Monthly Archives: December 2020

Maps, maps, maps Jacksonville’s redistricting in the coming months will shape how the city handles racial equity, poverty, crime and nearly every major lever of public policy in the next decade. Unlike the state legislature, which is barred from partisan gerrymandering due to constitutional amendments that passed in 2010, the city is not under similar […]

I’ve already written some of the obvious political analyses of the election results. Joe Biden won Duval County, the first Democrat to do so since Jimmy Carter in 1976. Yet every Democrat in a competitive down-ballot race lost. Duval is now a purple county, not a blue one. Joe Biden won Duval by less than […]

One-hundred and seventy Jaxsons have died this year to violence. The last time that many people died in a year in Jacksonville to violence was 1990, the year before I was born. One of the biggest stories in Jacksonville, one that deserves more scrutiny and investigation, is why the city is failing to keep its […]