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Melissa RossMarch 9, 2015

Even though turnout is only expected to be around 30 percent and polls show the majority of voters aren’t tuned into the candidates or the races, early voting gets underway today in Duval County leading up to the March 24 Unitary Election. At stake: the mayor’s and sheriff’s offices, along with a slew of City Council seats […]

Jac VerSteegFebruary 9, 2015

How sad that Skip Foster, new president and publisher of the Tallahassee Democrat, has decreed that his newspaper no longer will endorse political candidates. I expect that soon he and Gannet will need to change the paper’s name to the Tallahassee No Party Affiliation. This is almost certainly a business decision. Foster, like many people […]

Martin DyckmanJanuary 13, 2015

In a column several months ago I deplored the outcomes of two election cases that brought to mind Charles Dickens’s famous phrase, “If the law says that, the law is a ass, an idiot.” In one, the First District Court of Appeal refused to reinstate a legislative candidate who had been kicked off the ballot […]

Martin DyckmanJanuary 11, 2015

In a column several months ago I deplored the outcomes of two election cases that brought to mind Charles Dickens’s famous phrase, “If the law says that, the law is a ass, an idiot.” In one, the First District Court of Appeal refused to reinstate a legislative candidate who had been kicked off the ballot […]

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Aerial shot captures the devastating impact of a hurricane on a small town, showcasing flooded streets and submerged homes after the storm.

Early voting underway in Jacksonville

Jac Wilder VerSteeg: The rise of gutless newspapers

Martin Dyckman: Write-ins waste money, disenfranchise voters

Martin Dyckman: Write-ins waste money, disenfranchise voters