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A.G. GancarskiSeptember 21, 2016

Earlier this week, the narrative was that Duval County School Board chair Ashley Smith-Juarez had called a meeting Friday of the board to discuss the termination of Superintendent Nikolai Vitti. Since that news came out, some developments have happened. Community leaders pressed Smith-Juarez to reconsider her intransigence; by Wednesday afternoon, she had backpedaled, contravening what she […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 17, 2015

With capital improvement deals such as Jacksonville’s $90 million package of Capital Improvements for EverBank Field, the devil is in the details. Even as the legislation is passed, a few questions remained (at least from this writer) about certain language in the bill. To that end, we reached out to the office of Jacksonville Mayor Lenny […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 9, 2015

Jacksonville’s stormwater budget was in the red in the fourth quarter in FY 2015, according to a City of Jacksonville document. For the year, according to the report, total expenditures looked to be $32.946 million, with revenues at $30.899 million, a shortfall of just over $2 million. And it looked like the hit was in Q4, […]

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In meeting with school board chair, Lenny Curry advocates for Nikolai Vitti

One final look at the Jacksonville Sports Complex improvements legislation

Jax stormwater budget in red for FY15: does it matter?