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Matt Schellenberg: Founding Fathers Would Not Approve of the Recent House Speaker Fight
The recent debacle in Congress over who would be the speaker of the House is a perfect example of the lack of leadership and tolerance of the system that was conceived almost 250 years...
Matt Schellenberg: Lenny Curry Should Focus on Important Issues, Not ‘Resign to Run’ Proposal
How is restricting voters’ right to back whoever they want at the ballot box good for democracy?
Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry is undermining democracy with a proposal that requires elected city officials to resign their...
Innovation: It’s What a New Golf League and Florida Have in Common
Florida has proven that it’s far more than a retirement and tourist destination. In just the last 10 years, the state has gained 1.8 million jobs – a rate of increase that’s 50 percent...
Florida Needs to Offer Taxpayer Refunds Instead of More Sales Tax Holidays and...
Florida’s state government is flush with $20 billion dollars in reserve. The state government anticipates another $13 billion next year in reserves for a total of $33 billion for the rainy day fund.
Historically, $5...
Matt Schellenberg: The LIV Offers Serious Competition to the PGA
Living on Florida’s First Coast, one of the sport’s top locations, golf is almost always on my mind. When I attended college on a golf scholarship, having followed the professional tournaments, I recognized the...
Matt Schellenberg: DeSantis Should Use Federal Money on Florida’s Problems, Not a Gas Tax...
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ proposal to eliminate the gas tax from July 2022 to the end of the year is purely a political ploy and totally unnecessary.
The proposal reveals the problem with politicians in Florida...
Florida and Jacksonville Need to Get Serious About Minority Representation During Redistricting
Another ten years has past and, once again, Florida is looking at our leaders engaging in the embarrassing exercise of redistricting at the state and county levels.
What are the political parties afraid of? Making...
Leaders Across the Nation Need to Reject California’s Energy, Water and Environmental Policies
Blackouts, brownouts, water shortages and uncontrollable forest fires sound like problems that impact third world countries--but they’re not.
California is facing all of these problems and the state’s policies are destroying a once beautiful state....
The Infrastructure Bill Shows All That’s Wrong With Congress
Who writes a bill of more than 2,700 pages?
You might think about Putin at the Politburo or maybe Xi and other communist leaders in China but you would be wrong.
The 2,700 page proposal came...
Some Florida Republicans Back More Local Infrastructure Spending and Raising Taxes
Over the past decade, some counties and cities across Florida have raised, even doubled, the local gas tax to meet “infrastructure needs.”
Lately, most of the gas tax increased have been in Republican-run counties and...
Jacksonville Needs to Invest in People, Quality of Life, Not Throwing More Taxpayer Dollars...
The world is changing faster than government ever recognizes. Duval County has a chance to be a leader in the new economy, by recognizing that people are the key to a better future. It’s time the city government recognizes this.
Jacksonville Should Reject Proposal to Double the Gas Tax
More than twenty years ago, the Better Jacksonville Plan (BJP) promised many improvements to our infrastructure. But five years ago, the current administration stated that more than $250 million worth of BJP projects had not been completed.
