• Earlier this summer, the board of directors of the Jacksonville Regional Chamber of Commerce voted to use the Jacksonville Chamber Foundation scholarship fund to pay for several people from the mayor’s office to attend this year’s Leadership Jacksonville trips. Chamber President Wally Lee has asked Mayor John Peyton to submit five members of the executive branch for the Charleston trip and two for the trip to China.
• Gov. Charlie Crist is the scheduled speaker at the Northside Business Leaders Club’s annual installation of officers and elected officials. The meeting is Sept. 20 at the Clarion Hotel near the airport.
• Attorney Maria Aguila will move her law practice offices Sept. 1. She’s moving to the Lamp Post Professional Office Building in Riverside.
• The City’s new TV show didn’t make the cut at the first Finance Committee budget hearing. However, special assistant to the mayor Rene Brust isn’t giving up. She’s asked Council President Daniel Davis for 10 minutes of his time to talk about the show.
• The Council’s research office used to photocopy newspaper clippings pertaining to City business and distribute them to the Council members. No more. For now on, they’ll be posted on an internal City Web site in a folder called, quite appropriately, “Newspaper Clipping.”
• Ch. 12/25 anchor Mark Spain has moved over to Ch. 30/47 where he’ll team up with Paige Kelton. The two will anchor the station’s 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts.
• Correction: The article, “FCSL wins second statewide moot court competition of the summer” in the Aug. 20 issue of the Daily Record did not include that moot court team members Jason Sexton and Jamica Littles won “Best Overall Team Advocates,” Littles also won “Best Overall Advocate” and team member Ryan Trumm won “Best Brief Writer” at the E. Zehmer Moot Court competition earlier this month.
• Did you know? Attorney Barbara Jane League was one of the first five students to graduate from both Washington and Lee University and Washington and Lee University School of Law in the early 1990s.
“There are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years, and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.”
– Socrates, in a speech to the jury during his trial on charges of impiety and corrupting the youth.