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Law enforcement
Afghanistan review
Court…dress to impress – Executive orders – Polls – The Afghanistan pullout
Cannabis, gambling and other sin taxes – Infrastructure spending
National Stop The Steal Webinar – Police Safety – Afghanistan
Covid 2.0
Are Delta Variant statistics overstated? – Mandatory vaccines
Casino in Jacksonville – Infrastructure
Jacksonville city budget – Crime
Drug testing – Federal unemployment compensation ends – Politics of crime
What to do when unhappy with elected officials – Partisan elections – Economy and manufacturing
Polls on crime – online gaming – building code changes after Surfside – redistricting
School Choice
Obamacare upheld by the US Supreme Court
Border crisis – Conservation Conservatives – President Desantis?
Social Media and Censorship
Economy – State Budget – School Name Changes – Emerald Trail and Downtown revitalization
Trump grand jury and possible criminal charges in New York – Stop the steal
Arts education to children and transgender activism – Covid relief – Tim Tebow – White privilege
Colonial Pipeline – Never Trumpers threaten to start a new party – Moving on from January 6 – Media bias
April employment gains disappointing – New Florida voter law
Charlie Crist running for Governor – Trump’s new platform – Social media to be fined from censorship – Confederate Monuments
The future of online school now that families have experienced it.
Vaccine declines – How does Covid19 help or hurt politically
Boycotts and political activism
Transgender sports – Issues that may impact the 2022 midterm elections
Cruise ship industry vs. Florida fishermen
Georgia Election Law and Boycotts
Litigation protection against Covid-19 related lawsuits.
Undocumented Immigration – Codid19 Passports
All things Covid-19
Possible changes to election laws
Electric Cars…not a liberal vs. conservative thing
Cancel Culture
Blue collar workers trend toward GOP – 2022 midterms – coming back from covid
Biden and Gun rights – Trump and criminal prosecution – Special 1-6 Riots commission
Voting irregularities
Packing the courts – Wills Dems destroy their momentum – Private prisons
NRA bankruptcy
Elected officials face the cancel culture for opposing the electoral college results
Special investigation into the 2019 election – First time gun sales are up
Gender no longer recognized in congress – How much stimulus is the right amount- Hunter Biden
Lot J – New Christmas stimulus – Trump and the 2024 election
Texas, Florida and 17 other states tell Biden swing states, see you in court.
Could Presidential election anger be affecting the Georgia Senate runoffs and other reality check-points.
Post-election irregularities review
Election challenges nearing the end.
Moving to Georgia just to effect the vote. Voter fraud
Election 2020 too close to call part 2
Election 2020 too close to call part 1
Election 2020 scenarios
Election 2020 – Final week or early voting.
Gun control advocates campaign against pro-second amendment candidates.
Radio awards, is news media biased, does pre-election activity hint at outcome.
The nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the US Supreme Court.
Union members support for Trump. Issues voters or team voters.
Ruth Ginsberg’s vacancy to be filled before Election Day. Protests that lead to violence.
More on ex-felon voting restoration; millionaires paying off their debts. Do severe rioting laws unfairly trap peaceful protestors?
Felon voting rights. Mask mandates. Lowering the voting age to 16.
Re-opening of the bars.
Veteran suicide prevention.
- Russia
- 2020 Presidential poll
- Democrats are beating republicans in registering new voters
Journalism as a career.
Russian collusion: Investigating the investigators.
- Teachers call in sick to protest schools reopening.
- 2020 polls favor democrats winning the White House…just like in 2016.
- Will the black vote turn out for Joe Biden?
- Post Primary Election analysis.
- The DNC Convention.
Media says the Trump Campaign was not spied on.
How long did it really take for Mueller to realize there was no Russian collusion?
Jeffrey Epstein
Open primaries, good or bad?
What offends voters?
Campaign finance.
Should Congress and the state legislature be bigger?
Joe Biden gets backlash for comparing Latino’s diversity of thought to Black diversity.
How to best improve minority student outcomes.
Are polls accurate if conservatives are less likely to participate?
Are churches as politically active today as they were in the past?
Florida police union endorses Trump.
Blacks are now the number one group purchasing legal firearms.
Polls say if there are second phase stay at home orders, the Presidential race is tied.
School re-openings will likely lead to lawsuits.
New Fox News Polls…Trump trails.
Is news media fair.
Police brutality.
Covid-19 and Florida.
Legal challenges to face-mask mandates.
The RNC Convention in question due to Covid-19 spike in Florida.
Covid-19 increases due to protestors not practicing social distancing.
Renaming the Washington Redskins
Anti-gun rights advocates might begin to label gun rights as White supremacist to halt the private ownership of guns.
How has new LGBT acceptance affected the workplace and corporate training.
Regulations that hurt banking and the economy.
How over regulation can lead to unethical business practices in order to stay afloat.
Removing Confederate monuments.
Is Donald Trump’s support among Blacks high?
Covid10 is spiking in Florida leading some Florida cities to enact mandatory face masks.
Plausible explanations on the hike in Covid19 cases.
19 and 20 year-old minority entrepreneurs talk about the struggles we all face.
The Strug-life business start-up apparent line for men, women and children.
