{"id":173898,"date":"2026-03-01T14:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T14:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/173898\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T14:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T14:26:07","slug":"controversy-surrounding-jea-text-messages-and-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/173898\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversy surrounding JEA, text messages and city council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIS WEEK IN JACKSONVILLE<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 lhBXaj jdBbpv\">It&#8217;s the controversy creeping through several layers at City Hall and in local government, with JEA&#8217;s board of directors at the center.\u00a0The City Council President and JEA&#8217;s Chief Executive, the current mayor and the most recent mayor, the board chair and vice chair.\u00a0There&#8217;s a lot to unpack after a text message stirred up suspicion and led to serious accusations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THIS WEEK IN JACKSONVILLE It&#8217;s the controversy creeping through several layers at City Hall and in local government,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[832,116,118,117,501,7363],"class_list":["post-173898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-city-council","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jea","tag-this-week-in-jacksonville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}