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Winners & Losers: Angela Corey, Jennifer Carroll and Wayne McLeod

Winners & Losers: Angela Corey, Jennifer Carroll and Wayne McLeod

WINNERS: Angela Corey, for sticking around to do the job that voters elected her to do, and former McCollum supporter State Representative Jennifer Carroll of District 3, for bridging some gaps. The new State Attorney recently got an offer from the Rick...
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Winners & Losers: Incumbents, Jim Furyk

Winners & Losers: Incumbents, Jim Furyk

A casino firm called Jacks or Better is aiming to replace Sun Cruz as the local offshore gambling operation. The new firm’s boat is having work finished at shipyards in Green Cove Springs, where Cruz’s ships are also docked, pending the outcome...
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Winners & Losers: Jim Greer, Corrine Brown

Winners & Losers: Jim Greer, Corrine Brown

The whole state is tired of you-know-who and you-know-who-else by now, who are more annoying than BASE jumpers were when I was previously employed as a jetpack steeplejack. From the peanut gallery, Lisa Nowak, the wacky astronaut, was in Jacksonville...
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Winners & Losers: Richard Clark, Stephen Joost and Nelson Cuba

Winners & Losers: Richard Clark, Stephen Joost and Nelson Cuba

Politician A is a crook! Politician B is a political insider and therefore an even bigger crook! No, no, you don’t get it… A’s former company was totally mismanaged and screwed up! Oh yeah, well… B is an old stodgy career politician,...
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Winners & Losers: The FCAT, Area Food Banks

Winners & Losers: The FCAT, Area Food Banks

July is over and August is upon us. With football right around the corner, the very slow decline in average temperatures has finally begun! Let’s see who was up and who was down this week… BAND OF LOSERS: Four Nassau County department heads...
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Winners & Losers: EverBank, Jim Overton

Winners & Losers: EverBank, Jim Overton

It’s the middle of summer and it’s really hot…and what’s with this apocalyptic rain we’ve been getting recently? I almost floated halfway down Beach Blvd on Thursday. Well, maybe it’ll take care of some of the hot air,...
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Winners & Losers: Ed Waters College, St. Johns River

Winners & Losers: Ed Waters College, St. Johns River

Readers who haven’t been hiding under a rock somewhere might notice that it’s been really hot outside lately. Too bad World Cup is over, because it gave us an excuse to stay inside with the air conditioning. In case you weren’t paying...
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