Ex-Mayor Alvin Brown Tees Up Challenge to Lawson

Ex-Mayor Alvin Brown Tees Up Challenge to Lawson

Former Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown qualified Wednesday in his bid to unseat U.S. Rep. Al Lawson in a North Florida congressional race. Brown, 56, a Democrat who served from 2011 to 2015 as Jacksonville’s first African-American mayor, has already been campaigning aggressively against Lawson, a Tallahassee Democrat, for the Congressional District 5 seat. Brown slammed […]

Local U.S. Congressmen Work To Assist Veterans

Local U.S. Congressmen Work To Assist Veterans

Representing North Florida and the Panhandle, Republican U.S. Rep. Neal Dunn (FL-02) and Democrat U.S. Rep. Al Lawson (FL-05) sponsored, between the two of them, over a half dozen separate bills in the last six months to help veterans. On Nov. 9, Dunn introduced the “Supporting Veterans in STEM Careers Act,” a bill to expand […]