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A.G. GancarskiAugust 4, 2015

The symbiotic political relationship between Bishop John Guns and Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry continues, with a Wednesday morning press conference set to begin the “One City, One Jacksonville Leadership Week for Young Men.” The week precedes the new school year, encompassing Aug. 17 through 21. Guns’ organization Operation Save Our Sons will collaborate with the Jacksonville Sheriff […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 4, 2015

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In some ways, northwest Jacksonville Councilman Reggie Brown is the most interesting member of the Jacksonville City Council right now. For one thing, talk that he might run for a State House seat (the gossip says HD 14, where the only competition at the moment is Leslie Scott Jean-Bart) persist. Brown, for his part, isn’t saying that […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 31, 2015

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In a conference room in the suite of offices for Jacksonville’s City Council members, there is a distinctive picture of President Andrew Jackson that I had seen many times, yet I didn’t know any background about until I interviewed Councilman Tommy Hazouri on Friday. Hazouri casually remarked that he had been interning for former Jacksonville mayor Lou Ritter […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 30, 2015

The sun shone brightly outside the Jax Chamber building, and inside the dispositions were no less sunny, as Jacksonville welcomed the Australian Macquarie Group to town. The company, in choosing Jacksonville for its southeastern operations, says it will bring 123 financial sector jobs to the Bold New City of the South. Saying he wished there […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 30, 2015

Internal emails from the Lenny Curry administration spotlight a TIGER grant application from the Jacksonville Transportation Authority. The email, forwarded from Mike Hightower of Holland & Knight to Chief of Staff Kerri Stewart, shows both the purpose of the grant application, and the lobbying strategy that will be employed. The $15.24 million grant application is a “request for a bike, pedestrian […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 30, 2015

During Tuesday’s Jacksonville City Council meeting, “Project Post” was approved unanimously to bring an unidentified company to town. Getting ahead of the media announcement by a few hours, the Jacksonville Daily Record reports that the Australian Macquarie Group is headed here. It intends to open a 123-job center by the end of 2017. The Macquarie Group is doing […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 30, 2015

As Jacksonville’s City Council wrestles with Mayor Lenny Curry’s first budget, most of what the mayor wants is clear. However, one question I’ve heard from people both in and outside the St. James Building regards more specifics about the Jacksonville Journey budget. The proposed budget is almost $5.1 million, up from a little more than $2 […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 29, 2015

One of the affiliations that Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown pointed to with pride: his membership in the United States Conference of Mayors. Brown, as David Bauerlein reported in the Florida Times-Union, flew to 14 US Conference of Mayors meetings during his term. The number is actually 15, if you count the one he went to during his lame duck period […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 29, 2015

Florida State Sen. Jack Latavla‘s PAC, the Florida Leadership Committee, has raised a little more than $3.5 million in less than two years of existence. On Aug. 13, the powerful Largo-based PAC is poised to add to that tidy sum,via a fundraiser in Ponte Vedra Beach, a Jacksonville bedroom community that is a day’s drive away […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 28, 2015

At Jacksonville City Hall on Tuesday, Mayor Lenny Curry lunched with members of the Duval Legislative Delegation. Here’s a blog of Curry’s lunch with the two state senators and six representatives that comprise the delegation. 12:06 p.m.: Councilmembers Al Ferraro and Anna Brosche are already in the room, along with Ron Littlepage, Mario Rubio, Charles McBurney, Lake Ray, Patrick Juliano, Janet Adkins, Audrey Gibson, Kerri Stewart and […]

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Now it's time for Florida to start cleaning up.

John Guns, Lenny Curry to “ride” once more

Reggie Brown questions nature of consolidation

Tommy Hazouri talks Jax City Council, HRO, Alvin Brown’s loss, and more

Jacksonville welcomes Macquarie Group

JTA applying for $15.24M TIGER Grant

Jacksonville to get 123 new jobs from Australian company Macquarie Group

Questions remain about Jacksonville Journey budget

For Jacksonville mayors, membership in US Conference of Mayors a pricy affair

Jack Latavla/Florida Leadership Committee August fundraiser set in Ponte Vedra

Lenny Curry lunches with Duval legislative delegation