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Don’t believe lies, trust your own eyes
With most of the local media fully invested in aiding and abetting Democrat attempts to demonize the police and divide Americans, it would be instructive for Jacksonville residents to take ride-alongs with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. I’ve ridden with the police and been to many crime scenes. In addition, long after I was a police…
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Protest promotes publicity
If you want to get your mug on TV, the easiest way is to “protest.” The media may outnumber the protesters, but their presence with cameras grinding away is reason enough for publicity seekers to attend. Neither the media nor the protesters seem to care about the damage they may be doing to public safety.…
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Fernandina Beach residents deserve better treatment by city leaders
The Fernandina Beach City Commission Workshop of April 6 was a very disappointing meeting. I spoke for three minutes and was only able to relate my introduction and conclusion. Three minutes for each speaker is creating a spectacle for the public and not getting to the root of the issues. What is even more disappointing is…
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Media tactic: keep repeating it until it is believed
News4Jax is sticking with its still unproven allegation that somebody 50 years ago promised Jacksonville residents free water and sewer service. In a story that began with poor grammar it said: “For the years, the News4Jax I-TEAM pointed out the broken promise by the city to repair and replace old and broken septic tanks.” But,…
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Chamber of Commerce gets out of their lane, again.
Let me start this post by saying you should Google the words “change school names” and you will find this is an issue all across America. Same strategies. Same tactics. Same type of players. It’s not just here and it’s an indication that someone somewhere is pulling the strings on this issue. We wonder who…
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Hot stuff to be included in your weather forecast
Predictably, the liberal TV station News4Jax is joining the ranks of climate alarmists in a propaganda campaign to promote the idea that humans are burning up the planet. The station announced it is “partnering” with other news outlets in the Covering Climate Collaborative. The Guardian calls the organization a “global news collaborative” involving hundreds of…
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Fernandina Beach: Will the small island town be ‘upscaled’ by out of town city leaders?
I received this letter from Fernandina Beach resident Bob Reisner and he shared his thoughts on what he has observed in Fernandina Beach over the last couple of decades. He believes every one of the residents should voice their opinion to city leadership and explain why they should not grow government and taxes to change…
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City Council has a lot of spare time on its hands
What may be the ultimate example of virtue-signaling took place at Tuesday’s meeting of the Jacksonville City Council. A resolution was introduced opposing violence. By approving it, the council would declare itself firmly on the side of 99.99 percent of the American population. Not exactly an example of a “profile in courage.” This particular violence…
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Those who are Awake can and must win the battle against the Woke
In October 2008, my eyes were opened to “things unseen” before that moment in the timeline of my life. I had a great encounter with the Truth. I had just returned home from a visit with a client. Due to the economy, he told me he had to lay off half of his staff. He…
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Another organization will be looking at local governance
There is a new eye on Jacksonville in the making. Jacksonville Community Council Inc., has been reborn. Ramon Day, who is well known around Jacksonville, is heading the venture. At the moment, it is only in the initial stages. Day read something in a small, liberal newspaper lamenting the demise of the old JCCI five…
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No need to hurry Mayor Curry: The latest effort to increase taxes
Perhaps having learned by the disastrous and hurried attempts to sell the JEA and enrich the Jacksonville Jaguars at public expense, local politicians are ramping up a sales pitch before increasing gas taxes. In 1983, the City Council enacted a 6-cent local option gas tax for a five-year period. Just two years later, the council…
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Public policy on transportation isn’t easy to understand
What is the city’s policy on parking? Or mass transportation? Figuring it out can give you a headache. City officials are spending millions of dollars to “calm traffic,” which means slow it down. This will include converting two one-way streets to two-way traffic, hiring a consultant to design the conversion – for $1 million. Why…
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Like a broken record, it is time to renew downtown again
Grab your wallets. Another plan to “revitalize” downtown is in the works. Taxpayers have been diverting money they need for their families to the city treasury for decades in order to “invest” in the downtown area. The effort began in the late 1940s under Mayor Haydon Burns and, arguably, downtown was a mess – then.…
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Happy Easter: You have the power, dear friends!
We are living in a season where history books will record that the wicked among us tried to take down liberty – again. Although the evil tactics used by the devil — through the minds of people — seem to be different, they are really the same. For instance, here are a few lessons we…