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A.G. GancarskiMarch 3, 2016

“Project Omega,” a 450-job QTI deal approved by Jacksonville’s City Council weeks ago, was announced as a major expansion by Ernst and Young on Thursday. It wasn’t a sure thing. In fact, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry says that Project Omega almost didn’t happen. “This deal looked like it was dying on the vine,” Curry told a crowd […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 3, 2016

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry endorsed Marco Rubio one day after the South Carolina primary. before an underwhelming Super Tuesday for the Florida Senator. Curry participates in an event Thursday evening at the Rubio campaign headquarters in Jacksonville. With no polls having Rubio in first place. the question Florida Politics had for Curry: was there Rubio remorse? Nope. […]

Scott PowersMarch 3, 2016

Val Demings has received the endorsement of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers in her bid for the Democratic nomination to run for Congress in Orlando-based Congressional District 10. The union endorsement follows several others she has received, including from a coalition of unions representing Walt Disney World employees. “It means […]

Scott PowersMarch 3, 2016

Orlando and seven other cities announced Thursday they are launching an initiative called the Energy Secure Cities Coalition and dedicating to change municipal vehicles to alternative fuels. West Palm Beach also is among the charter cities in the group, which was organized by the organizations Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE) and the Electrification Coalition. “The […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 3, 2016

In a wide-ranging interview Thursday morning, Jacksonville City Councilman Matt Schellenberg talked about Uber and the taxis, the John Keane deal and John Delaney’s role in it, and Katrina Brown. Schellenberg, the chair of the Vehicles for Hire committee, was lambasted by a cab company executive for pushing back the next committee meeting date until March 22, with […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 2, 2016

Jacksonville fans of Marco Rubio will enjoy seeing him at the Morocco Temple Saturday afternoon. Yet the Morocco Temple was not his first choice. Rubio’s first choice location was the nearby University of North Florida, according to a reliable source connected with UNF. The price point of about $11,000 was prohibitive, apparently, and the decision was […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 2, 2016

The Jacksonville City Council Vehicles for Hire subcommittee has been full of pitched debate, but progress has been incremental. Part of the reason for the slow pace: uncertainty on the city level about the ultimate outcome in Tallahassee for vehicles of Transportation Network Companies. With that in mind, subcommittee chair Matt Schellenberg delayed the next meeting […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 2, 2016

Jacksonville City Council President Greg Anderson and VP Lori Boyer met Wednesday to solve the nettling problem of archiving Council’s text messages. In what Anderson called “a world of increasingly different communication options,” in the context of keeping permanent records that comply with Sunshine Laws and avoid the embarrassing news stories regarding texting with lobbyists that dogged the […]

Scott PowersMarch 2, 2016

Orlando lawyer and law school professor Aramis Ayala has filed to challenge fellow Democrat Jeff Ashton for state attorney in the Orlando-based 9th Judicial Circuit. Ayala, who is a former assistant state attorney in that office, said she is running because the office has a structurally cumbersome set up that makes it inefficient in “keeping […]

Scott PowersMarch 2, 2016

The Florida Board of Governors gave the University of Central Florida a critical green light Wednesday for a downtown Orlando campus focusing on workplace education. The solid but not unanimous majority means UCF has the Board of Governors’ blessing to seek $20 million from the state to build a multiuse building in downtown Orlando to […]

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How Lenny Curry kept “Project Omega” from “dying on the vine”

Lenny Curry stands behind Marco Rubio, even as path to victory narrows

Union endorses Val Demings in CD 10 race

Orlando, 7 other cities, launch “Energy Secure Cities” initiative

Matt Schellenberg talks Uber, John Keane, “Teflon John” Delaney, and Katrina Brown

Marco Rubio’s Jacksonville rally Saturday not in first-choice location

Jax cabbie demands Vehicles for Hire committee chair removal

The future of communications tracking in the Jax City Council is now

Aramis Ayala files to challenge Jeff Ashton for state attorney in 9th Circuit

Board of Governors approves UCF downtown campus