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Peter SchorschNovember 18, 2015

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Authorities say a man threatened to firebomb an Islamic center in Florida shortly after the terrorist attacks in Paris. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Tampa reported in a statement that 43-year-old Martin Alan Schnitzler called the Islamic Society of Pinellas County last Friday. The release says he left a voicemail saying he was going to […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 17, 2015

On Tuesday evening, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry convened a panel to discuss the possible expansion of the Human Rights Ordinance, and the larger issue of LGBT rights. With what Curry called beforehand a “balanced panel … organized by senior staff” with members ranging from a representative of JASMYN (Cindy Watson) to the Liberty Counsel (Roger Gannam, […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 17, 2015

In Tuesday letters to U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson, and U.S. Reps. Ander Crenshaw and Corrine Brown, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry urges caution on allowing Syrian refugees to enter the state in the wake of the Paris attacks. “In the aftermath of this weekend’s horrific terrorist attacks in Paris,” Curry writes, “I am more committed […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 17, 2015

Jacksonville City Council’s Rules Committee considered a number of bills and appointments Tuesday. The big issue on the agenda was the Jaguars amphitheater bill, which CFO Mike Weinstein said “has been filed” but is not yet up in the city’s bill search system. The proposal, which has had copious substitutions, will be scrutinized this week […]

Melissa RossNovember 17, 2015

The potentially historic U.N. summit on climate change later this month in Paris, expected to draw President Barack Obama and other world leaders, will be scaled back due to security concerns following the terror attacks Friday that left 129 people dead across the French capital. But the talks are going forward, although concerts, a planned […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 17, 2015

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FloridaPolitics.com has learned that LaTanya Peterson resigned her position with the Lenny Curry administration late last week. Peterson, a former director of African-American voter outreach for the RPOF, is the first high profile departure from the administration. Peterson had been serving in intergovernmental affairs, as a liaison between the mayor’s office and City Council. Speaking […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 17, 2015

FloridaPolitics.com has received a list of the panelists for Tuesday night’s “community conversation” on the potential expansion of the Jacksonville Human Rights Ordinance. They are: Cheryl Grymes, Duval County School Board Dr. Jeff Goldhagen, University of Florida Roger Gannam, Liberty Counsel Cindy Watson, JASMYN Garry Bevel, Jacksonville System of Care Initiative Joey Vaughn, Vaughn Law […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 17, 2015

Jacksonville City Council committee meetings rarely resemble an episode of “Survivor.” But the Recreation, Community Development, Public Health, and Safety Committee started three short: Katrina Brown, Sam Newby, and Reggie Brown were not in the house. Reggie Brown did materialize a few minutes in, however. And then Katrina Brown got in just before 10 a.m. […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 17, 2015

The campaign between Alvin Brown and Lenny Curry saw the current mayor routinely slandered and libeled by people on his putative left, with labels such as “party boss” and worse thrown his way. A little more than three months after his inauguration, Curry is feeling slings and arrows from a different direction: the right … […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 16, 2015

“We are living in serious times. Sometimes the obvious must be stated.” Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry, affected as many of those in the Western World were by the Paris Attacks of November 13, tweeted that over the weekend. On Monday, his City Hall demonstrated that edict, with the flags of France and the United States hanging […]

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