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City council approves measure to move proposed gas tax money away from Skyway, Florida Times-Union reports The council passed the amendment to the proposed gas tax increase by an overwhelming margin of 16-2, the newspaper reported. Author: First Coast News Staff Published: 10:00 PM EDT May 12, 2021 Updated: 10:00 PM EDT May 12, 2021 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville City Council approved a measure to reduce the amount of money given to the Jacksonville Transportation Authority for the Skyway, according to the Florida Times-Union. The counc...

POLITICO Get the Florida Playbook Newsletter Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Hello and welcome to Tuesday. It’s all about the stimulus, stupid — Democrats have already hammered Gov. Ron DeSantis for failing to note how the money he’s relying on this summer to hand out $1,000 bonuses to police officers, firefigh...

Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics — 5.10.21 Good Monday morning. Cody McCloud, press secretary to Gov. Ron DeSantis, is exiting the comms shop to become Legislative Affairs Director at the Department of Business and Professional Regulation. ___ State Rep. Ben Diamond is entering the race for Florida’s 13th Congressional District — a seat being vacated by incumbent Charlie Crist, who jumped into the 2022 gubernatorial contest Tuesday. The St. Petersburg Democrat is set to make the announcement today at USF St. Pete, where he will be joine...

COMMENTARY | The Skyway, downtown’s screeching monorail imposter, is Jacksonville’s troubled soul taken physical form, as if some higher power, to teach us a lesson, imbued all this city’s neuroses into a single, tangible, unsolvable thing: The Skyway is too expensive to maintain; it’s too expensive to tear down; it’s too expensive to modernize. The mercurial citizenry hates all the options. The path of least resistance is and has always been to simply look the other way. And this, not by coincidence, is the Jacksonville Way. We took the money from the feds for the Skyway in the 198...