A.G. GancarskiApril 5, 2024
4min0
Thus far, she is unopposed for re-election.
Tag: Angela CoreyCrowds gather to see Atlantis at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. (Gabrielle Russon)
A.G. GancarskiApril 5, 2024A.G. GancarskiDecember 27, 2019
23min362
This year's most influential political figure never ran for office, but changed the game
Staff ReportsJuly 19, 2019A.G. GancarskiOctober 10, 2017
3min311
In September, Jacksonville City Council candidate Randy DeFoor launched her 2019 campaign. Shortly thereafter, DeFoor, a Republican running to replace termed-out Jim Love in District 14. rolled out an all-star roster for a fundraiser. In October, we have an idea of what that fundraiser did; predictably, it brought in big money — $51,850 to be exact. Among those […]
A.G. GancarskiJune 16, 2017
3min222
A year ago, when the city of Jacksonville was formulating its budget, there was a different State Attorney in Florida’s 4th Circuit. Angela Corey was running for her third term, facing a challenge from the woman who destroyed her in the GOP Primary months later: Melissa Nelson. Nelson ran on a platform of “smart justice,” a […]
Guest AuthorApril 11, 2017
6min608
For so long, prosecutors have repeated the mantra that the death penalty is needed for murder victims’ families and to provide them justice. This idea developed into an unquestioned assumption that guided many district attorneys in handling cases and crafting campaign messages. Yet the recent announcement by State Attorney Aramis Ayala of Orlando, Florida, to […]
A.G. GancarskiJanuary 23, 2017
11min398
4th Circuit State Attorney Melissa Nelson rode into office wearing a white dress, surfing on a wave of hagiography, balanced on a board constructed on a sturdy narrative of collective anathema toward Angela Corey. For many of those who voted for her, the job was accomplished when Corey was defeated in August by a blowout […]
Peter SchorschJanuary 13, 2017
49min362
Close Call: On Wednesday evening, the reports trickled in from Washington, D.C. Rep. John Rutherford had suffered a medical episode in the U.S. House of Representatives, one which led him to require hospitalization through Thursday. The fear expressed by many: a massive heart attack. That speculation went out on Twitter, and the hours between the incident […]
A.G. GancarskiJanuary 12, 2017
2min211
Northeast Florida Democrats were incensed last year at being disenfranchised in closed GOP primaries for state attorney and public defender. Now, one of their own — House District 13 Rep. Tracie Davis — has filed a bill in the Florida House to remedy that condition. And her political mentor, Sen. Audrey Gibson, filed the Senate version. House […]
A.G. GancarskiDecember 28, 2016
33min274
Subpoenas with a side of sauce. That’s one way to sum up the year. In Jacksonville politics, 2016 started with subpoenas being delivered to Rep. Corrine Brown and her clique at a barbecue place on the Northside. And it ended with a raid on Councilwoman Katrina Brown’s familial barbecue sauce plant on the Westside. Katrina […]