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Mayor’s Campaign Promises: Move the jail and then what?
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Iconic Jacksonville Landing’s heart is broken. Can we Make Her Great Again?
Eye has been following the sad situation with The Jacksonville Landing dispute between the Mayor and the Owners. If buildings had a heart, certainly the Landing’s would be broken. The Landing has been used in most every marketing picture by the city and others who want to attract new residents to North Florida. It even…
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Duval Schools: Teaching children how to overspend, go in debt, rob Peter to pay Paul and on and on
It is becoming pretty clear why Nikolai Vitti is no longer school superintendent. As usual, he was touted as the greatest thing since sliced bread when he was chosen to be superintendent in 2012. He initiated a new strategic plan focusing on “developing great educators and leaders; ensuring an equitable and efficient use of resources;…
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City Council feeds the Gorilla millions of your tax dollars. And then what happened?
The 800 lb gorilla has been revealed to actually be approximately a 3000 lb 19 headed monster and it is formally known as Jacksonville City Council. For decades this monster has used the hard earned dollars of Duval taxpayers to ease financial burdens to developers and corporations. This monster offers tax breaks, grants, and…
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Shad Khan to buy Wembley Stadium. Go Jags but not to London!
A few months ago, I had a conversation with someone in the top leadership of our state government. We were talking about the situation with the Jaguars in London and how they kneeled for our National Anthem on foreign soil. This person could not understand why the Jaguar owner would do that. It made no…
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District Deal: Asking tough questions as only a Banker can. Councilman Anderson gets a Wink!
I popped into a meeting today at City Hall. I wanted to hear the questions City Councilman Greg Anderson had regarding The Big District Deal. I was intrigued because Mr. Anderson is a banker with a very good reputation for digging into numbers and this deal is filled with numbers…lots of numbers. Specifically big taxpayer…
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The District: Favoritism? Large sums of YOUR money to a wealthy developer. Why?
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.106″ background_layout=”light”] I just returned from a meeting of the Downtown Investment Authority where a local developer received approval for a a large sum of taxpayer dollars. The next piece of the the actual “getting the money” will rest with the City Council. I am writing this blog so you can be…