by Billie Tucker Volpe | Aug 28, 2019 |
Last night the City Council met to discuss a bill that would put a tax referendum requested by the School Board on a ballot. What happened next was a joke. A joke on us. Some members of the audience booed when they didn’t like what they heard. Instead of...
by Lloyd Brown | Aug 26, 2019 |
While Jacksonville residents are watching TV and retiring for the night there is a lot going on in the streets. The police are out there taking care of business. But what exactly do cops do while patrolling at night? You might imagine they run from a murder to a...
by Billie Tucker Volpe | Aug 26, 2019 |
Free events and no permits when The Landing was in use Now that The Landing has fencing around it and her future is heading to the dump, we can all agree she will be missed. Missed for so many reasons and the biggest one for me is the fact she served a purpose no...
by Lloyd Brown | Aug 24, 2019 |
Jacksonville residents with an interest in history and politics would find it worth their time to read a new biography of a former mayor: Jake! The number of important events that took place in the city during Jake Godbold’s eight years as mayor of Jacksonville –...
by Lloyd Brown | Aug 22, 2019 |
No Justice for Stephen Anthony Orlando You hear a lot in the fake news industry about “white supremacy” and injustice but Jacksonville is where one of the great injustices is being done, and it was based on the notion of black supremacy. In 1974, an 18-year-old boy’s...
by Billie Tucker Volpe | Aug 22, 2019 |
I have worked with CEOs for more than 35 years as an Executive Coach. It’s a wonderful profession and I find great joy in being around decisive leaders who fire up their staff and gather support for their vision. There is nothing more exciting than seeing a team...
by Billie Tucker Volpe | Aug 15, 2019 |
Yesterday we wrote an article about cronyism and corruption in Lenny Curry’s Administration. See that article here: https://eyeonjacksonville.com/eye-requests-an-investigation-of-the-mayors-administration/ Tonight we were shocked by a tweet sent out by Melissa...
by Lloyd Brown | Aug 15, 2019 |
I could hardly believe what I was seeing in a recent media report on the sea level rise task force in Jacksonville, formally known as the Adaptation Action Area Working Group. This temporary committee is supposed to disband later this month — and that may be a...
by Billie Tucker Volpe | Aug 14, 2019 |
Eye on Jacksonville has been watching political cronyism in our city government for the last year and while we didn’t like what we saw, we knew it was the game of politics. We shed light on issues and wrote opinion pieces about our dislike of this...
by Lloyd Brown | Aug 13, 2019 |
Plans to privatize the JEA obviously are of interest to residents of Jacksonville but why are they news in a publication written for socialists around the world? A story about JEA appeared in the World Socialist Web site this week. The site is published by the...