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A.G. GancarskiDecember 15, 2015

The big question going into the final Jacksonville HRO Community Conversation, about the effect of potential legislation on businesses, held at Jacksonville University on Tuesday evening, wasn’t about the proponents of a Human Rights Ordinance expansion to the LGBT community; rather, about the opponents. Longwood Florida’s own Roger Gannam, apparently the Swiss Army knife of […]

Mitch PerryDecember 15, 2015

Congressional District 13 Democratic hopeful Charlie Crist is coming out swinging against Republican Mark Bircher, in advance of Bircher’s formal kickoff campaign announcement Tuesday night. As this website reported Monday, Bircher, the retired Marine Corps Reserve brigadier general who finished third in the Republican race for Pinellas County’s 13th Congressional District race in January 2014, will hold his first event as a candidate for […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 15, 2015

Ahead of the final Jacksonville HRO “Community Conversation.” the Jacksonville Coalition for Equality held a press conference spotlighting business community support for a fully inclusive HRO. Over 274 names long, and growing. The names: not surprising. Steve Halverson of the Haskell Co., an HRO supporter the first time around. Audrey Moran, the former mayoral candidate […]

Melissa RossDecember 15, 2015

November fundraising totals in the race for Nassau County Superintendent of Schools reveal an interesting matchup between the two main candidates in the race: GOP state Rep. Janet Adkins of Fernandina Beach and Nassau School Board member Kathy Knight Burns, also a Republican. Burns had a healthy November, out-raising Adkins at $14,820. Adkins’ month comes in […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 15, 2015

The Block by Block study, first launched to the public in October from the Jessie Ball DuPont Fund, offered a “detailed new analysis of Jacksonville’s housing markets designed to help inform decisions about Jacksonville’s future.” On Tuesday morning, with the City Council calendar winding down for the holidays, Jacksonville City Council members Anna Brosche, Garrett Dennis, and Bill Gulliford discussed […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 15, 2015

A December 10 letter from HUD broke the news: Eureka Garden is in default of its HUD Housing Assistance Payments contract. The reason for default: failure to maintain facilities, as amply documented throughout the media. including failure to provide “decent, safe, and sanitary housing” and keep units in “good and tenantable condition” in accordance with […]

Staff ReportsDecember 15, 2015

Extreme high tides have turned streets into canal-like swamps in the Florida Keys, with armies of mosquitoes and the stench of stagnating water filling the air, and residents worried rising sea levels will put a damper on property values in the island chain. On Key Largo, a tropical isle famous for snorkeling and fishing, the […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 15, 2015

Last month, the Jacksonville City Council auditor offered a financial summary for the twelve months ending September 30. As these things go, there were plenty of positive data points one could reference, including more favorable variances in funds than unfavorable, with cogent explanations for unfavorable variances, such as those in the Equestrian Center and the […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 14, 2015

FloridaPolitics.com has obtained a list of panelists for the third Community Conversation on the Jax Human Rights Ordinance expansion. One of the names is familiar: Roger Gannam, of the Liberty Counsel, who has been a often lonely voice on the first two panels opposing HRO expansion. Though Gannam’s inclusion on a third consecutive panel will no […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 14, 2015

Though there is no Human Rights Ordinance expansion legislation yet, the possibility of such has been enough for many members of Jacksonville’s City Council, who have been hearing, pro and con, about the positions of people on this issue. This is especially true with the final Community Conversation on the subject looming at 6 p.m […]

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Jacksonville HRO Community Conversations finally over

Charlie Crist goes after Mark Bircher in fundraising note

Jacksonville Coalition for Equality makes its business case for HRO

November’s Nassau superintendent contest money race competitive

Jacksonville City Council members discuss vacant house crisis

Eureka Garden in default of HUD contract

As Florida Keys flood, property worries seep in

Jacksonville’s Council Auditor financial summary warns of investment income slide

Roger Gannam, Ken Adkins in Lenny Curry’s final HRO “community conversation”

Don’t discount Jax HRO referendum possibility