A.G. GancarskiJune 27, 2019
6min705
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Tag: Clay County
A.G. GancarskiJune 27, 2019
Danny McAuliffeJanuary 8, 2019
6min1156
A bill that would prevent local governments from banning vegetable gardens on residential properties is beginning to take root in the Legislature. The Senate Community Affairs Committee unanimously backed the measure (SB 82) on Tuesday. For most of the lawmakers on the panel, it wasn’t their first go around with the bill. A similar bill […]
A.G. GancarskiDecember 18, 2018
6min430
Sen. Rob Bradley and Rep. Travis Cummings both represent Clay County. Both also hold the gavels for their respective chamber’s appropriations committees. The concentration of budget power in Clay, a Northeast Florida county bordering Jacksonville, is unprecedented. Bradley himself described it as a “window of opportunity.” And opportunity draws a crowd. Thursday’s Clay County Delegation meeting put them […]
A.G. GancarskiOctober 28, 2018
4min518
Over the last week, Clay County Sheriff Darryl Daniels has increasingly taken the regional lead in excoriating Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Gillum. Sunday saw Gillum come to Clay County and plead for civility and dialing down violence in political rhetoric, again establishing contrast between his campaign and that of his opponent. The Ron DeSantis campaign has messaged heavily […]
A.G. GancarskiSeptember 28, 2018
2min359
State Rep. Matt Caldwell, the Republican nominee for Agriculture Commissioner, will feed and be feted by a collection of Clay County Republicans Friday morning. Caldwell, a Republican from Fort Myers, will address the group at Orange Park’s “Grumpy’s Restaurant” at 8 a.m. A list of Republican notables will be on hand, including Clay County Commissioners Mike Cella, Gayward […]
A.G. GancarskiSeptember 27, 2018
8min259
Representatives of medical marijuana provider Surterra were joined by members of the Clay County Chamber of Commerce on Thursday for a ribbon cutting that seemed implausible a couple of years ago. Clay County was cautious in allowing medical cannabis dispensaries to open, but the conservative Northeast Florida county eventually saw benefit. In October 2017, the city of […]
Joe HendersonAugust 29, 2018
2min184
Voters in several parts of Florida approved tax hikes for local school programs and teacher raises, which could be encouraging news to backers of a proposed half-cent sales tax increase in November for Hillsborough County public schools. By a 13-point margin, Lake County voters approved a property tax increase of .75 mills to help pay […]
A.G. GancarskiMarch 20, 2018
2min409
Travis Cummings, the Republican incumbent in House District 18, has drawn a familiar Libertarian challenger, Ken Willey, in his re-election bid. The odds are with Cummings, who won more than 81 percent of the vote when the two faced off in 2016. Willey also ran in the 2014 race which produced the same result, give or […]
A.G. GancarskiOctober 31, 2017
5min276
Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam attributes his fondness for early starts to being a farmer. Reporters from the city may be more likely to attribute it to sadism — especially when they drive from Jacksonville before sunrise for an 8 a.m. campaign event in Clay County. Whatever the motivation, Putnam has shown a propensity for his ‘Up […]
Scott PowersSeptember 14, 2017
2min254
Heat may be rising among the millions of Floridians still without power, as 2.3 million homes and businesses head toward finishing a fourth full day without. The latest data from the Florida Office of Emergency Management show 22 percent of the state still was sweating out power outages at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, on what has […]
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