TALLAHASSEE — While state officials are working to cut over $2 billion from the upcoming 2009 budget – including via cuts in state education spending – a Florida TaxWatch Center for Educational Performance and Accountability report released today finds that there are tremendous cost-savings opportunities from within the state education system through the elimination [...]
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A website created by the Florida Department of Transportation gives you traffic information for I-95 fromt he Georgia line south through Jacksonville, St. Augustine, and Palm Coast to Flagler Beach. The site tells of construction projects and travel alerts throughout the area. It also allows you to look at key areas through traffics cameras.
The site [...]
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Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) announced a presidential campaign swing through parts of the country where he grew up - including Jacksonville. He calls it his “Service to America Tour,” and he will visit Mississippi today, and Virginia, Maryland, and Arizona, as well as Florida, this week.
The Jacksonville rally will be held on Thursday, April 3, [...]
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School bus drivers employed by First Student rallied yesterday saying they want to be represented by the Teamsters. Here’s their statement:
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., March 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — First Student school bus drivers joined with area Teamsters today to rally outside of Jacksonville’s largest bus yard to demand fair wages, improved benefits, safe conditions for themselves and [...]
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Our weekly gas price update:
Jacksonville
Regular
Mid
Premium
Diesel
Current
$3.304
$3.579
$3.645
$4.034
Yesterday
$3.292
$3.566
$3.632
$4.033
Month Ago
$3.213
$3.480
$3.544
$3.644
Year Ago
$2.573
$2.788
$2.839
$2.756
Highest [...]
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