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A.G. GancarskiApril 20, 2015

Grand Park is a neighborhood that is a study in contrasts. The Northwest Jacksonville neighborhood is a hotspot for both violent and property crime. Local news has bestowed it an infamous reputation. Yet Sunday afternoon, Grand Park’s streets brimmed with activity that was entirely legal. Families congregated in yards. In the street, on portable basketball […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 18, 2015

Most of those who sleep in high crime areas do so every day of the week (except for maybe the odd councilperson who keeps a residence in one but lives somewhere else). As part of his campaign’s outreach to people throughout Jacksonville, Democratic sheriff candidate Ken Jefferson, in an effort “to rebuild the community’s trust in the […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 17, 2015

The good news for Alvin Brown and Ken Jefferson: Turnout at the Beaches Watch forum on Thursday night was light. It was significantly down from 2011, said people who were at both events with perhaps 100 in an auditorium that could hold many times that number. The bad news? Neither Democrat spoke to Beaches issues with a great deal […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 16, 2015

Another day, another forum in Jacksonville. Thursday night brings Mayoral candidates Lenny Curry and Alvin Brown to the Beaches, as well as Sheriff hopefuls Mike Williams and Ken Jefferson. The forum, which starts at 7 p.m. at Fletcher High School, will include a debate between the Sheriff’s candidates, and separate speaking slots for the two Mayoral candidates, a condition which […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 15, 2015

The Southside Businessmen’s Club featured a sheriff’s debate during its weekly meeting on Wednesday afternoon at the San Jose Country Club, and everything about the event embodied southern gentility at its best. Local political standouts, like Bill Bishop (looking dapper in a navy blazer and a green polo) and Jay Farhat, were on hand to […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 15, 2015

March fundraising numbers for Jacksonville campaigns show surprises in the mayoral race and PAC accounts. Though the most interesting narrative is that of Alvin Brown‘s fundraising, there are other strands worth mentioning. The big story for some observers, such as David Bauerlein with the The Florida Times-Union, was Shad Khan dropping $100K into Brown’s Taking Jacksonville […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 14, 2015

On a sunny Tuesday afternoon in a reserved room at the Jacksonville Zoo, the Northside Business Leaders hosted a candidate forum at its regular meeting, which involving the two runoff candidates to replace Bill Bishop in District 2 (Republican Al Ferraro and Democrat Lisa King), Reggie Gaffney, running in District 7, and the two Sheriff’s candidates, Mike Williams and Ken […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 14, 2015

Rainy days and Mondays always got Karen Carpenter down. That didn’t apply to the Republican Party of Duval County, though, which drew a couple hundred hearty souls for a ran-soaked rally Monday at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront. In the house at the Hyatt were heavy hitters who needed no introduction, such as Sheriff John Rutherford […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 9, 2015

With yet another police-involved shooting in Jacksonville on Wednesday, Sheriff’s candidate Mike Williams, in the interest of “transparency and community trust building,” seeks to open Response to Resistance board meetings to the public. They have been closed since 2010. “As a candidate for sheriff, and the only one who actually ran the Response to Resistance (RTR) […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 9, 2015

For a couple of days now, those following the Jacksonville mayoral race have wondered what the #UniteJax event teased by Duval County Republicans for Monday, April 13 was all about. Turns out it’s all about a rally featuring Republican candidates and current Cabinet members on Monday 4:30 to 6 p.m. at the Hyatt in downtown Jacksonville, […]

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