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Because of Poor Planning, Parking Storage is Hollowing Out Downtown Jax

Posted on July 3, 2022 | Leave a comment

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Call them “parking craters” or “dead zones” or osteoporosis. Mammoth parking garages are eating Downtown alive. When the flâneuX sees only parking storage on either side, they guess Downtown is the “parking district.” Jane Jacobs titled a famous essay “Downtown is for People.” Jax authorities sometimes seem to think otherwise.

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2020 Protests Continue (Confessions, Consciousness, Change)

Posted on June 8, 2020 | Leave a comment

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For more than a week, the protests have flooded the streets, demanding police release body cam footage. This crowd does me good. In my depths, stories from decades before I was born churn a historical conscience. The Confederate monument has again been vandalized. I ask Donal Godfrey, whose house the KKK bombed when he was six years old, if this time really is different.

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Tagged Alexander Stephens, Black Lives Matter, Brittany Chrishawn, Donal Godfrey, George Floyd, In Memory of our Women of the Southland, J.B. Stoner, Jacksonville Community Action Committee, Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, Jamee Johnson, James Robinson, Jimbo Robinson, Josue Garriga, Ku Klux Klan, Kwame Jones, Lackawanna Elementary School, Lenny Curry, Mayor Lenny Curry, Michael Sampson, Mike Williams, Nicholas Lawson, Phil Gilmore, Reginald Boston

Protests in the Summer of 2020, the spring of 1964

Posted on June 2, 2020 | Leave a comment

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This story compares the protests of 1964 to those of 2020. It demonstrates how current protests call out the murder of George Floyd, but also the long pattern of Jacksonville police abuses of authority. It shows how 1964 Jax protests were met with official racism and racist vigilantism and how 2020 protests were met with public bullying against organizers. It suggests how police, if they care, might start the process to make a systemic (not a “bad apples”) restructuring, and asks what we might do about the disintegration of America.

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The Life and Multiple Deaths of the Drew Building

Posted on November 25, 2019 | Leave a comment

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The story of the building at 45 West Bay Street concerns a bear, Jacksonville’s first bookstore, Ottis Toole, the tragic deaths of construction workers, multiple demolition plans, the ghost of a third floor and the love of an architect who refused to let this building die. Now Urban Grind Coffee, Folio Weekly and other businesses call the Drew Building home. Click below for the story.

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This Week’s Story: The Final Flooding of This Particular History–Marjenhoff Park

Posted on November 14, 2019 | Leave a comment

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In five years, this neighborhood will be flooded and returned to swamp. When Hurricane Irma turned Marjenhoff Park and its surrounding houses into a swirl of swill, long after the 25 year history of South Jacksonville as a city, long after those little boys chased an alligator through city pipes, almost a century after South Jax City Councilman and son blurred ages, still: once “haunt” and “home” meant the same thing.

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New Story: Sloan / McQueen House

Posted on August 19, 2019 | Leave a comment

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William has lived his whole life here on Spearing Street on the Eastside. Mable lived here almost half a century. Then tragedy struck. The letters on the pantry door spell, “Mable’s kitchen.” The Reverend McQueen took in boarders, but when a choir member couldn’t make rent, the pastor still paid the community’s mortgage.

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Hammond Boulevard Exit & the “Perfect Pedophile Paradise”

Posted on June 2, 2018 | Leave a comment

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Did God so love the world that he directed the Florida Department of Transportation to cut a new exit from Interstate-10 down to the northern entrance of what Dennis Cassell called Bob Gray’s “perfect pedophile paradise”?

Whatever Tom Messer believed about God’s desires for his predecessor Bob Gray, whose sexual abuse of children Messer shielded from the law, he believes God wants 20,000 people daily to take the new I-10 exit by the church.

So let’s do that. Let’s go. Here’s what we find.

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Tag Archives: Lenny Curry

Because of Poor Planning, Parking Storage is Hollowing Out Downtown Jax

2020 Protests Continue (Confessions, Consciousness, Change)

The Life and Multiple Deaths of the Drew Building

This Week’s Story: The Final Flooding of This Particular History–Marjenhoff Park

New Story: Sloan / McQueen House

Hammond Boulevard Exit & the “Perfect Pedophile Paradise”

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