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A.G. GancarskiOctober 14, 2016

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry and senior staffers had another meeting this week with the potential buyer for some of the city’s most beleaguered HUD properties, and it went well, says the mayor’s office. In September, Curry confirmed the interest of Millennia Housing Management of Cleveland, Ohio, —which has specialized in the low-income housing market for over two decades […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 12, 2016

There is a marked difference between the primary and the General Election in Jacksonville’s 2016 congressional races. While there were debates and forums galore before both the Republican primary in Florida’s 4th Congressional District and the Democratic primary in Florida’s 5th Congressional District, there has been nothing of the sort since the nominees were decided. One […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 11, 2016

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry is going to address the Jacksonville City Council Tuesday on hurricane damage and recovery. He will have no shortage of subject matter, as hurricane mitigation and recovery has been the signature test of his administration so far. After Hurricane Matthew’s impact on Jacksonville, there are known knowns and known unknowns. A known […]

Associated PressOctober 10, 2016

Maureen Miller was among the 2 million people ordered to evacuate coastal areas in the Southeast ahead of Hurricane Matthew. Her family and their dog spent two nights in a hotel and struggled through police roadblocks to return. When they finally got back, their Brunswick, Georgia-area home was unscathed. Now they wish they had never […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 10, 2016

The First Coast Relief Fund has half a million dollars to start, but the smart money says that it will have much more than that in the end. The fund begins with $500,000 in seed money from the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, and is a collaboration between the United Way of Northeast Florida, the United Way of St. […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 10, 2016

Those interested in filing a local bill with the Duval Legislative Delegation have until Nov. 14 to get it done. The deadline was extended from Oct. 13, due to the general election. This is well ahead of the next meeting of the delegation. The organizational meeting to elect the incoming 2016-2017 delegation chair and vice chair, and […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 7, 2016

The key quote came at the end: “We’re just going to pick up the pieces together as a community when we get out of this thing.” Hurricane Matthew wreaked the bulk of its havoc in Duval County on Jacksonville’s beaches and in low-lying areas, as expected. As the storm blew northward, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry recapped […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 7, 2016

On Friday afternoon, as the worst of Matthew threatened his city with hurricane conditions through nightfall, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry briefed media and a home audience on the storm. At his last briefing Friday morning, the message was “hunker down.” In the afternoon, the message was similar. “We are in the middle of it, so my […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 7, 2016

11 a.m. update: The city of Jacksonville sent an email saying the worst is yet to come. “Hurricane conditions are expected in 3-6 hours,” while water levels look poised to peak at “1-2 p.m. and 1-2 a.m. tonight.” Two bridges are closed, the Dames Point Bridge and Atlantic Boulevard Intracoastal Waterway Bridge. The Fuller-Warren is still open, for […]

Associated PressOctober 7, 2016

Hurricane Matthew scraped Florida’s Atlantic coast early Friday, toppling trees onto homes and knocking out power to a half-million people but sparing some of the most heavily populated stretches of shoreline the catastrophic blow many had feared. Authorities warned that the danger was far from over, with hundreds of miles of coastline in Florida, Georgia […]

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