Heavy effort by local GOP brought out conservative voters
In the last hour of voting Tuesday night, Dean Black got word from a member of his team that the substantial Democrat lead in voting had been cut – to 32 votes. Black was exultant. This was a big win. For decades, Democrat voters have outnumbered Republicans in...
Local government access is available to “some”
Our story on media access to local government brought an interesting response from a long-time reporter for a local TV station. Jim Piggott of News4Jax said, “I've been covering City Hall for 35 years and, yes, I remember when things were much more open.” Yet, he says...
“Freedom” of the press means little in Jacksonville
The hoary story about the frog who was placed in a pot of cold water on a stove and stayed there contentedly while the water was raised to boiling seems relevant in the case of Jacksonville’s media. Over the years local newspapers and television news outlets have...
Council member wants another shot at the local gas tax
One member of the City Council has stepped up to protect the city’s residents from a rapidly growing tax burden being heaped on them at all levels of government. Council Member Leanna Cumber told Eye on Jacksonville she will file a bill seeking to rescind the local...
Using the Governor for photo shoot is a sign of Mayor’s race heating up
Governor Ron DeSantis was in Jacksonville yesterday announcing his plan for gas tax relief. Good job Governor! (Luv the Guv!) Standing behind our Governor was the President of the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce, Daniel Davis. Mr. Davis is said to be the "anointed...
Once again, the size of the police force is debated
The perennial argument about the size of the police force has come up again. This go-around, it is about making it bigger, rather than smaller. At a meeting of the Taxation, Revenue, and Utilization of Expenditures (TRUE) Commission Oct. 7, there was a discussion of...
Eye on Jacksonville’s latest Citizen of the Month is a man on a mission.
Blake Harper says his mission is to do what he says all Americans should be doing. Politicians are public servants, Harper said, and the job of citizens is to manage them, providing them with guidance. Harper does that, in spades. He is everywhere. You have seen him...
Deegan is in the race, and is a threat to conservatives
As expected, former TV talking head and liberal Democrat Donna Deegan has announced she will run for mayor in the 2023 elections. She has no experience in office. She ran for Congress in 2020 and was slaughtered by former Sheriff John Rutherford. Anything can happen...
Cameras in the classrooms – parents need an eye on Jacksonville schools
Most Americans would agree that the greater danger facing the nation today is not “white supremacy” but the teaching of racism in government schools. It is being done under the guise of “Critical Race Theory” and it was the major issue in the governor’s race in...
School Board: Much ado about nothing
Tuesday’s School Board meeting produced unanimous agreement on words written on a piece of paper that seemingly said nothing, meant nothing and accomplished nothing. That’s progress, perhaps, although it left a lot of observers puzzled. On the board’s consent agenda...
News4Jax story didn’t fool the viewers
Another hopeful sign for Jacksonville: the local media’s pathetic bias is becoming evident to readers and viewers. See this piece from News4Jax. To begin with, this is not an investigation. The Florida Highway Patrol compiled the database, in an effort to be...
Council members finally are bucking the cancel culture
There may be a backlash forming in the City Council against the unending demands from the Far Left. The local signs mirror what may be major turning points nationally. The first of those is the Republican win in Virginia, a clear repudiation of the liberal agenda. In...
Think policing is easy? Find out for yourself and ride along
After a lapse related to the Red Chinese virus, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is once again offering the city’s residents a chance to ride with officers while they are at work. I took one this week and I highly recommend it for others – especially those who...
New bill by Councilman Dennis may not be a “hit” with the taxpayers
Another bill has been tossed into the legislative hopper by Council Member Garrett Dennis, who has gained a reputation for championing utterly useless ideas. Apparently there has been an overlooked outbreak of people beating children in City Hall, because Dennis wants...
Committee with a loud voice wants to be louder
In an unintentionally hilarious “news story,” First Coast News is supporting the efforts of a group of local liberals seeking to hamper law and order in Jacksonville. The so-called Jacksonville Community Action Committee held a demonstration to urge the city to...
Schools keep child’s gender confusion secret from parents
Government schools in Jacksonville are using a pamphlet on “gender identity” that specifically directs employees to withhold vital information from parents. This latest assault on parental rights was confirmed for Eye on Jacksonville by an administrator who said the...
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...
