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A.G. GancarskiOctober 21, 2015

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Jacksonville’s First Coast News ran a segment earlier this week that gave an unprecedented look at Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry doing one of his favorite things: coaching his son Boyd’s football team. The segment offered a “look at Jacksonville’s main man like you’ve never seen him before,” balancing football and family. For those who look […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 20, 2015

Jacksonville City Council chambers was largely empty Tuesday afternoon, except for those proposed for appointments to Jacksonville boards and commissions, a smattering of reporters, political junkies, and a TV camera. The latter parties were there to document the moves that Mayor Lenny Curry contends are necessary to execute his vision, moves that opponents – most prominently Councilman […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 20, 2015

In this brave new multipolar world, what once seemed unthinkable is the new normal. An example of such: China’s People’s Liberation Army’s Naval forces coming to Mayport, and before that, meeting with Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry in City Hall. On Monday, an email went to the mayor’s office from Michael Chan, the protocol officer of […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 20, 2015

A time-honored tradition: the anonymous whistleblower letter. A recent one here in Jacksonville led to a shakeup in the Animal Care Division, which had the ancillary effect, as revealed in Monday’s NICE Committee meeting, of leading to (according to one local) an epidemic of dead dogs decomposing in the streets of Northwest Jacksonville. Now, someone […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 19, 2015

One of the interesting developments of Lenny Curry as mayor is how easily the mainstream media has been sold. Part of the reason: He’s done a great job reaching out to media on its own terms. From the sports people at First Coast News, who prepared a feature on his coaching his son’s youth football […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 19, 2015

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry gets many letters, and a certain percentage of them involve promised/threatened legal action. One of them was sent Oct. 13, naming Curry, Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams, and Tara Wildes, director of JSO’s Department of Corrections, as defendants in a proposed action for “declaratory, punitive, and any other damages the court deems […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 18, 2015

It’s a measure of, well, something that it took almost a week after Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry interviewed with the Florida Times-Union editorial board for his best quote to come out. Curry dropped science on former mayor and current City Council adversary Tommy Hazouri, by channeling some late-period Jay-Z. “He’s loud as a motorbike but […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 15, 2015

After a 14 month process of meetings, the Jacksonville City Council Capital Improvement Plan committee is moving toward its last couple of meetings, with one held on Thursday afternoon, after a hiatus during the budget process. Some highlights of the five measures considered: — Stormwater legislation will likely be deferred until April 30, as the Lenny Curry […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 14, 2015

There has been just a scintilla of controversy about the board moves made by Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry, which have included requesting resignations from every member of the JEA Board and appointing replacements for Planning Commission Chair Lisa King and member Joey McKinnon… a gambit which occasioned a fairly epic public comment outcry in Tuesday’s City […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 14, 2015

Jacksonville’s 400 Unit HUD-funded apartment complex, Eureka Gardens, was one of those things that mysteriously flew below the radar until recently. Even though Jacksonville’s City Council spotlighted the horrific conditions at the complex, going so far as to pass a resolution urging HUD to defund it, the complex’s issues remained. The solutions discussed included adding […]

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