• City communications chief Susie Wiles said it’s taking “longer than we anticipated” to hire for three of the top jobs, including deputy director, at the Jacksonville Economic Development Commission. The hires were originally expected by the start of October, then mid-month. Wiles said Executive Director Kirk Wendland and commission chair Ceree Harden were “anxious to form a team that is the best it can be.”
• Ch. 4. anchor Joyce Morgan is leaving the station at the end of the week. No word on her next venture, but her husband, Urban League president Richard Danford, says she’s going on to “bigger and better things.”
• Mayor John Peyton announced at the Urban League luncheon Wednesday the Mayor’s Book Club, his literacy advancement group for four-year-olds, now has more than 7,600 members. Peyton then added one more member: he presented Marc Morial, the national president and CEO of the Urban League, with an official Mayor’s Book Club bookbag and made him an honorary member.
• Former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, who gained national attention when he refused to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the Alabama Judicial Building, will speak at Westside Baptist Church Sunday morning at 10:30 a.m. The event is free and open to the public.
• Supervisor of Elections spokesperson Erin Moody says she’s been flooded with calls from Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” a satirical news program. “They want to interview me, but I keep saying ‘no,’ ” she said. “‘They just want to try to make me look like an idiot on television and I’m smarter than that.’”
• Another City Council member may be considering a run for the supervisor of elections job. While in San Diego for the Chamber’s Leadership Trip, Art Graham was reportedly discussing it with some colleagues, but declined comment when asked.
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