Cheri Randolph is a homebody. She prefers cooking a meal for her boys and the other mundane activities that turn a house into a home. After renting for years, she and her two sons moved into a home of their own for the first time this month. The three-bedroom house with freshly laid grass in the backyard is in the
Duval County Public Schools has taken down a 12-minute anti-bullying video that taught middle and high school students how to support their gay and transgender peers, the latest in a string of vanishing LGBTQ resources in the district. Besides the video, the district is planning to dramatically reduce a LGBTQ+ support guide, and the School Board will vote Monday on
Almost 150 new laws will take effect in Florida on Friday, including some that opponents are still trying to stop: the governor’s Stop WOKE Act and the Parental Rights in Education law. Democrats criticized the Legislature’s Republican supermajority for pushing through DeSantis-backed “culture war” bills instead of focusing on things like affordable housing. Most of Florida’s more than 200 new
JAXPORT is on pace for another record-setting year in container volume, a volume that would not be possible without its predominantly Black port workers.
A Jax Today Q&A with Vince Evans Vince Evans stood against a wall, listening and nodding as Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee told a group of men, who’d traveled from all corners of the country to the Capitol, about the importance of legislation that would make a national apology for slavery and propose remedies for the centuries of racial and economic
Jacksonville’s recently resigned sheriff, Mike Williams, isn’t the only one who was policing the county while living somewhere else. Data obtained by Jacksonville Today show that about 35% of the officers in the agency — more than 650 Jacksonville police officers — live outside the county they patrol. During former Sheriff Williams’ tenure, he came under fire from community groups, gun violence
Shontae Jackson does not need to be told how devastating it can be when a family member’s life is shockingly cut short. After the 2020 shooting death of her stepson, the longtime Jacksonville resident started a podcast on dealing with grief and then converted it last year into a nonprofit, Subliminal Dreamz Inc., which aims to equip young men with
Dara Davis started All Construction Group, a company she operates out of her home on Jacksonville’s Northside, in March of 2020. The company builds and remodels residential and commercial properties — work that’s now getting a boost from a recent grant from LISC Jacksonville’s Small Business Equity Fund. The program was created last year by the Local Initiatives Support Corporation,
Jacksonville’s office of general counsel is set to weigh in by 2 p.m. Thursday on whether Sheriff Mike Williams should be removed from office after he moved to Nassau County last year and continued to serve as sheriff, which violates the city’s charter. Council President Sam Newby asked for the legal opinion after The Tributary reported last week that Sheriff
A Jax Today Q&A with Joe Bruno Joe Bruno, a former executive at Wells Fargo, claimed this month in The New York Times that the company, with hundreds of employees in Northeast Florida, conducted sham interviews with candidates who were not white men — and fired him for raising objections. As a senior vice president and Jacksonville market manager with the
