• Many of the Daily Billboards this week will be strongly political as the Democratic Party has rented them to make sure the Republican convention doesn’t get all the attention.
• The Jacksonville Suns moved their Friday night game to the afternoon to avoid a conflict with the Jaguars’ game, and Rep. Dick Kravitz recalled the first time that was done. He was the general manager of the team in 1974 and moved his game to avoid a conflict with the old Sharks of the World Football League. Kravitz’s crowd was big — he staged a man vs. horse race in the outfield before the game. The horse won. Incidentally, so did Kravitz, who gets another term without opposition and he’s having his victory party tonight at a Mandarin restaurant.
• Florida Supreme Court Justice Kenneth B. Bell will be the guest speaker at the Christian Legal Society’s Sept. 10 luncheon. The luncheon begins at 12:15 p.m. at Drayton’s in the Seminole Club. Reservations can be made through Jane Arnold at [email protected] or by calling 387-5400, Ext. 34.
• The elections office knows where new candidates for registration are — they had a table set up outside the courtroom last week where 47 became U.S. citizens during a naturalization ceremony.
• The Sunflower Trolley Line is now dropping off passengers every 10 minutes at the corner of Adams Street and A. Philip Randolph Boulevard, which makes it mighty convenient for those who want to have lunch at the Amsterdam Sky Cafe. The cafe has also combined its lunch and dinner menus.
• During all Jacksonville Jaguars away games, including this Thursday’s tilt at New England, the AM-1460 radio sports talk show “The Real Deal” with ex-Jags Tom McManus and Dave Widell will broadcast from Southend Brewery at the Landing. Brewery director of operations Rob Egan said the deal was put together earlier this month.
• The Florida Department of Transportation began laying asphalt for a new, six-lane Riverside Avenue late last week. That could mean the project has just passed the point of no return for opponents, who want a landscaped, four-lane corridor. Riverside/Avondale Preservation Chair Trip Stanly, who said legal action might be necessary to stop construction, told the DDA last week that “the party was over” once asphalt went down. Stanly immediately fired off an e-mail to Mayor John Peyton, pleading with him to help stop construction. Peyton’s main concern is keeping the adjacent I-10 interchange project on schedule.
• The City is considering a new pay range for the vacant library director job. The new range could pay up to $130,000 annually. Former director Ken Sivulich made $116,000 per, a figure that’s probably too low to attract the best national candidates, according to the library board and a recruiter hired to lead the search.
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