• Mayoral candidates Alvin Brown and Mike Hogan are set for a debate at the First Coast Tiger Bay Club. It’s April 15 at lunchtime at The University Club. “You won’t want to miss the two runoff candidates, Alvin Brown and Mike Hogan, present their vision for the future of Jacksonville and face the ‘fang and claw’ questioning of Tiger Bay,” says the club. Brown is a Democrat and Hogan is a Republican. Email [email protected].
• Southside Business Men’s Club members plan to board a bus this morning for a daylong trip to Tallahassee to meet with Reps. Daniel Davis, Doc Renuart, Lake Ray and Charles McBurney as well as Sen. Steve Wise. The club emphasizes that the 41-seat passenger bus has a restroom, right past the coolers.
• Interline Brands Chair and CEO Michael Grebe is up next at the Jacksonville Regional Chamber of Commerce CEO Nexus Forum at 7:30 a.m. May 26. It’s invitation-only. Information, email [email protected].
• The Winn-Dixie Foundation gave away almost $1.3 million to 81 charities throughout the Southeast where it operates stores.
• CoreLogic reports that the foreclosure rate among outstanding mortgage loans in the Jacksonville area was 8.42 percent in January, up 1.97 percentage points from January 2010 when the rate was 6.45 percent. Foreclosure activity in Jacksonville is higher than the national foreclosure rate of 3.63 percent.
• Correction: Former Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Mark Brunell is 40. His age was incorrect in a story Wednesday in the Daily Record. He turns 41 in September.