Archive for November, 2009

Touted as an effort to reduce costs, Duval County Supervisor of Elections Jerry Holland’s plan to consolidate 20 voting precincts into 10, introduced to the Jacksonville City Council on Sept. 22 as Ordinance 2009-764, will be considered by the Council during their meeting on Tuesday night.  Unlike a similar ordinance passed in July that consolidated voting... »

For Folio Weekly, November 9, 2009 edition Re-pubished on JaxPoliticsOnline.com with permission of Folio Weekly, all rights reserved “… I need to make it clear that I do not believe that the Budget appropriately and adequately funds a high quality education for every student in Florida.” These words appeared in a six-page indictment of Florida’s public schools,... »

Abel Harding, the original founder of JaxPoliticsOnline.com, is now writing for the Florida Times-Union.  As he is no longer writing for this site, I wanted to pass along the links where his writings can now be found. His daily blog can be found here. His first Sunday column appears here. Thanks for continuing to visit JaxPoliticsOnline.com.  Stay... »

The First Coast Tea Party, one of the most active in the country, has been remarkably silent about the local Republican Party's choice of Mitt Romney as the keynote speaker for their annual fundraiser. The increase in Tea Party protests has been largely attributed to the national debate over healthcare reform that would include a... »