The Florida Supreme Court upheld a decision by a Duval circuit judge that rejected relief for a Death Row inmate – despite ...

Removing the Rodman Dam once again proved to be one of the most intractable environmental issues in Florida, one that has flummoxed governors, federal bureaucrats, political operatives and activists ...

Christopher Hong is a freelance contributor to The Tributary. He was an investigative and beat reporter for The Florida Times-Union, where he wrote about city government, public corruption, and ...

Mary Beech is The Tributary’s Investigative Reporting Fellow for summer 2025. She is a student at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism in New York City, and has written stories on housing, ...

Curtis Lee, a frequent public-records filer, originally sued State Attorney Melissa Nelson’s office in 2020 for what he ...

Rep. Vicki Lopez asked Rep. Angie Nixon to make an introduction for her son to Duval County school officials to help BusPatrol. Lopez’s son, Donny Wolfe, had recently joined BusPatrol as VP of ...

Edward Waters University [The Tributary] Felicia Wider-Lewis was grading the final assignments for her spring classes at Edward Waters University when her phone started buzzing. She needed to read the ...

Reed’s arrest received widespread attention and condemnation. The investigation The internal investigation – which involved the interviews of 11 officers – concluded that the two men who stripped and ...

The Jacksonville City Council maps from the 1981, 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2022 redistricting cycles. [The Tributary] Misunderstood legal principles, incumbency protection and a willingness to ignore ...