by Billie Tucker Volpe | Jun 29, 2018 |
One month ago today I wrote a Letter to the JEA Board. We asked that the Board respond to our questions and we asked them to do so within ten days. We ended that letter with this quote: “JEA is a unique concept as an Independent Agency. It’s well run and...
by Billie Tucker Volpe | Jun 29, 2018 |
A special committee of the City Council has spent months digging into one of the city’s largest assets, Jacksonville Electric Authority (JEA). That hard work and mountains of information has paid off big for JEA customers and all taxpayers. Their recommendation...
by Lloyd Brown | Jun 25, 2018 |
Last year, various mishaps and miscues involving city employees or city property cost the taxpayers $1.8 million. That’s a bite but it is nothing out of the ordinary. It happens in every city. Most of the incidents involved the police and fire departments and the JEA....
by Lloyd Brown | Jun 22, 2018 |
For some reason, the city’s annual audit is missing. City Hall says it is because the auditors asked for extra time. But others are wondering. The Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for 2016-17 should have been received and posted online weeks ago. It would show...
by Billie Tucker Volpe | Jun 20, 2018 |
Mayor Lenny Curry is touting in his campaign ads that Jacksonville is on the Rise. I have to agree with him on that point – Crime IS rising in Jacksonville. We woke up Monday morning to this headline: Shootout leaves bullet holes in two downtown Jacksonville...
by Lloyd Brown | Jun 20, 2018 |
To cement their credentials as card-carrying liberals – not that there was much doubt – the reporters in the newsroom of the Florida Times-Union now are looking to join a union. Their complaint is that they are not making enough money. Oh, and they lack “dignity.” Of...
by Billie Tucker Volpe | Jun 20, 2018 |
The JEA Board has taken a few Stinks of late and we are happy to be able to give a Wink today. The search is underway for a new CEO to run the utility. In an Open Letter to the JEA Board, we questioned why two qualified internal candidates had been crossed over for...
by Billie Tucker Volpe | Jun 18, 2018 |
In a recent letter by JEA’s Interim CEO Aaron Zahn (a supporter of Mayor Curry) addressed to the JEA board and city officials he believes…the BULK of the proceeds from a $18.5 million land sale should be DONATED to the City. Donated? Yes you read...
by Lloyd Brown | Jun 17, 2018 |
Is the Jacksonville Transportation Authority getting ahead of the curve? To its credit, the JTA is trying to get away from the seldom-used Skyway, which cost $185 million to build in the 1980s – $42 million of it from local taxpayers. Currently it is costing $6...
by Lloyd Brown | Jun 14, 2018 |
Downtown boosters have mangled the word “catalyst” pretty badly over the years. Friendship Park was supposed to be a catalyst for downtown redevelopment. Other projects that got hung with the label were Hemming Plaza, new City Hall, the Skyway, etc . But one that...
