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Council plan to redirect dollars is changed by its sponsor
City Council Finance Committee Chairman Matt Carlucci has tempered his bill to redirect capital outlay money to the core city. A bill he had sponsored would have directed one-third of the planned spending for next year to the area covered by the former city before consolidation, which is 4 percent of the area of the…
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Are all those bad downtown deals tearing down hope for Jacksonville residents?
Michel de Montaigne once wrote, “I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.” In the last two weeks, we have seen numerous headlines about downtown deals gone bad and the fleeting hope of grasping big…