Despite being from a single parent home, how one partner leaned on mentoring from his coaches, grandfather and uncles.
How private school education changed his life.
Race relations in America.
The Supreme Court rules employers cannot discriminate based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
Riots.
How to best interact with authorities when facing legal issues.
Is the left justifying looting?
What truly motivates the protests?
What are the top issues affecting the black community?
Are protestors simply frustrated coronavirus shut-ins?
The latest on the economic impact of Covid19.
Re-opening US businesses after stay at home orders are lifted.
Covid19: vaccine, comorbidity, statistics and stories
Could we see mandatory face masks in Jacksonville?
Covid19 lawsuits.
Congressman John Rutherford vows to fight federal Covid19 aid being used to pay down local governments’ non-coronavirus related debt.
Restaurants required to log the name and contact information of every guest.
Unhappy with shutdowns, with whom should you be upset?
Health and safety vs. the economy.
Round-2 of stimulus checks
Stay at home orders in hindsight
Obama stimulus vs. Trump stimulus
Who gets credit for the City of Jacksonville’s $1,000 stimulus debit cards
Potential lawsuits stemming from covid19
Applying for a conceal weapons permit in Florida during the covid19 stay at home order.
Voter fraud misconceptions.
The downturn in the economy may lead to new business startups.
How does the current economy compare to the Great Depression.
The pros and cons of reopening schools.
Red tape with reopening restaurants and outdoor seating
When will Disney reopen?
Reopening sports
The Orlando tourists risk of being arrested for driving past 11pm due to curfew
Summer vacations during the Covid19 pandemic
Mayor’s Office employee refuses to testify before a City Council committee investigating JEA.
Local newspapers.
Courts strike down the Jacksonville Human Rights Ordinance aka transgender bathroom bill.
Democrat controlled Virginia to reopen economy sooner than announced
Does government Coid19 stimulus hurt the economy?
Emergence of a stronger online economy
Online education proving beneficial to doubters
Federal Covid19 aid to local and state governments used as mismanagement bailouts?
Reopening Florida.
Florida’s levels of covid19 lower than predicted.
The spread of covid19 from the NYC US epicenter.
Will increased taxes be put on hold in the wake of the economic downturn caused by covid19?
Redirecting federal corona virus aid to rescue state and local government worker pensions.
How will reopening the economy look?
Georgia lifts safer at home order; is Florida next?
How has life changed since the shut-in?
Re-opening the Florida economy.
The DOJ might side with citizens in future lawsuits against some state/local government stay at home orders.
Covid19 aftermath predictions.
The beaches are now open
How are courts dealing with Covid 19?
Is frozen pizza now being hoarded like toilet paper?
Have stay at home orders gone too far?
Jacksonville State of Emergency extended an additional 30 days.
Is Dr. Fauci blaming himself for not recommending social distancing sooner?
Does President Trump have the authority to override state issued stay at home orders?
Will #SaferAtHome orders trigger lawsuits?
Purchases of non-essential products being restricted at essential stores.
Fear-based reporting of #Covid19.
Unemployment could reach 20 million
Nationwide shutdown vs. selected areas and selected industries
Death projections have been downgraded
Release Corrine Brown over Covid19 fears
Gun and ammunition sales surge due to Coronavirus.
Government limits on public gatherings.
Media coverage of Coronavirus.
JEA and the Jacksonville City Council probe
School lunch debt
Sanders and his appeal
Problems with taxing legal marijuana and other “sin taxes.”
Pensions vs. 401k plans
Should government officials have the right to be armed at government meetings?
Was the Trump economy created by Obama?
Warren goes after Bloomberg and other highlights from the Las Vegas debate
Rutherford vs. Deegan
Trump Camp 2020
Is PR spin used by school officials when achievement reports are given?
Does corporate American share part of the blame for the popularity of progressive ideals?
American colleges secretly being paid by foreign governments
Obamacare’s life expectancy
Commercial Real Estate growth in North Florida
President Obama’s first time home-buyers programs’ impact on residential real estate
Florida’s real estate outlook
Sanctuary communities at risk of federal sanctions.
Bernie Sanders says Green New Deal will create thousands of well-paying jobs.
City Council’s investigation into JEA should end by June.
After the impeachment trail…what’s next?
In the real winner in the Iowa caucuses Bloomberg?
An army of Democrat operates are already in Florida
Increasing the minimum wage
Why don’t conservatives talk more about school choice>
School Choice and the black community
Open primaries
Poll deniers – poll accuracy
Digital vs. traditional print news media
Conservatives and government spending
Friends of the NRA event
Term limits for School Board members
Elected or appointed Superintendent of Schools
JEA board resigns
JEA CEO fired with cause to be appealed
Bernie Sanders admitts no one knows how much his proposals will cost
Healthcare costs
Homosexual conversion therapy
News media attention on government waste
Jax economy to out perform the national average
Union impact on taxpayer costs
JEA investigation handed off to the feds
Government funding of media outlets
Conservation in Florida
Traditional vs. new media
2020 political predictions
Climate change predictions that didn’t happen
transporting concealed firearms across state lines when traveling
Court appointments
School Superintendent appointed or elected
Term limits fir school board members
JEA investigation
Occupational license requirements; good over excessive?