Eye’s Social Media Contributor: Why you need to be on social media.
NOTE: Eye on Jacksonville's Social Media Contributor, Melissa Adair, has helped Eye grow our following in a short few months. The results of her focus on our social media sites has drawn new Eyes to our work. We wanted to let you know why Social Media is so...
$3 Million from United Arab Emirates to Jax. for Irma repairs…very nice but…something stinks.
It seems like a nice, neighborly gesture. The United Arab Emirates donated $3 Million dollars to Jacksonville to help in the recovery efforts from damages caused by Hurricane Irma last year. Why would anyone question such a generous gift? Well, maybe ... It's how...
Amendments on the ballot: Be a Wise Voter
Eye recently published a post about The Amendments and you can find it here: Eye’s Lloyd Brown unravels Amendments on the ballot. Whew! We also found that the James Madison Institute in Tallahassee had done some extensive research on the amendments. James Madison...
Breaking News about the Jags: Could it be they are moving to London?
In April of this year, Eye on Jacksonville posted an article about the possibility of Shad Khan moving the Jaguars to London - something he keeps denying over and over again. The research we did showed that the NFL had a goal to build their international market. Gee...
Duval County School Board Members: Do you care if teachers are having sex with children?
As the wave of teacher-student sex incidences continues across the nation, we await the answer to a question we asked last May about such incidents in Jacksonville’s public schools. Since we asked the question, at least two such incidents have been reported in the...
Part 2: City acting as entrepreneurs with your money. JTA IS A BOONDOGGLE.
Apparently, being an entrepreneur isn’t as risky as long as you are a member of a city council, city commission, or city board. In Part 1 of City Acting as Entrepreneurs with Your Money the venture was real estate. In this part it is public transportation; city...
Eye Contributor & Jax resident, Joshua Warren is a proud member of #WalkAway Movement.
INTRODUCTION On February 19, 2009, CNBC journalist, Rick Santelli exploded on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in an epic rant that was the catalyst for a transformative political movement. Santelli’s rant was unleashed in response to President Obama’s...
Standing for what you believe in – Beth Heath shows us how to do it.
It's always heart-warming to see someone stand and do something when their heart has been touched. Some people kneel in football stadiums - which brings about no change whatsoever. The best way to effect change is through Education and LOVE! Beth Heath, a...
Part 1: City acting as entrepreneurs with your money. Who pays when deals fail?
My opinion, Jacksonville has a gang problem not only in the streets of Duval County, but also behind the many doors within the local government. Why would I make such a claim aimed toward the very people that we give authority to govern us? These are supposed to be...
Ron DeSantis for Governor new Campaign Chair – She’s got what it takes!
______________________________________________________ Ron DeSantis went to the right person. Adding Susie Wiles to his campaign to become governor is the best move he has made to date. The liberal media is flagellating DeSantis for his allegedly “floundering”...
A little something you can do to Get Out The Vote – from your home!
This suggested letter was sent to us by a Eye on Jacksonville follower. He did not want to be identified BUT we felt it was a great ACTION ITEM that anyone could do. If you would like to send the same letter OR walk your neighborhood and leave it on the front door,...
Be afraid. Be very afraid of Gillum for Governor. He’s a dangerous man.
When Andrew Gillum won the Democratic primary for the Governor's house in Tallahassee, the media and the people were scratching their heads. How could that be? Who in the world is Andrew Gillum? Where did he come from? How did he win with very little name...
What will happen to the Times Union artifacts. Lloyd Brown snoops it out.
When I was a teen-aged copy boy for the Jacksonville Journal, I often was called upon to go to the morgue – a large room filled with file cabinets containing clippings of all stories published in the Journal. I liked my job and was quite distressed when, while on a...
Eye’s Lloyd Brown unravels Amendments on the ballot. Whew!
Recently, the Daily Record quoted Hank Coxe, one of Jacksonville’s most well-known lawyers and a member of the Constitutional Revision Commission, as saying the commission’s role in the amendment process was flawed. It seems that politics interfere, in his opinion. I...
Conflict of Interest and Poor Business Decision in the Mayor’s Office
The headline read, "Mayor's chief of staff Brian Hughes to serve as interim DIA CEO." Conflict of interest -- first thing I thought. And I was not alone with that thought either. Twitter went crazy and even one of the members of the DIA questioned if it was a good...
Polling genius, Consolidation expert & Jax native Pat Caddell: “Dems hijacked by a confederacy of gangsters”
(In the run-up to the 50th anniversary of consolidation, we have written several columns on the history of that local political miracle.) During the heated process of bringing about consolidation, one of the lesser known parts was played by Pat Caddell. Today, Caddell...
Special Report: JEA…Who or What caused this Stinking mess?
In 1973, JEA seemingly was sitting pretty: 100 percent dependent on oil to produce electricity and invested in a long-term fuel contract to buy oil. Suddenly, a little known outfit called OPEC – an Arab oil cartel – decided to triple the price of oil. The wise men who...
Jacksonville Transportation Future: BIG Dreams. BIG Visions. BIG Debt.
Last week I attended an event, Infrastructure: Beyond the Pavement, put on by the North Florida Urban Land Institute moderated by Daniel Davis, President & CEO of Jax Chamber. Present were representatives from local government, contracting companies, technology...
The Past:Unadorned facts about things that mattered and clearly labeled opinions backed up with facts.
If I had not retired 14 years ago, I would now be preparing to move into a new building for the fourth time. When I went to work for the Jacksonville Journal at Church and Laura streets, the Russians were about to put the world’s first satellite into orbit and federal...
Consolidation: White hats and Black hats were part of the story!
In a few weeks, the city will celebrate a momentous event that only a few people seem to remember or appreciate. In 1967, the voters decided by a 2-to-1 margin that they wanted to consolidate the city and county governments in Jacksonville. It was a bold move. A...
