Tag: Lenny Curry

A.G. GancarskiOctober 26, 2017
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On Thursday morning, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry addressed local media on a number of subjects, including the shocking death of three-year-old Amari Harley in a Jacksonville park Sunday evening Days after Amari Harley was found in an uncovered underground septic storage tank in Jacksonville’s Bruce Park, a tank normally topped by a “heavy rubber lid screwed down,” there are […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 22, 2017
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Friday saw Mayor Lenny Curry join Jacksonville Jaguars President Mark Lamping, to announce the 2017 recipients of the Jacksonville Veterans Resource and Reintegration Center community grants. Ordinarily, the main interest would be in the organizations, and the Jaguars’ tangible multi-year commitment to military and veterans’ organizations. This year, there was gaggle interest in the comments of […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 20, 2017
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Friday saw Gov. Rick Scott‘s Department of Economic Opportunity release September job numbers for Northeast Florida, a mixed bag in the wake of Irma. The good news, via the DEO: the Jacksonville area’s unemployment rate dropped to 3.4 percent in September, down 1.4 points from September 2016. Unemployment rates ranged from 2.7 percent in St. Johns […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 18, 2017
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A week after the Jacksonville City Council passed his Kids Hope Alliance bill, Mayor Lenny Curry signed the reform bill into law Wednesday. The KHA, a new seven-person board that will replace the Jacksonville Children’s Commission and the Jacksonville Journey, will command a roughly $35M budget for services for what the Mayor calls “at-hope kids,”  […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 17, 2017
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Last November, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry made an audacious ask of the Duval County Legislative Delegation: $50M to remove and replace the Hart Bridge offramps. “The ramps were originally designed to bypass the industrialized waterfront,” Curry said in 2016, a purpose outmoded in the half-century since the original construction. Curry’s ask: “To knock the [current] ramp […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 17, 2017
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The office of Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry believes it is done with pension reform. Yet Council President Anna Brosche and other allies, including the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Finance Committee, disagree. That conflict set the stage for the latest skirmish related to a bill introduced months back by Councilman Danny Becton. The bill, brought back yet again recently, […]


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