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Sometimes a jar of water is worth a thousand words. It's a vividly bright spring day, but even the mid-day sunlight cannot penetrate the liquid in the jar whose murky water came from a failed well at a house on Cordial Drive, a short street in Jacksonville where residents say they've felt forgotten when it comes to basic city services. Think a snow globe that tourist shops sell, but instead of swirling white particles suspended in liquid, the jar of water is full of heavy dark materials that eventually settle into a fingertip-thick layer at the bottom. When City Council member Danny Bect...

OPINION Eastside needs a trust fund I remember attending a city function years ago and talking with a City Council member about the city being unable to fund various projects, citing lack of revenue. This council person said, “Don’t you believe that. We can always find the money.” That statement, I believe, is still true today, especially when the administration and 12 council members supported the give-away of more than $230 million for one project. Now that the Lot J project is gone and we know that the city was willing and able to accept  a ROI of 44 cents on the dollar it’s time ...

Randy White After the defeat, Jaguars President Mark Lamping told media that future talks of development on Lot J are off the table. "I think it's time to turn the page on Lot J," Lamping said. "We'll leave that behind and, as I said, the next step was going to be development of the Shipyards. We're going to focus our attention on that." Development on the Shipyards property, directly across Bay Street from Lot J, would go through the Downtown Investment Authority (DIA), Lamping said. The Lot J deal bypassed DIA, and was negotiated solely between the office of Mayor Lenny Curry and the Jags d...

Jaguars owner Shad Khan encountered a setback Tuesday in his bid to build his Lot J development next to TIAA Bank Field.

Mayor Curry: ‘Vendetta over vision’ led to failure of Lot J deal Updated:  Tags:  Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry and Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan announce plans for Lot J. (Copyright 2020 by WJXT News4Jax - All rights reserved.) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Hours after the Jacksonville City Council voted down a proposed deal to build a major entertainment complex in the shadow of the Jaguars’ stadium, Mayor Lenny Curry said personal vendettas against him and his administration were to blame. “You had vendetta over vision last night,” Curry said Wednesday morning on 1010XL sports...