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A.G. GancarskiAugust 15, 2016

“I’ve heard it loud and clear tonight. People don’t trust the government. People don’t trust City Council. I heard it tonight; a gentleman said he didn’t trust me.” Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry has two weeks left to sell County Referendum 1, which would secure a dedicated revenue source (and an actuarial solution) for the $2.7 billion […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 9, 2016

What happens when a group gets thrown out of a Donald Trump rally for no apparent reason? If it’s the Kemetic Empire, they threaten to sue the city of Jacksonville, whose political leaders were on hand at that rally. The Kemetic Empire, an activist group dedicated to “human upliftment,” informed Jacksonville’s Mayor and Sheriff via letter it intends to […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 1, 2016

During his campaign for mayor in 2015, Lenny Curry‘s push from being slightly behind in the polls to winning the election coincided with concerted outreach to areas of Jacksonville for which the promise of consolidation was never fully delivered. Curry, last spring, made forays to Grand Park and other struggling neighborhoods to meet voters who were […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 8, 2015

One of the most controversial protest actions in recent Jacksonville history occurred in December on the Hart Bridge one chilly afternoon, in the wake of the Ferguson verdict and the footage of the choke-out death of Eric Garner going viral and enraging protesters around the country. As happened in cities across the country, Jacksonville protesters […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 30, 2015

In September, I wrote a column headlined Could Ferguson Happen in Jacksonville? The short answer was yes. I contended then that “Ferguson, as we know it, is a very specific place. But to me, it looks like many areas right here in the Bold New City of the South, areas transformed in the last couple of […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 7, 2015

There’s a City Council candidate forum every day in Jacksonville lately, and Saturday’s forum d’jour, held by black empowerment group the Kemetic Empire at Edward Waters College, featured questions and candor that likely will not be heard at many other candidate forums in this election season. Moderated by the iconoclastic local journalist Shelton Hull, the event featured questions […]

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Cleveland Arms protest draws Ferguson comparisons

Jax Council candidate forum covers Northside issues