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A.G. GancarskiAugust 12, 2015

The Rockefeller Foundation, via the 100 Resilient Cities initiative, seeks to “renew and reinvigorate [its] engagement with Jacksonville, and the City’s participation in the network.” One condition applies: they “need to meet directly with the new Mayor first and understand interest and commitment,” according to an email from an officer with the Rockefeller Foundation subsidiary. The […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 12, 2015

Shortly before the press conference Tuesday where Corrine Brown claimed her political enemies are “trying to burn the courthouse down” in an effort to “destroy” the 5th Congressional District of Florida, Brown had a meeting in Jacksonville City Hall with Mayor Lenny Curry. Did they discuss the redistricting controversy? If they did, neither are saying. […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 12, 2015

On Twitter on Monday, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry tweeted out a question that qualifies as real talk. “If today were the last day of your life, would you want to be doing what you’re doing?” Curry devotes himself to affirmatively answering that question as much as anyone in Jacksonville politics in recent memory. His joie de vivre is […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 11, 2015

As the new Jacksonville City Council settles in and bills wend their way through committees, Jacksonville City Council meetings haven’t truly heated up as they will during September’s budget deliberations. However, Jacksonville’s City Council is always a hotbed of entertainment and public interest, and Tuesday evening’s Council conclave was no exception. The Hemming Park funding […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 11, 2015

On Monday evening at Bethel Baptist Church in downtown Jacksonville, more than 100 African-American men (and a couple of white guys, too) answered Bishop John Guns’ Call for 1,000 Men. Among them were two of the most important men in the city: Charles Moreland, the Community Engagement director for the Lenny Curry administration; and Nikolai Vitti, Duval County schools […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 10, 2015

Back in May, Bishop John Guns, his Save Our Sons organization, and a group of local pastors made a call for 1,000 men to join them in Duval County Public Schools during the last week. The idea was to get men to be in the halls at the start and the end of the school day, […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 10, 2015

Jacksonville residents haven’t given the Clerk of Courts office much thought, except for when said office is concocting reasons not to perform same-sex marriage ceremonies. As a result, many of the structural problems the office has necessarily fly under the radar. Luckily, the City Council Auditor is tasked with looking at that office’s issues. They […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 6, 2015

One of the hallmarks of the Lenny Curry administration thus far has been increasing the transparency of the process, which many people both covering City Hall and working inside it thought was necessary. The downside: It makes events like Thursday’s presentation of transition subcommittee reports, the culmination of a process begun shortly after Curry’s election, necessarily […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 5, 2015

A news release from Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry confirms talk that Kirk Wendland, who was part of CAO Sam Mousa‘s “budget SWAT Team” this summer, has been hired to head the Office of Economic Development. Wendland will make $150,000 per year as OED director. Wendland is director of business development at Stellar, an architecture, engineering and construction firm. […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 5, 2015

Bishop John Guns, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry, Sheriff Mike Williams, and Councilwoman Katrina Brown convened at a Wednesday morning press conference promoting the “One City, One Jacksonville Leadership Week for Young Men.” The one-week “leadership academy” for 100 teenage boys from the urban core precedes the new school year, encompassing Aug. 17 through 21. Pastor Guns, in kicking off the […]

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Rockefeller Foundation courts Jacksonville

Corrine Brown, Lenny Curry quiet on their Tuesday confab

Lenny Curry and Mike Williams’ “historic moment”

Jax City Council approves Hemming Park deal 18-1

Nikolai Vitti, Charles Moreland answer Call for 1,000 Men

John Guns renews call for 1,000 men

Jax Clerk of Courts audit spotlights outdated processes, inefficiencies

Curry transition reports push Neighborhoods, Jax Journey

Kirk Wendland tapped for Jax OED

Jax mayor and sheriff fulfill 1C1J inauguration promise