Brickbats to Mayor Alvin Brown’s Office Wednesday, May 29

Brickbats to Mayor Alvin Brown’s Office for failing to include speakers of faiths other than Christian at his annual Interfaith Breakfast May 20. At similar meetings in 2011 and 2012, the …

Bouquets to University of North Florida Alumnus Jack Bisase Wednesday, May 29

Bouquets to University of North Florida alumnus Jack Bisase for being awarded a 2013 Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affair Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation, which supports …

Brickbats to Crowne Plaza Hotel in Downtown Jacksonville Wednesday, May 29

Brickbats to Crowne Plaza Hotel in Downtown Jacksonville for refusing to go along with improvements to Southbank Riverwalk, which is badly in need of repair. Jim Robinson, the city’s …

Remove the IRS from the Equation Wednesday, May 29

Create another agency to approve applications for nonprofit organizations

What Will You Do? Wednesday, May 22

JAX2025 outlines goals for the future, 
but we all have a responsibility to make it happen

Bouquets to UNF Graduate Ryan Winter Wednesday, May 22

Bouquets to University of North Florida graduate Ryan Winter, heading to Tanzania to teach African families to drill their own inexpensive water wells. Winter joined two friends, Geoffrey Mbatta …

Brickbats to the Community Development Institute Wednesday, May 22

Brickbats to the Community Development Institute for leaving parents in the dark about the future of the Head Start program. First, it said the program was ending on May 17, three weeks …

Bouquets to Jacksonville Legal Aid Attorney Karen Winston Wednesday, May 22

Bouquets to Jacksonville Legal Aid Attorney Karen Winston for raising enough money to maintain her project to provide free legal help to immigrants being held by the federal government …

Turning Around a Neighborhood Wednesday, May 22

A look at the New Town Success Zone five years later

May 22 Mail: Pension Agreement, Texting While Driving and Gun Safety Wednesday, May 22

Pension Agreement Not Good for Taxpayers The mayor’s secretly negotiated pension agreement is a fantastic deal for him (virtually guaranteeing his re-election with full public safety …