Though the payoff is millions less than a few years ago, Jacksonville nonprofits still line up for public service grants that City Hall uses to support dozens of charities.
Whether that makes sense is an open question.
"What we have right now is the peanut-butter approach" to spending money, said Cindy Funkhouser, CEO of the Sulzbacher Center for the homeless. "They're trying to spread it thin, and a lot of times that isn't what's really needed."
A City Council member is weighing ways to change the grant system — and finding it's not simple.
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The controversial detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, could be closed and the 166 detainees being held there could be absorbed safely by U.S. prisons, a government report says.
One month after being clobbered by the largest storm ever recorded in the North Atlantic, it's becoming a little clearer just how big an economic impact Superstorm Sandy is having.
The struggling U.S. Postal Service on Thursday reported an annual loss of a record $15.9 billion — more than triple its $5.1 billion loss last year.
New mobile phone app tracks if moviegoer used phone during feature, and sends them a digital discount coupon if they refrained.
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