Jax2025: Turning Vision into Action
What kind of city do we want to create? The JAX2025 Initiative asked residents to participate in a visioning process by taking a survey and joining community meetings to discuss the future of the city...
View ArticleFirst Coast Forum: Human Trafficking
Host Melissa Ross and guests Dr. Lawanda Ravoira, Lieutenant Scott Dingee, Michelle Clowe, Michelle S. Klimt, Ericka Curran, and David Abramowitz discuss modern-day slavery: human beings sold into the...
View ArticleFirst Coast Forum: School-To-Prison Pipeline
Hosts Melissa Ross and Tarik Minor discuss a trend of children being removed from public schools and indirectly pushed into the juvenile justice system in this First Coast Forum: School-To-Prison...
View ArticleFirst Coast Forum: Deepening the St. Johns River
Co-hosts Melissa Ross (WJCT), and Kent Justice (WJXT4 The Local Station/News4Jax) along with a panel of guests examine the pros and cons of the initiative to dredge the St. Johns River down to a depth...
View ArticleFirst Coast Forum: Breaking Through Stigma – A Conversation About Mental Health
The Jacksonville Community Council has identified mental-health treatment as an area in need of improvement on the First Coast. This hour-long program will focus on barriers people with mental illness...
View ArticleFirst Coast Forum: Violent Crime
First Coast Forum: Violent Crime” is a look at Jacksonville’s violent crime rate and what’s being done to lower it.
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