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Jacksonville next month commemorates the 50th anniversary of its consolidated government.
Combining the city with Duval County was a way to deal with a host of problems it was having in the late 1960s.
As Bill Delaney tells WJCT News Director Jessica Palombo, other Florida cities took different approaches to the same problems, and they have fared worse in the long run.