Newby shows leadership as council president
City Council President Sam Newby deserves a big Wink for ending a series of meetings that were counter-productive to law and order in Jacksonville. Called “Safer Together” workshops, they were held over the past year by two council members, Joyce Morgan and Michael...
City Council members hide political party affiliation
For some reason, local politicians on the City Council don’t want you to know what political party they belong to. Nowhere on the city’s Web site are the council members identified by political party. Republicans enjoy a majority, and could change this in an instant,...
Anti-police meetings serve no useful purpose
Council Member Michael Boylan’s abrupt departure from a council assignment that serves no constructive purpose should give the council president ample reason to disband a so-called “committee.” It isn’t really a committee. The former council president just named two...
Sonny B’s Rant: The case for ‘Right to Try’ for Covid-19
This letter may come across like I’m ranting or rambling, but the lunacy of a totalitarian rogue Biden administration is conjoined chaos leading to a communist agenda, set out to destroy our freedoms under the constitution. Examples are: Blocking, demonizing,...
City’s way of disbursing extra dollars needs a tune-up
Clearly, the city's process for donating your money to charity is out of kilter. It was on display when the City Council voted Tuesday to give away $4.6 million to local non-profit agencies. It was passed as an emergency although the council had a year to decide how...
Citizen of the Month – Quisha King
One Jacksonville mom has become a national hero for bucking government school indoctrination of America’s children. Quisha King has been featured in national publications this week for her work, which culminated with a plea for a mass exodus from government schools....
Jacksonville parents concerned with their rights don’t view themselves as terrorists
An astounding announcement by the federal government demonizing parents who care about the education they get in government schools is galvanizing Jacksonville families. Attorney General Merrick Garland is diverting the resources of the Department of Justice to focus...
Rally to Save Women of the Southland Monument – your big mouth is needed
Your voice is needed to honor the Women of the Southland Monument on Tuesday, Oct. 12 during public comments of the City Council Meeting. This monument has become a target of the Northside Coalition led by Ben Frazier. Mr. Frazier has become a big mouth piece for...
Sonny B: My journey to become an information warrior
I retired as a Fireman of Jacksonville. It took courage, determination, commitment, proper planning and hard work to finally get to the point of retirement. While employed with the JFRD, I became interested in food and found out I really enjoyed cooking. I became so...
Divisive efforts to revise history continue in the city
Ben Frazier, head of a group known as the Northside Coalition, is continuing his quest to remove all traces of the Confederacy from Jacksonville but like other Democrats he may be overreaching. Frazier seems to think he has Council Member Matt Carlucci, a candidate...
Local reporters can’t read or don’t care what local government costs the taxpayers
Jacksonville’s city government has a new budget for the fiscal year beginning Friday that calls for spending nearly $3.5 billion just on the core government functions. Once again, the local media are misleading their viewers and readers by telling them the budget for...
Freedom is in peril, military intelligence expert tells Jacksonville residents
America is at a transition point where it can remain the most powerful, prosperous free nation on Earth or become a socialist hell-hole like Venezuela, a group of 100 Jacksonville patriots were told last night by a former national security advisor to the president....
Homeowners are unhappy about mayor’s recycling decision
Stopping the separate pickup of household items to be recycled has not been a popular decision. Online commentators have been blasting Mayor Lenny Curry for temporarily stopping the separate curbside pickup, requiring homeowners to drop off their own materials or have...
Councilman Dennis is generating unnecessary legislation, again
City Council Member Garrett Dennis is becoming the fountainhead of bad bills. While they may be well-intended, many are ill-conceived, counter-productive or just plain useless. The prefect example is his proposal for a citizen review board. Such boards have been tried...
Lenny’s Lawn won’t be flooded, we are assured
More questions are being asked about Lenny’s Lawn, the grassy site of the former Jacksonville Landing. City Haul, which doesn’t like to be questioned, appears to be irritated. This is a reaction Eye on Jacksonville has experienced numerous times. Our own questioning...
Violent video underscores the need for equal opportunity in schools
Videos have been brought to light that show a fight at Matthew W. Gilbert Middle School and they reinforce the point that there are other reasons for school vouchers than academics. A woman says her 12-year-old daughter was attacked by a group of students and...
Downtown Library: Another mystery story from City Haul
Jacksonville’s very expensive downtown library is shut down, leaving the public to wonder why it closed and how long it will be closed. This seems typical of the Lenny Curry administration these days. No one seems to know who’s on first base. “There are no immediate...
Local men begin an effort to aid in river restoration
Two Jacksonville men are joining the ongoing effort to restore the Ocklawaha River, south of Jacksonville. That project effectively would put an end to the Cross-Florida Barge Canal. One of the oldest ideas in Florida history was to cut a canal across the state, to...
Eye sends WINKs to Gov. DeSantis, Moms for Liberty and Julie Ponesse, Ethics Professor. They are freedom fighters!
Floridians are very grateful to have a Governor who is a legal expert, has a background in the military, put himself through college by working many jobs, is a happily married man and the devoted father of three adorable children and on top of all that, he is a...
A year has been wasted by the council’s “safer together” workshops
Liberals on the City Council again are agitating for “police reform,” which means hampering the police and aiding the criminal community. Joyce Morgan and Michael Boylan Two council members were named last year to hold workshops and listen to people gripe about the...
