Florida Politics - Campaigns & Elections. Lobbying & Government.

A.G. GancarskiJuly 1, 2015

One City. One Jacksonville. That was the theme Wednesday of the joint inauguration for Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry and Sheriff Mike Williams. Those with memories longer than one news cycle might see the inauguration theme as a variant on the theme of the #UniteJax event in April that gave the Duval GOP an avenue to […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 29, 2015

With just two days to go until Lenny Curry is inaugurated as Jacksonville mayor on Wednesday, the mayor-elect’s transition committees continued, albeit with some glitches, at Jacksonville University. The Prevention, Intervention, and At-Risk Youth committee was hampered by some key no-shows. Co-chairs Johnny Gaffney and Paul Perez were absent. Thus, it was left to Jon Heymann, of the Jacksonville Children’s Commission, […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 22, 2015

The crowd of 200 men, most of them African-Americans, were assembled at “A Call for 1,000 Men” at Open Arms Christian Fellowship Church expecting to hear Duval School Superintendent Nikolai Vitti speak. He wasn’t in attendance,though. Instead, they heard from outgoing Mayor Alvin Brown. Now liberated from the constraints imposed by the campaign, he delivered one of […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 21, 2015

A tide of violence flows through the streets of Jacksonville, and no neighborhood is exempt. From the battlegrounds of the Westside, where two girls were shot in the head on a school bus this month, to Grand Park and Soutel, to Arlington and Mandarin, violence has become a reality. The lead story on the news […]

Tag: John Guns

One City, One Jacksonville: Lenny Curry, Mike Williams’ visionary inauguration

Push for renewed Jacksonville Journey continues in Lenny Curry transition committee

Alvin Brown: “If this is an emergency, where’s the 911 response?”

Save Our Sons, Nikolai Vitti make “a call for 1,000 men”