Tag: Russ Armistead

A.G. GancarskiDecember 1, 2016
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Thursday saw a host of Northeast Florida stakeholders from the education, transportation, and healthcare sectors address the First Coast Legislative Delegation at Jacksonville University’s Public Policy Institute. Legislators from well beyond the First Coast, such as Gainesville Sen. Keith Perry, Lake City Rep. Elizabeth Porter, and Palatka Rep. Bobby Payne, are included in the delegation, which is a […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 28, 2016
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2min275
The inaugural First Coast Legislative Delegation meeting, to be held Thursday at Jacksonville University’s Public Policy Institute, is going to be different from the Duval Delegation meeting held the day before. For one thing, it will be regional in nature, including 16 representatives and senators total. And for another thing, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry will keynote […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 8, 2016
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1min240
House District 18 Republican Travis Cummings raised over $44,000 in December, bringing his total very close to $180,000, a big number for the Orange Park incumbent. He has spent just over $39,000 in total, leaving him with about $140,000 cash on hand. From individual donors, such as lobbyists Mark Pinto and Joe Mobley and Russ Armistead (the head […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 23, 2015
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6min215
This past week, there were four days of Lenny Curry Transition Team Budget Reviews, helmed by new Chief Administrative Officer Sam Mousa. There are three more days of them this week, running Tuesday through Thursday afternoons, but there already is ample opportunity to gauge the winners, and losers, so far. Winner: Mousa. The “Godfather” has gotten laudatory coverage […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 18, 2015
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The fourth day of Jackssonville’s Chief Administrative Officer Sam Mousa‘s departmental budget reviews for the Lenny Curry mayoral transition begins with UF Health with Russ Armistead. As with the previous three days, we are blogging the vast majority of these meetings. 8:42 a.m.: Marty Fiorentino is sitting in for the first time. Armistead congratulating Mousa on accepting […]

Melissa RossMay 13, 2015
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Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown has sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell “requesting direct discussions” with HHS to prevent closing UF Health in Jacksonville. “Jacksonville and other communities with safety-net hospitals must not be held hostage by the actions or inactions of decision-makers in Tallahassee,” Brown writes. A copy of the […]


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