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Guest AuthorApril 22, 2015

“Severe negative fiscal impact.” For more than five decades, local governments and utility companies have had a very good arrangement that works well for everyone. When a private utility needs to run such things as transmission or cable lines, the utility enters into an agreement with a local government and the agreement allows the privately […]

Mitch PerryApril 22, 2015

Is this a case of bipartisanship running amok in Washington all of a sudden? Not really, but last night the House of Representatives did come together, this time to pass what is being described as a modest piece of energy legislation called the “Energy Efficiency Improvement Act of 2015.” The Senate passed an earlier version, and […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 22, 2015

A new Alvin Brown radio spot is in heavy rotation on black-oriented radio stations in Jacksonville, in an ambitious, $5,000 a week ad buy designed to drive turnout in the black community. The spot contrasts “our Mayor” with “Republican party boss Lenny Curry,” a man who is running a “dirty campaign,” who wants to “turn back the […]

Mitch PerryApril 22, 2015

This past weekend, Nashua, N.H., was the center of the political universe. About 20 announced presidential candidates, probable candidates, and long-shot possibilities were offered 30 minutes each by the New Hampshire Republican Party to present themselves and answer questions from 600 Republicans at the First in the Nation Republican Leadership Summit. In addition to reporting […]

Mitch PerryApril 22, 2015

It is Earth Day on Wednesday, the 45th anniversary of the 1970 celebration, and President Barack Obama is marking the occasion by visiting the Sunshine State, down at the Everglades. In his weekly radio address broadcast Saturday, Obama discussed the threat of climate change in South Florida, saying that “rising sea levels are putting a national […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 21, 2015

On Jacksonville’s Southbank, the Lenny Curry campaign on Wednesday is unveiling a “major press announcement by the Lenny Curry for Mayor campaign. DON’T MISS IT! Lenny Curry will be joined by special guests with a special perspective on Jacksonville’s future.” Curry has been joined by special guests before. Rick Perry. Pam Bondi. Adam Putnam. All of those figures are […]

Kevin MeerschaertApril 21, 2015

Jacksonville City Council member Kim Daniels is responding to critics who say she could have attended Monday night’s At-Large Region 1 debate at the Main Library downtown if she really wanted to. Daniels said she had a previous commitment and was unable to appear. She instead participated in an event at The Jacksonville Landing in […]

Phil AmmannApril 21, 2015

In order to adjourn on time, all 160 members of the Florida Legislature must have a budget on their desks sometime on April 28. Florida law requires legislators have at least 72 hours to look over the budget before voting on it just before sine die on May 1. The odds of completing a budget […]

Guest AuthorApril 21, 2015

As Americans, we cherish our basic rights and our fundamental freedoms. Perhaps the most cherished right, and one that makes us unique in the world, is the one guaranteeing us the freedom to openly speak our minds. As the world’s first republic to put this in our nation’s charter document, we have a guaranteed right […]

Guest AuthorApril 21, 2015

Florida’s schools are supposed to prepare our students for success in life. Whether pursuing higher education or entering the workforce, we expect that students are ready for the real world based on what they learn in the classroom. But there is one area where we are perpetually failing the next generation: financial literacy and managing […]

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Sam Ferreri: Raising taxes by any other name

Kathy Castor hails energy-efficiency fix passed by U.S. House

Alvin Brown radio spot: “Lenny Curry is running a dirty campaign”

The voice (of a few) New Hampshire voters at GOP confab

Mitch Perry Report for 4.22.15 — President talks climate change in Florida on Earth Day

What would John Delaney endorsement mean in Jax mayoral race?

Jax City Council member Kim Daniels responds to debate critics

Bob Sparks: So far for this Legislature, the FHIX is not in

John Knight: Don’t exercise right to protest walk by Lauren’s Kids

Sen. Jeremy Ring: Money matters for Florida’s high school students