A.G. GancarskiAugust 16, 2019
5min346
"Logistically impossible"
Tag: jon McGowan
A.G. GancarskiAugust 16, 2019A.G. GancarskiFebruary 2, 2016
5min401
Jon McGowan, former owner of McGowan Firearms, should’ve had his Kevlar handy when The Florida Times-Union took aim Monday. Their charge is that overdue sales taxes should have blocked McGowan from getting a $150,000 grant from the Jacksonville Tourist Development Council to promote his Shooting and Outdoor Convention. The TDC guidelines require being current in […]
A.G. GancarskiSeptember 21, 2015
3min240
Much of the noise made about Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry‘s board moves has come from the left. But with less than an hour before the City Council agenda meeting, support for these moves comes from the right, courtesy of Jon McGowan, who wrote a letter to Council President Greg Anderson distilling the case for the […]
A.G. GancarskiApril 10, 2015
12min197
In the run up to Jacksonville’s First Election, one of the more interesting developments was the emergence of the Young Voters Coalition. The group took a nonpartisan stance (even as some folks in the Democratic establishment privately complained that it was just a front group for Bill Bishop supporters) in elections, seeking “to increase turnout […]