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by IM Member Steve Spudic Published in The Florida Times-Union Letters to the Editor, January 25, 2026 Renee Nicole Good was recently shot to death in her own car in Minneapolis. The exact, nanosecond-by-nanosecond sequence of car movement, direction and the location of ICE agent Jonathan Ross may never be fully known. Meanwhile, assertions of murder, self-defense and automobile “weaponization” are being traded. A very similar situation transpired in Jacksonville. In 2012, Michael Dunn fired...

By Mayor Donna Deegan In the final days of 2025, I want to take a moment to reflect on what we’ve accomplished together. This has been a year of moving Jacksonville forward.   We’ve been laser focused on affordability. More than 6,000 below market rate housing units are completed or in progress. Our nation-leading telehealth program for uninsured patients has saved millions in emergency room costs. And we launched the Duval Care Coalition to ensure that neighbors in need have food to put on...

By Indivisible Mandarin Member William Voohees, PhD In the pre-dawn darkness of January 3, 2026, as B-1B Lancer bombers streaked across Venezuelan airspace and Delta Force operators descended on the presidential palace in Caracas, a curious stillness emanated from the Russian military compounds scattered throughout the capital. The Equator Task Force, Moscow's elite military contingent, tasked with defending the Maduro regime, remained conspicuously in their barracks. The sophisticated...