JEA Board to Consider Mass Layoffs/Privitization

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Kiva

#30
July 27, 2019, 07:30:34 PM
Quote from: Kerry on July 27, 2019, 06:31:43 PM
I've actually given it a lot of thought and came to the conclusion that I really don't care that much anymore.  If you guys think Khan and company are going to make Jax world-class and Lot J is going to be the next greatest thing then more power to you.  Personally, Jax hasn't acheived a single thing since I moved here 16 years ago.
On the contrary. In the 2018 elections Jacksonville voted democratic for the first time in ages. At least 15 breweries have opened. Springfield, Murray Hill and Brooklyn have seen a big resurgence. Also, you spelled achieved wrong. ;D

blizz01

#31
July 27, 2019, 10:08:39 PM
I mean, no Fuddruckers, but we did get an IKEA.

Kerry

#32
July 27, 2019, 11:40:03 PM
Quote from: Kiva on July 27, 2019, 07:30:34 PM
Quote from: Kerry on July 27, 2019, 06:31:43 PM
I've actually given it a lot of thought and came to the conclusion that I really don't care that much anymore.  If you guys think Khan and company are going to make Jax world-class and Lot J is going to be the next greatest thing then more power to you.  Personally, Jax hasn't acheived a single thing since I moved here 16 years ago.
Springfield, Murray Hill and Brooklyn have seen a big resurgence.

Thanks, I needed a laugh.  Spent the evening watching the Jumbo Shrimp get whacked.
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thelakelander

#33
July 28, 2019, 08:06:33 AM
My guess is JEA will have a an offer before OKC gets an IKEA...

FPL shows early interest in JEA
https://www.jacksonville.com/news/20190727/fpl-shows-early-interest-in-jea
"A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." - Muhammad Ali

Kerry

#34
July 28, 2019, 08:31:19 AM
Probably - IKEA is for poor millenials that can't afford real furniture.  They do have good meatballs though.
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Adam White

#35
July 28, 2019, 08:38:55 AM
Quote from: Kerry on July 28, 2019, 08:31:19 AM
Probably - IKEA is for poor millenials that can't afford real furniture.  They do have good meatballs though.

IKEA has been around a long time - it's not just for so-called "millenials". Or poor people.
"If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly."

Kerry

#36
July 28, 2019, 08:58:39 AM
Quote from: Adam White on July 28, 2019, 08:38:55 AM
Quote from: Kerry on July 28, 2019, 08:31:19 AM
Probably - IKEA is for poor millenials that can't afford real furniture.  They do have good meatballs though.

IKEA has been around a long time - it's not just for so-called "millenials". Or poor people.

Maybe "poor millennials" was an insentive term.  I should have said "people with small spaces that are budget-constrained".

I do have a few IKEA items so it obviously can't just be "poor millenials".
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Josh

#37
July 28, 2019, 10:15:53 AM
Quote from: thelakelander on July 28, 2019, 08:06:33 AM
My guess is JEA will have a an offer before OKC gets an IKEA...

FPL shows early interest in JEA
https://www.jacksonville.com/news/20190727/fpl-shows-early-interest-in-jea

You mean all that money they've been spending running TV commercials in this market for the past few years wasn't just them flushing money down the drain?

Snaketoz

#38
July 28, 2019, 02:15:43 PM
FPL services several areas in the JAX TV market.
"No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot."

Tacachale

#39
July 29, 2019, 12:32:35 PM
Quote from: Kerry on July 27, 2019, 11:40:03 PM
Quote from: Kiva on July 27, 2019, 07:30:34 PM
Quote from: Kerry on July 27, 2019, 06:31:43 PM
I've actually given it a lot of thought and came to the conclusion that I really don't care that much anymore.  If you guys think Khan and company are going to make Jax world-class and Lot J is going to be the next greatest thing then more power to you.  Personally, Jax hasn't acheived a single thing since I moved here 16 years ago.
Springfield, Murray Hill and Brooklyn have seen a big resurgence.

Thanks, I needed a laugh.  Spent the evening watching the Jumbo Shrimp get whacked.

LOL, if you don't believe that MH and Springfield are resurging, you really don't know what you're looking at. Our Downtown is pretty sad but Jax has a lot of other successes, including in the Urban Core like, including Riverside, Avondale and San Marco.

I read these comments after getting home from watching dolphins play on the St. Johns at sunset at Riverfront Park. It struck me that Kerry could see that scene and still find a way that Oklahoma City would do it better.
Do you believe that when the blue jay or another bird sings and the body is trembling, that is a signal that people are coming or something important is about to happen?

