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A.G. GancarskiJuly 18, 2017

Nothing like starting off a new committee by voting to gut term limits. Yet that’s what the Jacksonville City Council Finance Committee did Tuesday. Tuesday saw the newly-reconfigured Jacksonville City Council Finance Committee approve a bill that would authorize a 2018 referendum to give City Councilors, constitutional officers, and School Board members a three-term limit. The […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 29, 2017

From sauce to loss, the story continues. Thursday sees a foreclosure auction of the former Jerome Brown BBQ sauce plant in Northwest Jacksonville. There is an interesting gap between the assessed value of the plant ($958,700) and the final judgement amount ($2,795,533.89). CoWealth LLC, one of Councilwoman Katrina Brown‘s family’s shell companies, entered into an economic development deal […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 22, 2017

The city of Jacksonville has a message for two shell corporations for which Jacksonville City Councilwoman Katrina Brown is title manager. Pay us the $210,549.99 you owe us. And while you’re at it, tack on another $10,585.01 for interest, calculated back to June 2016, when the city of Jacksonville began to move toward litigation. An amended motion for […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 16, 2017

Though it’s the summer of 2017, things are heating up already in the 2019 race for Jacksonville City Council District 8. And reaction to a town hall event held by incumbent Councilwoman Katrina Brown won’t cool the temperature. Diallo Sekou, who filed this week to take on the embattled first-term Democrat, posted to Facebook last night his […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 13, 2017

Embattled Jacksonville City Councilwoman Katrina Brown has a challenger in her expected 2019 re-election bid: Diallo-Sekou Seabrooks. Seabrooks (generally referred to, and referred to herein, as “Diallo Sekou“), is a legit community activist who operates an urban farm, is pivotal in the activist group The Kemetic Empire, and who also operates summer camps for youth, […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 12, 2017

The fallout continues from a failed economic development agreement between the city of Jacksonville and “CoWealth” and “Basic Products, LLC“, family businesses of Councilwoman Katrina Brown. For both businesses, Councilwoman Brown — a member of the Council’s Finance Committee — is listed in SunBiz as the title manager. Back in 2011, the Browns, via “CoWealth” (one of […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 25, 2017

The political career of Jacksonville City Council President-Designate Anna Brosche hasn’t been all that long, but has been characterized by a triumph per year. In 2015, Brosche shocked some observers by defeating the iconoclastic Kim Daniels in the pastor’s re-election bid to the City Council. In 2016, Brosche – a CPA and a managing partner at […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 19, 2017

In an illustration of what happens when economic incentives go wrong, the parents of Jacksonville City Councilwoman Katrina Brown jointly and separately filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week. This filing by Jerome Brown and JoAnn Brown staved off a foreclosure hearing that was slated for a Jacksonville court on Monday, with BizCapital — the primary lendor and guarantor of […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 20, 2017

The ongoing legal battle between the city of Jacksonville and the family business of Councilwoman Katrina Brown was slated to continue Thursday in the Duval County Courthouse. However, the defendants failed to show. The issue Thursday: a “motion to strike” a response in the case from the councilwoman’s mother, which involves two Brown businesses — “CoWealth LLC” […]

Phil AmmannApril 14, 2017

Does Al Lawson ‘get’ Jacksonville? Questions still remain as to whether Congressman Lawson understands Jacksonville, as his visits to the Jacksonville City Council Tuesday, and town hall Wednesday indicate. On Tuesday, one could sense among certain council members (specifically, those representing districts that overlap Lawson’s) a grating irritation over Lawson’s constant use of Eureka Garden […]

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Jax Council Finance Committee votes to gut two-term limit

Foreclosure auction Thursday for Jax Councilor’s BBQ sauce plant

Jax to Katrina Brown’s family business: Pay up and tack on the interest

Jax Councilor Katrina Brown town hall: a ‘dog and pony show’?

Diallo Sekou challenges embattled Katrina Brown in Jax Council District 8

‘No comment’ from Katrina Brown on $210K city lawsuit against her companies

Anna Brosche discusses how she won the Jacksonville City Council Presidency

From sauce to loss: Jax Councilor’s parents serve up double helping of Chapter 11

Jax councilor’s mother no-shows hearing in lawsuit with city

Jacksonville Bold for 4.14.17 — My city was gone