by Lloyd Brown | Dec 7, 2021 |
In the last hour of voting Tuesday night, Dean Black got word from a member of his team that the substantial Democrat lead in voting had been cut – to 32 votes. Black was exultant. This was a big win. For decades, Democrat voters have outnumbered Republicans in... 
by Lloyd Brown | Dec 2, 2021 |
Our story on media access to local government brought an interesting response from a long-time reporter for a local TV station. Jim Piggott of News4Jax said, “I’ve been covering City Hall for 35 years and, yes, I remember when things were much more open.” Yet,... 
by Lloyd Brown | Nov 29, 2021 |
The hoary story about the frog who was placed in a pot of cold water on a stove and stayed there contentedly while the water was raised to boiling seems relevant in the case of Jacksonville’s media. Over the years local newspapers and television news outlets have... by Lloyd Brown | Nov 24, 2021 |
One member of the City Council has stepped up to protect the city’s residents from a rapidly growing tax burden being heaped on them at all levels of government. Council Member Leanna Cumber told Eye on Jacksonville she will file a bill seeking to rescind the local... by Lloyd Brown | Nov 20, 2021 |
The perennial argument about the size of the police force has come up again. This go-around, it is about making it bigger, rather than smaller. At a meeting of the Taxation, Revenue, and Utilization of Expenditures (TRUE) Commission Oct. 7, there was a discussion of... by Lloyd Brown | Nov 15, 2021 |
Blake Harper says his mission is to do what he says all Americans should be doing. Politicians are public servants, Harper said, and the job of citizens is to manage them, providing them with guidance. Harper does that, in spades. He is everywhere. You have seen him... by Lloyd Brown | Nov 11, 2021 |
As expected, former TV talking head and liberal Democrat Donna Deegan has announced she will run for mayor in the 2023 elections. She has no experience in office. She ran for Congress in 2020 and was slaughtered by former Sheriff John Rutherford. Anything can happen... by Lloyd Brown | Nov 5, 2021 |
Most Americans would agree that the greater danger facing the nation today is not “white supremacy” but the teaching of racism in government schools. It is being done under the guise of “Critical Race Theory” and it was the major issue in the governor’s race in... by Lloyd Brown | Nov 5, 2021 |
Tuesday’s School Board meeting produced unanimous agreement on words written on a piece of paper that seemingly said nothing, meant nothing and accomplished nothing. That’s progress, perhaps, although it left a lot of observers puzzled. On the board’s consent agenda... by Lloyd Brown | Nov 4, 2021 |
Another hopeful sign for Jacksonville: the local media’s pathetic bias is becoming evident to readers and viewers. See this piece from News4Jax. To begin with, this is not an investigation. The Florida Highway Patrol compiled the database, in an effort to be...