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2 weeks ago | 
tcpalm.com | Grace Pateras |Mark Woods |Rick Christie
Readers and Florida state parks enthusiasts:We're hosting an "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) on Reddit as part of a campaign by the USA Today Network – Florida Opinion Group to support Senate Bill 80 and protect Florida's state parks from development. Our team of Opinion journalists wants to make sure that the bill makes it to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ desk and is signed into law.
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2 weeks ago | 
palmbeachpost.com | Grace Pateras |Mark Woods |Rick Christie
Readers and Florida state parks enthusiasts:We're hosting an "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) on Reddit as part of a campaign by the USA Today Network – Florida Opinion Group to support Senate Bill 80 and protect Florida's state parks from development. Our team of Opinion journalists wants to make sure that the bill makes it to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ desk and is signed into law.
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2 months ago | 
jacksonville.com | Mark Woods
Mark WoodsJacksonville Florida Times-UnionWhen the jury duty summons arrived in the mail, I’ll be honest, my initial reaction was: Can I get out of this? I looked at my calendar and couldn’t think of any legitimate excuses. Plus, seeing that it required me to be at the Duval County Courthouse at 8 a.m. on a Monday, typically a day I’m scrambling to come up with a column, led to a second reaction: I won’t have to write something that day.
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2 months ago | 
jacksonville.com | Eileen Kelley |Mark Woods
Eileen Kelley, Mark WoodsJacksonville Florida Times-Union(Editor's note: This story originally appeared on Jacksonville.com in May 2019.)The last time Katherine Helms flew home she had gone into premature labor. She was having contractions. She had to be medevaced off Cuba. That trip had a happy ending. Her pregnancy went to full term.
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2 months ago | 
jacksonville.com | Mark Woods
We’re in the final week of a Duval County Public Schools campaign — “Be Safe. Be Seen” — designed to help keep students safe when they’re walking or biking to and from school. The campaign, with classroom instruction for students and PSA-style videos on social media, wraps up Friday. But sadly the strongest reminder of why this issue is important — why it has to be something we continue to work on beyond this week— came the Friday before the campaign launched.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
jacksonville.com | Mark Woods
Mark WoodsJacksonville Florida Times-UnionAt 2:51 p.m. on Jan. 6, 2021 — shortly after rioters overwhelmed security and began pouring into the United States Capitol — Rep. John Rutherford posted a strong statement on social media. The lawlessness taking place here in our nation’s capital is unacceptable and un-American. You cannot say you stand for law and order and then act this way. Pray for our law enforcement as they secure the area and keep us safe.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
jacksonville.com | Mark Woods
Mark WoodsJacksonville Florida Times-UnionIn 2010, Trevor Lawrence was 10 years old, Barack Obama was president, the minimum wage in Florida was $7.25, the median price of an existing home in Jacksonville was $141,000 and the garbage fee was $12.65 a month. At the time, even though that fee had just doubled, it still was less than many other cities. And while it still didn’t quite cover the actual cost of collecting the garbage, it at least came close.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Mark Woods
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Grab your . We’re going to be making some changes to our maps. You may have heard that President-elect Donald Trump held a press conference at Mar-a-Lago and said he has big plans for when he moves back into the White House — including renaming the water off the west coast of Florida. “We’re going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring that covers a lot of territory,” he said. “Gulf of America.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
jacksonville.com | Mark Woods
Mark WoodsJacksonville Florida Times-UnionA few years ago, OneJax contacted Jimmy Carter to see if he would write a letter for the local nonprofit’s annual humanitarian awards.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
jacksonville.com | Mark Woods
Mark WoodsJacksonville Florida Times-Union“Why We Love Football,” the latest book by my friend Joe Posnanski, came out this fall. As is the case with all of Joe’s work, it’s a great read. But in recent football seasons — and this one in particular — I’ve been thinking something I know will be blasphemy in these parts: I don’t love football. Or at least not like I used to. Ever since I was a kid, I guess I’ve had a love-hate relationship with football.
