by Lloyd Brown | Feb 21, 2020 |
One of the reasons foreign nations are constantly trying to hack into computers in the U.S. that contain elections data is to sow distrust in our voting process and election integrity. The entire Russian Collusion Delusion was based on this false premise. There are...
by Lloyd Brown | Feb 13, 2020 |
It has gotten way too easy for politicians to lead the media around by the nose. There are plenty of examples at the national level but there are some in Jacksonville, too. One classic example: Local media faithfully report on the mythical phenomenon of “food...
by Lloyd Brown | Feb 10, 2020 |
$4 Billion left on the table at JEA? It is possible the taxpayers missed out on a big opportunity when they nixed the sale of the JEA, based on an analysis of the situation by a former employee of the city-owned utility company. In his estimation, the sale could have...
by Lloyd Brown | Feb 6, 2020 |
It appears that the parking garage fiasco may have been brought on by city officials many years ago. As usually is the case in government, those who created the mess are gone, leaving the taxpayers to clean up. Three parking garages were built about 16 years ago, two...
by Lloyd Brown | Feb 1, 2020 |
$56 Million Parking Garage – Honey of a Deal and Jax’s next big scandaL Differences over financial information related to the operation of downtown parking garages may land the city in court with its partners, Metropolitan Parking Solutions. The company...
by Lloyd Brown | Jan 29, 2020 |
Jacksonville continues to move into mass transit, hoping to interest a public that has not embraced it in the past. Some of the earliest efforts did work well – under private operation. The old trolley system ran into Ortega and Springfield about a century ago. Later,...
by Lloyd Brown | Jan 27, 2020 |
Details of how a public relations company prepared opinion pieces for a local newspaper that ran under the names of a JEA official and another person have been provided by News4Jax. Dalton Agency employees recruited Henry Brown, who is on the JEA board, and HCI Group...
by Lloyd Brown | Jan 23, 2020 |
Former Mayor Jake Godbold Jake Godbold, one of Jacksonville’s outstanding political figures, has died at the age of 86. He was the second mayor of the consolidated government, following Hans Tanzler. Before that he was a city councilman and served as a council...
by Lloyd Brown | Jan 18, 2020 |
Questions raised by Eye on Jacksonville concerning the proposed tax for new school buildings got a response from school officials. The school district says on its Web site that the district has been affected by state funding cuts and it acknowledged that Eye was...
by Lloyd Brown | Jan 14, 2020 |
Government schools in Jacksonville are conducting a sales campaign in favor of a half-cent sales tax they hope local taxpayers will approve. But their main sales point is a little suspect. The school system says it needs to build new schools because it has not kept up...
