A.G. GancarskiAugust 9, 2023
5min0
Al Ferraro will have a couple more weeks to have conversations with City Council members.
Tag: NeighborhoodsCrowds gather to see Atlantis at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. (Gabrielle Russon)
A.G. GancarskiAugust 9, 2023
Janelle Irwin TaylorJune 13, 2019
4min910
"My vision is that cities from around the nation come to see our art scene."
Janelle Irwin TaylorJune 10, 2019
6min400
Her focus: “...What residents feel will strengthen neighborhoods."
Janelle Irwin TaylorJanuary 30, 2019
5min397
“This plan will ensure that we can bring city hall to the people."
A.G. GancarskiJanuary 3, 2019
5min435
The Jacksonville City Council continued to move forward with committee work Thursday morning in the Finance Committee. Performing Arts Showcase: 2018-837 is headed to the Consent Agenda next week, and it may be a downtown game changer. The bill would appropriate roughly $2 million in tourist development funds for a visitors center on the Riverwalk at […]
Scott PowersOctober 11, 2017
6min320
As Orange County Commissioner Pete Clarke looks back on his long and deep involvement in civic organizations leading to election to the commission, and now to a run for mayor, he’s not quite sure how he ever got so involved, but he can’t imagine not having been so active. With a profession in health care […]
A.G. GancarskiApril 21, 2016
2min230
Derek Igou, Jacksonville’s first choice for the new director of Neighborhoods, didn’t work out. The problem, we understand, was one of academic credentials. The Lenny Curry administration is back to the drawing board, and a Thursday email indicates a refinement of job description specs for Neighborhoods head. “Per our discussion and your directions,” wrote Mousa Thursday to […]
A.G. GancarskiFebruary 19, 2016
3min169
David Chapman of the Jax Daily Record broke a significant story this week: legislative confirmation of the long-awaited Lenny Curry plan to revive the Neighborhoods department. “The Neighborhoods Department will operate under Chief Administrative Officer Sam Mousa and with a re-established Housing and Community Development Division — the ‘direct link’ to city neighborhoods,” Chapman writes. Chapman’s […]