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Frank TorresSeptember 4, 2015

Linda “Sunshine” Grund, a student and mother of three, threw her hat in the ring for Orlando Mayor. Grund filed this morning, becoming the third candidate to join the race. Grund’s platform is “Promise, Peace, and Purpose.” Her campaign will be centered around development in the Lake Nona area, where she’s raising her family. In a phone conversation […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 4, 2015

The most energizing moment of the joint inauguration of Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry and Sheriff Mike Williams was when Bishop John Guns delivered a stirring speech, predicated on a simple call to action, a resolution to cross barriers like party lines and neighborhood boundaries. Let’s ride. 2 words; 8 letters; one purpose. That call to action has been used […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 4, 2015

In football, offensive coordinators often like to script their first 15 plays. That allows them to see what the defense will allow them to do, and what the defense won’t. Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry, who coaches his son’s youth football team, is acutely aware of that principle, as he shows the Bold New City of the […]

Frank TorresSeptember 3, 2015

A year ago, high school junior Theodora Beamer was attacked by a pit bull in her Orange County neighborhood. During the attack, she received multiple injuries, including a severed lip that required extensive plastic surgery to reattach. The dog that attacked Beamer was never captured. The dog’s owners quickly moved the animal from Orange County to the Miami-Dade […]

Frank TorresSeptember 3, 2015

Democratic State Sen. Darren Soto officially launched his bid for Florida’s 9th Congressional District at an event Thursday night in downtown Orlando. “Everybody here is a leader in our community. We know what’s at stake,” he told the audience made up of friends and supporters. “We have a Congress that is dysfunctional. We need people that are willing to […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 3, 2015

Freshman Jacksonville City Council Democrats Katrina Brown and Reggie Gaffney have at least a couple things in common. They both serve on the Finance Committee, which just approved the municipal budget on Wednesday afternoon. And they both plan to counterprogram Week 4 of the NFL Preseason, which includes extended action from Tim Tebow with the Philadelphia Eagles, with […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 3, 2015

Councilman Reggie Gaffney has been a busy man these days, as a member of the Finance Committee that spent much of August wrestling with Jacksonville’s municipal budget. The Jacksonville Democrat’s been so busy, in fact, that his Community Rehabilitation Center came perilously close to missing a grant deadline, as his executive assistant, Jill Kestner, wrote to Mayor Lenny […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 3, 2015

Last month, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry sent a letter to Jerry Abramson, Director of Intergovernmental Affairs for President Barack Obama. The subject? A Jacksonville Transportation Authority TIGER Grant application related to the Northeast Florida Multimodal Transportation Corridors, which we reported on previously. The letter of support from Curry contends that “the project connects economically challenged neighborhoods to key […]

Melissa RossSeptember 3, 2015

Amidst all the celebration and revelry of St. Augustine’s 450th commemorations this week, some are planning to protest the way the nation’s oldest city was founded. A coalition of Native American groups is calling for a boycott of the 450th, saying it “shamefully celebrates and honors the Doctrine of Discovery and Spain’s crimes against humanity.” The […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 3, 2015

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Following in a tradition of Jacksonville mayors who embrace the Navy presence in the Bold New City of the South, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry has made it a priority to embrace local military early in his term. That trend continues next week when Curry will videotape a brief cameo appearance in the Fleet Readiness Center Southeast 75th […]

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Linda “Sunshine” Grund files to run for Orlando Mayor

Proposed tagline for Jax Journey reboot: “Let’s Ride”

With budget all but finished, what’s Lenny Curry’s next step?

Orlando lawmakers want to track “dangerous dogs” more efficiently

Darren Soto starts congressional campaign in downtown Orlando

Two Jax City Council town halls on Thursday evening

The grant deadline Jacksonville City Councilman Reggie Gaffney almost missed

Citing 1C1J, Lenny Curry pushes Obama White House on TIGER Grant

Native Americans protest St. Augustine’s 450th bash

Lenny Curry to appear in USN Fleet Readiness Center documentary