In the wake of local protests highlighting police brutality and the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers, city council president-elect Tommy Hazouri announced creation this week of the Social Justice and Community Action committee...
A federal grand jury recently issued a subpoena to JEA for records related to the effort to privatize the publicly-owned utility and to create a bonus plan for certain executives. A copy of the subpoena may be accessed here: JEA records...
Jacksonville, FL – Jacksonville City Council President Scott Wilson today announced appointment of a three person committee to investigate JEA’s failed attempt to sell Jacksonville’s publicly-owned utility. Former assistant U.S...
Jacksonville FL, December 3, 20018 – City council defeated a transparency bill 16-3 at its November 27th Tuesday night meeting. Introduced by At-large member Anna Brosche, the bill called for: posting email and text messages between lobbyists and...
Jacksonville’s city government could do a better job engaging the public and being transparent, according to the Task Force on Open Government report issued in late June (view or download pdf document here). It calls specifically for an easy to...
The celebrations leading up to the 50th anniversary in October of Jacksonville’s consolidated form of government will extol its successes. The warts and unfulfilled promises are just as important to remember. Two sons of members of the first City...
Editor’s Note: In spring of 2018, the JEA board and Mayor Lenny Curry’s administration raised the question of selling JEA, arguably the city’s most valuable asset. We asked retired UNF professor Elizabeth Furdell to review The Public Wealth...
Editorial Staff
Sherry Magill
Ron Littlepage
Elizabeth Furdell