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A.G. GancarskiAugust 22, 2015

Last week, the City of Jacksonville’s Information Technology chief, Usha Mohan, officially resigned her service with the City of Jacksonville. During the June transition period, the Information Technology budget hearing had its contentious moments, with questions ranging from use of reserve and surplus funds to workforce allocation. Emails between Mohan and Chief Administrative Office Sam Mousa on the […]

Phil AmmannAugust 21, 2015

After facing complaints from the Florida State Association of Supervisors of Elections accusing him of dragging his feet on refilling supervisors of elections positions, Gov. Rick Scott announced two of those appointments on Friday. Scott first named Chet Huddleston as the Supervisor of Elections of Hardee County. Huddleston, 32, of Wauchula, worked with Hardee County public […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 21, 2015

Heart, hypertension, and workers’ compensation were talkers in Jacksonville City Council chambers on Friday at the Finance Committee’s budget hearings. About 82 percent of heart and hypertension and worker’s comp claims are coming from the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department and the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. “In the past, the problem was that JSO and JFRD […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 21, 2015

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Florida Politics has learned that Bill Spann, the spokesman for Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry, has agreed to be director of the Military Affairs and Veterans Department for the city. A letter from Curry states, regarding Spann, that “from day one, Bill told us his one true passion was to serve our active duty military, Guard and Reserve, veterans, […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 21, 2015

After fireworks erupted Friday morning when spirited discussions took place over the capital improvement budgets for the Jacksonville Electric Authority and Jacksonville Transportation Authority, city council members expected the afternoon session would go more smoothly, if only by default. Councilwoman Lori Boyer mentioned that the JTA local option gas tax discussion was especially contentious. Meanwhile, reports […]

Melissa RossAugust 21, 2015

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Florida attorney Roger Gannam, who spoke out against adding sexual orientation and gender identity to the Atlantic Beach human rights ordinance in 2014, is now involved with the defense of a Kentucky county clerk who has religious objections to marrying same-sex couples. On Monday, U.S. District Judge David Bunning ordered Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis to issue […]

Frank TorresAugust 21, 2015

Award-winning D.C. journalist Ron Fournier spoke at a meeting of the Tiger Bay Club of Central Florida Friday afternoon. Fournier, who writes for the National Journal, related personal stories involving past presidents and the current state of affairs in American politics. His main focus was on the current anger of the electorate with the approval rating of […]

Drew WilsonAugust 21, 2015

Gov. Rick Scott said Friday that the Tampa area added 31,800 jobs between July 2014 and July 2015, causing a 1.1 percentage point drop in the region’s unemployment. “With the second-highest number of jobs of all areas in the state last month, the Tampa economy continues to thrive,” Scott said in the announcement. “We will […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 21, 2015

Adults, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry said, are all “nice and political” when they talk with politicians. However, talking to young men, such as the about 100 graduates of the One City One Jacksonville Leadership Academy Curry spoke with Friday morning in a no-holds-barred Q&A at City Hall, demands more candor and realism. “You know if someone’s BSing you,” […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 21, 2015

On Thursday night, Tim McGraw played Jacksonville. Virtually everyone but this writer seemingly was there. Among those attending: three of the biggest power players in #jaxpol. Jax Chamber President Daniel Davis, Council President Greg Anderson, and, wearing a 10-gallon hat that his childhood idol Dusty Rhodes would have endorsed, Mayor Lenny Curry. Davis has spoken often in public, as recently […]

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Usha Mohan resigns from COJ

Accused of foot dragging, Rick Scott names two replacement Supervisors of Elections

Heart, hypertension, workers’ comp issues of concern in Jax budget process

Bill Spann to be COJ director of Military Affairs; Marsha Oliver new public affairs chief

Jax Finance committee approves JTA and JAA budgets

Florida’s Liberty Counsel reps Kentucky clerk in same-sex marriage standoff

National Journal reporter Ron Fournier talks presidential race at Central Florida Tiger Bay

Tampa Bay region adds 31,000 jobs in past 12 months, as unemployment drops to 5.4%

Lenny Curry talks real with 1C1J Leadership Academy grads

Cowboy up: one picture shows the coalescing of Jax power