by Lloyd Brown | Sep 17, 2020 |
These days cases of true, hardcore reporting are rare, so a big Wink to News4Jax for this story. The reporters discovered and detailed links between a recent series of shootings in Jacksonville and the hip-hop culture. Scott Johnson and Travis Gibson obtained a copy...
by Lloyd Brown | Sep 16, 2020 |
Maybe the Jacksonville Jaguars need to decide whose team they are on. Like other teams in the NFL, the beefy millionaires hid in their locker room last Sunday during the national anthem. Also, while the “other” national anthem played. (Because nothing says “unity”...
by Lloyd Brown | Sep 14, 2020 |
City Council Finance Committee Chairman Matt Carlucci has tempered his bill to redirect capital outlay money to the core city. A bill he had sponsored would have directed one-third of the planned spending for next year to the area covered by the former city before...
by Lloyd Brown | Sep 13, 2020 |
Eye on Jacksonville has been skeptical from the start about the rationale for the Special Committee on Social Justice and Community Investment created in the City Council. One reason is that forming a committee on social justice implies there is social injustice in...
by Lloyd Brown | Sep 3, 2020 |
A long legal battle with City Haul and the media is over for one longtime employee, and it ended with a total victory for the embattled employee. John Keane, former director of the Police & Fire Pension Fund, has settled his suit with the city. John Keane ©Photo...
by Lloyd Brown | Aug 30, 2020 |
One local TV station seems to have awakened to something Eye on Jacksonville alerted its readers to months ago. First Coast News complained that it is difficult getting information from City Haul. Reporters were trying to find out the origins of a list of public...
by Lloyd Brown | Aug 30, 2020 |
Elementary and secondary schools in Florida have one job: preparing children for the next step in life, which in almost every case either is work or college. Therefore, it is reasonable to ask: Are students graduating from public schools prepared for college? Florida...
by Lloyd Brown | Aug 30, 2020 |
One thing about government: it never seems to lack a crisis requiring more government action. At a meeting of a special committee of the City Council Monday, another crisis was announced. According to a bureaucrat identified as Dawn Lockhart, there is a crisis in...
by Lloyd Brown | Aug 27, 2020 |
In 2000, Jacksonville citizens gave politicians the right to spend $2.25 billion of their money to reshape the city. Twenty years later, some local politicians are trying to convince the voters that little has been done to improve the city’s infrastructure, especially...
by Lloyd Brown | Aug 26, 2020 |
If teachers are not going to return to the classrooms, and only want to teach online, the teaching sessions should be public. Parents certainly should be able to watch their kids learning. And why not let the public watch, too? Education is being changed by the Red...
