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A.G. GancarskiNovember 24, 2015

The Jacksonville Young Democrats are going to make their presence known at Tuesday’s Jacksonville City Council meeting, addressing a variety of issues, including Mayor Lenny Curry‘s opposition to the Syrian refugee admission process, and the recent spate of threats and intimidation spurred by possible expansion of the Human Rights Ordinance. The JYDs assert that interested parties […]

Melissa RossNovember 23, 2015

Three years ago Monday on Nov. 23, 2012, – it was Black Friday that year – Michael Dunn, a 45-year-old white man, argued with a group of teenage friends at a Southside gas station in Jacksonville. Dunn was peeved about the volume of their hip-hop music . The altercation would turn violent. Dunn fired 10 […]

Melissa RossNovember 12, 2015

The HBO documentary film shot in Jacksonville that tells the story of the Jordan Davis shooting and the trial of Michael Dunn will screen on the Florida State University campus this weekend before it premieres on national television next week. In an e-blast, the group Generation Progress has announced the screening in cooperation with HBO, […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 19, 2015

The Florida Times-Union ran a piece on Wednesday afternoon detailing the grounds for the attorney for Michael Dunn appealing his murder conviction for the killing of Jordan Davis. Interestingly, my own journalism figured into the appeal. One of the grounds for appeal: a juror was removed from the trial because he made a joke about prosecuting attorney Angela Corey. […]

Melissa RossMarch 30, 2015

The man hoping to unseat State Attorney Angela Corey says he’s doing it to restore public confidence in the leadership of Florida’s Fourth Circuit. “Prosecutors have to work in the court of public opinion as well as the courtroom,” says challenger Wes White. “And right now the state attorney’s office has failed largely in the […]

Melissa RossMarch 30, 2015

The man hoping to unseat State Attorney Angela Corey says he’s doing it to restore public confidence in the leadership of Florida’s Fourth Circuit. “Prosecutors have to work in the court of public opinion as well as the courtroom,” says challenger Wes White. “And right now the state attorney’s office has failed largely in the […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 24, 2014

The Armed Occupation Act of 1842 gave 160 acres of Florida land to anyone who could fight the Seminoles and hold his ground for seven years. The congressional legislation was designed to increase the nonnative population of Florida. In 2005, the Florida Legislature approved the “stand your ground” provision of the self-defense law ostensibly to […]

Martin DyckmanFebruary 17, 2014

Even as a television plot it would be implausible. A white man enraged by loud music coming from their car shoots 10 bullets at four black teenagers, killing one. But the jury is able to find him guilty only of the shots that missed. Once again, Florida is a theater of the absurd. There are […]

Julie DelegalFebruary 9, 2014

To the jurors in the Michael Dunn murder trial: don’t read this. I’m the columnist Judge Russell Healey warned you about. This is a media account he doesn’t want you to read. In a nutshell, I agree with the father of Jordan Davis, the 17-year-old youth who was shot outside of a Jacksonville gas station […]

Shannon NickinsonFebruary 4, 2014

It ought to be enough. The Florida legal system is in the limelight again this week with the trial of Michael David Dunn, 47, in the shooting death of Jordan Davis, 17. Davis was one of four teens in a Dodge Durango at a Jacksonville-area convenience store where Dunn and his fiancee had stopped. Dunn, […]

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Jax Young Dems at Jacksonville City Council meeting Tuesday

HBO film “3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets” debuts Monday with story of Jax teen Jordan Davis

Email insights: HBO to screen ” 3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets” at FSU

Michael Dunn appeal not a surprise, but Wes White thinks it lacks legs

Wes White: Angela Corey has “failed” in the court of public opinion

Wes White: Angela Corey has "failed" in the court of public opinion

Andrew Skerritt: ‘Stand your ground’ is a 19th century solution for a modern problem – incivility

Martin Dyckman: ‘Loud music’ killing is another stain on the ‘Gunshine State’

Julie Delegal: Florida is not my “castle”

Shannon Nickinson: ‘Thug music’ shooting is more evidence that reform needed