by Lloyd Brown | Dec 7, 2018 |
Virginia College, Jacksonville, at Beach and University boulevards, has closed along with the company’s other facilities nationwide. The private college offered courses and associate’s degrees in business administration, computer technology, cosmetology, culinary...
by Lloyd Brown | Dec 3, 2018 |
Putting stuff into the yellow-topped curbside recycling bins may make homeowners feel virtuous, but it probably isn’t saving the taxpayers any money. The popular notion is that the garbage is sold and the operation breaks even or makes a profit. Not quite. The city...
by Lloyd Brown | Nov 29, 2018 |
Mayor Lenny Curry has the right idea – put off plans for a new convention center. That perennial question had popped up again, and it is premature. Jacksonville didn’t have a convention center until the 1970s. Conventions did their business in the hotel where they...
by Lloyd Brown | Nov 25, 2018 |
On the day before Thanksgiving, Eye got a gift for which we are thankful. The public school system answered a question we asked last May. In August, they told us we could have the info for $107.60, which we paid. As it turns out, they gave us more than we asked for,...
by Lloyd Brown | Nov 19, 2018 |
Downtown “revitalization” has been a topic in City Hall for as long as I can remember. In the 1940s, Mayor Haydon Burns led an effort to clean up the city, especially the waterfront, where aged and unsightly docks ruined the view of the magnificent river. Burns...
by Lloyd Brown | Nov 16, 2018 |
Our quest to obtain public records from the local school district has resulted in assurance from the school superintendent that we will succeed. As Eye on Jacksonville readers know, we began asking school officials last May whether any local teachers have been accused...
by Lloyd Brown | Nov 13, 2018 |
We are handing out a WINK to City Council Member Anna Lopez Brosche for doggedly pursuing more open government in City Hall. As council president last year, she appointed a task force to look at whether the local government was giving sufficient access to the public....
by Lloyd Brown | Nov 8, 2018 |
Jacksonville residents will be glad to know that there is at least one person in City Hall who is on their side. Council Member Anna Lopez Brosche doggedly is pursuing a measure she authored seeking to pry open the lid of secrecy that has descended on City Hall over...
by Lloyd Brown | Oct 28, 2018 |
Looking a gift horse in the mouth is supposed to be something to avoid, but what if it is a Trojan horse? At a meeting in City Hall Friday, two city council members held a meeting to gain additional information on a measure that already had passed the council –...
by Lloyd Brown | Oct 18, 2018 |
As the city tries to extricate itself from the Plant Vogtle mess, it keeps getting deeper. Recently, the city’s bond rating has been lowered, prompting an injudicious outburst from the city’s chief administrative officer. “The city’s action calls into question its...
