Sep 19
2007

While the City of Jacksonville (Duval County) complains yet again about not having enough money for services, focusing on police, Jacksonville City Council Finance Chairman Art Shad intends to introduce an ordinance today to give the sheriff’s office $4 million in overtime money. This allocaiton is intended to help reduce the city’s homicide problem and violent crime rates. Who wouldn’t be in favor of that?

However, let’s look at it from a financial view: $4 million for “about” 70 officers a day for 4 months. Simple math shows that is $57142.85 per officer for 4 months. In the private sector, $57142 could hire 70 officers for an entire year with money left over.

One has to question the spending discipline of the City of Jacksonville and Duval County. And one wonders why taxes are so high – the waste in the government is amazing.

http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/091907/met_200782089.shtml



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May 28
2007

Not to sound like a broken record, but The Brix in Jacksonville Beach is following both “The Ritz” and “Twisted Martini” with the “get out” shouting at closing time. Perhaps this is appropriate for a “dive bar” atmosphere, but the customer both Twisted Martini and The Brix are supposedly catering to have to wonder who is in charge of customer service?



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May 27
2007

We’ll have a longer update shortly, but Twisted Martini seems to be taking its customer service advice from places like “The Ritz Bar” in Jacksonvile Beach. And this is not a good thing. Yelling at customers at closing time is completely classless. Let’s hope that The Twisted Martini gets its act together and emulates the better parts of other Jacksonville establishments, not the worst parts.

More to follow.



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Jan 10
2006

Marking what Billy Joel said was his first concert in Jacksonville since 1978, his sold-out show in the Jacksonville Arena was a great performance. Unlike the crowd in Ft. Lauderdale (link to Sun Sentinal Review-no longer available) the Jacksonville crowd seemed to love the entire show and didn’t seem to find it “obscure.”

The show opened with Angry Young Man, My Life, Everybody Loves You Now, and New York State of Mind. Click to read more …



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