by Billie Tucker Volpe | Jul 26, 2020 |
Social media is blowing up with this video of Cathy Dotson from Wichita Falls speaking in front of her hometown’s city council regarding the removal of monuments. She lived in public housing as a single mother on food stamps. She is now a millionaire and she is...
by Billie Tucker Volpe | Jul 24, 2020 |
In a post on social media today, the City of Jacksonville asked you to please answer a phone number you don’t recognize. The person calling will let you know you may have been exposed to someone with COVID19. This will prevent you from spreading it to others....
by Billie Tucker Volpe | Jul 24, 2020 |
In a shocking turn of affairs, President Trump announced yesterday that the RNC in Jacksonville is off the table. My phone blew up and social media went crazy. The side that didn’t want the RNC here is elated. The side that did was left with bewilderment but...
by Billie Tucker Volpe | Jul 23, 2020 |
Four journalists from the Times Union sheltered down for a while and collaborated on the facts of the JEA scandal. The report they put together is long, filled with facts, diagrams, and information gathered from text messages, emails, meeting notes, and other sources...
by Billie Tucker Volpe | Jul 20, 2020 |
Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams told the world yesterday “we can’t pull it off” in regards to hosting the RNC Convention here next month. The message he conveyed was vague and his appearance showed someone who had given up. That’s not the...
by Billie Tucker Volpe | Jul 20, 2020 |
John the Baptist Blvd is a grass roots, community driven movement founded in Jacksonville, Florida and gaining popularity across the country. The men behind this movement are John D. Arwood, President of Arwood Site Services, a nationwide waste management and site...
by Billie Tucker Volpe | Jul 19, 2020 |
All over the country there is a movement to defund the police. This certainly came out of nowhere for the majority of Americans but evidently it appears it was a planned strategy behind the scenes for BLM. Yesterday in Jacksonville, Northside Coalition president Ben...
by Billie Tucker Volpe | Jul 15, 2020 |
The Downtown Investment Authority (DIA) was formed in 2013 to revitalize Jacksonville’s urban core. The DIA is the sole development and community redevelopment agency for Downtown. It is guided by a nine-member board of directors appointed by the Mayor and the...
by Billie Tucker Volpe | Jul 12, 2020 |
One of Eye’s followers sent us a copy of a letter from Tia M. Leathers of the Duval County Public Schools. The recipient of the letter was not happy with the essence of Ms. Leathers’ letter and her plans to hold workshops with parents every Wednesday to...
by Billie Tucker Volpe | Jul 10, 2020 |
Jill Pacetti is a resident of St. Augustine and has been on the front lines of the take down of memorials. She is fighting hard against removing the tomb of the war dead from St. Augustine – among them one of her cousins. Read her post about the struggle to...