Preschool Teacher “schools” the adults about shooters on campus
Duval County Public Schools and some local private schools are using training videos to educate our children regarding active shooters on campus. We heard from a retired 37 year preschool teacher who was horrified with the videos. She said the videos were...
Want to know how to make Jacksonville’s downtown Great Again? Tough love!
We were excited to spend Saturday night with my son and daughter in love celebrating her birthday. We decided on the coolest, most expensive restaurant in downtown Jacksonville, Cowford Chophouse. We drove downtown and our path took us by The Landing. We all looked...
Guest Writer from Tallahassee knows Dem Gubernatorial Gillum well. Duval helped Gillum win.
NOTE FROM EYE FOUNDER, BILLIE TUCKER: Duval County helped Socialist Gubernatorial Candidate Gillum win. Without Duval County, he would have lost. What's up with Duval County? Are our citizens ready for socialism? We asked Friends of Eye from Tallahassee to give...
Teacher Sex with Students in Duval County Schools. We had to pay for this information & now we wait!
This story is based on public records. Records that Eye purchased. The only time in my life – most of which has been spent in the newspaper business – that we were required to purchase information the public is entitled to know. First, a few observations. The fact...
Former Mayor Brown calls for “gun control.” That’s not the issue, sir.
Another day, another “mass” shooting. This time in Jacksonville. The usual responses: We must find an answer. March in the street. Protests. And, of course, the liberal agenda. This time, it came from former mayor Alvin Brown. More gun control. If you had to make a...
We can dream of a better land where all my brothers walk hand in hand. Thank you to the first responders of Jax.
We had just arrived downtown for our Sunday afternoon date. We have been attending the Florida Theatre these past few months for their Summer Movie Series. We were happy to get out of the hot weather and chill inside the theatre watching The Big Lebowski. As we...
Eye on Jacksonville welcomes new City Council President, Aaron Bowman
City Council President Aaron Bowman is taking steps to change the notoriously short-term thinking of politicians into a mindset that takes a longer view. Because of term limits, and the annual change of council presidents, the council tends to operate in one-year...
Killing our children and children killing children. We need some LOVE, friends.
I woke up this morning to the horrible news of a gunfight at Raines High School. Presently one young man is dead and two are wounded. It occurred on property shortly after Raines High School Friday night football game ended. The only incident at the stadium prior...
Hypocrites at the NFL owe our hometown hero, Tim Tebow, an apology.
Well it begins again. The NFL 2018 Season is upon us and we all waited to see what would happen. Would they kneel? Would they stand? Would they place their hand over their heart? It was a mixed bag across the NFL and 4 Jaguar team members decided to stay behind in...
Mob tactics: Erasing your enemies. It’s happening nationally & locally too.
I was excited to see the new website for the City of Jacksonville Office of Special Events. My social and business calendar is filled with local events. I enjoy every venue in my hometown and am proud of all we have to offer for fun and relaxation. So - I eagerly...
Sex in our Eye headline created outrage in a subscriber. A WINK to her!
This week we published an article about the school board's response to Eye's Sr. Editor, Lloyd Brown's request for information about teachers having sex with their students. It took a while for the Duval County School Board to respond and when it did - we were...
What do you think? Should school systems be “union driven” or “student driven?”
Members of the School Board have gone on record opposing Amendment 8. Board member Becki Couch led the effort to oppose the constitutional amendment, which will be on the ballot in November. The proposed amendment does three things: Imposes term limits school board...
Shoot outs in Jacksonville. Is any one or any place safe? No.
Once again innocent people are gunned down by thugs (and yes we know that word is politically incorrect but you tell us a better word to use and we'll fix it). Yesterday an innocent 7 year old girl was caught in the cross fires of a shoot out in a parking lot of a...
Are school teachers having sex with students in Duval County? Who knows.
School teachers in Jacksonville may or may not be having sex with students. We would like to tell you which, but we can’t afford to buy the information from the school system. We asked the question a couple of months ago. The school system got back to us, eventually,...
City’s website disses the hard work of Citizens Planning Advisory Committees from 400 neighborhoods
Another example of the city government’s failure to design and maintain a Web site that is useful to the public: There are six Citizens Planning Advisory Committees in the city. They are formed of people from the more than 400 neighborhoods in the city and their...
Transparency in our city government DOESN’T exist and it’s shameful. What are they hiding?
It is shocking how the local media have allowed city government to gradually diminish the media’s – and the public’s -- ability to get information. In the late 1960s, Florida became a national leader in “government in the sunshine,” by opening public records and...
Mayor Curry’s new budget. Just in time for re-election campaigning.
Mayor Curry's re-election budget proposal. Is it designed to bolster talking points addressing minorities, special interests, law enforcement, low income families, and human rights issues or are these just coincidences? Interesting fact: Mayor Curry’s first three...
From a High Schooler: Never forget where we (the USA) came from and remember her proudly.
One of America’s most important documents, the United States Constitution, has recently surpassed its 230th birthday, and that, paired with the 4th of July’s passing, made me realize that many Americans don’t know the significance and the history of our great country....
Mayoral Privilege? Transparency in Jacksonville? Eye has its doubts.
Eye on Jacksonville has gotten a response, two months after submitting questions to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office via a public records request. We feel blessed. The Task Force on Open Government, which recently issued its final report, said the police had a...
Downtown Vision has a stinky job and EYE gives them a WINK. Human waste growing in Jax.
Downtown Vision Inc., released their Annual State of Downtown report for Jacksonville's up and coming downtown. The nonprofit's mission is to entice businesses and people to invest or make downtown their new home. They are doing a great job. What we didn't know is...
