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Politicians throw money at issues their policies make. Yep, local politicians do it too!
The 1960’s ushered in a myriad of government programs designed to help low-income families. Fast forward to 2019 where crime, violence, drugs, and poverty is flourishing in most of our nation’s inner cities along with the explosion in the growth of single parent homes. Our government engineered a problem in subsidizing the single parent family.…
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Old City Hall tumbles down but Mayor Curry’s wall is still up.
Mixed feelings from seeing the old City Hall turned into dust. I spent many hours in that building, day and night, covering local government as a reporter. In 1970, the Jacksonville Journal took a new approach to covering local government. It created the “governmental affairs team.” Instead of covering physical buildings such as City Hall…