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A.G. GancarskiJune 18, 2018

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry kicked off his administration’s summer jobs program Monday, rebranded as the “Mayor’s Youth at Work Partnership.” Now in its 12th year, the program will serve 350 youth aged 16-21 between June 18 and July 27. They will have job opportunities; 20 hour-a-week gigs with both the city and the private sector. The goal […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 18, 2018

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry has been in re-election mode for a few months, and after a year of political turbulence in City Hall, a smoother flight looks likely for the first-term Republican incumbent’s fourth year in office. For one thing, ally Aaron Bowman, who shares Curry’s aggressive vision for downtown development, will be Council President. Bowman […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 15, 2018

On Thursday, the Jacksonville Daily Record broke news about a City Hall conceptual drawing of the space where the Jacksonville Landing is now. Gone: the 30-year-old riverfront mall, which has been a source of civic contention for well over a decade. In its stead: a riverfront park. Legal action continues between the city and Jacksonville Landing […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 12, 2018

The Jacksonville City Council on Tuesday backed a committee vote and stopped a resolution drafted last week that would expressly discourage interim JEA CEO Aaron Zahn from applying for the permanent position. The vote was 4-10 against the resolution, with sponsor Garrett Dennis, Council President Anna Brosche, and Councilmembers Joyce Morgan and Reggie Gaffney the sole no votes. The bill […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 12, 2018

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JAXBIZ, the political committee of the Jacksonville Chamber, issued an unsurprising (but meaningful) endorsement Tuesday for Mayor Lenny Curry‘s re-election. The group was a major donor to Curry in May, and there has been scant daylight between Curry and the business group since his 2015 campaign (when they endorsed the then-candidate a month before the first […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 11, 2018

Viable competition has yet to emerge for Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry in his 2019 re-election bid, but that didn’t stop him from another aggressive month of fundraising in May. Curry ended the month having raised $2 million between his campaign account and that of his political committee, Jacksonville on the Rise. The committee was the more […]

Staff ReportsJune 8, 2018

Two of our top stories this week deal with primary battles for Congressional seats. They are interesting for what is said — and what is not. Mike Waltz is pushing fellow Republican John Ward to withdraw from the race in Florida’s 6th Congressional District. Waltz, like many across the political spectrum, believe that Ward saying that recent Puerto […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 7, 2018

With just weeks to go in Anna Brosche‘s Jacksonville City Council presidency, the majority of special committees formed during her year are coming to an end. That rule applies to what is now known as the special committee on the “future of JEA,” a change in name and scope from its original five-person iteration as a group […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 7, 2018

Marcellus Holmes, District 9 incumbent Garrett Dennis‘ likely Jacksonville City Council re-election opponent, raised no money in May, his third month as an active candidate. Holmes hadn’t raised money in March or April either; however, a late May meeting with Mayor Lenny Curry, no fan of Dennis’ legislative style, was seen by some City Hall watchers […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 5, 2018

Just days after Gov. Rick Scott suspended two Jacksonville City Council members who face 38 federal counts in a scheme to defraud local and federal taxpayers, Mayor Lenny Curry said Tuesday his office had no active role or insight into the selection process for their replacements. The replacements for suspended Democrats Katrina Brown and Reggie Brown will be picked by […]

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Jacksonville youth summer jobs program to emphasize ‘career pathways’

Will real competition emerge to stop Lenny Curry’s re-election?

Jacksonville Landing park: The first big idea of Lenny Curry’s second term?

Jacksonville City Council won’t tell JEA who its next CEO should be

Jacksonville Chamber political committee endorses Lenny Curry for re-election

Lenny Curry has now raised more than $2M for re-election campaign

Jacksonville Bold for 6.8.18 — Tribal warfare

Jacksonville City Council winds down JEA committee

Marcellus Holmes, Garrett Dennis’ likely Jacksonville City Council re-election opponent, raises nothing in May

Lenny Curry: Jacksonville City Council fill-ins are Rick Scott’s decision