Wire ServicesJune 2, 2021
6min898
The motion describes the lawsuit as a “shotgun” complaint that does not properly spell out allegations.
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Wire ServicesJune 2, 2021
Jacob OglesMay 7, 2019
10min892
Disability advocate testifies how many disabled need straws to live.
A.G. GancarskiMay 23, 2017
2min364
On Tuesday night, the Jacksonville City Council passed a trio of bills designed to close the books on a conflict between neighborhood activists in Springfield, disability rights groups, and ultimately, the federal Department of Justice. Two Jacksonville City Council bills (2017-68 and 2017-69) closed the book on an issue that first emerged during the Alvin Brown […]
A.G. GancarskiMay 17, 2017
6min238
The Jacksonville City Council Finance Committee moved a number of key bills ahead of Tuesday’s meeting of the full legislative body. Among those bills: an extension of the Florida/Georgia football game contract, which would keep the game in Jacksonville until 2021; legislation impacting public service grants; and a long-mulled settlement of a city zoning decision […]
A.G. GancarskiMarch 22, 2017
2min219
Thus far, there’s been slow progress on Jacksonville City Council bills (2017-68 and 2017-69) that may close the book on an issue that first emerged during the Alvin Brown administration. To recap: in 2014, Ability Housing set out to renovate an apartment building in Springfield to create 12 units of housing for the chronically homeless and […]
A.G. GancarskiOctober 16, 2015
5min348
The long and winding battle between Ability Housing and residents of the Springfield neighborhood in Jacksonville continued Friday, with Ability Housing’s appeal of the Planning and Development Department’s refusal to grant an exception from a zoning overlaybeing. In May, the city of Jacksonville contended, according to WJCT, “that the facility’s intended use is ‘akin’ to that […]
A.G. GancarskiOctober 12, 2015
1min288
In a letter to the office of Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry last week, Disability Rights Florida raised concerns about difficulty getting a land-use permit in the Springfield Historic District. David Boyer, investigations director for the group, observed that there was “difficulty” getting a permit through the Jacksonville Zoning Board, and then observed that such difficulty […]
Christine Jordan SextonNovember 17, 2014
4min253
A proposed rule outlining how the poor, elderly and disabled will qualify for community-based services in a new Medicaid managed-care environment is getting a chilly review from some advocates, as well as the managed-care plans that will serve them. The proposal — 59G-4.193 — lays out how the state will assign people to the statewide […]