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Today’s Disney moguls would shoot Bambi
When Walt Disney was alive, he wanted to entertain children and families. Now that he is dead, the vast empire he created with that credo has turned against families and the American culture that Walt venerated. Disney has embraced the woke culture with all of its most disgusting aspects. The original Disneyland, which opened near…
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Eye’s Citizen of the Month did not give up the ship
Jacksonville, one of the naviest cities in America, now has a Navy ship permanently berthed downtown, thanks largely to Eye on Jacksonville’s Citizen of the Month, Daniel Bean. Bean, a civil trial lawyer with a firm that helps companies in disputes, has spent more than a decade leading a team that brought the USS. Orleck…
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Democrats struggle mightily to keep a voting bloc
Jacksonville’s new City Council districts are drawn and done but the liberal whining about them is not. No matter what the outcome, they would be whining about the Republican majority’s efforts, exactly as Democrats statewide are whining about the Republican majority’s legislative and congressional redistricting maps. It is, as a great writer Democrats don’t want…
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Doctors aren’t the last word in a patient’s health care, apparently.
One local resident’s account of how a relative sought to get a prescription filled without success shows how licensed physicians in Florida can have their medical decisions thwarted. In January, his aunt went to a pharmacy at a large supermarket to get her prescription for ivermectin filled. He says the pharmacist rudely refused to fill…
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City Council to hear from the public on anti-history movement
Removing all traces of the Confederacy from Jacksonville is impossible and wouldn’t change history in any case. There was a Confederate States of America, there was slavery and there was a Civil War. All are long gone. Virtually everyone learned about all of them in high school, college and other sources. Liberals have sought for…
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Media giant announces its partnership with the U.N.
Gannett, the largest media company in America and owner of a small local newspaper, has gone full Far Left, aligning itself with most of the worldwide socialist agenda. At the same time, it is pledging to produce objective, truthful, fact-based journalism. Gannett made its announcement here: https://www.gannett.com/sustainability/ The tiny staff at the local paper probably won’t…
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Mayoral candidate LeAnna Cumber plans to shake up Jacksonville politics
Every day we see another news story about how Jacksonville’s leaders are trying to fleece taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of dollars, from the Mayor’s office pushing a doubling of the gas tax to former JEA executives trying to make themselves rich off our backs. And then we have candidates for political office wanting…
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Important voting decisions lie ahead for Sheriff and other critical offices
With the federal government careening out of control, it is important that Jacksonville have a strong law enforcement apparatus in place. That includes the offices of sheriff and state attorney. Fortunately, the state of Florida has a strong government in place, with a Republican majority in the Florida Legislature and a no-nonsense governor. Even with…
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It helps to have good friends
During his brief career in “public service” Aaron Zahn made out all right. Eye on Jacksonville has learned that Zahn was paid $882,712.17 while head of the JEA, a period of less than two years. While that certainly beats flipping burgers, Zahn might have done even better. Had it worked out differently, Zahn would have…
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Two now are accused in the plot to sell JEA
Indictments of two top JEA executives were not unexpected, and leave open the question: who else? It all harkens back to the effort by Mayor Lenny Curry to sell the city’s utility. That effort was almost universally opposed. But Curry got his friend Aaron Zahn installed as CEO of the utility company, and clearly Zahn’s…
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Here come the Equity Police again
Just when the government schools didn’t need any more silliness, the Parent-Teacher Association comes out with a broadside against dress codes. This liberal organization, long past any usefulness it once had, is “woke” and will brook no attempt to tell children how to dress, it seems. Duval County Public Schools has a dress code that…
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School superintendent is doing what she does best: Selling higher taxes
Diana Greene, superintendent of the government schools in Jacksonville, is continuing to build her reputation as a super salesman. She was brought here nearly four years ago from Manatee County, where her accomplishment was to lead a drive to increase taxes. She already has pushed through a 1/2-cent sales tax increase that is worth $93…