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A.G. GancarskiOctober 2, 2018

Jacksonville City Council candidate Michael Boylan, the former CEO of WJCT, was poised until last month to become interim director of the city’s Cultural Council. Boylan, who is just six months from an election against fellow Republican Rose Conry, noted that while it was “premature” to assume the posting was a “done deal,” he could serve in […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 28, 2015

Jacksonville’s flawed Public Service Grants process got yet another review from the Jacksonville City Council Finance Committee on Friday afternoon. Councilman John Crescimbeni again spotlighted the lack of funding, and how many of the organizations toward the bottom of the funding matrix suffer because of a lack of funding. The total request for all organizations: $3.78 […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 12, 2015

Every so often, it is worthwhile to review the true impact of the creative sector in Jacksonville and in Northeast Florida. To that end, the Cultural Council provides a yearly review of those figures, and the impact exceeds what most people believe it might be, for Jacksonville and the region both. The Cultural Council released […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 8, 2014

Jacksonville is a city that has changed drastically in many ways over the last quarter century, with the influx of new corporate capital and the migration patterns that begets making the city more liberal on many issues. Despite this, some things remain the same. One of which is that socially conservative politicians, and the arguments […]

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