by Lloyd Brown | Aug 24, 2019 |
Jacksonville residents with an interest in history and politics would find it worth their time to read a new biography of a former mayor: Jake! The number of important events that took place in the city during Jake Godbold’s eight years as mayor of Jacksonville –...
by Lloyd Brown | Aug 22, 2019 |
No Justice for Stephen Anthony Orlando You hear a lot in the fake news industry about “white supremacy” and injustice but Jacksonville is where one of the great injustices is being done, and it was based on the notion of black supremacy. In 1974, an 18-year-old boy’s...
by Lloyd Brown | Aug 15, 2019 |
I could hardly believe what I was seeing in a recent media report on the sea level rise task force in Jacksonville, formally known as the Adaptation Action Area Working Group. This temporary committee is supposed to disband later this month — and that may be a...
by Lloyd Brown | Aug 13, 2019 |
Plans to privatize the JEA obviously are of interest to residents of Jacksonville but why are they news in a publication written for socialists around the world? A story about JEA appeared in the World Socialist Web site this week. The site is published by the...
by Lloyd Brown | Aug 8, 2019 |
Jason Fischer State Rep. Jason Fischer is getting a lot of heat for his bill to consider changes in how the School Board is constituted but it is not an idea he invented or necessarily even supports. As I read it, Fischer simply is frustrated at how the board operates...
by Lloyd Brown | Aug 7, 2019 |
People who want higher taxes are pushing hard to get the school tax on the ballot immediately. A little too hard. It is a little too much when they let a problem grow over many years and then demand a tax as the only solution and insist upon it being passed...
by Lloyd Brown | Aug 3, 2019 |
Attempts to make the sale of JEA seem like a bonanza may run aground on the hard rocks of reality. After two years of denying that he sought the sale of the city-owned utility – an idea that is wildly unpopular – Mayor Lenny Curry now seems to be advocate No. 1. With...
by Lloyd Brown | Jul 28, 2019 |
Politicians and bureaucrats in Jacksonville have all but erased the idea of government in the sunshine, the latest example being the brazen act of JEA executives holding a public meeting in a public place and shutting out the media. The media has no one to blame but...
by Lloyd Brown | Jul 23, 2019 |
JEA is drawing up a list of people to be fired as it continues downsizing. Possibilities to be discussed at a board meeting today are a 26 percent rate increase and firing 500 employees. Three things are contributing to the shrinkage of the city-owned electric and...
by Lloyd Brown | Jul 12, 2019 |
Criminals continue to conduct violence, as they always have and always will. Jacksonville is employing one new approach designed to limit the violence. Will is work? That remains to be seen. Proponents claim it has helped elsewhere. Cure Violence has worked in places...
