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Weinstein: Doing double duty, plans return to State Attorney office
State Representative-elect Mike Weinstein has accepted a post as executive director of the local State Attorney’s office. From the Florida Times-Union… Weinstein was elected Nov. 4 to represent House District 19, which includes Mandarin. He aspires to become House speaker. Corey said Weinstein will be in charge of her office’s administrative and budgetary functions, the same position [...]
Continue reading...Are crime and weather the only news?
7. August 2008
I admit to only watching the local news stations a couple of times a week, at the most. Frankly, the broadcasts are depressing. We start off with a teaser about the weather. Then footage from 9 different crime scenes. Maybe a car accident or two mixed in there. The weather [...]
Continue reading...Man arrested for stalking Daniel Davis
13. July 2008
A homeless man who has been stalking City Councilman Daniel Davis is now under arrest, the Times-Union reports. The man has made disturbing threats and expressed his desire to kill both Davis and Mayor John Peyton. From Jacksonville.com… Police arrested him downtown Friday after Davis called and said Tarrer followed him and his parents from City [...]
Continue reading...Ron Baker resigns from Port post
14. June 2008
JAXPORT Executive Director accepted the resignation of CFO Ron Baker on Friday, following weeks of media attention and an FBI investigation into questionable business dealings at the port. The focus of the investigation seems to be JAXPORT Board Member Tony Nelson, who is currently on a leave of absence. The negative press and [...]
Continue reading...Mayors Against Illegal Guns Ad
18. May 2008
Jacksonville mayor John Peyton is featured in a new national television ad for the group Mayors Against Illegal Guns. What is the “gun show loophole” in practice? Here is how M.A.I.G. describes it… Currently, licensed gun dealers are required to run criminal background checks on all buyers, but a loophole in the law enables criminals to avoid [...]
Continue reading...First New Officers in Nine Years?
13. May 2008
The Sheriff’s office is floating a proposal to add 40 additional police officers using some excess jail funds. According to the Times-Union’s story from this morning, the expansion will represent the first time we’ve added officers to the force in almost a decade… Jacksonville officials announced plans Monday to hire 40 new police officers, the first [...]
Continue reading...Crist: Fitzgerald Back On Board
22. April 2008
Governor Charlie Crist signed an order today that reinstated Christy Fitzgerald to her seat on the Clay County Commission. This comes after Fitzgerald was acquitted on the final charge that she was facing. Early this month, a jury found her not guilty of using public works employees to perform personal work while they were being paid by the taxpayers of [...]
Continue reading...City to Close Early Learning Center
16. April 2008
The city of Jacksonville is going to be closing the Don Brewer Early Learning, Research & Development Center in the next couple of months. The center opened in 2005 and provides child-care with an emphasis on literacy. It will close at the end of June due to budgetary shortfalls. It’s a full-time child care center with an [...]
Continue reading...How About Mandatory Criminal Background Checks for All Social Interaction?
8. April 2008
State Rep. Kevin Ambler is once again pushing his bill that would require dating websites - like Match.com and eHarmony - to perform criminal background checks on paying customers in Florida before they would allow them to use their service. If the service didn’t agree to do the checks, they would be required to tell customers [...]
Continue reading...Because Marijuana is Hard to Spell…
25. March 2008
Jacksonville.com has the following headline on their homepage: “Fernandina Beach woman arrested with suitcase full of weed” To be fair, the author does use the term marijuana to describe the drug inside the actual article. And it is actually quite amazing how much of the substance the woman was carrying: When they arrived, Duckworth was getting out [...]
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30. November 2008
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