Mark Woods
Florida Times-Union
Jacksonville, FL, United States
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Mark Woods: A strange feeling about Jacksonville's riverfront — optimism
Is being optimistic about Jacksonville's riverfront like Charlie Brown believing Lucy when she says this time she won't pull the ball away? → Read More
Why I'm not getting sentimental about Times-Union buildings coming down
As the old Times-Union buildings come down at 1 Riverside Avenue, I've been surprised to feel ... almost nothing. → Read More
Mark Woods: We're busy paying attention to gas prices in Florida, ignoring signs about groundwater
The focus of this year's World Water Day is quite relevant in our region: groundwater. And Florida uses more than anyone east of the Mississippi. → Read More
Mark Woods: The time to act on Jacksonville's riverfront is now
It's time to do more than talk about great riverfront parks in Jacksonville. It's time to act. → Read More
Florida’s summer COVID wave leaves Jacksonville gasping: 'It’s like the floodgates broke open'
As Florida sees its worst of the COVID pandemic, exhaustion, anxiety and frustration push Jacksonville to its limits. Fear looms about what's to come. → Read More
A day of life and death in a COVID hotspot: Jacksonville
A look inside UF Health Jacksonville, a local mortuary and outside a Regeneron clinic as Jacksonville battles COVID-19. → Read More
A day of life and death in a COVID hotspot: Jacksonville
A look inside UF Health Jacksonville, a local mortuary and outside a Regeneron clinic as Jacksonville battles COVID-19. → Read More
Mark Woods: Get in line behind Dr. Haley. Get vaccinated.
It felt like we had turned the corner. So this latest COVID surge, making Jacksonville one of the nation's hotspots, is particularly demoralizing. → Read More
Mark Woods: Pay-go, penny slots and something good for business — not leading nation in COVID
News and notes: Borrowing to build for Jaguars, remembering Dad and slots, hoping for something good for Florida business — not leading U.S. in COVID. → Read More
Mark Woods: Nothing completely prepared Andy Hyatt for his new job — town manager of Surfside
Andy Hyatt, former Neptune Beach city manager, started a new job at the end of 2020: town manager of Surfside. → Read More
Lost in Surfside, Florida: Cristina Beatriz Elvira, Leon Oliwkowicz followed family from Venezuela
The couple, parents of four and grandparents of 11, came to South Florida from Venezuela and were active in the local Jewish community. → Read More
Mark Woods: When it comes to handling sewage, Florida is a sludge show
For nearly 15 years, South Florida has been putting tons of "biosolids" in trucks and sending it north. As public policy goes, it's a sludge show. → Read More
Mark Woods: From state Legislature to Florida State University, Thrasher creates bright futures
The FSU president was tactfully critical when asked about Sen. Dennis Baxley's plan to reduce Bright Futures scholarships. → Read More
Mark Woods: For the past year, T-U photographer has been collecting mask shots
During a year of COVID, Times-Union photographer Bob Self kept adding to a collection of photos: people of Northeast Florida wearing masks. → Read More
Mark Woods: Make sure it doesn't turn into the World's Largest Outdoor COVID Party
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis opened the door to full football stadiums, leading Gators Coach Dan Mullen to respond to a loss by calling for packed Swamp. → Read More
Jake Godbold, 1933-2020: Jacksonville’s bold, brash champion
Jake Godbold, the populist mayor who rose from a poor childhood on the Northside to the pinnacles of power in Jacksonville City Hall, has died, according to Mike Tolbert, a long-time friend who has served as an aide to Godbold throughout his retirement. → Read More
A war story with a Florida chapter — and now an epilogue
This is a war story, one that has an early chapter in Jacksonville — and returns here 70 years later. It is the story of Jesse L. Brown and Thomas Hudner, two Navy pilots who came from different worlds in the same country, yet ended up forever linked by what happened Dec. 4, 1950, on a snowy mountainside in North Korea. Brown grew up the son of a Mississippi sharecropper, in a home with no… → Read More
A war story with a Florida chapter — and now an epilogue
This is a war story, one that has an early chapter in Jacksonville — and returns here 70 years later. It is the story of Jesse L. Brown and Thomas Hudner, two Navy pilots who came from different worlds in the same country, yet ended up forever linked by what happened Dec. 4, 1950, on a snowy mountainside in North Korea. Brown grew up the son of a Mississippi sharecropper, in a home with no… → Read More
Passengers from plane that landed in St. Johns River recall troubled flight
The last time Katherine Helms flew home she had gone into premature labor. She was having contractions. She had to be medevaced off Cuba.That trip had a → Read More
New work boots from nonprofit provides opportunity, hope
JACKSONVILLE — When Mark O'Neill got a construction job through the day labor pool, he made sure to put a roll of duct tape in his pocket.The tape → Read More