by Lloyd Brown | Jun 24, 2019 |
Depending on whose number you wish to use, Florida has 1,197 miles of coastline. Or 1,350. Or 8,436. In any case, any rise in the sea level would mean a reduction in the land area of the state – which is 54,252 square miles according to the...
by Lloyd Brown | Jun 21, 2019 |
Florida legislators continue trying to reward good teachers with higher pay. Powerful union bosses continue to try to block those efforts. Why would they try to prevent good teachers from being rewarded? In Jacksonville, about half the teachers in the public schools...
by Lloyd Brown | Jun 18, 2019 |
Tolls are coming back. The Florida Dept. of Transportation will begin collecting tolls on the First Coast Expressway in a few weeks. This is sure to ignite grumbling by motorists, especially those who remember and disliked the tolls that were once common in...
by Lloyd Brown | Jun 7, 2019 |
Hurricane season began June 1, so Florida residents can brace themselves for the annual storm of “price gouging” accusations. This great bogeyman comes into play every year, and one highlight of it is the loud promises by politicians to protect Floridians from the...
by Lloyd Brown | Jun 3, 2019 |
Is the JEA preparing to hold a “going out of business” sale? It almost sounds like it from the dire alarms the utility is putting out. Rates could be going through the roof and the huge pile of cash it hands over to the city each year might shrivel up and disappear....
by Lloyd Brown | May 30, 2019 |
Those knocking charter schools and other forms of school choice might want to do their homework before sounding off. School Board Member Warren Jones was quoted in a local newspaper as saying that charter schools are not outperforming the other public schools. If he...
by Lloyd Brown | May 26, 2019 |
In the most recent report, Duval County continues to lead the state in doing little about school safety incidents. Of 9,739 incidents that occurred in the previous school year, only 838 were “reported to law enforcement.” That is less than 9 percent. The average...
by Lloyd Brown | May 26, 2019 |
Duval County School Superintendent Diana Greene got what could only be described as a tongue-lashing when she appeared before the State Board of Education May 22. Greene was explaining her plans to turn around two failing schools, Lake Forest Elementary School and...
by Lloyd Brown | May 18, 2019 |
In what amounts to media malpractice, a local newspaper swallowed the liberal bait hook, line and sinker by publishing a story claiming that vouchers are “draining” money from the government schools. Let’s start with this: every single independent fiscal impact study,...
by Lloyd Brown | May 9, 2019 |
Duval Legislative Delegation member Sen. Aaron Bean, a Republican from Fernandina, successfully guided a bill through the Florida Legislature this year that is well intended, but may have a few pitfalls. The bill seeks to allow importing drugs from foreign countries....
