by Lloyd Brown | Oct 14, 2019 |
Mayor Lenny Curry We understand that Mayor Lenny Curry is pedal-to-the-metal on dumping the JEA, but his use of obviously bogus information in that quest is puzzling. Did Curry think no one would fact-check when he claimed JEA’s rates had shot up 71 percent? That’s...
by Lloyd Brown | Oct 13, 2019 |
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Republicans think – and rightly so – that minimum wage laws are not good public policy. So why would the Republican governor of Florida propose a minimum wage for teachers in government schools? Gov. Ron DeSantis has done just that,...
by Lloyd Brown | Oct 12, 2019 |
State Rep. Jason Fischer An old saying goes, “There are three kinds of people: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened.” Jason Fischer didn’t go to the Florida Legislature to sit and watch. Since being elected to...
by Lloyd Brown | Oct 10, 2019 |
Often maligned JEA has suitors – 16 of them. That many companies made bids to buy all or part of the local utility company. The next question will be: how many are serious and how many are simply bargain hunters. Some think the company could be worth about $7 billion....
by Lloyd Brown | Sep 29, 2019 |
Is the School Board going to punish a teacher for being proud of being an American? Daniel Goodman was pulled from his teaching job at First Coast High School because of something he wrote on a chalkboard in his classroom. The offending statement? “THINK: We had about...
by Lloyd Brown | Sep 24, 2019 |
Rep. John Rutherford John Rutherford, former sheriff of Jacksonville, has been in Congress two years. How’s he doing? According to the ratings of the American Conservative Union, so-so. The ACU, like its left-wing counterpart Americans for Democratic Action, rates...
by Lloyd Brown | Sep 23, 2019 |
Red flags you say? I don’t see no red flags. Local police are using a variety of new tactics in an effort to stem violent crime, but one of the new techniques is troubling. Using the state’s “red flag” law, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is taking guns away...
by Lloyd Brown | Sep 21, 2019 |
Potential changes in the consolidation charter were suggested recently that might have provided a different way to resolve the impasse between the School Board and city over a sales tax referendum. The Charter Revision Commission heard a presentation from Mike...
by Lloyd Brown | Sep 1, 2019 |
As the debate over selling the JEA rages on, inaccurate information continues to permeate the arguments on both sides. Fact-checking one post on Facebook illustrates the point: “JEA answers to the citizens which owns the water rights and electricity. If sold you would...
by Lloyd Brown | Aug 26, 2019 |
While Jacksonville residents are watching TV and retiring for the night there is a lot going on in the streets. The police are out there taking care of business. But what exactly do cops do while patrolling at night? You might imagine they run from a murder to a...