Kerry

#40
July 29, 2019, 01:09:21 PM
Quote from: Tacachale on July 29, 2019, 12:32:35 PM
Quote from: Kerry on July 27, 2019, 11:40:03 PM
Quote from: Kiva on July 27, 2019, 07:30:34 PM
Quote from: Kerry on July 27, 2019, 06:31:43 PM
I've actually given it a lot of thought and came to the conclusion that I really don't care that much anymore.  If you guys think Khan and company are going to make Jax world-class and Lot J is going to be the next greatest thing then more power to you.  Personally, Jax hasn't acheived a single thing since I moved here 16 years ago.
Springfield, Murray Hill and Brooklyn have seen a big resurgence.

Thanks, I needed a laugh.  Spent the evening watching the Jumbo Shrimp get whacked.

LOL, if you don't believe that MH and Springfield are resurging, you really don't know what you're looking at. Our Downtown is pretty sad but Jax has a lot of other successes, including in the Urban Core like, including Riverside, Avondale and San Marco.

I read these comments after getting home from watching dolphins play on the St. Johns at sunset at Riverfront Park. It struck me that Kerry could see that scene and still find a way that Oklahoma City would do it better.

The bar for "resurgence" in Jax is so low that Springfield and Murray Hill can clear it.  It would be a total disappointment in almost every other city.  If you are happy with that so be it.  I personally want/expect Jax to do better.  As for your poke at OKC, whatever, but if Jax had 1/20 the develoments of OKC you would soil yourself out of excitement.
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Tacachale

#41
July 29, 2019, 01:26:24 PM
Quote from: Kerry on July 29, 2019, 01:09:21 PM
Quote from: Tacachale on July 29, 2019, 12:32:35 PM
Quote from: Kerry on July 27, 2019, 11:40:03 PM
Quote from: Kiva on July 27, 2019, 07:30:34 PM
Quote from: Kerry on July 27, 2019, 06:31:43 PM
I've actually given it a lot of thought and came to the conclusion that I really don't care that much anymore.  If you guys think Khan and company are going to make Jax world-class and Lot J is going to be the next greatest thing then more power to you.  Personally, Jax hasn't acheived a single thing since I moved here 16 years ago.
Springfield, Murray Hill and Brooklyn have seen a big resurgence.

Thanks, I needed a laugh.  Spent the evening watching the Jumbo Shrimp get whacked.

LOL, if you don't believe that MH and Springfield are resurging, you really don't know what you're looking at. Our Downtown is pretty sad but Jax has a lot of other successes, including in the Urban Core like, including Riverside, Avondale and San Marco.

I read these comments after getting home from watching dolphins play on the St. Johns at sunset at Riverfront Park. It struck me that Kerry could see that scene and still find a way that Oklahoma City would do it better.

The bar for "resurgence" in Jax is so low that Springfield and Murray Hill can clear it.  It would be a total disappointment in almost every other city.  If you are happy with that so be it.  I personally want/expect Jax to do better.  As for your poke at OKC, whatever, but if Jax had 1/20 the develoments of OKC you would soil yourself out of excitement.

And of course you miss the point, which isn't about Oklahoma City at all - it's about how you invent ways that everything good that happens in Jax is actually a horrible disappointment, while "almost every other city" would do it better. You are irrationally negative, and living proof that the inferiority complex is alive and well.
Do you believe that when the blue jay or another bird sings and the body is trembling, that is a signal that people are coming or something important is about to happen?

Kerry

#42
July 29, 2019, 01:54:36 PM Last Edit: July 29, 2019, 01:59:08 PM by Kerry
No - I'm just telling the truth.  What Jax doesn't need is more people lying to themselves.  If TheJaxMag participants represent the local urbanist activist then it is no wonder little progress has been made and why the City basically doesn't care.  Even the civic leaders that are in a position to care -don't.  For example, counting downtown housing units that 1) aren't downtown and 2) don't even exists.  That kind of fraud should be cause for immediate dismissal in a City that was actually trying to urbanize.  It is just lying - period, and I for one am sick and tired of City officials lying.

Anyhow, we are way off topic now, unless we want to talk about City officials lying about JEA'a current situation.
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Kerry

#43
July 29, 2019, 02:06:22 PM
Would JEA need to be sold if we had leadership like this who were concerned about far-flung infrastructure requirements, and acted on that concern?

https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/2017/05/25/greenville-named-fourth-fastest-growing-u-s-city/344009001/
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Tacachale

#44
July 29, 2019, 02:14:25 PM
Quote from: Kerry on July 29, 2019, 01:54:36 PM
No - I'm just telling the truth.  What Jax doesn't need is more people lying to themselves.  If TheJaxMag participants represent the local urbanist activist then it is no wonder little progress has been made and why the City basically doesn't care.  Even the civic leaders that are in a position to care -don't.  For example, counting downtown housing units that 1) aren't downtown and 2) don't even exists.  That kind of fraud should be cause for immediate dismissal in a City that was actually trying to urbanize.  It is just lying - period, and I for one am sick and tired of City officials lying.


Your interpretations of things are no more "the truth" that what the cheerleaders say. At least they don't hate the city.
Do you believe that when the blue jay or another bird sings and the body is trembling, that is a signal that people are coming or something important is about to happen?
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