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Times-Union Explains Mobile Strategy Aimed at All Cell Phone Users
If you have a smart phone, The Florida Times-Union has an app for you. Five of them. The newspaper's Jacksonville.com offers apps for Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, and Windows Mobile phones and has one on the way for the Palm webOS. | Life sentence in slaying of Georgia judge
JESUP, Ga., Sept. 5 (UPI) -- A jury has sentenced the killer of a Georgia municipal judge to life in prison without parole, sparing him from the death penalty. Capital punishment - Life imprisonment - Jury - Crime and Justice - Death Penalty | Jacksonville councilman seeking Jennifer Carroll's old seat
It appears Jacksonville City Councilman Daniel Davis could be the front-runner to fill the seat being left by state Rep. Jennifer Carroll, who is running for lieutenant governor. Davis, the current chair of the council’s finance committee, is the first to throw his hat into the ring, and is positioned well because Duval County Republicans will have a big say in who fills the seat. “I just think ... | In N.F.L., Key Battles Will Be Off the Field
The N.F.L., with falling franchise values, and its players, facing a lockout in 2011, are running out of time to find common ground. | SMG returns $22K to Jacksonville after audit; no fraud found
Jacksonville needs to tighten its oversight and clarify some language in its contract with SMG to run EverBank Field and other city venues, a nearly yearlong audit found. The audit did not find any fraud, though it did result in SMG paying the city $22,000 for duplicate expenses. In the last budget year, the city subsidized $10.7 million for SMG to run the various facilities. The company has run ... | SMG repays city of Jacksonville $22,000, although audit finds no ripoffs
A yearlong audit of the company running Jacksonville’s sports and entertainment venues found some contract and oversight issues but not the “ripping off the taxpayers” the former local general manager said was there. As a result of the report, made public Thursday, SMG reimbursed the city $22,000, more than half of which was for costs of employees who were paid for by the city but worked on non ... | Rants & Raves: Jacksonville could use its own fun parks
I had to laugh when I read the Jack section in last Friday's paper. It was a two-page article about the fun roller coasters of Central Florida: Busch Gardens, Walt Disney World, Universal Studios and SeaWorld. Last November, I wrote a "Letter to the Editor." ... My letter stated that the Times-Union proved my point that there is nothing fun to do in Jacksonville. ... This would be a good time ... | Private equity players bet big on Florida banks
By Jeff Harrington, Times Staff Writer Friday, September 3, 2010 Dan Healy and his old friend John Kanas have covered a lot of common ground since their North Fork Bank in Long Island, N.Y., became part of Capital One a few years ago. Both jumped into Florida banking by matching private equity dollars with fizzling banks. Kanas' group bought the failed BankUnited last year and recapitalized what ... | Ritz Chamber Music Society wants help from Jacksonville on-line voters
Jacksonville's Ritz Chamber Music Society is competing with more than 1,000 other non-profits for grants from Pepsi's Refresh Project. Pepsi is giving away about $1.3 million each month, with the money going to organizations selected through on-line voting. The Ritz organization is competing for a $50,000 grant which it would use for musical outreach programs to inner city schools, said artistic ... | Chamber’s health-care council begins mission
The Jacksonville Regional Chamber of Commerce’s newly created health-care council drew 175 people to its first meeting Thursday. The sector employs one out of six Jacksonville area residents and represents billions of dollars in economic impact a year, experts say. The group is intended to raise the industry’s profile further and encourage more interaction between public and private health ... |
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