A.G. GancarskiApril 16, 2019
5min543
Mayor Curry framed Brosche's letter as a political stunt.
Tag: Sam Mousa
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3min560
Mousa's departure closes the loop on much of the first-term team.
A.G. GancarskiFebruary 7, 2019
3min199
Jacksonville City Council President Aaron Bowman announced Thursday the formation of committees to study infrastructure and resiliency. With Jacksonville having suffered great impacts from Hurricanes Matthew and Irma, including major downtown flooding during the latter, the committee seeks pathways to sustainability. President Bowman, in a press release, noted that the Council’s recently passed “strategic plan focuses on […]
A.G. GancarskiDecember 24, 2018
7min463
Jacksonville City Hall is closed today, and its denizens are (at least in theory) at home and enjoying presents. Below, a live look at the action at the Lenny Curry household, where this scene replays every thirty seconds. What about the rest of #JaxPol though? In an effort to ensure that no pol is left […]
A.G. GancarskiOctober 11, 2018
8min368
Jacksonville leaders may protest. But the move is non-negotiable. On Thursday, Moody’s downgraded $2.1 billion of Jacksonville debt, pinning a negative outlook on issues resulting from the city’s misadventures with utility JEA. At the root of it all: the still-under-construction Plant Vogtle nuclear plant in Georgia, which the city committed to buy power from in 2008 […]
A.G. GancarskiSeptember 18, 2018
4min579
One of Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry‘s most trusted lieutenants, Chief Financial Officer Mike Weinstein, will leave City Hall Nov. 9. “Since 2015, during the transition between my administration and my predecessor’s, Mike Weinstein has been both trusted adviser and friend. His expertise and depth of knowledge helped me prepare balanced budgets that met our city’s priorities, create […]
A.G. GancarskiAugust 7, 2018
7min620
A July report from the Jacksonville City Council auditor says Duval County is leaving $366,000 per year on the table when it comes to the so-called bed tax. One source of a revenue increase could be Airbnb. Unlike 39 other Florida counties, Airbnb does not pay this tax — six cents per dollar — to the […]
A.G. GancarskiAugust 7, 2018
2min889
In 1984, there was no bigger star in the world than Michael Jackson. With the songs from 1982’s Thriller still resonating on the charts, he and his brothers thought the time was right for a family Victory tour. That tour came to Jacksonville: a three-night Gator Bowl stint in a metropolitan area much less populous than […]
A.G. GancarskiMay 5, 2018
8min188
On Wednesday’s episode of First Coast Connect on Jacksonville’s WJCT-FM, Jacksonville City Council President Anna Brosche charged that her meetings were being followed and that someone in city government was snooping on the computer of her Council assistant. Citing a “trust issue,” Brosche mentioned that she was “not allowed to have meetings with department heads without clearing […]
A.G. GancarskiMarch 30, 2018
Anna Brosche on collision course with Lenny Curry, JEA management over sale timeline inconsistencies
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After Thursday’s explosive meeting of the Jacksonville City Council’s special committee on JEA, which saw Council President Anna Brosche and Finance Chair Garrett Dennis pillory CEO Paul McElroy over numerous inconsistencies in his testimony, what’s certain is that, at least for Brosche, the questions have only begun. In a 20-minute-plus gaggle Thursday evening, Brosche went into great detail […]