First Coast Connect: Government expert Chris Hand

Airport travel begins to collapse after hundreds of TSA agents quit and thousands more call out. We talk about the growing airport crush and the ICE “solution” underway, as well as a slate of local legislative priorities that did and did not pass muster in our monthly conversation with government expert and Jacksonville attorney Chris Hand. We also discuss how GOP-led redistricting efforts could backfire on Republicans and how a Florida House proposal to decrease property taxes would cost the City of Jacksonville nearly $400 million a year. Guest: Chris Hand, local government expert, attorney and co-author with the late Sen. Bob Graham of America, the Owner's Manual. Missing images of Black Jacksonville A rare collection of recently unearthed photographs shows Black Jacksonville as we’ve never seen it before. We ask a local archivist who helped bring the project to light about its significance — including the discovery of a photo he says is the oldest known picture of the historic Ritz Theatre in LaVilla. The collection, gathered by Riverside Avondale Preservation, was culled from the dusty archives of the Jacksonville property appraiser — some 87 pages of city guidelines from 1930s, featuring the buildings and people of the period. Guest: Mitch Hemann, archivist at the Ritz Theatre and MuseumSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.