Hazouri endured through a half-century in politics
Former Mayor Tommy Hazouri “Hang in there, buddy.” That was the last communication I had with Tommy Hazouri. It was a text message I sent the day he was moved from the Mayo Clinic to hospice care with lung problems that took his life Sept. 11. About a day before he...
It’s all about 9/11 today and it should be
It's been 20 years since Americans were shocked and glued to their tv watching the attack on America by Muslim extremists. We could focus more about them and their ideology and how it is reflected in today's culture but we'll leave that for later. Today it...
The FDC, CDC and News Networks: Enemies of the people
I am a proud black American citizen of this great country and I believe the mainstream media is trying to ruin it. I tell you of my ethnicity, because I want to inform you that all blacks are not captivated, mesmerized, brainwashed and controlled by the media zombie...
Reporters pose as cops
This was posted on Facebook recently by a local nurse: “I am under ‘investigation’ by News4Jax after fellow healthcare professionals reported me to the police and media for doing a park pick up for my elderberry elixir/colloidal silver and my willingness to help some...
Jerry Holland ends the speculation
Local voters who were looking forward to Jerry Holland running for mayor were dismayed when he announced he is running for supervisor of elections again. Currently the property appraiser, Holland was supervisor from 2005 to 2015. The current supervisor, Mike Hogan, is...
Parents are fighting back to defend their rights
In Florida, as in other states, parents finally are rising to oppose liberal politicians determined to indoctrinate children or otherwise compel them to do things contrary to parental wishes. It is a matter of parental rights. Fortunately for Florida parents, there is...
Ax Handle Saturday: There was no massacre in Jacksonville six decades ago
It has become an annual event for a small, and shrinking, liberal newspaper in Jacksonville to publish the “ax handle day” story. Every year it seems to become more preposterous. This year, a blurry video was added that purports to be from the event. It is of people...
Lib jubilation over lower court ruling favoring big government may be short
Gov. Ron DeSantis will appeal a ruling by a Tallahassee Circuit Court judge that was intended to curtail parental rights. DeSantis very well could win on appeal. The ruling by Judge John Cooper says an order by DeSantis prohibiting government schools for requiring...
Jacksonville now the “gateway city” for illegal immigrants
Jacksonville’s airport is one of those being used to dump people who have invaded America at the southern border. U.S. Rep. John Rutherford confirmed to Eye on Jacksonville reports that the “refugees” were being brought here. He said about 1300 have offloaded here,...
Jacksonville congressman faults the president for the Kabul disaster
Rep. John Rutherford U.S. Rep. John Rutherford said the carnage in Kabul is the direct result of a “ridiculous” decision by the president to have a single exit point. That caused masses of people, which gave an opportunity to jihadists – and today they took that...
Smile: you’re on Classroom Camera!
"The pandemic has challenged our education system nationwide, yet it has also opened new doors for innovation, flexibility and customization for every learner. We must continue that transformative work on behalf of all students as we confront ongoing challenges...
Follow the yellow brick road
Jacksonville’s Emerald Trail project is under way – expensive, unnecessary and potentially dangerous but still widely admired. It will wind for 30 miles through the urban core, providing Jacksonville citizens with an unique opportunity to stroll through some of the...
Coronavirus patients are herded into the city’s main library
An alert Eye on Jacksonville reader has posed some interesting questions for the folks in City Haul. People infected with the Red Chinese virus are being given doses of Regeneron, a monoclonal antibody treatment, at the public library in the heart of busy downtown....
Save us Superman! Parents be damned and laws too! Duval County Schools state, “Your children are ours!”
The Duval County School Board called an "emergency meeting" with only 25 hours notice thereby not giving parents time to understand or prepare for this special meeting. The board said the issue was too dire to wait. It was so urgent that they quickly passed a new...
Local politics and science clash again
Yet another politician has set himself up as an expert on public health and an opponent of parental rights. School Board member Darryl Willie has asked the school superintendent for an emergency meeting of the board to enact a mandatory face mask rule. That would...
Voters don’t always choose the winners
Questions remain about the unusual shuffle in a race for a Florida Senate seat from Jacksonville. Three House members had an eye on the position, all conservative Republicans. The public could not have lost by choosing among the three. But they didn’t get the chance....
Anti-police efforts get a boost from one City Council committee
Another special committee of the City Council created for dubious reasons is muddling along. It has issued its “final report” but continues to exist. That makes no sense, but neither does the committee’s existence. The two-member committee was created last year and...
Parental rights go to court
Episcopal School of Jacksonville is violating the rights of parents by requiring face masks on unvaccinated students, Jacksonville residents whose children attend the school claim in a lawsuit. A group of parents is asking for an injunction to stop the school from...
Breaking News: Episcopal of Jacksonville parents file lawsuit claiming intrusion into their parental rights
Parents of students at Episcopal School of Jacksonville have filed a lawsuit claiming the school is intruding into their parental rights over their own children. Episcopal School has mandated that all students must wear a mask at school. The parents who filed the...
Sheriff’s race now includes a conservative Republican
The position of top cop will be open in the 2023 city elections, and with two left-wing Democrats already in the race, a no-nonsense Republican has filed. Matt Nemeth says he is running “to protect the ideals and values we all cherish. Not Republican or Democrat...
