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April 27, 2024
09:45 am | 6 min read
Don Rosenthal listens to a question from
Councilman Jake Hill.
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April 25, 2024
07:30 am | 2 min read
LAKE CITY, FL –
Friday afternoon, April 26, 2024, the
City Manager candidates will be
answering questions presented to them by
the Council members. The Council members
will alternate with questions prepared
by HR Director BillyJo Bible.
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April 24, 2024
01:30 pm
LAKE CITY, FL –
As the Lake City City Manager search shifts into
its last two days, keeping up with the final
schedule may, at times, be confusing. The
schedule has been revised five times in the past
month, and the month is not over.
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April 24, 2024
07:30 am | 3 min readLAKE CITY, FL –
The bizarre antics of a City Council that has
become the admitted laughing stock of Florida –
and beyond – continues today with a guided tour
of the two final candidates by retired prison
guard and City Councilman Ricky Jernigan: the
itinerary – a mystery.
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April 16,
2024 6:30 am | 7 min read
Tallahassee –
Florida's ethically challenged Commission on
Ethics is poised to waive a $1,500 fine for
one of its commissioners. The commission
would give a colleague a free pass.
The
appearance of a conflict is obvious, and
the conflict is real.
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April 12, 2024
3:30 pm | 11 min read
ALACHUA COUNTY, FL – This week, the
CareerSource Florida Crown (Region 7) saga moved
from Columbia County to Alachua County (Region
9). A series of events involving Florida Crown
(financial investigations, a mutiny by the
executive director and his staff, sexual
harassment redefined, and state agencies that
finally said ‘no mas’ and ordered FL Crown to
turn over its finances to District 9 (Alachua)),
put some of the problems of FL Crown in the lap
of CareerSource North Central Florida, aka,
Alachua County.
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April 7, 2024
4:30 pm | 14 min read
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – The top management at
CareerSource Florida Crown again demonstrated
its dysfunctionality this past Wednesday when
the organization's IT Director, Ron Jones,
couldn't get its special meeting to kick off on
time.
Attendees from FloridaCommerce, CareerSource
Florida, board members, and members of the
public logged into the meeting. Then, the
Florida Crown IT broke down and couldn’t get the
meeting running.
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March 28, 2024
2:00 pm | 11 min read
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FLORIDA –
The recent troubles at CareerSource
Florida Crown: bookkeeping issues;
website out of compliance with its
agreement with the state; failure to
properly notice meetings and an illegal
walkout of the executive director along
with the entire administrative staff
would have some Florida Crown defenders
calling them "technical" issues.
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March 27, 2024
3:45 pm | 2 min read
LAKE CITY, FL –
The Lake City City Manager race is now down to
two finalists: Lake City Police Chief Gerald
Butler and former Pasco Assistant County
Administrator
Don Rosenthal.
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March 25, 2024
7:00 am | 2 min read
FLORIDA –
As the nation observes National Medal of
Honor Day, facilities in Florida and
Texas are under construction to serve as
perpetual memorials commemorating the
heroic actions of recipients for their
valor and sacrifice.
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March 20, 2024
9:35 am | 7 min read
LAKE CITY, FL – The latest Lake City City
Manager search took another confusing step on
Monday night when, out of the blue, the City
Clerk provided the City Council with a tentative
timetable and interview schedule for the three
City Manager candidates.
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March 18, 2024
7:45 am | 5 min read
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FLORIDA – CareerSource FL
Crown Executive Director Robert Jones led FL
Crown staff walkout, shutting down the
administrative functions of the four-county
workforce special district – Columbia, Dixie,
Gilchrist, Union.
As reported earlier, on Monday,
March 11, 2024, the entire administrative staff
followed Executive Director Robert Jones out the
door.
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March 16, 2024
2:30 pm | 4 min read
LAKE CITY, FL – On September 13, 2023,
Sylvester Warren III filed a complaint with the
Florida Commission on Ethics against City Clerk
Audrey Sikes. The events surrounding this
complaint began in June 2023. On March 13, 2024,
the Ethics Commission dismissed Mr. Warren's
complaint.
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April 18,
2024 8:05 am | 3 min read
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Feb. 22, 2024 9:30 am | 5 min read
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February 8,
2024 12:30 pm | 3 min read
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January 27, 2024 7:15 am | 2 min read
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January 15, 2024 5:00 am | 5 min read
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January 10, 2024 1:00 pm | 2 min read
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Dec.
28, 2023 09:35 am | 2 min read
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Dec. 14, 2023 9:45 am | 3 min read
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Dec. 12, 2023 3:10 pm | 5 min read
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December
7, 2023 7:00 am | 2 min read
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