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Janelle Irwin TaylorFebruary 15, 2016

Buses in Williams Park are gone. Sunday was the first day buses stopped at a variety of places in downtown St. Pete instead of all picking up and dropping off passengers at Williams Park. With the old bus shelters no longer surrounding the park, serving as a barrier, St. Pete officials hope the park can […]

Janelle Irwin TaylorFebruary 15, 2016

St. Pete wants to move its people around St. Pete over the roads. Earlier this month the city submitted an application for a $40 million federal grant with its big-ticket item focused on Aerial Cable Propelled Transit. Or Gondolas. It’s an almost Jetsonian vision invoking images of people floating along in bubbles. Though, in St. […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 15, 2016

With four Jacksonville Democrats in the HD 14 race to succeed Mia Jones, a lot of variables are in play still. However, as of the end of January, HD 14 so far looks like a two person money race between Leslie Jean-Bart and former State Representative Terry Fields. Jean-Bart had the best fundraising month of the two; her […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 15, 2016

January saw a slight closing of the fundraising gap between Janet Adkins and her major opponent in the race for Nassau County School Superintendent, Kathy Burns. Adkins raised no January money, though December saw her getting money from JEA Board Chair Tom Petway, former Lieutenant Governor Jeff Kottkamp, and the PAC of Jason Fischer, a current State House candidate from Jacksonville. […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 15, 2016

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Months back, FloridaPolitics.com asked Dick Kravitz how he would counteract the fundraising advantage of Jason Fischer in House District 16. Kravitz was unconcerned, saying the money he needed would be there when he needed it. January, for the fourth straight month, has proven that the Jacksonville political veteran was right. $11,800 of new money in January pushed Kravitz […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 14, 2016

In an email, Jacksonville’s CAO, Sam Mousa, told one of those A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Next Level stories about the Alvin Brown administration. This one affects the Bob Hayes Track Meet. “It came to our attention via the Council Auditor this week that the Brown administration did not have a contract executed before […]

Scott PowersFebruary 14, 2016

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There is Valleri Crabtree at the Rotary Club of Celebration. There she at Place for Grace in St. Cloud. There’s Crabtree at the Leadership Osceola reception, and the Osceola Council on Aging, and the Polk County Democratic Executive Committee, and the Poinciana Villages Community Meeting, and at a Fashion Square Mall festival, and at her […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 14, 2016

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The Human Rights Ordinance expansion may be going away from Jacksonville in the short term, but LGBT equality advocates are not, as a march is planned Thursday at high noon. The march, just hours before Tommy Hazouri is expected to withdraw his legislation at the Thursday afternoon Committee of the Whole (in light of a seeming […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 13, 2016

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Despite Tommy Hazouri choosing to withdraw the HRO expansion bill (and taking the slings and arrows of character assassination from HRO expansion advocates in the process), the Jacksonville Coalition for Equality remains steadfast in its commitment to a fully inclusive bill. A long statement from the JCE had a couple of interesting sentences. One of them: “We […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 13, 2016

A seven-member bipartisan group of Congress, led by Tampa Democrat Kathy Castor, departed from Tampa to Cuba on Saturday. “We intend to meet with small business owners and entrepreneurs to gain a better understanding of how the changes in the Cuban economy are working,” Castor said in a brief news conference held at Tampa International […]

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New group aims to restore Williams Park to its historic glory

Pie in the sky transit proposal: Gondolas in St. Pete

HD 14 money race a two person contest thus far

Janet Adkins maintains money lead in Nassau County school sup. race

HD 16 fundraising race getting tighter by the month

Sam Mousa drops another amusing Alvin Brown administration anecdote

Valleri Crabtree, Dena Minning, trying opposite approaches to being CD 9 X-factors

March for Equality planned in Jacksonville for Thursday

On HRO, no compromise for Jax Coalition for Equality

Kathy Castor leads 7-member congressional delegation to Cuba