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Diane RobertsAugust 18, 2015

OCCUPIED TALLAHASSEE – They stamp their feet, they scream till they’re sick, and hold their breath till they’re blue. They act like 5-year-olds caught with their grotty little paws in the cookie jar, their faces covered in crumbs, as they swear they didn’t do anything wrong. The Special – or Remedial – Session. While all […]

Diane RobertsAugust 17, 2015

OCCUPIED TALLAHASSEE – They stamp their feet, they scream till they’re sick, and hold their breath till they’re blue. They act like 5-year-olds caught with their grotty little paws in the cookie jar, their faces covered in crumbs, as they swear they didn’t do anything wrong. The Special – or Remedial – Session. While all […]

Melissa RossAugust 17, 2015

As former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush continues to take heat over calling Common Core education standards “poisonous,” Duval County’s superintendent is taking a more positive spin about the new state curriculum being unveiled this fall. “We’re going to see another level of instruction at the elementary level, especially when it comes to writing and reading,” Superintendent Nikolai […]

Melissa RossAugust 10, 2015

The North Florida politician known for being the first in the area to lead on passing a comprehensive HRO stands by her record as she gears up for re-election. “It was the right thing to do,” says Atlantic Beach City Commissioner Maria Mark. Mark, the Executive Director at the Timucuan Trail Parks Foundation, faces off […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 10, 2015

Jacksonville residents haven’t given the Clerk of Courts office much thought, except for when said office is concocting reasons not to perform same-sex marriage ceremonies. As a result, many of the structural problems the office has necessarily fly under the radar. Luckily, the City Council Auditor is tasked with looking at that office’s issues. They […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 6, 2015

One of the hallmarks of the Lenny Curry administration thus far has been increasing the transparency of the process, which many people both covering City Hall and working inside it thought was necessary. The downside: It makes events like Thursday’s presentation of transition subcommittee reports, the culmination of a process begun shortly after Curry’s election, necessarily […]

Guest AuthorAugust 5, 2015

Fourth Judicial Circuit State Attorney candidate, Nassau County Republican Wesley Forrest White, has a steep hill to climb if he hopes to knock off current and perhaps perpetual State Attorney Angela Corey. Corey started fundraising at the beginning of June. July numbers are not yet available, but that first month found her breaching the $125,000 […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 4, 2015

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In some ways, northwest Jacksonville Councilman Reggie Brown is the most interesting member of the Jacksonville City Council right now. For one thing, talk that he might run for a State House seat (the gossip says HD 14, where the only competition at the moment is Leslie Scott Jean-Bart) persist. Brown, for his part, isn’t saying that […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 30, 2015

The sun shone brightly outside the Jax Chamber building, and inside the dispositions were no less sunny, as Jacksonville welcomed the Australian Macquarie Group to town. The company, in choosing Jacksonville for its southeastern operations, says it will bring 123 financial sector jobs to the Bold New City of the South. Saying he wished there […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 30, 2015

During Tuesday’s Jacksonville City Council meeting, “Project Post” was approved unanimously to bring an unidentified company to town. Getting ahead of the media announcement by a few hours, the Jacksonville Daily Record reports that the Australian Macquarie Group is headed here. It intends to open a 123-job center by the end of 2017. The Macquarie Group is doing […]

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Diane Roberts: Democracy in Florida remains lost in spite of new maps

Diane Roberts: Democracy in Florida remains lost in spite of new maps

Nikolai Vitti: Florida Standards will be “another level of instruction”

Maria Mark: HRO “the right thing to do”

Jax Clerk of Courts audit spotlights outdated processes, inefficiencies

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Jacksonville welcomes Macquarie Group

Jacksonville to get 123 new jobs from Australian company Macquarie Group