• Florida Bar President Hank Coxe, of Jacksonville firm Bedell, Dittmar, DeVault, Pillans & Coxe, wasted little time before lobbying the U.S. congress. Shortly after assuming the reins at the Florida Bar, Coxe sent a letter to Florida’s Congressional Delegation asking for increased funding for Legal Services Corporation. The LSC disperses funds to legal aid organizations across the country. The LSC’s funding was cut in this year’s federal budget from $326 million to $313 million. Coxe asked for the funding to be bumped to $338 million. Coxe said Florida would lose out on near $600,000 if the cuts remain. Coxe said that would “severely cripple the Florida programs at a time when they are needed most.”
• Opponents of the Northbank Riverwalk extension are getting organized and their main concern is liability insurance — residents of one big condo claim that their cost will triple if they public is able to get so close to their building.
• Proponents of a new arena in Orlando are using Jacksonville as an example. When we got the NCAA basketball tournament’s first-round games in 2010 (Orlando didn’t, and also bid on them,) they said it was because we have a new building and they don’t.
• The state’s best junior boys golfers are here this week. The Florida championship runs through Wednesday at Timuquana.
• The Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art (JMOMA, as it’s better know) has a new director of development: she’s Jordan Boss. She replaces Sherry Hogan, who took another job. Boss was at the Sulzbacher Center.