Month: September 2021

  • Local reporters can’t read or don’t care what local government costs the taxpayers

    Local reporters can’t read or don’t care what local government costs the taxpayers

    Jacksonville’s city government has a new budget for the fiscal year beginning Friday that calls for spending nearly $3.5 billion just on the core government functions. Once again, the local media are misleading their viewers and readers by telling them the budget for next year is only $1.5 billion. If the reporters would simply look…

  • Freedom is in peril, military intelligence expert tells Jacksonville residents

    Freedom is in peril, military intelligence expert tells Jacksonville residents

    America is at a transition point where it can remain the most powerful, prosperous free nation on Earth or become a socialist hell-hole like Venezuela, a group of 100 Jacksonville patriots were told last night by a former national security advisor to the president. Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn told the group attending a fund-raising…

  • Homeowners are unhappy about mayor’s recycling decision

    Homeowners are unhappy about mayor’s recycling decision

    Stopping the separate pickup of household items to be recycled has not been a popular decision. Online commentators have been blasting Mayor Lenny Curry for temporarily stopping the separate curbside pickup, requiring homeowners to drop off their own materials or have it picked up with the regular trash. But some people obviously are confused. You…

  • Councilman Dennis is generating unnecessary legislation, again

    Councilman Dennis is generating unnecessary legislation, again

    City Council Member Garrett Dennis is becoming the fountainhead of bad bills. While they may be well-intended, many are ill-conceived, counter-productive or just plain useless. The prefect example is his proposal for a citizen review board. Such boards have been tried elsewhere, and accomplish nothing. Dennis, a Democrat, wants to add another layer to the…

  • Lenny’s Lawn won’t be flooded, we are assured

    Lenny’s Lawn won’t be flooded, we are assured

    More questions are being asked about Lenny’s Lawn, the grassy site of the former Jacksonville Landing. City Haul, which doesn’t like to be questioned, appears to be irritated. This is a reaction Eye on Jacksonville has experienced numerous times. Our own questioning led to a blackout on access to the administration. People had wondered why…

  • Violent video underscores the need for equal opportunity in schools

    Violent video underscores the need for equal opportunity in schools

     Videos have been brought to light that show a fight at Matthew W. Gilbert Middle School and they reinforce the point that there are other reasons for school vouchers than academics. A woman says her 12-year-old daughter was attacked by a group of students and suffered a concussion, among other injuries. She claimed the teacher…

  • Downtown Library: Another mystery story from City Haul

    Downtown Library:  Another mystery story from City Haul

    Jacksonville’s very expensive downtown library is shut down, leaving the public to wonder why it closed and how long it will be closed. This seems typical of the Lenny Curry administration these days. No one seems to know who’s on first base. “There are no immediate plans to reopen,” the mayor’s information gatekeeper told News4Jax.…

  • Local men begin an effort to aid in river restoration

    Local men begin an effort to aid in river restoration

    Two Jacksonville men are joining the ongoing effort to restore the Ocklawaha River, south of Jacksonville. That project effectively would put an end to the Cross-Florida Barge Canal. One of the oldest ideas in Florida history was to cut a canal across the state, to keep from having to sail ships around the peninsula. It…

  • Eye sends WINKs to Gov. DeSantis, Moms for Liberty and Julie Ponesse, Ethics Professor. They are freedom fighters!

    Eye sends WINKs to Gov. DeSantis, Moms for Liberty and Julie Ponesse, Ethics Professor.  They are freedom fighters!

    Floridians are very grateful to have a Governor who is a legal expert, has a background in the military, put himself through college by working many jobs, is a happily married man and the devoted father of three adorable children and on top of all that, he is a protector of Florida residents and uses…

  • A year has been wasted by the council’s “safer together” workshops

    A year has been wasted by the council’s “safer together” workshops

    Liberals on the City Council again are agitating for “police reform,” which means hampering the police and aiding the criminal community. Two council members were named last year to hold workshops and listen to people gripe about the police. They were called “safer together” workshops, whatever that means. They have finished, and despite failing to…

  • Hazouri endured through a half-century in politics

    “Hang in there, buddy.” That was the last communication I had with Tommy Hazouri. It was a text message I sent the day he was moved from the Mayo Clinic to hospice care with lung problems that took his life Sept. 11. About a day before he had gone to Mayo we had a long…

  • It’s all about 9/11 today and it should be

    It’s been 20 years since Americans were shocked and glued to their tv watching the attack on America by Muslim extremists.  We could focus more about them and their ideology and how it is reflected in today’s culture but we’ll leave that for later.  Today it is about those who are not here and died…

  • The FDC, CDC and News Networks: Enemies of the people

    The FDC, CDC and News Networks:  Enemies of the people

    I am a proud black American citizen of this great country and I believe the mainstream media is trying to ruin it. I tell you of my ethnicity, because I want to inform you that all blacks are not captivated, mesmerized, brainwashed and controlled by the media zombie apocalypse. This is a response to the…

  • Reporters pose as cops

    Reporters pose as cops

    This was posted on Facebook recently by a local nurse: “I am under ‘investigation’ by News4Jax after fellow healthcare professionals reported me to the police and media for doing a park pick up for my elderberry elixir/colloidal silver and my willingness to help some parents looking for a licensed healthcare professional to sign a county…

  • Jerry Holland ends the speculation

    Jerry Holland ends the speculation

    Local voters who were looking forward to Jerry Holland running for mayor were dismayed when he announced he is running for supervisor of elections again. Currently the property appraiser, Holland was supervisor from 2005 to 2015. The current supervisor, Mike Hogan, is term limited. Hogan, Holland and Tax Collector Jim Overton all are former members…

  • Parents are fighting back to defend their rights

    Parents are fighting back to defend their rights

    In Florida, as in other states, parents finally are rising to oppose liberal politicians determined to indoctrinate children or otherwise compel them to do things contrary to parental wishes. It is a matter of parental rights. Fortunately for Florida parents, there is a law protecting parental rights, and a right to privacy in the Florida…