Debate on the JEA sale should stick to the facts
As the debate over selling the JEA rages on, inaccurate information continues to permeate the arguments on both sides. Fact-checking one post on Facebook illustrates the point: “JEA answers to the citizens which owns the water rights and electricity. If sold you would be at the mercy of an investor owned company and pay much […]
BIG NEWS: You get to decide JEA potential sale on the Nov. 6th ballot!!
[box] You, the rate payers and users of JEA services, have a chance to be heard about the potential sale of JEA. A question has been added to the ballot asking your opinion on this sensitive and important matter. Please make sure you answer the question. For all the information, check out this email below […]
Spitting coffee over JEA and Anna Brosche. She’s doing her job, gentlemen!
As I read the news today, I was drinking my coffee and relaxing on my outdoor patio. Good thing because I spit coffee when I read that Fred Newbill, a JEA board member, accused City Council President Anna Brosche of using the JEA as a political tool for a possible run against Mayor Curry. Let […]
JEA Sale: What a tangled web. When it’s this confusing, something stinks.
With events cascading in the JEA sale controversy, new JEA interim CEO Aaron Zahn’s plea to stop talking about it is understandable, although unlikely to have any effect. The City Council is moving ahead with deliberation to pin a value on the city-owned utility. Likewise, the private Jacksonville Civic Council shows no signs of dropping […]
JEA Sale: Get the popcorn. This thing is getting good. The suspense builds. What next at JEA?
Former mayor Jake Godbold has written current Mayor Lenny Curry, offering his thoughts on the sale of the JEA. Godbold has been through the discussion before and you could summarize his position thus: No. It is rather interesting, however, why and how Godbold wrote the letter. For starters, he marked it “personal and confidential” when […]
JEA sale takes another turn and new “players” are at the table. Will your rates go up?
Heads are spinning as Jacksonville residents try to keep up with the events surrounding the potential sale of the city’s electric-water/sewer utility JEA. The latest development, less than a week after the announced retirement of the head of JEA, is the decision by former mayor John Delaney to join two local firms that may be […]