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Council plan to redirect dollars is changed by its sponsor
City Council Finance Committee Chairman Matt Carlucci has tempered his bill to redirect capital outlay money to the core city. A bill he had sponsored would have directed one-third of the planned spending for next year to the area covered by the former city before consolidation, which is 4 percent of the area of the […]
Long-standing feud between city officials and former employee ends with city’s surrender
A long legal battle with City Haul and the media is over for one longtime employee, and it ended with a total victory for the embattled employee. John Keane, former director of the Police & Fire Pension Fund, has settled his suit with the city. City officials tried to take away his pension. But a […]
Curry’s Iron Curtain on information is beginning to be noticed
One local TV station seems to have awakened to something Eye on Jacksonville alerted its readers to months ago. First Coast News complained that it is difficult getting information from City Haul. Reporters were trying to find out the origins of a list of public monuments to be removed. Rather than just talking to someone, […]
Another day, another crisis in local government
One thing about government: it never seems to lack a crisis requiring more government action. At a meeting of a special committee of the City Council Monday, another crisis was announced. According to a bureaucrat identified as Dawn Lockhart, there is a crisis in affordable housing. For those unfamiliar, housing is considered unaffordable when it […]
Rather than being accused of neglect, local taxpayers should be praised for their generosity
In 2000, Jacksonville citizens gave politicians the right to spend $2.25 billion of their money to reshape the city. Twenty years later, some local politicians are trying to convince the voters that little has been done to improve the city’s infrastructure, especially in certain areas of town. This is a detailed listing of what was […]
City needs roads? Not exactly a new problem
One hot topic in City Haul currently is spending on public infrastructure improvements. This is not anything new. In December 1882 – the same year pitchman P.T. Barnum bought his famous elephant Jumbo – the editor of the Daily Times in Jacksonville wrote: “Outside of our hotels there is nothing in Jacksonville exceedingly attractive. We […]
Confederate soldier missing in action stood guard in the city’s center for more than a century
One victim of the cancel culture is the bronze statue of a Confederate soldier that stood in what is now, after a vote by the City Council, James Weldon Johnson Park. The figure was spirited away to a secret location in the dead of night by politicians seeking to appease the Angry Left, probably in […]
Many public dollars are slated to go into one section of the city
Any fair assessment of the mayor’s proposed budget shows the northwest quadrant of the city getting a large share of the spending during the next five years. It is alleged by City Council members representing four council districts that those districts have been neglected for years. Proof of the claim is shaky. Some contend that […]
Big spending plans for the city will benefit mostly a few areas
If there has been neglect of some areas of the city as alleged, but not proven, apparently it may be rectified over the next five years. Closer examination of the city’s proposed Capital Improvements Plan shows $3 billion in spending on infrastructure is planned. Furthermore, the spending for the five-year period covered by the plan […]