Staff ReportsMay 10, 2019
27min299
Next up: A battle between the Duval County School Board and Jacksonville City Hall.
Tag: Brenda Priestly Jackson
Staff ReportsMay 10, 2019
A.G. GancarskiMay 6, 2019
7min291
This late in the game, the narrative is all but set in most cases.
A.G. GancarskiApril 22, 2019
11min423
Some candidates rake it in; others self-fund as they can.
A.G. GancarskiApril 15, 2019
8min305
Tommy Hazouri had the strongest fundraising in the field.
A.G. GancarskiApril 10, 20194min232
The winner of this race likely won't be Lenny Curry's pick.
A.G. GancarskiMarch 20, 2019
8min330
Expect Mayor Curry to "engage" in some of these contests.
A.G. GancarskiJuly 23, 2018
6min286
Though controversy has yet to subside over the appointment of Republican Terrance Freeman to a perennially Democratic seat on the Jacksonville City Council, the defense strategy from Freeman and the city of Jacksonville is beginning to coalesce. Brenda Priestly-Jackson, a Democrat and former Duval County School Board chair who was passed up for the appointment to fill […]
A.G. GancarskiJuly 19, 2018
4min234
Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry defends the way Terrance Freeman, a Republican, was appointed to represent the city’s predominately Democratic Council District 10. Curry said he had nothing personally to do with Freeman’s selection. Gov. Rick Scott last week picked Freeman to replace District 10’s suspended federal indictee Reggie Brown. The governor also picked Democrat Ju’Coby Pittman to replace suspended Katrina Brown in […]
A.G. GancarskiJuly 16, 2018
5min847
On Monday morning, as District 10 Republican Jacksonville City Councilman Terrance Freeman settled in for his first committee meeting after being named last week to the board, a group of Duval County Democrats is asking for emergency relief from Gov. Rick Scott‘s appointment. If granted, that relief would stop Freeman from taking action as a councilman until legal […]
A.G. GancarskiJune 8, 2018
3min1441
Less than a week ago, Gov. Rick Scott suspended two Jacksonville City Council members who face 38 federal counts in a scheme to defraud local and federal taxpayers. That suspension created two vacancies that, as of Friday afternoon, have 29 applicants. The replacements for suspended Democrats Katrina Brown and Reggie Brown will be picked by Scott. They would serve until/unless the individual Council members […]