August 4, 2022
Two candidates are running in Duval County School Board District 2, a non-partisan race. The August race, which would normally…
August 4, 2022
AUG. 23 VOTER GUIDE: Florida House District 14
Four Democrats are on the August ballot for the newly drawn state House District 14. The previous District 14 was…
August 3, 2022
AUG. 23 VOTER GUIDE: Property tax increase for Duval Schools
The Duval County School Board is asking property owners to pitch in more for public schools. All Duval voters are…
August 3, 2022
OPINION | For candidates, public scrutiny is part of the process
The primary season in Florida politics is always brutal. Because primaries involve battles between members of the same political party,…
August 3, 2022
Child sex-abuse allegation surfaces for Clay Commission candidate
Local dirt hauler Dale Carter’s decision to run this year for the Clay Board of County Commissioners was met with…
August 2, 2022
THE JAXSON | 6 Downtown projects now under construction
Though largely happening in the outskirts, new construction is happening in Downtown Jacksonville. Here’s a look at six projects moving…
July 31, 2022
OPINION | August is the cruelest month
T.S. Eliot famously posited that “April is the cruelest month.” This tells us that he didn’t follow primary politics in…
July 28, 2022
Jacksonville named at risk for ‘climate gentrification.’ How can we lessen the threat?
A researcher at FSU says climate change fueled displacement of residents is a looming “existential crisis” for Jacksonville and other…
July 27, 2022
Black-owned startup Laundr gets a boost in Jacksonville
Kyle Lampkin and Michael Behfar are monetizing one of the most mundane parts of adulting: doing laundry. The two childhood…
July 27, 2022
OPINION | Hotbeds of hatred
On Jan. 6th, 2021, I sat beside my mother in my living room, eyes glued to the television watching the…
July 26, 2022
OPINION | Don’t sweat the ‘wrong kind’ of housing
New residential projects in established neighborhoods often draw pushback. This is especially the case when the developments are seen as…
July 24, 2022
AUG. 23 VOTER GUIDE: Jacksonville Sheriff
Five candidates – four Democrats and one Republican – are vying to fill the Jacksonville sheriff’s seat, following Mike Williams’…
July 21, 2022
AUG. 23 VOTER GUIDE: Jacksonville City Council District 7, District 9
Nine candidates are vying for Jacksonville City Council in the August 23rd election, as sitting council members Reggie Gaffney and…
July 20, 2022
OPINION | Think you can’t fight City Hall? Remember the Red Shirts
There is a lot of frustration with government these days. Inflation and the lingering effects of the pandemic have many…
July 20, 2022
1-in-3 Duval mail-ballot voters are ineligible to vote unless they update their IDs. See where they live
With less than five weeks remaining until the August primaries, a third of the 97,999 Duval voters who requested vote-by-mail…
July 19, 2022
OPINION | Florida’s secret weapon in the housing crisis
With the creation of the Sadowski Housing Trust Fund to support affordable housing in 1992, Florida led the way in…
July 18, 2022
OPINION | Kids should be able to live big
I was talking to my son recently about travel, and I suggested that for his next spring break we visit…
July 17, 2022
OPINION | DeSantis shares blame for Aguilar fiasco
Former Florida Times-Union journalist Matt Dixon, now of POLITICO Florida, had a “scoop” the other day that illustrated tragedies throughout…
July 14, 2022
Citizen scientists help map the heat in Jacksonville
Extreme heat is the deadliest form of hazardous weather and Jacksonville will soon have data showing how the city is…
July 13, 2022
Northeast Florida Regional Conservation Efforts
This is the fourth webinar of the “Let’s Talk About Resilience” webinar series presented in partnership with the GTM Research…
July 12, 2022
THE JAXSON | Jacksonville’s surviving historic theaters
The Jaxson Magazine takes a look into the history of Jacksonville’s nine oldest surviving theaters.…
July 11, 2022
OPINION | What will the literature of tomorrow say?
Reckoning. That is the word that’s most often applied to this time we’re living in. It began with the confluence…
July 11, 2022
City, nonprofits offer help for homebuyers in Northwest Jacksonville
Cheri Randolph is a homebody. She prefers cooking a meal for her boys and the other mundane activities that turn…
July 10, 2022
OPINION | Have Democrats lost the Jax mayoral race already?
For the first time in many years, two serious Democratic candidates are running for Jacksonville mayor. And for backers of…