• The Rotary Club of Jacksonville is asking its members to kick in $1,000 each for a campaign against polio and so far they’ve raised $136,000. Several gave in more than the requested amount including Bill Gay, who’s a member of the West Jacksonville club but gave a grand for each of the W.W. Gay Inc. members in the downtown club.
• Two different perspectives on the mayor’s office’s media room, which has been moved outside the mayor’s fourth-floor office suites with a locked door in between. Mayor John Peyton calls it the media “office.” City Hall reporter Mary Kelli Palka of The Florida Times- Union calls it the media’s “cage.”
• The Super Bowl Host Committee is tallying up the exposure the game generated for Jacksonville. In all, 3,819 media credentials were given out to reporters representing 738 different companies from 18 countries. Television reporters took the most, more than 1,600; followed by newspaper writers with 787; radio with 612; and magazine with 155. Internet publications got 80.
• Minutes before the City Council began its workshop dedicated to the proposed Shipyards redevelopment agreement, competing business in the Council chambers was just wrapping up. Greenland Pines Elementary School students, who were touring City Hall, were being led by Council member Glorious Johnson in a rousing rendition of “If You’re Happy and You Know it.”
• New faces in the City’s General Counsel’s Office: Litigators Collette Cunningham and Phyllis Wiley started earlier this month.
• City Council member Pat Lockett-Felder deferred legislation that would record Council members’ attendance at regular Council and committee meetings Wednesday afternoon. Despite bill sponsor Art Shad’s insistence that the bill is self-explanatory, Lockett-Felder said she would need more questions answered before she would allow the Rules Committee, which she chairs, to take action on the pending legislation.
• Good news for Florida attorneys: The state is looking at legislation that would help cover a good chunk of student loans that were taken out to pay for law school.
• Bet you didn’t know there was a professional wrestling league which does it the real way — not the gaudy TV shows you see. One of the stars is Chris Bono, who was a state champ at Bolles. He’s now the leader of the Chicago Groove.