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Melissa RossJune 17, 2016

Expressions of sympathy and support from Jacksonville’s political leadership in the aftermath of the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting massacre are falling flat with North Florida’s LGBT community. “It was a bias-motivated attack against a gay bar to kill LGBT people,” said Jacksonville attorney and activist Jimmy Midyette. “When leaders neuter expressions of sympathy of that fact […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 17, 2016

The GOP race in Florida’s 4th Congressional District right now is John Rutherford’s to lose. The former Jacksonville sheriff has high name ID and endorsements throughout Duval County and beyond. He has a great team working for him. And, despite his penchant for voicing support at his own fundraising events for embattled State Attorney Angela Corey — […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 16, 2016

One of the most anticipated of Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry’s “pension town halls” with city employees was Thursday morning with the Jacksonville Association of Firefighters. How did it go? No one in the media really knows. Because the important parts of the session — the Q and A period — weren’t heard by the media. While the […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 16, 2016

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry pitched his pension-tax referendum to the Northeast Florida Builders Association Wednesday. A day later, NEFBA’s unconditional and unanimous support for the Aug. 30 plebiscite came through via a press release. “We appreciate Mayor Curry’s leadership on this important issue. After hearing his presentation today, we are more committed than ever to support this […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 16, 2016

On Thursday morning, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry, Jaguars’ quarterback Blake Bortles, and the Jaguars Foundation assembled to announce a coordinated response to the massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando early Sunday morning. For Bortles and Curry, the tragedy hit close to home. Bortles, a Central Florida native and alumnus of the University of Central Florida, noted […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 15, 2016

It’s hard not to like Jacksonville City Council President Greg Anderson. When the at-large councilman assumed the yearlong position of president last summer, one media headline lauded him as a “Southern Gentleman.” And despite the slings and arrows from people on and off the council, he has lived up to that designation. He came to the presidency […]

Melissa RossJune 15, 2016

The mass shooting in Orlando isn’t changing Tommy Hazouri‘s timetable for reintroducing an updated human rights ordinance in Jacksonville. “It’s been our plan all along to do it after the mayor’s sales tax referendum,” Hazouri told WJCT. That said, the former mayor and at-large city councilman says the shootings of 49 people at the Pulse nightclub […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 14, 2016

On June 14, Pastor Ken Adkins – whose hate speech about the LGBT community has become well-known in Jacksonville over the last year – let loose with another volley in the wake of the massacre of 49 people at Pulse in Orlando. “Been through so much with these Jacksonville Homosexuals that I don’t see none […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 13, 2016

“It ain’t sexy and it’s not easy, but if you keep telling the truth, people are going to get it.” At a meeting of the Rotary Club of Jacksonville Monday, a fired-up Mayor Lenny Curry spoke with urgency on the biggest municipal issue on the 2016 ballot: the referendum that would extend the half-cent infrastructure […]

Melissa RossJune 13, 2016

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Jacksonville City Councilman Tommy Hazouri says the deadly mass shooting over the weekend in Orlando at the LGBT-friendly Pulse nightclub has only renewed his resolve to get a comprehensive human rights ordinance passed in the 904. Hazouri withdrew the measure earlier this year when it became apparent it did not have a majority of council […]

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City of Jax ‘Dear Orlando’ postcard campaign criticized as tone-deaf

Might Ron DeSantis run in Florida’s 4th Congressional District?

Details vague from Lenny Curry pension town hall with Firefighters union

NEFBA backs Jax pension tax referendum, gives $10K to effort

City of Jacksonville, Jaguars Foundation, Blake Bortles respond to Orlando Pulse massacre

Greg Anderson looks back on his Jacksonville City Council presidency

Tommy Hazouri on Lenny Curry: ‘I’m sure the mayor has his regrets’

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry condemns Ken Adkins’ ‘appalling’ rhetoric

A fired-up Lenny Curry pitches Jax Rotary Club on pension tax referendum

Tommy Hazouri trying again with the HRO this fall to protect LGBT residents, ‘send a message’