A Jan. 12 deferral means the Downtown Improvement Authority will bring the DDRB’s concerns to Jacksonville-based First Coast Energy before they can bring the Daily’s project before the board again in a workshop.
Hundreds marched in the 42nd annual MLK Holiday Grand Parade on Monday morning in Jacksonville.
The Florida Legislature has a Northeast Florida House speaker for the first time in two decades. Here are 5 issues to watch.
Dozens of books the Duval County school district ordered in the summer of 2021 will never hit classroom shelves. That’s the result of an ongoing review after the district pulled almost 200 books this spring while the Florida Legislature passed limits on what teachers can say about race, gender and sexual orientation in classrooms and set new rules for purchasing
Suzanne Pickett is headed to the Super Bowl. The president and CEO of the Historic Eastside Community Development Corporation was surprised with tickets to February’s big game as she received the inaugural Inspire Change award from the Jaguars on Sunday afternoon. “This is for the Eastside, Out East,” Pickett said. “I’m so excited and honored. It’s good to know that
A federal judge has imposed a new Jacksonville City Council map for upcoming 2023 municipal election and handed the city a major loss in the process. In an order Monday evening, U.S. District Court Judge Marcia Howard opted in favor of a remedial map drawn by the plaintiffs in a case that saw the city’s original redistricting map struck down
Influential Republican donor Kent Stermon, who died last week, used a personal badge to access Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office buildings more than 700 times over the past five years and on at least 25 separate dates in 2022, according to records obtained by Jacksonville Today. Those numbers, released last week, disproved two years’ worth of blank Stermon access records the Jacksonville
Navy veteran Mandie Marron was stationed in Jacksonville almost two decades ago. She joined Twitter mostly to keep up on “tech stuff” with others on her squadron. Over the years, she’s used the platform to get more involved in local news and politics. But there’s one major government figure, and frequent tweeter, she often can’t respond to: Mayor Lenny Curry.
According to the version of events that Jacksonville’s city lawyers told a federal court, the City Council passed a redistricting map last month that carefully considered many factors: The council wanted a map that was “as logical and compact a geographical pattern as possible,” one that honored planning district boundaries, major roads and waterways, one that considered socioeconomic demographics and
Jacksonville could soon take steps to address homelessness, a lack of affordable housing and inequitable access to healthcare. That’s after the City Council this week will receive a 57-page report from its Special Committee on Critical Quality of Life Issues, a panel whose subcommittees met more than a dozen times over the past three months to identify problems in the