From the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville, where Recount, a movie about the 2000 election, is being filmed: OVERHEARD Don’t know much about recent history Two 20-somethings chatting in a San Marco bakery earlier this week. First guy: They’re filming some stuff for that HBO movie Recount today. Second guy: Yeah, I saw the crew working [...]

Normally, I like Sam Borden’s columns at the Florida Times-Union/Jacksonville.com. He usually cuts through the BS from players, coaches, and sports executives. But, yesterday’s column turned on the fans. Sam is upset because the Jaguars were having trouble selling out the home opener against the Tennessee Titans, a division rival. The Jaguars have no problem [...]

The local rag in Jax, The Florida Times-Union, with it’s website, Jacksonville.com, are occasionally taken to task by smaller organizations for being too close and soft on business and political leaders in Duval County. But, credit where credit is due, someone over there has their teeth into Mayor John Peyton’s rear-end and is shaking loose [...]

From Jacksonville.com: $180.000 stolen car revealed by wife By Dana Treen,The Times-Union Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Because of that, Michael Haytaian hath no car. When Clay County deputies were called by his wife, who said she had been assaulted by him during an argument over her job at Hooters, they already [...]

To paraphrase late-night talk-show host Craig Ferguson, it’s a great day in Florida. For those that want to get their gamble on, a new law goes into effect on Sunday raising the betting limits for poker played within parimutuel facilities from $2 to $5 per bet for limit games, and allows no-limit games to be [...]

A couple of weeks’ ago, I blogged about local Jacksonville media reporting extensive Sunshine Law violations by the Jacksonville City Council. Well, guess what? It’s going to the Grand Jury. Not only that, State Attorney Harry Shorstein is making hay out of this episode, taking the opportunity to confront the Council on their own turf: [...]

The Florida Times-Union June 13, 2007 Council admits meeting ‘mistakes’ By BETH KORMANIK,The Times-Union Jacksonville City Council President Michael Corrigan introduced a sweeping measure Tuesday to ensure compliance with Florida’s Sunshine Law. The ordinance is in response to Times-Union inquiries into widespread flouting of the law by members of the council – especially its leaders… [...]

The Florida Times-Union is reporting that Skybus will start daily flights from St. Augustine in July. Gotta say, commercial aviation in this part of the First Coast is desperately needed. Going from St. Johns County up through Jax to JIA can take 75-120 minutes, depending on time of day. A couple of small puddle-jumper regional [...]

I got a kick out of this – the director of the archaeological group didn’t let a find get in the way of his surfing. I’m having an Apocalypse Now flashback… “Charlie don’t surf”… Bits of nautical history rise in sands of VilanoBy MATT COLEMAN, The Times-Union With Capt. Jack Sparrow and the latest Pirates [...]

At 6/21/2006 6:54 AM, joey marchy said… Wow, thanks for this great analysis of the article in yesterday’s Times-Union. Sure some things were off and I feel bad that this article pissed a lot of the long-term Jacksonville bloggers off. I plan to link to this evaluation in a post today. At 6/21/2006 1:03 PM, [...]