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A.G. GancarskiDecember 21, 2016

The front entrance to Jacksonville’s City Hall is substantially renovated, and is open ahead of the anticipated January 2017 date of completion. The schedule was “purposely accelerated to have the project complete before the holidays,” even as “minor grouting and cleanup work remain.” That’s the good news. The bad news is that the project, budgeted […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 12, 2016

Visitors to Jacksonville’s City Hall may have noticed something … different … this week. Renovations to the front entrance of City Hall on Duval Street are underway, requiring visitors to use the entrance on Laura Street for the rest of the year, says the office of Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry. The price tag on the renovations is $549,000. […]

Melissa RossNovember 10, 2015

State Attorney Angela Corey celebrated 34 years as a prosecutor in Florida’s 4th Judicial Circuit this week (excepting, of course, the short span when she was fired from the office by her predecessor, Harry Shorstein.) Corey triumphantly returned when she beat Shorstein’s protege, Jay Plotkin, in the 2008 state attorney’s race. “Ed Austin hired me […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 26, 2015

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I remember the first time I interviewed former Jacksonville Mayor John Delaney. It was 2008, and I wanted to know why it was that the Duval County power structure fell in behind the Presidential bid of Mitt Romney. The University of North Florida President gave me something that is all too rare in politics: a forthright answer […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 19, 2015

When it comes to the Jacksonville Police and Fire Pension, nothing is easy. Not even a 4-1 vote by the Police and Fire Pension Board to approve 2015-304, the agreement passed by Jacksonville’s City Council by a 14-4 margin at last week’s meeting. A lot of passions were stirred; passions about making sure the first […]

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