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Bob SparksMay 20, 2015

One year ago not many figured northeast Floridians would be using the words “Mayor-elect Lenny Curry.” Yet, that’s precisely the water cooler chatter not only in Jacksonville, but among the political class across Florida. Curry, former chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, was a long shot to defeat incumbent Mayor Alvin Brown, the city’s […]

Bob SparksMay 20, 2015

One year ago not many figured northeast Floridians would be using the words “Mayor-elect Lenny Curry.” Yet, that is precisely the water cooler chatter not only in Jacksonville, but among the political class around the state of Florida. Curry, the former chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, was a long shot to defeat incumbent […]

Florence SnyderFebruary 18, 2015

Like all addicts, David Carr had a drug of choice. His was journalism. He craved the constant rush that the news business provides. The endorphins unleashed in the newsrooms where he worked in Minnesota and Washington and New York made for a better high than “the frantic kind of boring” that Carr described in his memoir about […]

Guest AuthorOctober 7, 2014

If you haven’t yet heard about political writer Matt Bai’s book on the failed presidential hopes of Gary Hart, you will. Bai, once political editor for the New York Times’ Sunday magazine and current political editor for Yahoo, asserts that one week in 1987 forever changed politics in America. Bai is on the interview circuit […]

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Bob Sparks: Lenny Curry shows Republicans the way to win

Bob Sparks: Lenny Curry shows Republicans the way to win

Florence Snyder: Why journalism should be addicted to David Carr

Doug Clifton: Miami Herald was right to pursue tip about Gary Hart dalliance