October 31, 2024
Whether we believe climate change to be real, increasingly frequent and more devastating weather patterns where we call home cannot be denied.…
September 26, 2024
OPINION | Green acres: A master plan for Jacksonville’s park system
Jacksonville’s Parks Department expects to unveil an updated Parks Master Plan in winter 2025. Here’s what’s in it, and what’s…
September 19, 2024
OPINION | Don’t stop believing in Jacksonville’s historic Downtown rebirth
While we can never prove it and whether anyone admits it, citizen voices in large measure shape how elected officials…
September 12, 2024
OPINION | Much ado about historic Downtown Jacksonville and its Northbank riverfront
Public financing to help restore a trio of historic Downtown buildings and develop three Northbank public parks came under specific…
September 5, 2024
OPINION | Right under our noses
JEA’s HQ sale is a reminder that we need a master plan to restore and repurpose Jacksonville’s Downtown.…
August 29, 2024
OPINION | Jax’s DIA, Parks, and Public Works have ‘some ‘splainin’ to do’
The finance committee has an enormous opportunity to simplify the former Landing site park’s problems, maybe save some public money,…
August 22, 2024
OPINION | Feelings about the franchise and Jacksonville voters
Jacksonville voters vote less frequently in local elections than in presidential elections.…
August 15, 2024
OPINION | Deegan’s affordable housing loans should be restored in city budget
The Jacksonville City Council needs to get on board and restore affordable housing funding proposed by Mayor Deegan.…
August 8, 2024
OPINION | Don’t Blow It: Jacksonville’s Special Committee on the Future of Downtown
Let’s rethink our understanding of and approach to reinvigorating Jacksonville’s historic Downtown urban core.…
August 1, 2024
OPINION | Jacksonville’s disheartening Downtown development discourse
Just when we thought the former Landing site development puzzle couldn’t get more complicated, along comes site number 2.…
July 25, 2024
OPINION | ‘Go outside and play’ -Every Boomer’s mother
Green schoolyards is a movement to turn public school playgrounds into “outdoor classrooms,” with plant and vegetable gardens, trails, trees,…
July 11, 2024
OPINION | Summer in the city: Hotter than a match head in Downtown Jax
Jacksonville’s Downtown and its surrounding neighborhoods are in the nations top 2% for heat.…
June 27, 2024
OPINION | An alternative vision for historic Downtown Jacksonville
Our path to a more welcoming, vibrant, and distinctive historic Downtown Jacksonville offers an alternative vision to the city’s prevailing wisdom, guided…
June 20, 2024
OPINION | Gubernatorial myopia: DeSantis pencils out girls
One of the governor’s strike-throughs will have an outsized effect on Duval county’s vulnerable girls.…
June 13, 2024
OPINION | ‘Multimedia stimulation’ at Riverfront Plaza?
Apparently projecting images onto outdoor surfaces is all the rage the world over.…
June 6, 2024
OPINION | Like a bad penny
Incoming City Council President Randy White blames pension changes for Jacksonville’s inability to compete for police officers, fire fighters and…
May 30, 2024
OPINION | It’s half past tree time at the former Jacksonville Landing
Despite a Parks Department promise of 308 trees at the former Landing site, don’t hold your breath unless tower development…
May 16, 2024
OPINION | Author’s Saturday talk should be a hotter topic
Author Jeff Goodell will speak Saturday at Jacksonville’s main library about his book, The Heat Will Kill You First.…
May 9, 2024
OPINION | Riverfront Plaza’s false choice
If we want Riverfront Plaza finished any time soon, we need to free Park East from the insanity of “Pad…
May 2, 2024
OPINION | Don’t stop believing, even after Southbank storage approval
The public engagement on this issue by San Marco residents is something of a victory. And a chance to affect…
April 25, 2024
OPINION | Metro Park redesign is déjà vu all over again
If you missed the open house, it’s not too late to participate. Citizens may complete a survey about our revitalization…
April 18, 2024
OPINION | Riverfront Plaza’s dizzying complications
Redeveloping the former Landing site is overly complicated, defies common sense, is too costly, and is taking too long.…
April 11, 2024
OPINION | If at first you don’t succeed
It’s tiresome for sure, this yearslong Laura Street Trio restoration project conversation.…
April 4, 2024
OPINION | A pocketful of miracles: Are parks central to Northbank plan?
Are parks central to plans for Downtown Jacksonville’s Northbank? Or are they an after-thought?…