by Lloyd Brown | Nov 13, 2019 |
Environmental alarmists are pestering Mayor Lenny Curry to spend more money and increase the bureaucracy in order to save Jacksonville from climate change. Precisely how climate change, which has been happening some 4.5 billion years now, is to be eliminated they...
by Lloyd Brown | Nov 11, 2019 |
Michelle Obama, who never was proud of America until it elected her husband, continues to show her hatred for the nation even after leaving the White House. “Y’all are still running from us,” she said recently, voicing the theory of “white flight” that liberals have...
by Lloyd Brown | Nov 6, 2019 |
As Mark Twain might say, reports of JEA’s death are greatly exaggerated. The Jacksonville Civic Council just gave the JEA and Mayor Lenny Curry a big pie in the face, accusing proponents and JEA of being secretive, uncooperative and misleading. In essence, the council...
by Lloyd Brown | Nov 4, 2019 |
Comments by Jaguars owner Shad Khan the other day were worthy of note. First was the notion that nothing has been done downtown for 50 years. “This has been like a 50-year objective in Jacksonville to do something downtown,” Khan allegedly told local reporters. “I’ve...
by Lloyd Brown | Nov 1, 2019 |
How much longer will city officials continue to throw money at a problem they can’t fix? For years, untold millions of dollars have been poured into the Northwest Quadrant of Jacksonville, in a vain attempt to stimulate economic activity. It has had about the same...
by Lloyd Brown | Oct 27, 2019 |
The putative justification for setting a minimum wage for government school teachers does not seem to apply in Jacksonville. Gov. Ron DeSantis is proposing the policy, at a cost of $600 million. Whether he is serious or whether the Florida Legislature will go there is...
by Lloyd Brown | Oct 20, 2019 |
Occasionally, politicians come up with good ideas. Usually, they merely find unworkable solutions to problems that either didn’t exist or already were solved. However, in the 1970s, the Florida Legislature decided that there were too many laws and regulations. So they...
by Lloyd Brown | Oct 17, 2019 |
Are other options being ignored as the JEA Sale Red Ball Express roars down the tracks? One wonders. An interesting bit of intel picked up by Eye this week: A few local experts on finance – investment banker types – are for their own amusement examining the city’s...
by Lloyd Brown | Oct 14, 2019 |
Mayor Lenny Curry We understand that Mayor Lenny Curry is pedal-to-the-metal on dumping the JEA, but his use of obviously bogus information in that quest is puzzling. Did Curry think no one would fact-check when he claimed JEA’s rates had shot up 71 percent? That’s...
by Lloyd Brown | Oct 13, 2019 |
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Republicans think – and rightly so – that minimum wage laws are not good public policy. So why would the Republican governor of Florida propose a minimum wage for teachers in government schools? Gov. Ron DeSantis has done just that,...
