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A.G. GancarskiDecember 16, 2015

Jacksonville’s unfunded pension liability: the crisis of our time. Mayor Lenny Curry has a plan to solve it. But it will need buy-in from Tallahassee, Curry said on Wednesday at the JAX USA quarterly luncheon. Telling the pro-business crowd at the Hyatt Regency that on issues like “job creation, it’s exciting and encouraging to see how […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 15, 2015

The big question going into the final Jacksonville HRO Community Conversation, about the effect of potential legislation on businesses, held at Jacksonville University on Tuesday evening, wasn’t about the proponents of a Human Rights Ordinance expansion to the LGBT community; rather, about the opponents. Longwood Florida’s own Roger Gannam, apparently the Swiss Army knife of […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 14, 2015

FloridaPolitics.com has obtained a list of panelists for the third Community Conversation on the Jax Human Rights Ordinance expansion. One of the names is familiar: Roger Gannam, of the Liberty Counsel, who has been a often lonely voice on the first two panels opposing HRO expansion. Though Gannam’s inclusion on a third consecutive panel will no […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 14, 2015

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry just returned from his first JEA bond rating trip to New York; he says it went well, and that a lot of that had to do with the story of economic growth he could tell because of Governor Rick Scott. “I was able to tell a very succinct story,” Curry said at a […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 14, 2015

Florida Governor Rick Scott made another in an extended series of visits to Jacksonville Monday. The reason for the visit: job creation. The locale: Sweet Pete’s, the Cowford Confectionary just across the street from City Hall. Yet for Governor Scott, the draw is not the gourmet chocolate marshmallows, or is it the Grand Marnier cherry cordials, […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 14, 2015

In a Tuesday letter to Mayor Lenny Curry, the Anti-Defamation League offered its “strong support of a comprehensive Jacksonville Human Rights Ordinance.” “In the 21st Century,” the letter, signed by Florida ADL Regional Director Hava Holzhauer, asserts, “no person should be subject to employment, housing, or public accommodations discrimination on the basis of any immutable characteristic, […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 11, 2015

In light of the continuing controversy over Jacksonville’s $45 million commitment to EverBank Field upgrades, the Lenny Curry administration has released statistics it says show the monetary benefit of the city’s signature event: the Florida vs. Georgia football game aka “The World’s Largest Cocktail Party.” The impact, Curry’s office contends, is huge. When it comes to […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 10, 2015

A referendum sunk the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance. And a group of 19 African-American Jacksonville pastors, at a Thursday afternoon news conference at the First Timothy Baptist Church on Jacksonville’s Northside, stated their opposition to an expanded Human Rights Ordinance, while saying that any ballot measure on such should be handled by popular referendum. In […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 9, 2015

Bruce Jones, the Senior Pastor at Southside United Methodist Church, is an imposing figure, standing over 6 foot tall and resembling a cross between Walter White of “Breaking Bad” and Gus Bradley. Reverend Jones is not the kind of man who seeks publicity, unlike some other Jacksonville pastors and preachers. He’s a thoughtful, introspective man, albeit one […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 9, 2015

For months, a variety of keynote speakers were advanced as possibilities for Jacksonville’s 29th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Breakfast on Jan. 15. On Wednesday morning, thecity of Jacksonville said Sampson Davis will fill that role. Davis, described as “a highly skilled emergency medicine physician, New York Times best-selling author, and frequent medical expert […]

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Lenny Curry calls for JAX USA crowd to press Tallahassee on pension solution

Jacksonville HRO Community Conversations finally over

Roger Gannam, Ken Adkins in Lenny Curry’s final HRO “community conversation”

Lenny Curry: JEA bond rating trip was “positive”

For Rick Scott, nothing is sweeter than job creation

Anti-Defamation League backs expanded Jax HRO

Florida-Georgia game has $35M economic benefit to Jacksonville, city says

African American Jax pastors call for HRO expansion referendum

Lenny Curry’s pastor: HRO passage is a “no brainer”

Sampson Davis to speak at Jax MLK breakfast