An effort to split the historic Riverside and Avondale neighborhoods, which sparked frustration from residents who said the neighborhoods should be kept together, died Tuesday before it had even fully started.
Author Archives: Andrew Pantazi
Andrew Pantazi is the founding editor of The Tributary. He and his wife, Lauren, are both Jacksonville natives raising their two sons in the city. You can contact him at Andrew.Pantazi@JaxTrib.org.
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Jacksonville City Council’s redistricting plan will likely favor Republicans
Jacksonville’s City Council is on the verge of approving a redistricting plan that will continue the current map’s heavy bias favoring local Republicans.
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Florida’s redistricting website is ready for your map proposals
The Florida Legislature’s dedicated redistricting website launched this week, which kicks off the ability for the public — and paid consultants — to submit their own map proposals.
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The Florida Senate says 2021 redistricting won’t be a repeat of 2011
The Florida state Sen. Ray Rodrigues kicked off this redistricting cycle with an important admission: The Florida Legislature messed up last time, and legislators can’t allow that to happen again.
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‘The fix is in for Jason Teal’: How Jacksonville’s general counsel search almost ended before it started
The Jacksonville committee tasked with vetting a new general counsel, one of the city’s most powerful positions, agreed Tuesday to conduct a two-week job search after City Council members said the committee’s plans to coronate the mayor’s preferred pick would violate the integrity of the process.
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If Jacksonville City Council redistricting doesn’t cross the river, the Southside and the Beaches benefit.
Crossing the river would create more equal districts, otherwise a new City Council map grants more power to the Southside.
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Jacksonville City Council redistricting split: Should districts cross the St. Johns River?
The first glimpse at new Jacksonville City Council redistricting proposals geared to avoid any river crossings would result in a spiraling district that spans Downtown, Springfield Brentwood, Oceanway and Black Hammond Island.
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Northeast Florida will lead the Legislature’s redistricting efforts
Neptune Beach Rep. Cord Byrd and Fleming Island Sen. Jennifer Bradley were appointed to lead subcommittees focused on drawing new maps.
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Jacksonville isn’t considering proportionality or competitiveness in City Council redistricting
After last week’s City Council meeting where the Jacksonville Office of General Counsel reported it didn’t think the city could complete redistricting in time for new School Board districts to take effect in 2022, the redistricting special committee has begun to move to a more frequent meeting schedule.
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Florida was going to be a beacon of criminal justice transparency. Instead, it’s almost 3 years behind schedule.
More than three years after Florida passed a criminal-justice data transparency law that earned national headlines and rave reviews for the state’s politicians, the state agency tasked with actually publishing the data has continued to miss deadlines with no explanation. Now, the ACLU of Florida has filed suit against the Florida Department of Law Enforcement […]