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The Skyway Stops. NAVI Stops. Nat Ford’s Paycheck Doesn’t.

The Jacksonville Transportation Authority is preparing to cut up to 194 jobs, reduce bus and ferry service, and indefinitely pause the Skyway and NAVI. Nat Ford? Apparently, he’s the one service JTA can’t afford to cut. According to the Florida Times-Union, Ford will remain on the payroll through Oct. 21 in an “as-needed advisory role” […]

No 401(k)? No Problem: A New Retirement Option Is Coming for Millions of Americans

This morning, Finance Buzz reported, “New Trump Executive Order Could Change Retirement Savings for 56 Million Americans.” Back on April 30, President Trump signed an executive order creating a new federal website, TrumpIRA.gov, that “connects working Americans — independent contractors, part-time workers, small-business employees, and the self-employed — with high-quality, low-cost Individual Retirement Accounts.” It […]

They walked in for knee surgery. Some may never walk again.

There are things that should NEVER  occur in healthcare, and that includes patient death or serious disability from a medication error.  They are called never events because they are preventable, and their occurrence reveals a severe problem with hospital management.  On Aug 14., a never event occurred at Ascension St. Thomas Hospital Midtown in Nashville, […]

You’re Paying More. Is Government Cutting Anything?

Here we go again. Florida is finally having a serious conversation about meaningful property-tax relief, and immediately the warnings begin. Police will suffer. Firefighters will suffer. Roads will suffer. Parks and libraries will suffer. Now the Jacksonville Civic Council, a group made up of many of the Jacksonville’s prominent business and civic leaders, has joined […]