A.G. GancarskiAugust 3, 2023
3min0
Among those leaving the board: Rebekah Davis, the wife of the man Deegan defeated in the May election.
Tag: Marsha Oliver
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Oliver served three and a half years.
A.G. GancarskiFebruary 26, 2018
4min270
Some good news for Jacksonville came Monday via another bond upgrade. Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced an uptick in the special revenue bond rating to ‘AA’ from ‘AA-’. “This latest upgrade further demonstrates our continued and strong focus on fiscal responsibility is making a difference for our citizens,” said Mayor Lenny Curry. “We continue […]
A.G. GancarskiFebruary 16, 2018
3min286
A shakeup in the office of Mayor Lenny Curry ends a particularly eventful week in Jacksonville politics. Sports and Entertainment head Dave Herrell resigned, capping an almost four-year run after being appointed in 2014 by former Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown. The role, per Brown, was “a key position to build Jacksonville’s momentum as a premier destination for major […]
A.G. GancarskiJune 26, 2017
2min404
The United States Conference of Mayors has set itself up as a counterweight to President Donald Trump on issues ranging from Trump’s decision to abandon the Paris Accord to military spending. Last weekend’s resolutions against military spending were especially interesting, with the Conference issuing resolutions “calling for hearings on real city budgets needed and the taxes […]
A.G. GancarskiFebruary 3, 2017
6min281
February started off with a worrying story for parents and guardians of children in Duval County Public Schools. As News 4 Jax reports, students with guns were found at three Jacksonville schools on Wednesday. One of those schools: an elementary school. DCPS Superintendent Nikolai Vitti told “THE Local Station” that parents need to be more involved, and […]
A.G. GancarskiJanuary 5, 2017
5min223
Before the television news had its first fragmentary reports of Wednesday night’s gunshots fired at Jacksonville’s ArtWalk, social media was lit with Tweets about the subject. The fascinating thing about the Tweets and Facebook posts, in aggregate: they were first-person accounts of what was going down, in real time, without the framing provided by reporters […]
A.G. GancarskiDecember 16, 2016
2min394
For the first time since the acrimonious election of 2015, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry and his predecessor, Alvin Brown, met in the mayor’s suite. Curry and Brown, in a brief appearance in the lobby of the mayor’s office, smiled for the camera, with Curry saying they were “just catching up.” Curry’s spokeswoman, Marsha Oliver, noted that “Mr. Brown […]
A.G. GancarskiOctober 4, 2016
4min245
In the words of The Smiths, “that joke isn’t funny anymore.” That seemed to be the reaction of the office of Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry Tuesday to the latest tweet from @jaxmayorcurry, a parody account of the current chief executive. “The mayor uses and relies on social media for information,” said City of Jacksonville Director of Public Affairs […]
A.G. GancarskiSeptember 21, 2016
5min524
Earlier this week, the narrative was that Duval County School Board chair Ashley Smith-Juarez had called a meeting Friday of the board to discuss the termination of Superintendent Nikolai Vitti. Since that news came out, some developments have happened. Community leaders pressed Smith-Juarez to reconsider her intransigence; by Wednesday afternoon, she had backpedaled, contravening what she […]