by Lloyd Brown | Jan 20, 2022 |
Joe Carlucci would get a kick out of the fact that his grandson Joe Carlucci may serve on the City Council. The original was a character. A businessman who was fed up with the corruption in City Haul, Carlucci got involved with the Local Government Study Commission in... by Lloyd Brown | Jan 10, 2022 |
The government schools in Jacksonville have adopted a health care service for students that has aroused suspicion in other parts of Florida. Hazel Health is a Silicon Valley telehealth company that provides primary, urgent, and mental health care services to... by Lloyd Brown | Jan 7, 2022 |
Like many state and local governments, Jacksonville was showered with cash by a federal government eager to run the national debt up as high as possible. This always is the end game of tax-and-spend Democrats when they are in power, in the hope that a crushing debt... 
by Lloyd Brown | Jan 6, 2022 |
Finally, the long-delayed annual financial report of the city is available – and it contains scathing criticism of the local government’s new financial system software. The report hysterically is renamed the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report rather than the... by Lloyd Brown | Jan 3, 2022 |
As always, there were many political twists and turns during 2021. One was the jockeying for position in the mayor’s race coming up next year. Three people got in and one of them dropped out. Others seem to be waiting in the wings. The dropout was Matt Carlucci, an... 
by Lloyd Brown | Dec 23, 2021 |
One local businessman with a demolition business has offered to knock down the palatial estate of Jeffrey Epstein – at his own cost. John Arwood John Arwood, owner of Arwood Waste & Demolition in Jacksonville, does demolition work nationwide and says he could... by Lloyd Brown | Dec 21, 2021 |
According to a new poll, property tax reform ranks high among the concerns of Florida residents, along with school choice and health care costs. This is a bit puzzling. The median property tax in Florida is $1,773.00 per year for a home worth the median value of... by Lloyd Brown | Dec 17, 2021 |
Plans to dock a Navy vessel in downtown Jacksonville are producing solid results, at last. The USS Orleck, a Navy destroyer built in 1945, will be docked on the Northbank near the site of the old courthouse, now demolished. It was approved by the City Council last... by Lloyd Brown | Dec 15, 2021 |
Scrooges in City Hall had a chance to give the people of Jacksonville a nice Christmas gift Tuesday, but instead they said, “Bah, humbug.” Only five members of City Council voted to repeal the recent local gas tax hike. Those heroes are Rory Diamond, LeAnna Cumber, Al... by Lloyd Brown | Dec 14, 2021 |
As the city inspector general’s office devolves into a flurry of lawsuits, claims and counter-claims, someone should be asking: why do we have an inspector general anyway? The new office was not a result of consolidation and had not been recommended by any other body...