It’s all about 9/11 today and it should be
It’s been 20 years since Americans were shocked and glued to their tv watching the attack on America by Muslim extremists. We could focus more about them and their ideology and how it is reflected in today’s culture but we’ll leave that for later. Today it is about those who are not here and died […]
Setback for pro-homosexual law could lead to it being invalidated
Jacksonville’s contentious and controversial “human rights” ordinance was dealt a blow at the hands of Florida’s First District Court of Appeals this week. Twice barred by a local circuit judge who said the plaintiffs lacked standing, lawyers for Liberty Counsel got those actions reversed and the case was sent back to the Circuit Court to […]
What’s next for JEA? A turnaround expert.
There were a few times in my career when one of my CEO clients got into a situation that required a Turnaround Expert to be called in to help. Sometimes that situation was their own doing and other times, it was someone within the organization that had messed things up pretty bad. CEOs call in […]
Two letters are sent, as the JEA issue heats up
Mayor Lenny Curry is changing course on the JEA sale, after receiving a polite but pointed letter from the Jacksonville Civic Council. The civic council’s JEA Subcommittee, consisting of Michael Ward, Bobby Stein and Jeanne Miller, asked Curry to switch from the invitation to negotiate process currently being used by the JEA to a more […]
Local moms seek to delay 5G wireless technology they believe poses health hazards
Local citizens are joining with others around the nation and the world to oppose a new form of wireless technology. Currently, they are opposing two bills pending in the City Council that will be considered by a council committee this week. The bills concern the new 5G technology and the opposition is based on the […]
Climate Change: Local effort to increase the cost of government is under way but Curry should heed Canute
Environmental alarmists are pestering Mayor Lenny Curry to spend more money and increase the bureaucracy in order to save Jacksonville from climate change. Precisely how climate change, which has been happening some 4.5 billion years now, is to be eliminated they conveniently leave out of their plea. We trust that Curry will not rise to […]
Public is wary of new laws that allow the police to seize guns
Local police are using a variety of new tactics in an effort to stem violent crime, but one of the new techniques is troubling. Using the state’s “red flag” law, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is taking guns away from people who are determined to be a threat. However, the gun owners are not being represented […]
JEA: Local utility’s privatization plan is worldwide news
Plans to privatize the JEA obviously are of interest to residents of Jacksonville but why are they news in a publication written for socialists around the world? A story about JEA appeared in the World Socialist Web site this week. The site is published by the International Committee of the Fourth International, which in turn […]
Duval County Schools: Why not sell your tax increase & let the people decide?
People who want higher taxes are pushing hard to get the school tax on the ballot immediately. A little too hard. It is a little too much when they let a problem grow over many years and then demand a tax as the only solution and insist upon it being passed immediately. There isn’t much […]
School Superintendent Dr. Greene’s Manatee legacy: Lack of Leadership?
Audits and newspaper investigations are beginning to show problems in the Manatee’s public schools dating to the time Dr. Diana Greene, now superintendent of the Duval Count schools, headed the Southwest Florida system. Based on a review of several school board minutes and internal audit reports, the Bradenton Herald reported in mid-January an information technology […]