Extra patrols will hit Jacksonville streets beginning this week to help improve bicyclist and pedestrian safety through a new High Visibility Enforcement project funded by the University of North Florida.
The $57,096 contract from the university, in partnership with the Florida Department of Transportation, is specifically designed to pay for Sheriff’s Office overtime traffic deployments. Enforcement efforts will focus primarily on educating drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists, the Sheriff s Office said. However, violations may result in warnings or citations depending on the circumstances.
It s the right time for renewed education and enforcement in Jacksonville, said Stephen Tocknell, advocacy director for the North Florida Bicycle Club. The city had eight bicycling deaths in 2020, plus one in Clay County and another on Florida A1A just south of Ponte Vedra Beach. That s according to an interactive map of bicycle crashes and fatalities assembled by Outside, an onlin
âFrozenâ alligators stick noses through ice to survive in Oklahoma
By Staff report
(David Arbour/)
Alligators in Oklahoma went into a deep freeze as frigid, icy temperatures plagued much of the central and eastern United States.
Wildlife photographer David Arbour captured stunning photos of several alligators poking their snouts through the ice to breathe at the Red Slough Wildlife Management Area this week. (David Arbour/ Oklahoma Department of Wildlife) (David Arbour/ Oklahoma Department of Wildlife)
While the alligators may appear to be dead, scientists say they’re not. It’s a survival technique alligators use when the water starts to freeze.
04:30 PM EST Share Florida State College at Jacksonville nursing students can earn credits in the University of North Florida’s master’s program.
The University of North Florida and Florida State College at Jacksonville hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony Feb. 22 to celebrate a new facility and academic partnership between UNF MedNexus and FSCJ.
“UNF MedNexus addresses the region’s growing and evolving health care needs through education and development of talented nurses and health care workers who are prepared to enter the workforce,” UNF President David Szymanski said in a news release.
“Our academic and facility partnership with FSCJ allows us to advance health care education in an innovative and progressive manner by positively impacting the number of high-demand health care professionals,” he said.
In December 904WARD, a 5-year-old community organization advancing racial equity in Jacksonville, hired its first CEO and announced plans to expand its efforts to end racism in the community.
One of those efforts was compiling 75 years of research looking back at decades of disparities and failed efforts to address them, according to the nonprofit and producing an eight-part series of progress reports, Race in Retrospect.
The introductory report, released Feb. 12, will be followed by weekly reports through February and March on progress in education, health, housing, justice and the legal system, employment, media and politics and civic engagement. We kept coming back to the same point we do not need another study. Our community has researched this subject for more than 70 years, said CEO Kimberly Allen. We know what the gaps are. We know where the challenges exist. We know where there is opportunity. Little has changed. Efforts advance, groups are forme
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Even if those latter data are Professor Richter’s source, post-election figures were murkier. NBC News found that non-Cuban Hispanics were split down the middle on Trump on Election Day [
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