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A.G. GancarskiMarch 7, 2018

Alvin Brown was Jacksonville Mayor in 2012, when Jordan Davis was gunned down at a gas station on the Southside. In the years since, Brown has demonstrated support and friendship to Davis’ parents, and that support was reciprocated, via an official endorsement for Congress Wednesday. Ron Davis and Lucy McBath, offered a joint statement, one that […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 7, 2016

Rep. Corrine Brown opened her Jacksonville campaign headquarters Sunday, but the media was more interested in her federal trial and her other challenges. She delivered hot quotes on that, relating her situation to the trial of Marissa Alexander. “As horrible as this is for me, I’ve learned a lot,” Brown said, saying prosecutors were spending […]

Julie DelegalJanuary 11, 2016

When President Barack Obama announced his executive actions on guns last week, parents of children slain by bullets stood behind him. Jordan Davis’ mother, Lucia McBath, was one of them. McBath and Ron Davis were thrust into every parent’s nightmare in late 2012 when their 17-year-old son, Jordan, was shot and killed outside a Gate […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 24, 2015

The Jacksonville Young Democrats are going to make their presence known at Tuesday’s Jacksonville City Council meeting, addressing a variety of issues, including Mayor Lenny Curry‘s opposition to the Syrian refugee admission process, and the recent spate of threats and intimidation spurred by possible expansion of the Human Rights Ordinance. The JYDs assert that interested parties […]

Melissa RossNovember 12, 2015

The HBO documentary film shot in Jacksonville that tells the story of the Jordan Davis shooting and the trial of Michael Dunn will screen on the Florida State University campus this weekend before it premieres on national television next week. In an e-blast, the group Generation Progress has announced the screening in cooperation with HBO, […]

Julie DelegalFebruary 9, 2014

To the jurors in the Michael Dunn murder trial: don’t read this. I’m the columnist Judge Russell Healey warned you about. This is a media account he doesn’t want you to read. In a nutshell, I agree with the father of Jordan Davis, the 17-year-old youth who was shot outside of a Jacksonville gas station […]

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