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Pandemic could put Jaguars’ traditions on ‘timeout’

September 24, 2020

Lindsey Nolen Remember the basketball game HORSE? Well, on Thursday nights during the National Football League regular season the Jacksonville Jaguars’ offensive line comes together for their own version of the game, “CAT.” They’ve also been known to play a game of Rock Band or two. This is because on Thursdays after practice, Center Brandon Linder typically hosts the OL

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Big Top Brawl

January 17, 2012

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Hey, kids: The circus is coming to town! I bet you can’t wait, right? Sure — we’ve have all had some type of fascination with circuses at some time in our lives. The visual spectacle of exotic animals and aerial artistry makes a profound impact on kids’ minds, often the

Over the Rainbow

January 17, 2012

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Written by: Anne Schindler As Folio Weekly reported last week, there is a move afoot to extend the city’s anti-discrimination laws to include gays and lesbians (http://bit.ly/wj9XOY). Such a move is long overdue. Jacksonville is the only major metro area in Florida that doesn’t protect gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered

Watershed Moment

January 17, 2012

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Susan Cooper Eastman After years of butting heads with St. Johns Riverkeeper Neil Armingeon, a JEA executive couldn’t resist the chance to take one last dig. Acknowledging the longtime Riverkeeper’s imminent departure at the group’s annual Christmas party, the official joked, “Maybe now JEA and the Riverkeeper can work together.”

Right of Passage

January 17, 2012

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There are certain milestone events like graduation, marriage and the birth of a child that mark our transition through the stages of adulthood. For a conservative Republican like me who’s also a newly minted member of Jacksonville’s City Council, one particularly discomfiting — but probably inevitable — milestone event was

Sins of Commission

January 3, 2012

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Anne Schindler It was no virgin birth. The Jacksonville Economic Development Commission was spawned during an orgy of corporate welfare the likes of which would put Ron Jeremy to shame. The creation of the agency, by then-Mayor John Delaney, was designed to apply both control and focus to the practice

The University is Expanding

December 27, 2011

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Susan Cooper Eastman The campus of the University of North Florida has grown dramatically in the past decade, adding, renovating or overhauling dozens of buildings, a construction boom that has rendered the campus almost unrecognizable to even recent alumni. But the school is expanding in other ways — beyond the

Person of the Year: Peter Rummell

December 27, 2011

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Anne Schindler Peter Rummell has been a prominent figure on the Northeast Florida landscape for years — as a developer with the powerful St. Joe Company, a behind-the-scenes player in the secretive Non Group (now the Jacksonville Civic Council), a rainmaker for the GOP. None of those is the reason

Lazy Boys

December 27, 2011

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In today’s musical climate, there might not seem to be much of a market for cheeky surf-punk and white-boy joke-rap. But that hasn’t stopped St. Augustine quartet Boredom from reigniting their ’90s-fueled flame. Longtime friends and Oldest City music staples Gibby Gwiazda, Tom Derringer, Tony Lippi and Jeremy Rogers reunited

Dog Daze

December 20, 2011

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On Sunday, Nov. 27, my life and that of my two daughters changed forever. We witnessed our family dog Benjamin being killed. Around 8 that morning, a fight started between two of my dogs, Capone and Ben. I screamed out for help, knowing it was more than I could handle

Rhymes with Lumb

December 20, 2011

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Jacksonville City Councilmember Robin Lumb is no environmental expert — he acknowledged as much at Tuesday night’s council meeting. And he generously attributed his gaps in knowledge to all of his colleagues, urging them to leave environmental matters to the experts — the legislative equivalent of “don’t worry your pretty