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A.G. GancarskiJuly 28, 2015

You’ve probably never heard of Richard Futch. He’s a Zone 4 officer in Jacksonville. On July 2, however, he suffered an interruption in service. As he wrote in a letter forwarded to the office of Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry, Futch “was involved in an on-duty T-bone vehicle crash causing my vehicle to flip over and spin around, […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 28, 2015

On Monday evening, an email went out from the Jacksonville Office of General Counsel regarding draft legislation that would help preserve city funding for the Friends of Hemming Park. In the email, John Sawyer of the OGC office wrote, “The First Amendment itself makes one revision to the base contract, which is to amend the […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 28, 2015

If Jacksonville’s score on the Human Rights Campaign’s municipal equality index were a dated slang term, it would be 23 Skidoo. But 23 isn’t just Michael Jordan’s old number; rather, it is the score Jacksonville got on a draft version of the MEI, I reckon there are cities that do worse on this metric. Nairobi, […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 27, 2015

Many Jacksonville residents are excited about the Jaguars resuming practice and play in the coming weeks. But for those who want a spectator sport sooner, there likely is no better place to be than the St. James Building on Tuesday, where the first City Council meeting of the new group will be underway. Unlike what […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 27, 2015

Every weekday morning, I have a tradition. I look into the soulful eyes of President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew as I decide what to have for breakfast. No, it’s not because I have a Nixon/Agnew fetish; that’s beside the point. It’s more because I like to eat breakfast on the cheap and convenient to Jacksonville’s […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 27, 2015

For the second time in less than a month, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry looks set to establish a working relationship with a legislative body with a getting-to-know-you lunch. On Tuesday at noon, Curry will lunch with the Duval Legislative Delegation. The lunch will take place in the mayor’s office suite, in the large conference room, and will […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 24, 2015

One of the many hot-button issues during the Jacksonville mayoral campaign between Lenny Curry and Alvin Brown was whether or not Mayor Brown would take a pension from the Florida Retirement System. As Nate Monroe of the Florida Times-Union reported in March, Mayor Brown’s office had said that he had “enrolled in the plan without realizing that taxpayers” […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 24, 2015

The Human Rights Campaign, the largest civil rights organization working to achieve equality for LGBT Americans, has prepared a draft version of the 2015 Municipal Equality Index scorecard, and the preliminary numbers are a damning indictment of the Alvin Brown administration’s work, or lack thereof, in that area. Jacksonville scored just 23 by this measure. The “good news” […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 24, 2015

The first thing you would have seen walking into the Salem Center for the Monday Duval County Republican Executive Committee meeting would have been Raymond Johnson. You couldn’t have missed him. He stood directly across from the glass doors, with a poster board and a petition opposing Jack Webb, a candidate for GOP chair,. Objecting […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 23, 2015

The Wednesday afternoon meeting of the Jacksonville City Council Capital Improvement Plan Special Committee was not a spectator sport. The CIP committee does a lot of the heavy lifting, respective to giving the larger council guidance on capital improvement projects, debt service, internal controls, cash transfers, and so much more. There are no discussions in […]

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