Money trail from the city to the Chamber is intriguing
In what could be an amazing coincidence, it appears that since Mayor Lenny Curry took office, the city of Jacksonville has been paying the salary of Curry’s heir apparent. Timing is everything. In 2015, Curry was elected mayor of Jacksonville. Also in 2015, the Jacksonville Chamber received $200,000 from the Jacksonville annual budget. Since 2015, […]
Who or what is Justice40?
The recent announcement by Mayor Lenny Curry regarding the “heat mapping” study completed by University of North Florida has a sinister sound: Washington exerting more control over state and local government. This week Curry was interviewed by News4Jax’s Tarik Minor on the heat mapping study. Curry said the city hasn’t invested in the hotter areas […]
Jacksonville has heat islands. Who knew?
The local media is agog over another liberal exercise in futility. People have been doing scientific research by “traversing” (going around) the city with thermometers, seeking to map “heat islands.” Like the mythical “food deserts,” heat islands are another way the Far Left has of dividing up America into haves and have-nots – and pretending […]
Bad ideas never die and Jacksonville should avoid them
Disregarding mountains of evidence, the Orange County government is seeking rent control. Eye on Jacksonville hopes that Jacksonville leaders will not make a similar mistake, given that leftwing activists occasionally suggest such a disastrous policy. Oregon started using rent control in 2019 and it has spread to other states. Rent control exacerbates housing shortages, causes […]
Need for another tax increase is hazy
Government schools in Jacksonville are trying hard to convince local taxpayers to raise taxes on themselves, but the arguments are not persuasive. The tax increase to be voted on this month would mean someone in a $300,000 home would pay $275 a year more in property taxes, according to News 4 Jax. School officials say […]
Pain at the pump produced by politicians
Washington, D.C., is unlike the popular saying; “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.” What happens in Washington visits every town in the nation. Pulling into a gas station these days has become a stress-inducing experience. How or why, in less than two years, did gas prices get so high? For the first time in […]
It is time to re-evaluate local mass transit plans
In 1985, the Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA) received more than $23 million from the federal government to build the Skyway Express. City Council had worked hard to get this grant. From 2009 to 2016 Duval taxpayers subsidized the Skyway by more than $90 million. They also subsidized JTA by an additional $560 million in that […]
Details about the budget finances are important
Here are two facts about the local government finances: Mayor Lenny Curry is not “cutting taxes.” The budget Curry is proposing to the City Council is not $1.55 billion. This is not nit-picking, it is clarifying information that is important. When the local government send out a tax bill, it is based on two factors: […]
Tax money is gone with the rain
I have lived in Clay County more than nine years and during that entire time have seen tax dollars literally being washed away every time it rains. The county Public Works Department is responsible for maintaining and repairing the county’s more than 200 miles of dirt roads. Reviewing the 2021-22 fiscal year budget, Eye on […]
Florida goes for the federal carrots
Have you ever used a treat to coax your pet to act in some specific manner, hoping the morsel would initiate the desired behavior? Well, cities across the nation are the pets and our federal government is the dispenser of treats. In 2013, the North Florida Transportation Planning Organization (NFTPO) did not use their allotted […]