Wes WolfeApril 28, 2023
3min0
It’s still less than the $7M Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed last year.
Tag: Mayport
Wes WolfeApril 28, 2023
Renzo DowneyMarch 6, 2022
4min0
$7 million would fully match the request made by the shark-tracking non-profit.
A.G. GancarskiJanuary 25, 2018
3min258
In a letter Thursday, Sens. Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson petitioned President Donald Trump to authorize funding in the 2019 budget to bring a nuclear carrier to Mayport. A nuclear carrier has long been on the wishlist of Northeast Florida stakeholders, even as the Navy itself put the brakes on adding a nuclear carrier in Mayport (citing “fiscal constraints”) to […]
A.G. GancarskiMarch 20, 2017
4min159
The Florida Delegation to Washington may not agree on all things. But in a Monday letter signed by all members, they urged Defense Secretary James Mattis to homeport a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, or CVN, at Mayport. The case the delegation made was for “spreading out” America’s Naval assets. “As you continue your work on the fiscal […]
A.G. GancarskiOctober 25, 2016
3min174
The Jacksonville area is make or break for Sen. Marco Rubio in his Senate race, and he had a welcome opportunity for a Jacksonville-centric news item Tuesday, when the United States Navy announced three new ships will call Mayport Naval Station home. One of those ships,the USS Thomas Hudner, is a destroyer. The other two, the USS Wichita and USS […]