by Lloyd Brown | Aug 1, 2020 |
Are the citizens of Jacksonville who are being accused of racism ever going to get a fair hearing? At City Haul, the drumbeat continues, but the specifics never come. Eye on Jacksonville has asked Council Member Brenda Priestly-Jackson for a list of the promises made...
by Lloyd Brown | Jul 29, 2020 |
Eye on Jacksonville still is holding out hope that someone will lay a predicate for what looks like a huge spending spree, and accompanying tax increase, on the horizon. We didn’t hear it in the mayor’s budget message and we didn’t hear it at the first meeting of the...
by Lloyd Brown | Jul 28, 2020 |
The City Council committee of social justice warriors is off and running but is not yet clear where they are going. It held the first working meeting Monday and tried to find its bearings. Co-chairman Matt Carlucci sought to bring up some bills for discussion, but...
by Lloyd Brown | Jul 27, 2020 |
Everyone wants to minimize violence, especially now when gangs of radicals are rioting in the streets of major cities. For years, various methods have been tried but none have worked. The latest fad is called Cure Violence. It is being employed in Jacksonville. Cure...
by Lloyd Brown | Jul 24, 2020 |
Eye on Jacksonville is issuing a challenge to City Council President Tommy Hazouri. Hazouri created a “social justice” committee on the council and set as its goal “to further equal access and opportunity for all citizens of Jacksonville and to strive to establish...
by Lloyd Brown | Jul 21, 2020 |
Once again, the local news media had a blackout on news that does not fit the liberal agenda. According to Facebook users, none of the local newspapers or TV stations provided coverage last weekend of the “Back the Blue” pro-police event in Jacksonville. This was one...
by Lloyd Brown | Jul 18, 2020 |
One of Eye’s financial analysts has done an examination of the city’s finances and has concluded a case can be made that the city has not kept up with infrastructure needs. That is a key issue before the City Council right now, as it begins work on the mayor’s...
by Lloyd Brown | Jul 18, 2020 |
With the School Board wavering on the re-opening of government schools, parents who favor opening school buildings to students see hanky-panky by those who don’t. The two sides are the online crowd vs. the “brick-and-mortar” crowd. While the administration in telling...
by Lloyd Brown | Jul 17, 2020 |
Politicians are notorious for taking a short-term view; doing just what is needed to get them by until the next election. Term limits exacerbates this problem. Mayor Lenny Curry’s proposed $3 billion budget for next year purports to try to catch up on work that he...
by Lloyd Brown | Jul 15, 2020 |
Local lawyers still are scratching their heads over the strange ruling by the city’s general counsel that stalled the work of the City Council committee investigating the JEA fiasco. There is a good chance, some think, that the committee will overrule its own lawyer...
