November 2026 Elections

[CityLife]

now JHA's CEO had the audacity to try to collect a 12% developer fee on projects the JHA completes. That is 12% in addition to the $300k she is already paid. She also wanted an additional 13% for other JHA "execs". Thankfully the JHA board shot it down, but the optics of it are absolutely terrible.

https://jaxtoday.org/2026/10/20/housing-board-scraps-bonuses/

Bad time to be incompetent or shady in Jax. Yesterday, the Jacksonville Housing Authority Board unanimously voted to terminate CEO Cheron Corbett Waller. In addition to the developer fee she was trying to get, she spearheaded a no-bid piggyback contract of a company to manage JHA's voucher program that appears to have been grossly mismanaged.

Good job by the board and Mayor/Mayor's Office for jumping on this one early. The Mayor's Office put together a 10 page document for the board titled "Red Flags for Board Meeting"

https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/jha-board-fires-ceo-cheron-corbett-waller-following-development-fee-controversy/D6CFJYGLKVFXRAG4EU2YNK4FT4/

Daniel Blanchard, JHA Commission Chair, described further problems within JHA.

"Within the organization, I think there's operational issues, I think there's cultural issues, there's financial issues, the books are a mess, the million-dollar bonus concept I think was horrific," Blanchard said.

[WarDamJagFan]

^ The problem with sales tax is it is a mostly regressive tax, falling disproportionately on those who are at lower incomes.  Regressive taxes just increase the wealth disparity which is already at an all time high in this country."

It's been a long time folks but I'm still kickin'. How bout them Jags??!! 

But I just couldn't help not replying to this one. Tax policy has as much to do with the wealth gap as FIFA has to do with Trevor Lawrence's TD to INT ratio. You can't import close to a quarter of a country's population almost exclusively from the 3rd world over a span of 50+ years and not expect that to cause problems. Import more poor people, have more poor people. Elementary stuff here folks.

That said, I will happily take the blame on this thread for perceived local government inadequacies due to my full support of Amendment 3. My money is used far more efficiently on my own than in the hands of inept bureaucrats. So yes.. JTA, JHA, etc have only made that decision a complete no brainer.

See yall in the Super Bowl

[jaxlongtimer]

You can't import close to a quarter of a country's population almost exclusively from the 3rd world over a span of 50+ years and not expect that to cause problems. Import more poor people, have more poor people. Elementary stuff here folks.

I won't disagree we have a broken immigration system but that is mostly attributable to bipartisan bickering and gridlock.  You can't expect people who are desperate for a better life to be pushed around in a bureaucratic loop with no resolution or predictable path in sight after years or decades and they don't resort to more desperate measures to better their lives. 

That said, I can assure you much of the wealth of this country has been built on the back of poor immigrants.  Farms, food production, construction, health care, personal services, sanitation, etc. are all industries that have used "poor immigrants" to operate their businesses successfully so you and I can save a few dollars and the owners/stockholders can make a bit more.  If you go back far enough, "poor immigrants" built the railroad infrastructure we have to this day and worked in the "sweat shop" factories of our industrial revolution.

A good bit of our current inflation is due to increased labor costs due to a shortage of workers to replace the immigrants we are kicking out.  And, with little to shrinking natural population growth, we will all need immigrants to sustain and grow our economy.

As an aside, some of the greatest advancements in this country's history came from immigrants.

What is your family tree like?  No doubt, you are in this country today because some "poor immigrant" ancestor of yours found their way here.

I would add that the Trump administration cutting back or off foreign aide to countries where immigrants come from just makes the immigration issue worse.  I doubt many immigrants relish leaving the homes and life they grew up with, leaving their roots and families behind, risking everything including their lives to immigrate.  They do so out of pure desperation as to stay means famine, rape, terror, persecution, death.  Faced with that, they have nothing to lose to immigrate.  Foreign aide to their countries should be directed to removing those motivations so they have no desire to immigrate.  But again, we have no coherent program for that either.

Bottom line, if we had a predictable, efficient, rational, and humane immigration system in this country, everyone would be better off.  Trump and his ilk don't even discuss this issue.  Biden put a bipartisan plan (which was mostly the GOP's plan) before Congress and Trump badgered his party members to block it after they supported it so Biden wouldn't get any credit for trying to address this issue.  Shame on the Democrats for not talking this up more.

[Ken_FSU]

You can't import close to a quarter of a country's population almost exclusively from the 3rd world over a span of 50+ years and not expect that to cause problems. Import more poor people, have more poor people. Elementary stuff here folks.

I won't disagree we have a broken immigration system but that is mostly attributable to bipartisan bickering and gridlock.  You can't expect people who are desperate for a better life to be pushed around in a bureaucratic loop with no resolution or predictable path in sight after years or decades and they don't resort to more desperate measures to better their lives. 

That said, I can assure you much of the wealth of this country has been built on the back of poor immigrants.  Farms, food production, construction, health care, personal services, sanitation, etc. are all industries that have used "poor immigrants" to operate their businesses successfully so you and I can save a few dollars and the owners/stockholders can make a bit more.  If you go back far enough, "poor immigrants" built the railroad infrastructure we have to this day and worked in the "sweat shop" factories of our industrial revolution.

A good bit of our current inflation is due to increased labor costs due to a shortage of workers to replace the immigrants we are kicking out.  And, with little to shrinking natural population growth, we will all need immigrants to sustain and grow our economy.

As an aside, some of the greatest advancements in this country's history came from immigrants.

What is your family tree like?  No doubt, you are in this country today because some "poor immigrant" ancestor of yours found their way here.

I would add that the Trump administration cutting back or off foreign aide to countries where immigrants come from just makes the immigration issue worse.  I doubt many immigrants relish leaving the homes and life they grew up with, leaving their roots and families behind, risking everything including their lives to immigrate.  They do so out of pure desperation as to stay means famine, rape, terror, persecution, death.  Faced with that, they have nothing to lose to immigrate.  Foreign aide to their countries should be directed to removing those motivations so they have no desire to immigrate.  But again, we have no coherent program for that either.

Bottom line, if we had a predictable, efficient, rational, and humane immigration system in this country, everyone would be better off.  Trump and his ilk don't even discuss this issue.  Biden put a bipartisan plan (which was mostly the GOP's plan) before Congress and Trump badgered his party members to block it after they supported it so Biden wouldn't get any credit for trying to address this issue.  Shame on the Democrats for not talking this up more.

I would subscribe to your newsletter.

Agree with every word of this.