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Guest AuthorJuly 3, 2014

Because of a credit rating downgrade by Moody’s Investors Service, Jacksonville will soon be paying higher interest rates on its debts. This may well divert millions of tax dollars from serving the city’s residents to enhancing the bottom line of Wall Street’s lenders. The Florida Legislature’s chronic failure to make major reforms in state and […]

Guest AuthorApril 24, 2014

The students who enroll at the school I founded in southeast Jacksonville in 1988 come for many different reasons, but a good number come after struggling elsewhere. Some got lost in schools that were too big, or didn’t fit in schools that were too cliquish. Some didn’t take full advantage of their opportunities and needed […]

Julie DelegalApril 3, 2014

“Our hands are tied.” That’s what Duval County School Board members say about allowing charter schools to open in Jacksonville. State law mandates that, unless a charter school’s application indicates financial mismanagement, school boards can’t say “no” to opening a new one. Board members say the district can’t afford the legal fees needed to fight […]

Julie DelegalFebruary 5, 2014

You’ve got to hand it to him: Charlie Crist is scrappy. Striking back against the Republican Party in the web-video wars, the former-and-would-be Florida governor lobbed a grenade: “[R]emember, it was guys like Rick Scott who crashed our economy.” In a video, the Florida GOP, which helped put Crist in office the first time, essentially […]

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Much of Helene's devastation was in GOP strongholds. Image via AP

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