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A.G. GancarskiFebruary 5, 2018

In Tallahassee, Community Redevelopment Agencies are under siege by House Speaker Richard Corcoran, who believes they are taxpayer-funded slush funds. However, Jacksonville lawmakers believe there are safeguards put in place to protect taxpayers, and that CRAs provide necessary functions. This week in City Council committees (Monday in Neighborhoods, Community Services, Public Health & Safety; Tuesday in […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 24, 2018

While the Jacksonville City Council presidency next year is all but served up to the Jacksonville Chamber’s Aaron Bowman, the vice presidency is still in play. Pledge meetings kicked off, months ahead of May’s vote, for those taking office in July. All indications show the fight could prove every bit as combative as the fractious presidency […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 16, 2018

Peter Rummell is one of the leaders of Jacksonville’s political donor set, and for the second straight week he got news from a Jacksonville board regarding his District project. The news was different than that coming out of last week’s Downtown Investment Authority meeting, which had the city of Jacksonville buying the land from JEA […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 2, 2018

For the third straight year, Florida Politics is attempting to predict how politics in the 904 will go. And hopefully the predictions will go better than they did the previous two years. 2016’s predictions were as reliable as a coin flip: Six right, six wrong. 2017 saw six wrong… and four right. Batting .400 is […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 5, 2017

Six November nominees to the Jacksonville Kids Hope Alliance board were up in committee Tuesday. All of them sailed through with nary a no vote, putting them on the Consent Agenda at next week’s City Council meeting. Most of them were completely uncontroversial. And the one who was controversial going in wasn’t controversial at all in […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 24, 2017

Despite a memo from the city’s general counsel saying that censure could be pursued by two Jacksonville City Councilors after their confrontation with Jacksonville Sheriff’s Officers, Council President Anna Brosche ruled against it Tuesday. “Other entities,” such as a local or state ethics commission, could impose discipline, Brosche wrote in a memo. Thus ends a two-week […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 17, 2017

The office of Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry believes it is done with pension reform. Yet Council President Anna Brosche and other allies, including the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Finance Committee, disagree. That conflict set the stage for the latest skirmish related to a bill introduced months back by Councilman Danny Becton. The bill, brought back yet again recently, […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 12, 2017

As Jacksonville City Council President Anna Borsch considers potentially moving Confederate monuments, a new poll from the University of North Florida suggests little enthusiasm among Duval residents for relocating the relics. Removal is underwater: 38 percent of registered voters want them gone, while 53 percent of registered voters want the monuments to remain. Brosche, a Republican running for […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 11, 2017

Tuesday night was rough for Jacksonville City Council President Anna Brosche. Her attempts to stall out a vote on Mayor Lenny Curry‘s children’s program reform, the Kids Hope Alliance, failed. And her allegations of Curry Administration attempts to keep the bill from public view, by having a Councilman introduce a substitute in committee earned a sharp rebuke from […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 10, 2017

Tuesday night saw the Jacksonville City Council pass a bill authorizing the Kids Hope Alliance, a new seven-person board that will replace the Jacksonville Children’s Commission and the Jacksonville Journey. The bill passed 18-1 , after a chippy discussion that lasted almost four hours, exposing and exacerbating fissures on the Council that have moved from […]

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No censure for Jax Councilors Katrina Brown, Reggie Gaffney

Jax Council panel bucks leadership, votes down controversial pension bill

Duval voters want to keep Confederate statues, per poll

Anna Brosche talks Confederate monuments, censure for Council colleagues

Mayor wins: After acrimony, Jacksonville City Council passes Kids Hope Alliance bill