Staff ReportsMay 17, 2023
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Jacksonville makes history — a victory for women.
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Staff ReportsMay 17, 2023
A.G. GancarskiMay 16, 2023
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His second run for office went better than the first.
Wes WolfeMarch 21, 2023
10min0
District 7 is one of six City Council district races headed to a May runoff.
A.G. GancarskiDecember 2, 2022
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An anti-Lenny Curry Republican joins crowded field.
A.G. GancarskiAugust 28, 2018
5min474
In the hottest primary race of all of the Jacksonville area state House battles, lawyer/lobbyist Wyman Duggan won Tuesday over yacht broker Mark Zeigler and Joseph Hogan (son of Elections Supervisor Mike Hogan), in the GOP primary to succeed Rep. Jay Fant in House District 15. Duggan, supported by the Jacksonville establishment (including multiple ads featuring […]
A.G. GancarskiAugust 28, 2018
12min231
Mercifully, primary Election Day is upon us in Northeast Florida, the culmination of months of spirited campaigning, big time spending, and the occasional calumny or two. And now that it’s finally Tuesday, we will see the resolution of a number of narratives that have percolated for these many months. Moving from the top of the […]
A.G. GancarskiAugust 24, 2018
9min352
The three-way Republican race in Westside Jacksonville’s House District 15 between Wyman Duggan, Joseph Hogan, and Mark Zeigler started slowly. But with Early Voting wrapping up this weekend, the race has devolved into a series of recriminations and character assassinations, with two relatively underfunded candidates scoring some hits against the candidate backed by pillars of the Jacksonville Establishment ranging […]
A.G. GancarskiAugust 13, 2018
5min328
While the vast majority of Jacksonville-area state House and Senate races see either uncontested or nominally contested primaries, two exceptions remain. The Democratic primary in House District 14 and the Republican race in HD 15 offer a soupçon of drama as early voting begins Monday in Jacksonville. In HD 14’s Democratic two-way, challenger Paula Wright finally […]
A.G. GancarskiJuly 30, 2018
2min144
A familiar scenario continues to unfold in the race to succeed state Rep. Jay Fant in Jacksonville’s House District 15. Democrat Tracye Polson, unopposed in August, continues to lead the overall money race. And Republicans, who have to worry about August, are beginning to spend ahead of the primary. Polson, who raised $6,188 in the most recent […]
A.G. GancarskiJuly 18, 2018
2min367
With the Republican primary just six weeks away, candidate Wyman Duggan released the first television ad in the competitive three-way GOP primary in House District 15. Central to the ad: one of his key supporters, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry. Curry vouches for “principled conservative” Duggan, stressing the importance of “having conservatives we can trust fighting for our […]