Eye on Jacksonville

Month: August 2020

  • SonnyB – a proud black Jacksonville resident says No to defunding the Police

    I am a proud black American citizen of this great Nation. I say this from the offset, so that the far left socialist can save their racist accusations to try and shut me down. I have been black all my life. Therefore, this fact gives me the credentials for my article. This article is in…

  • 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,…

  • After a change in testing methods, local schools seem to be doing better

    Elementary and secondary schools in Florida have one job: preparing children for the next step in life, which in almost every case either is work or college. Therefore, it is reasonable to ask: Are students graduating from public schools prepared for college? Florida taxpayers used to know the answer. Until 2012, students were given a…

  • 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…

  • Parents are entitled to watch their children being educated

    If teachers are not going to return to the classrooms, and only want to teach online, the teaching sessions should be public. Parents certainly should be able to watch their kids learning. And why not let the public watch, too? Education is being changed by the Red Chinese virus. Some people don’t want their children…

  • SonnyB isn’t happy with so-called Victory against Chick-fil-a

    From SonnyB: This letter was written to the organization called Texas Values in San Antonio that was fighting a bill sent to their city council to vote on. That bill was to keep the Chick-fil-a from coming to the San Antonio airport. Well needless to say it went to the circuit court, where the judge…

  • Executive Privilege: The rise of the dark side in Jax politics

    During testimony with the City Council committee investigating who was behind the JEA scheme, Brian Hughes, Jacksonville’s Chief Administrative Officer, invoked Executive Privilege regarding some of the questions asked of him. It was an interesting play on the Saga of JEA and caused many to ask if using this ploy was good or bad. It…

  • Political Fight: Council should put need over politics

    It is clear that a special committee of the City Council is mired in a muddle over its mission. The Special Committee on Social Injustice and Community Investment met Monday, and some of the defects began to show. The first is that the committee was tasked with creating social justice without any predicate being laid…

  • Local parents say: when parents become schoolteachers, pay them

    Conservatives refer to public education as The Blob – and for good reason. Like the menacing mass of black goo in the film of the same name, it consumes everything and produces nothing, while moving at a snail’s pace. In the current environment, where everything is shaped by the Red Chinese virus, The Blob is…

  • Put the ramps back up and investigate incompetence at the Downtown Investment Authority

    The taxpayers of Duval County were sucker-punched yesterday by the big news that the $2.5 billion Shipyards Master Developer Agreement with Shad Kahn/Iguana was invalidated. Yes, invalidated by the DIA’s leader, Lori Boyer. There was no warning about this big news. Let’s just say this, “When the people are surprised, the leaders have done a…

  • Tracie Davis – Bad for School Choice. Bad for our Children.

    The District 13 House of Representative seat between incumbent Tracie Davis and candidate Dr. Cynthia Smith is up for grabs. By choosing radical leftist incumbent Tracie Davis, you side with the teacher’s union, which is totally AGAINST school choice. On the other hand, Dr. Cynthia Smith is FOR school choice. Dr. Smith believes school choice…

  • 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…

  • Lift Your Voice about the naming of parks

    Now that Hemming Park is no longer a racist entity in Jacksonville, we can all sleep better. But wait!! If that is the cure to racism — changing names of parks — why haven’t we been sleeping better since 2015? Funny thing happened on the way to Mayor Curry’s desk for changing Hemming Park to…

  • 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…