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Julie DelegalNovember 8, 2015

Kevin Gay is president and founder of a groundbreaking organization that puts nonviolent ex-offenders back into the workforce. His nonprofit mission, Operation New Hope, started with a question: “When are guys like you going to get it?” The question came from his Episcopal priest, Davette Turk, who wanted him to see that serving others didn’t […]

Melissa RossNovember 6, 2015

A bipartisan summit on criminal justice reform is expected to draw local and national thought leaders to Jacksonville this month. Operation Reform, sponsored by #Cut50, the Ford Foundation and Operation New Hope, will focus on re-entry solutions for people leaving incarceration, and reducing recidivism through employment. This was a major focus of the Jacksonville Journey, […]

Melissa RossNovember 4, 2015

In the wake of last night’s defeat of an anti-discrimination ordinance in Houston, activists with the Jacksonville Coalition for Equality say they’re going to work overtime to educate the public – and prepare to do battle against any potential scare tactics that could be mounted to defeat an expanded HRO in Duval County. Prop. 1, known […]

Melissa RossNovember 3, 2015

Airline passengers in Naples took their first direct flight in decades to Havana on Monday. It’s just the latest example of a Florida city jumping on opportunities to do business in Cuba. The fast-changing relationship between the U.S. and the Communist island nation follows up on December’s announcement by President Barack Obama and Cuban President […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 3, 2015

A hand-delivered demand letter from a Jacksonville law firm representing one of Jacksonville’s solid waste hauling companies, Republic Services, to Jacksonville’s solid waste division and office of General Counsel charges that the city of Jacksonville has collected “in excess of $600,000 in payments to which it is not entitled” from the city since June, 2015. In […]

Mitch PerryNovember 2, 2015

Political pundits from coast to coast declared Jeb Bush‘s presidential campaign all but dead Wednesday night after his desultory performance in the third GOP debate, from Boulder, Colorado. The Economist wrote that,”(I)t is hard to see him coming back into contention now.” “It was do or die. And Bush died,” wrote Slate’s Jamelle Boulle. Bush obviously believes reports of […]

Melissa RossOctober 27, 2015

A chastened Tennessee pastor and nonprofit CEO has promised to make a laundry list of fixes at a troubled Jacksonville Section 8 housing complex after media reports uncovered deplorable conditions at the city’s notorious Westside Eureka Garden complex. “I am not a slumlord,” said the Rev. Richard Hamlet during an appearance on WJCT’s First Coast Connect. […]

Brendan FarringtonOctober 24, 2015

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump mocked former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in his own state on Saturday, saying recent campaign cuts show he’s not ready to be president. “Here’s a guy who wants to run our country, and he can’t even run his own campaign. And you know what? He’s cutting back big,” Trump told […]

Melissa RossOctober 24, 2015

Melissa RossOctober 24, 2015

While thousands packed the Jacksonville Landing to hear Donald Trump speak, outside the scene was a colorful, #OnlyinDuval spectacle, marked by protesters, police presence, and the wrapup of a Saturday morning breast cancer rally. The anti-Trump signs showed up bright and early, led by a “Dump the Trump” banner, unfurled by the group Eyes Open […]

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Julie Delegal: One man’s mission demonstrates the power of a job

Operation Reform Summit seeks bipartisan approach to criminal justice reform

After Houston, Jax LGBT activists say they’ve got their work cut out

Is Jacksonville missing opportunities in Cuba?

Republic Services, Jacksonville in contract squabble

Vowing that he’ll turn “Washington upside down,” Jeb Bush begins his comeback in Tampa

Eureka Garden chief: “I am not a slumlord”

Donald Trump in Jax: Jeb Bush is embarrassing his family, can’t run a campaign and shouldn’t run country

Outside the Donald Trump rally, in pictures

Protestors have their say outside Donald Trump rally in Jacksonville