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Meteor shower tonight! Here’s the best time to watch

If you are a News4JAX Insider, you may have read my newsletter regarding meteor showers. Basically, I am not a fan of promoting them, as from my own experience, they really aren’t worth going outside in the middle of the night, where it may be buggy, steamy, warm or blustery cold. Then, a lot of the hype tends to be centered around number of meteors that could be seen. To better understand how these values breakout to what most people will see, it breaks down into storms, showers and sprinkles.

Meet the 3rd winner of our Countdown to Christmas Sweepstakes

After collecting more than 8,600 entries over the past two weeks, News4Jax drew the third winner of our Countdown to Christmas Sweepstakes on Thursday. The winning entry belong to Eddie Chris, who’s taking home a brand new 65-inch TV for the holidays. It took a few moments for the news to sink in when News4Jax anchor Kent Justice called Eddie’s phone. Reminder: the deadline to enter for a chance to win the fourth and final TV is 9 a.m. Monday. We’ll draw our last winner that morning and then announce the results on News4Jax at 6 p.m.

Meet the 1st winner of our Insider Countdown to Christmas Sweepstakes

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Over 4,000 of you have entered our News4JAX Insider Countdown to Christmas Sweepstakes, but only four of you will be taking home brand new 65-inch TVs for the holidays. Without further ado, the winner is: Danny Grabill of Jacksonville. Danny, a longtime member of News4JAX Insider, said his family’s TV just died, so he was in the market for a new one — until now. “It’s going to make a huge impact, an absolutely huge impact,” Danny told News4JAX. “We just watched the news on this amazing new TV!” he told News4JAX in a text message.

Insider Countdown to Christmas Contest Rules

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Who will monitor the Duval County half-cent sales tax?

Here’s a question from a News4JAX Insider about the half-cent sales tax to repair Duval County’s public schools. Let’s start with your first question: the membership of the Sales Surtax Oversight Committee is set by Duval County School Board policy. Then the position will alternate between EWC, Florida State College at Jacksonville, Jacksonville University, and the University of North Florida. The role will be filled initially by someone from District 2, and then it will alternate between District 6, District 5, District 3, District 4, and District 1. Seven representatives appointed by each of the Duval County School Board’s seven members.

4 things we learned from Jenese Harris’ AMA

If you’ve never had a chance to get to know Jenese Harris, you’re missing out. For instance, we learned that Jenese might be an architect if she had not become a journalist. And that if she could have any super power, she would choose time travel — and for a very heartfelt reason. Without further ado, here are our four biggest takeaways from Jenese’s AMA:Do the news topics you cover ever bother you? At times, the sad stories are heartbreaking and I have always been told by mentors to not show emotion.