Month: July 2019

  • Dark times in Jacksonville? Is it time to investigate?

    Yesterday was a dark day for our City. I had the following calls and/or text messages regarding these subject matters: — JEA: My son works at JEA and has a top level position. He’s telling us some crazy stuff happening over there. Can all this be true and what’s going on? — City Contracts: We…

  • Excluding the public from public meetings is the payoff for accepting handouts

    Politicians and bureaucrats in Jacksonville have all but erased the idea of government in the sunshine, the latest example being the brazen act of JEA executives holding a public meeting in a public place and shutting out the media. The media has no one to blame but themselves. Government in the sunshine was the result…

  • Tear Down Lenny’s Legacy: Insane politics.

    I’ve just returned from a trip to Traverse City, Michigan. It’s a small town with a lot of spunk! We just missed the Cherry Festival they put on every year and next week begins the Film Festival that brings in a ton of people from around the world and a ton of money to this…

  • JEA: Are the ratepayers in the dark and being tricked?

    As a former consultant to the Board of JEA, I am in shock at their decision yesterday to proclaim two major deals: — Give the unqualified, friend of the Mayor’s, who was handed this lucrative job a few months ago, a huge raise to more than $520,000 because that’s the going rate of utility CEOs.…

  • JEA leadership and government regulations failed employees and customers.

    JEA is drawing up a list of people to be fired as it continues downsizing. Possibilities to be discussed at a board meeting today are a 26 percent rate increase and firing 500 employees. Three things are contributing to the shrinkage of the city-owned electric and water utility company. One is the legal mess it…

  • Mayor Curry bullies a citizen and gets hammered

    Yesterday Mayor Curry set off a firestorm on Twitter. It started with an article posted on Jacksonville.com by Nate Monroe. He stated, “City Council members have no idea of which of @lennycurry’s proposed capital construction projects will start first, or last, or when they will get done, but they will pass this list of projects…

  • Nose pressing and Cronyism. It’s real friends.

    In a recent article by the Jax Daily Record I was stunned to see this statement by the new DIA Director, Lori Boyer, regarding the Landing plans AFTER IT IS DEMOLISHED: “Boyer said the 2015 Landing plan coordinated by the DIA board and drafted by Wakefield Beasley & Associates and Urban Design Associates of Atlanta…

  • Want to be smarter than the average bear? You can for FREE!

    There is a ton of misinformation on social media and even from the mouths of some Congressmen and Congresswomen regarding our country, our laws and our rights. And the worst culprit of all is the media. The media has become a mouthpiece for the far left extremists and does not serve the people anymore. That’s…

  • It’s no picnic being a police officer in Jacksonville

    Criminals continue to conduct violence, as they always have and always will. Jacksonville is employing one new approach designed to limit the violence. Will is work? That remains to be seen. Proponents claim it has helped elsewhere. Cure Violence has worked in places such as New York, according to studies that have been done. Local…

  • Lobbyists are not the enemy the media portrays them to be

    Media’s fascination with lobbyists continues, most recently with the Jacksonville Business Journal reporting breathlessly on the amount spent by lobbyists. This is “news” only by a stretch of the imagination. It could more accurately be called a conflict of interest. The story relates that various lobbyists spend X amount of dollars while doing their jobs.…

  • Letting perverts off the hook. A big cultural change!

    Lloyd “Scoop” Brown has been writing on Eye on Jacksonville about the lack of arrests locally. It’s a big issue and one that we hope Sheriff Mike Williams will look into. Today I read that men are “having fun” with themselves in the library and many incidents have been reported. Yet very few arrests have…

  • Too much crime and not enough arrests, latest crime stats show

    Jacksonville is not the crime capital of Florida, despite the occasional hysteria in the local media, but it could do better. That conclusion comes from examining the 2018 crime statistics now available from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Duval County was No. 2 in crimes per thousand residents among the 67 counties in the…