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Ryan RayJuly 30, 2015

CFO Jeff Atwater has invited the public to come to Jacksonville this weekend to participate in the auction of hundreds of thousands of dollars of property, held in what is essentially the massive state “lost and found” his office oversees. Atwater’s office invites “Floridians” — although nearby Georgians will certainly come to reap the spoils, […]

Guest AuthorJuly 27, 2015

I’m a Southern, white, gun-owning male who worries one day my family will have to pay the price for America’s unwillingness to stand up to the gun lobby. I know that sounds counter-intuitive, but hear me out. I grew up bouncing BBs off the backs of the alligators in Lake Newnan outside of Gainesville, Fla. […]

Melissa RossJuly 27, 2015

Northeast Florida State Attorney candidate Wes White says the issue of untested rape kits in Florida’s Fourth Circuit runs far deeper than his many beefs with Angela Corey. “I think we live in a country where it requires 35 women to bring a claim against someone like Bill Cosby before law enforcement officials will pay […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 23, 2015

Events this summer have brought the long-simmering debate over the Confederate flag to a hard boil, and the predictable backlash from the hard right, especially but not exclusively in the Southeast, is in full swing. We saw it days ago, when an Inverness gun store owner declared his shop a “Muslim-free zone.“ And we almost […]

Janelle Irwin TaylorJuly 22, 2015

Jacksonville is getting 100 new jobs thanks to Johnson & Johnson Vision Care. The company is planning to expand its facility in the northeast Florida city from its current base of 2,000 employees. The company will also spend more than $300 million to make the expansion happen. “Since December 2010, more than 879,000 private-sector jobs […]

Melissa RossJuly 22, 2015

The public will have another chance Wednesday night to sound off on their vision for a redeveloped Jacksonville Landing, and the man leading the redesign project says this “charrette” process is key. “We want to hear from the community,” said Aundra Wallace, CEO of the city’s Downtown Investment Authority. “What’s their vision for the Jacksonville […]

Phil AmmannJuly 16, 2015

North Florida is on the right path of economic growth, says a new “State of the Cities” survey released Thursday by the Florida League of Cities. A combination of high-quality local services, lower property taxes and new businesses made the difference for Northwest Florida and across the state to maintain positive economic growth in 2014, […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 14, 2015

In a report released Tuesday, the Jacksonville Inspector General found some major irregularities regarding Jacksonville’s Access to Capital program. “The Office of Inspector General (OIG) received a complaint alleging that the $1.2 million loan pool from the city of Jacksonville’s, Jacksonville Small Emerging Business Access to Capital Program, Jacksonville Ordinance Code, Section 126.602 was missing […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 8, 2015

With Lenny Curry at the one-week mark in his mayoral term, his transition committees are preparing their recommendations for final delivery. Florida Politics has obtained a draft copy of one such transition committee document, that of Streamlining Growth and Opportunity, and it predictably goes deep. The committee addressed issues related to making planning, zoning, and […]

Melissa RossJuly 7, 2015

After downtown Jacksonville’s Andrew Jackson statue was vandalized twice in one week, a spokeswoman for the activist group the Dream Defenders said she’d like to see as much outrage over controversial police-involved shootings as the recent widespread tagging of Confederate monuments in various states. “I always pay attention to what people care more about,” said the group’s […]

Tag: Jacksonville

Jeff Atwater holding “Treasure Hunt” to auction off $700K in unclaimed property

Eric Conrad: We’re just haggling over price

Wes White: Untested rape kits flap shows violence against women not taken seriously

Jax Westside Republicans cancel “history of Confederate flag” presentation

Gov. Rick Scott touts 100 new jobs in Jacksonville

“You have to get it right,” says Aundra Wallace of Jacksonville Landing

State of Florida cities are good for economic growth, new study says

Jax Inspector General reports problems with Brown-era Access to Capital program

Jax “Streamlining Growth and Opportunity” transition committee readies recommendations

Dream Defenders ask why statue defacing raises more concern than black man’s death