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Rot in the heart of the city
Springfield Park is deteriorating and the longer City Council delays action the worse it will get. The park is on Main Street, along Hogan’s Creek, at the border between downtown and what was Jacksonville’s first suburb, Springfield. In recent years, it has been allowed to fall into disrepair, probably because Mayor Lenny Curry planned to…
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Are local schools still under-reporting student misconduct?
One member of a local watchdog organization that is monitoring the local government schools says she has uncovered information indicating the school district may still be trying to dodge reporting school safety problems accurately. A statewide grand jury recently singled out the district for falsifying its numbers. School officials subsequently said they now provide accurate…