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Ax Handle Saturday: There was no massacre in Jacksonville six decades ago
It has become an annual event for a small, and shrinking, liberal newspaper in Jacksonville to publish the “ax handle day” story. Every year it seems to become more preposterous. This year, a blurry video was added that purports to be from the event. It is of people fighting but that’s all that it shows.…
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Lib jubilation over lower court ruling favoring big government may be short
Gov. Ron DeSantis will appeal a ruling by a Tallahassee Circuit Court judge that was intended to curtail parental rights. DeSantis very well could win on appeal. The ruling by Judge John Cooper says an order by DeSantis prohibiting government schools for requiring children to wear masks without giving parents the ability to opt out…
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Jacksonville now the “gateway city” for illegal immigrants
Jacksonville’s airport is one of those being used to dump people who have invaded America at the southern border. U.S. Rep. John Rutherford confirmed to Eye on Jacksonville reports that the “refugees” were being brought here. He said about 1300 have offloaded here, most of them children. Not all will remain, as some will be…
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Jacksonville congressman faults the president for the Kabul disaster
U.S. Rep. John Rutherford said the carnage in Kabul is the direct result of a “ridiculous” decision by the president to have a single exit point. That caused masses of people, which gave an opportunity to jihadists – and today they took that opportunity to murder more than a dozen people in two explosions. “Nancy…
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Smile: you’re on Classroom Camera!
“The pandemic has challenged our education system nationwide, yet it has also opened new doors for innovation, flexibility and customization for every learner. We must continue that transformative work on behalf of all students as we confront ongoing challenges through the spirit of opportunity.” – Gov. Jeb Bush, founder and chairman of Excelined Pandemic and…
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Follow the yellow brick road
Jacksonville’s Emerald Trail project is under way – expensive, unnecessary and potentially dangerous but still widely admired. It will wind for 30 miles through the urban core, providing Jacksonville citizens with an unique opportunity to stroll through some of the most crime-ridden areas of town late at night. The cost is advertised to be $132…
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Coronavirus patients are herded into the city’s main library
An alert Eye on Jacksonville reader has posed some interesting questions for the folks in City Haul. People infected with the Red Chinese virus are being given doses of Regeneron, a monoclonal antibody treatment, at the public library in the heart of busy downtown. Simultaneously the city announced the library would be closed for mysterious…
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Save us Superman! Parents be damned and laws too! Duval County Schools state, “Your children are ours!”
The Duval County School Board called an “emergency meeting” with only 25 hours notice thereby not giving parents time to understand or prepare for this special meeting. The board said the issue was too dire to wait. It was so urgent that they quickly passed a new mandatory mask policy for all students K-12 that…
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Local politics and science clash again
Yet another politician has set himself up as an expert on public health and an opponent of parental rights. School Board member Darryl Willie has asked the school superintendent for an emergency meeting of the board to enact a mandatory face mask rule. That would conflict with the order from Gov. Ron DeSantis requiring local…
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Voters don’t always choose the winners
Questions remain about the unusual shuffle in a race for a Florida Senate seat from Jacksonville. Three House members had an eye on the position, all conservative Republicans. The public could not have lost by choosing among the three. But they didn’t get the chance. Two dropped out and endorsed the third, Clay Yarborough. Why?…
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Anti-police efforts get a boost from one City Council committee
Another special committee of the City Council created for dubious reasons is muddling along. It has issued its “final report” but continues to exist. That makes no sense, but neither does the committee’s existence. The two-member committee was created last year and continued this year, charged with holding workshops that are “fact finding in nature…
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Parental rights go to court
Episcopal School of Jacksonville is violating the rights of parents by requiring face masks on unvaccinated students, Jacksonville residents whose children attend the school claim in a lawsuit. A group of parents is asking for an injunction to stop the school from requiring children to wear masks. Episcopal has made a “severe and unwarranted intrusion…
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Breaking News: Episcopal of Jacksonville parents file lawsuit claiming intrusion into their parental rights
Parents of students at Episcopal School of Jacksonville have filed a lawsuit claiming the school is intruding into their parental rights over their own children. Episcopal School has mandated that all students must wear a mask at school. The parents who filed the lawsuit have claimed they have medical responsibility for their children – not…
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Sheriff’s race now includes a conservative Republican
The position of top cop will be open in the 2023 city elections, and with two left-wing Democrats already in the race, a no-nonsense Republican has filed. Matt Nemeth says he is running “to protect the ideals and values we all cherish. Not Republican or Democrat values, but human values.” Defunding the police? “We’ve seen…
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Pro-vax public defender’s letter warns employees
The Far Left is all in on mandatory vaccination. Joe Biden, acting president of the United States, announced last week that federal workers must attest to being vaccinated or be required to wear a mask and be tested. Political opponents are pushing Gov. Ron DeSantis to require state employees to be vaccinated. And now this,…
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Mayor wannabe Carlucci is pressing ahead hard after mysterious setback
Matt Carlucci’s path to the mayor’s office encountered a speed bump, perhaps, when his top advisers pulled out of his campaign but he is getting back to cruising speed rapidly. Bruce Barcelo and Mike Tolbert, old hands at running political campaigns, dropped the longtime member of City Council in May. The election is some 18…