of 2015 HRC Municipal Equality Index

Civil war in the Duval GOP? Or business as usual?

Wes White slams Angela Corey over “mistaken priorities” on rape test kits

Matt Corrigan: 2016 race needs a reality check

Jax Westside Republicans cancel “history of Confederate flag” presentation

Jax Capital Improvement committee a preview of COJ budget tussle

Sheriff John Rutherford confirms he’s running for Ron DeSantis seat

Poll: Lenny Curry ahead in Jax mayoral race

Denise Lee: Alvin Brown radio ad is “race-baiting,” should be pulled

Florida Times-Union sells out for red-light cameras