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Jaguars, City of Jacksonville will give small businesses a chance to get involved in Shipyards project

Andrae Kirkland, an award-winning engineer and thought leader, has been tapped to lead a new business program with GENEDGE Alliance.

Industrial & Systems Engineer Andrae Kirkland Tapped to Lead Innovative Initiative

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Business owners in the Jacksonville Small and Emerging Business Program will have a path to grow their personal wealth by an unlimited amount over the next couple of years and still stay in the program that helps small businesses get a share of city contracts. City Council agreed to that significant change during a Tuesday night meeting that saw City Council President Tommy Hazouri call for a recess when council members JuCoby Pittman and Garrett Dennis exchanged angry barbs after Pittman...

One of the most crowded Omaha City Council races so far is for the seat that represents northeast Omaha. At least seven people are pursuing campaigns to challenge incumbent Councilman Ben Gray to represent District 2, which stretches from Forest Lawn Cemetery into north downtown and includes Florence, Eppley Airfield and Creighton University. Gray, a Democrat on the officially nonpartisan council, was elected to his seat in 2009 and has twice won reelection. He is one of five sitting council me...