Voters and taxpayers need to know who among them are unfair to their neighbors
Eye on Jacksonville is issuing a challenge to City Council President Tommy Hazouri. Hazouri created a “social justice” committee on the council and set as its goal “to further equal access and opportunity for all citizens of Jacksonville and to strive to establish programs and polices which serve to eradicate systemic bias as well as […]
Taxpayers deserve an accounting if decades and dollars have been wasted
Politicians are notorious for taking a short-term view; doing just what is needed to get them by until the next election. Term limits exacerbates this problem. Mayor Lenny Curry’s proposed $3 billion budget for next year purports to try to catch up on work that he says has been deferred by his predecessors. Simultaneously, the […]
Hazouri is ready for his last leadership role, and hoping to make a difference
He may be in his 70s and looking back at a half-century of political involvement, but Tommy Hazouri plans on “hitting the ground running” when he takes office as president of the City Council July 1. He already has appointed seven council members to form a special new committee on social justice, which he says […]
New City Council committee faces a daunting and formidable task
Tommy Hazouri, former mayor and the incoming president of the Jacksonville City Council, has appointed a social justice committee. Seven council members on the committee will examine alleged racial disparities in the city. According to a small local newspaper, Hazouri said “It’s a people’s committee to resolve the city’s social, law enforcement and economic issues […]
Is Tommy Hazouri our Joe Biden? #metoo
As women across the country watch Joe Biden get a pass for his #MeToo accusations, locally we are doing the same thing. Have we no shame? Eye wrote about Tommy Hazouri’s administration and the past issues with Ms. Darlene Tye. Ms. Tye won a lawsuit against the city and Mayor Hazouri for being denied a […]
City Council takes on the issue of Human Trafficking in North Florida. Good for them!
Eye on Jacksonville sends a Big Wink to the City Council for taking up the issue of Human Trafficking in our community. Unfortunately our state ranks third in the United States behind California and Texas for human trafficking cases AND Jacksonville is the third-largest human trafficking city in Florida. What terrible news for our hometown […]
BREAKING: Part 2 of upcoming tell-all book includes #nepotism & #metoo in Mayor Hazouri’s administration
Yesterday we broke the story of an upcoming book by Darlene Tye, City of Jacksonville retiree. She broke her 30-year silence because she felt it was time to take the book off the shelf and get it published. She’s 91 years old and knows time is ticking and hopes this book will be an encouragement […]