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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 Flo...

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...

The speculation has been growing for some time that State Sen. Paula Dockery (R-Lakeland) would challenge Attorney General Bill McCollum for the GOP Gubernatorial nomination. According to her hometown newspaper, the Lakeland Ledger, it now appears as if Dockery will enter the race next week...

Nearly half the members of a powerful House subcommittee in control of Pentagon spending are under scrutiny by ethics investigators in Congress, who have trained their lens on the relationships between seven members and an influential lobbying firm founded by a former Capitol Hill aide.

The recent news uncovered by the Times-Union's Tia Mitchell in regards to the work by City Council Vice President Jack Webb for Republic Services has reignited a debate over ethics, or ratherthe lack thereof, at City Hall...

Charlie Crist's Ponzi politics.

Jacksonville's city budget may be under serious financial strain withcity employees currently in line forpaycuts and proposed reforms in benefits, but that hasn't prevented the city from hiring a number of part-time employees at salaries well above the county's median income and, in fact, well...

Scenic Jacksonville Inc (formerly known as CAPSigns), the group that led the successful effort twenty-two years ago to amend the city's charter to prohibit new billboards and required many of the city's existing billboards to be removed, has launched a new website to educate voters on the billboard...

There is some appeal, at least superficially, in a proposal to lift Florida's two-decade ban on offshore drilling in state waters. A study, being cited by the solar energy industry, concludes that offshore gas and oil exploration could add between $2

Months after Jacksonville's Chief Administrative Officer was forced to apologize for his controversial dealings with a lobbyist during the Trail Ridge Landfill negotiations, he appears to be ready to leave City Hall...