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A.G. GancarskiOctober 13, 2015

Finally, Jacksonville City Council meetings are lively again. Between reactions to a good chunk of Council being sued for texting a lobbyist during a budget meeting, the removal of a Lenny Curry appointment of Jay Demetree from the consent agenda, and a public comment protest campaign planned in reaction to the replacement of Planning Commission member Joey McKinnon […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 9, 2015

A group of Jacksonville activists plan to express their opinions about Mayor Lenny Curry‘s plan to remove two active Democrats, Planning Commission Chairwoman Lisa King and member Joey McKinnon, from the city panel. About 45 people are expected to attend Tuesday’s City Council meeting in what event organizer Kristellys Zolondek describes as a “community feedback […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 6, 2015

The first Charlotte’s Web workshop, held jointly by the Planning Commission and the Land Use and Zoning committee of the Jacksonville City Council in August, was less than auspicious. Discussion of “grass stations” and facile comparisons of children who need medicine to recovering heroin addicts waiting for their methadone fixes were the highlights. This time […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 6, 2015

Whispers prior to Tuesday’s Jacksonville City Council Rules Committee meeting predicted a council member or two might say something about the wave of board and commission replacement appointments that dominated the agenda. Planning Commission Chairwoman Lisa King, whose replacement by Donald Adkison was on the agenda for the second reading, was in the house. So was […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 21, 2015

In what will be one of the most eagerly anticipated Jacksonville City Council meetings of the year, the City Council is set to officially approve the FY 16 budget and related bills on Monday evening. But wait, there’s so much more. A resolution authorizing an inquiry into the legality and the validity of the Police and Fire […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 21, 2015

Though the Lenny Curry administration contends that its decisions to remove people from boards, most notably Planning Commission Chairwoman Lisa King, are not politically driven, critics continue to question the administration . One such criticism came in a Friday email from Judy Sheklin, president of the Jacksonville area National Organization for Women. “I am writing to […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 19, 2015

As the question of whether or not Jax Planning Commission Chair-Elect Lisa King will get removed from her position or not percolates, an unknown group called “OurCity OneJax” has began distributing a video slamming “Party Boss” Lenny Curry for cronyism. After having “promised to unite the city” in his inaugural address, the OurCity OneJax video charges that […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 19, 2015

One of the things that critics of Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry bring up is that he was a former county and state party chair. During the campaign, the tagline was “Party Boss Lenny Curry.” One thing’s for certain: the Duval Democrats don’t have to worry about their current chair, Neil Henrichsen, getting elected mayor. Neil […]

Melissa RossSeptember 18, 2015

New Jacksonville Planning Commission Chairwoman-elect Lisa King took to the radio airwaves Friday to make her case as her seeming showdown with Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry enters a new phase. King, as Florida Politics A.G. Gancarski has been reporting, refused to resign from the commission at Curry’s request. (She was joined by Commissioner Joey McKinnon, also asked […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 18, 2015

The drama of the week in Jacksonville revolves around the contretemps between the Lenny Curry administration and Planning Commission Chairwoman-elect Lisa King. Drama. From what Florida Politics hears, it extended into City Council offices on a rain-soaked Thursday afternoon, with a certain Republican councilman fretting over King being in the council suite of offices to […]

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Rodney Guttman, image via University of West Florida.

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