Members of two community groups had questions, and Jacksonville’s leaders had answers at this year’s first SFPPCA / COPOCA sponsored Local Leadership Accountability Forum. City Council Members Johnny Gaffney, John Crescimbeni, Ray Holt, Glorious Johnson, Reginald Brown, Warren Jones and Clay Yarborough were on hand, along with Jerry Holland, Matt Shirk, Angela Corey, John... »
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Revisionist Thinking
(Reprinted with permission from Folio Weekly) Sparks flew at the Dec. 17 Charter Revision Commission meeting when Duval County School Board Member Tommy Hazouri leaked the results of a mayoral campaign poll: 84 percent of Jacksonville voters oppose replacing their elected school board with an... »
Accountability Forums; The New Political Report Card
Accountability is a buzzword usually bandied about in two settings; the campaign trail and the classroom. Two local coalitions are trying to change that when they host the first in a series of Local Leadership Accountability Forums on January 21, 2009 at 6:30 PM... »
Downtown; The Old Neighborhood
Perennial debate on what to do with downtown Jacksonville has become fashionable once again. How does the country’s largest city (which is really a county of 804 square miles)... »
“Hope Fund” for Public Schools?
Lone Star Elementary Principal Elizabeth Kavanaugh and Arlington’s East Point Church members are to be commended for pooling the church’s resources—volunteer work hours—to clean up the school over the... »
Corporate Welfare Queen Gerdau Ameristeel Back for Another Handout
During his 1976 presidential campaign, candidate Ronald Reagan delighted his supporters and outraged others by telling the story of a Chicago woman who allegedly collected excessive welfare payments through... »
