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A.G. GancarskiAugust 23, 2017

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When Jacksonville City Council President Anna Brosche took over the role, she prioritized improving the city’s park system. To that end, Brosche appointed Councilman Scott Wilson to chair a special committee. Narrative has moved quickly thus far in the Brosche era, with hot button issues ranging from term limits and Confederate statues to JAXPORT dredging and hiring […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 22, 2017

In what has become a tradition in Jacksonville politics, a well-timed poll dropped Monday, just days before the City Council had a big decision to make. A difference this time: instead of dropping from the political committee of Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry, it came from “A Safe Jacksonville,” the political committee of Sheriff Mike Williams. The poll […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 21, 2017

Directly after what is certain to be an edifying round of public comment regarding the future of Jacksonville’s Confederate monuments, the City Council is poised to feather its own bed Tuesday evening. Councilors will vote to authorize an Aug. 2018 referendum that could, if passed, end the quarter-century long practice of term limits for most […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 18, 2017

Friday afternoon saw the Jacksonville City Council Finance Committee mull the JAXPORT capital budget — and the big item of interest was dredging. Councilman Tommy Hazouri — not a member of that committee — visited and raised standing questions he’s had about a lack of public discourse on dredging. And he wasn’t the only Council member […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 18, 2017

Friday morning saw the Jacksonville City Council’s Finance Committee review the Mayor’s proposed capital budgets for JEA. The discussion sprawled close to 90 minutes — double the allotted time — and was one in which budget line items were often directly related to equity in services throughout the city. ____ JEA was up first. The […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 17, 2017

Jacksonville’s Parks and Recreation Department is in the headlines a bit more this summer than usual. For one thing, there is a public safety crisis at parks, specifically those in Northside and Northwest Jacksonville. For another thing, Council President Anna Brosche prioritized improving the park system in her inauguration speech. And for still another thing, Brosche […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 17, 2017

The Thursday morning agenda for the Jacksonville City Council’s Finance Committee’s budget review was filled with an assortment of departments. The Public Defender and the State Attorney. The Tax Collector. The Supervisor of Elections. All of these and a couple more besides. Of the greatest interest: the PD and the SAO, both of those offices […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 17, 2017

Beginning Thursday, the Jacksonville City Council Finance Committee will review Mayor Lenny Curry‘s proposed budget. Discussions last week showed an independent streak among the committee’s members, chaired by Curry’s leading City Hall antagonist of the moment, Garrett Dennis. FP talked to Dennis Wednesday evening, after he gave a well-received speech to the Jacksonville Young Democrats Though Dennis’ […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 16, 2017

A controversial bill to allow a referendum to change Jacksonville’s long-standing two-term limit for many elected officials is slated to return to the Council floor Tuesday evening. Ahead of that, U.S. Term Limits, along with Jacksonville City Councilmen John Crescimbeni, Greg Anderson, and Tommy Hazouri, convened to sound the alarm against relaxing term limits and present a Rasmussen/Pulse […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 14, 2017

In the wake of the violence in Charlottesville this weekend, which included one person killed by a domestic terrorist, protesters in Jacksonville renewed calls to remove Confederate monuments in the city. Such calls have increased in intensity in recent weeks, with interesting contretemps at Jacksonville City Council meetings between Confederate enthusiasts and progressives who believe […]

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Anna Brosche: “Capitalize on what’s going well” in Jax parks

Why Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams is playing political hardball

Term limit two-step resumes Tuesday for Jacksonville City Council

Dredging draws intense scrutiny in JAXPORT budget review

Jax City Councilors mull JEA budget, ‘broken promises’ of Consolidation

Public safety drives Jax City Council Parks budget discussion

Jax City Council mulls Public Defender, State Attorney budgets, processes

Jacksonville Council Finance Chair: ‘I didn’t plan on being opposition to the Mayor’

Backed by poll, Jacksonville Councilmembers push two-term limit

Jacksonville pols, civic leaders urge Confederate monument removal