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Goodbye, Regency Square. Thanks for the Memories.

I was 13 years old when Regency Square Mall opened its doors in Jacksonville in 1967. And I remember it like it was yesterday. Before the stores, the restaurants, the fountains and the crowds, there were sand dunes. I remember riding around with my family, watching this enormous new shopping mall take shape where there […]

Shorstein stood up for the taxpayers

The recent death of Harry Shorstein was a blow to Jacksonville’s legal fraternity. Shorstein was a force in the law field for more than half a century. I knew him well and what I remember most about Shorstein was his courage. He was a Marine officer in the Vietnam War and fought in the Siege […]