Downtown deserves better than one more round
One last call for alcohol… at 3 a.m.?! City Councilman Raul Arias is proposing extending alcohol sales from 2 a.m. until 3 a.m. in certain areas of downtown Jacksonville. According to reports, Ordinance 2026-0063 would allow bars in the “NorthCore, Central Core, and Sports and Entertainment districts” to serve booze later than other places around […]
Kudos We Can’t Give: When Career Elevation Outpaces Elder Protection
On paper, today’s announcement reads like a celebration. Michelle Branham, Secretary of the Florida Department of Elder Affairs, has been named to a powerful national role as a public member—now leading—the Advisory Council on Alzheimer’s Research, Care, and Services, under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The announcement, made by HHS Secretary Robert […]
Make Concerts Affordable Again
There was a time when taking your kids to a concert was part of growing up — not a financial gut check. Today, in Northeast Florida and across the country, that simple family night out has quietly turned into a luxury purchase. By the time a parent buys four tickets, pays the fees, parks the […]
Where Have All the Florence Nightingales Gone?
Florida made national news this week after the Florida Surgeon General revoked the license of a nurse who publicly wished pain and suffering on Karoline Leavitt during childbirth. Strip away the politics and one truth remains:This behavior is incompatible with the healthcare profession. Nursing is not a casual job. It requires years of education, clinical […]
I Was Removed from the JTA Board for Asking Questions. Here’s the One That Matters Most Now
Guest Column by Megan Hayward a former member of the Jacksonville Transportation Authority Board, where she served for a year and a half following a unanimous appointment. During her tenure, Hayward raised questions regarding spending practices, budget oversight, and governance at JTA. After her removal from the board, she is now speaking out about recent […]
DeSantis Plays the Long Game — And Washington Is Starting to Sweat
In another woefully under reported story, Florida Governor DeSantis has been quietly and successfully organizing a convention of states to vote on a balanced budget amendment to rein in the federal government. Before you’d even heard about it, he’d already gotten 28 states signed up, with only six more to go. NPR-Boise ran the story, quietly headlined, […]
Praise the Lord, not the media
If City Council Member Ju’Coby Pittman were playing in a football game she probably would be called by a referee for taunting. The local media is a pawn for the local politicians and bureaucrats, having lost much of its ability to get information from local government over the past 50 years. But Pittman has introduced […]
It’s not just “over there” anymore. Christian churches are now the target.
A church sanctuary is supposed to be safe and sacred. Yet this weekend, an anti-ICE mob with former CNN host Don Lemon holding a microphone stormed a Sunday worship service at Cities Church in Minnesota, interrupting prayer, shouting accusations, and following congregants into the parking lot as they tried to leave. Vehicles were surrounded. People […]
Changing the way history is kept can be contentious
State Rep. Dean Black will try again this year to get legislation passed establishing a procedure for removing public statues and monuments. Black has attempted for the past four years to get the bill passed but it has stalled in the legislative process. The instigation was the sneaky midnight removal of the 59-foot Confederate Statue […]
Trade Skills May Be the Most Recession-Proof Career of the Next Decade
Axios ran the most incredibly encouraging article under the most depressing headline it could come up with: “Worker shortage could hurt AI construction boom, BlackRock warns.” Defying corporate media claims, and defying blackpill AI predictions, a new BlackRock economic analysis predicted massive job demand across the board: “The world,” Axios reported, “is entering what could […]