She wouldn’t computerize county auctions — then she rigged the bids for her...
Good police work by Miami-Dade Inspector General and State's Attorney's office on county auction bid-rigging.I wish St. Johns County had a State's Attorney focused on white-collar crime and corruption....
View ArticleWILL FLORIDA DEMOCRATS TRIUMPH IN 2018 (OR "SNATCH DEFEAT FROM THE JAWS OF...
Don't get cocky, Florida Democrats. We know what you did last summer. No more screwups.Good article from Palm Beach Post:Do Democratic wins in Virginia mean 2018 anti-Trump wave in Florida?By George...
View ArticleTOP TEN REASONS TO FIRE ST. JOHNS COUNTY ATTORNEY PATRICK FRANCIS McCORMACK,...
Will St. Johns County Commissioners fire County Attorney PATRICK FRANCIS McCORMACK?1. Covering up the Michelle O'Connell case by failing to produce water use records for the murder house that would...
View ArticleBELIEVE IT OR NOT! ST. JOHNS COUNTY SOUGHT $47 MILLION, RELYING ON ARDURRA's...
Before ARDURRA was hired, there was NO BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION. NONE. This is back before local residents learned who and what ARDURRA was, or JERRY CAMERON's $191/hour billing rate. I've reported...
View ArticleNOTICE TO TWO ST. JOHNS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS RE: Interruptions and...
No response yet from these two angry Republicans. Watching these two respond to investigations and questions is like watching a duck try to make love to a football. Dull Republicans with no social...
View ArticleWe’re not even close to being prepared for the rising waters (WaPo)
Bill McKibben is right. And St. Augustine Mayor Nancy Shaver gets it. But St. Augustine Beach and St. Johns County are woefully behind. And don't be afraid to say "GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE."We’re not...
View ArticleTrump nominee for federal judgeship has never tried a case, writes nasty blog...
BRETT TALLEY is the personification of The Peter Principle. HLS graduate. Spooner. Shouldn't be picking judges let alone being one. Sick. Once upon a time, the Senate refused to confirm Francis X....
View ArticleBobby Baker, R.I.P.
Bobby Baker was the second most powerful man in the United States Senate when Lyndon Johnson was Senate Democratic Leader. When LBJ was Vice President, serious allegations surfaced that might have...
View ArticleGOVERNMENT WATCHDOG TOM REYNOLDS FOR ST. AUGUSTINE BEACH CITY COMMISSION's...
St. Augustine Record columnist Bob Tis suggested it and now it's happening: government watchdog THOMAS F. REYNOLDS, JR. (HCN photo) is among those applying for the City of St. Augustine Beach City...
View ArticleWho is "Andy Strickland?" Posts pejoratives on St. Augustine Record re: NAACP...
Posting hate speech on The St. Augustine Record's website, Republican St. Petersburg immigration lawyer Andy Strickland is talking trash about St. Augustine residents' right to First Amendment...
View ArticleRainbow featured in window of "The Peacemaker" (1868 painting), scene of ship...
Rainbow featured in window of one of my favorite Civil War paintings, directly behind Abraham Lincoln, flanked by Generals William Tecumseh Sherman and Ulysses Simpson Grant and Admiral David Dixon...
View ArticleDISGRACED BILLIONAIRE, STEPHEN H. BITTEL, QUITS AS FLORIDA DEMOCRATIC PARTY...
Miami billionaire STEPHEN H. BITTEL is resigning as Florida Democratic Party Chair after women complained about inappropriate sexual comments and breast toys in the office. Note to Democrats: no more...
View ArticleBobby Baker, String-Puller Snared in Senate Scandal, Dies at 89 (NY Times)
Controversial LBJ apparatchik Bobby Baker retired here and lived in Marsh Creek Country Club, between St. Augustine and St. Augustine Beach. Only a paid obit appeared in the St. Augustine Record....
View ArticleBobby Baker, protege of Lyndon Johnson felled by influence-peddling scandal,...
Controversial LBJ apparatchik Bobby Baker retired here and lived in Marsh Creek Country Club, between St. Augustine and St. Augustine Beach. Only a paid obit appeared in the St. Augustine Record....
View ArticleA Great Migration From Puerto Rico Is Set to Transform Orlando (NY Times)
Florida will be a better place as a result of this massive migration to Orlando of tens of thousands of Americans devastated by Herr Trump's inept, insouciant, insensitive response to hurricanes in...
View ArticleSt. Augustine official says concerns about horse industry are misinformed (SAR)
I agree with the City's measured, fact-based response to PETA's concerns. Horses have been part of our ancient city's way of life since 1565.Posted November 18, 2017 05:36 amBy SHELDON GARDNER...
View ArticleFlorida wipes inspections of troubled nursing homes from its website (Miami...
Florida Governor RICHARD LYNN SCOTT's penchant for secrecy permeates Tallahassee, covering Dixie like the dew.Florida wipes inspections of troubled nursing homes from its websiteBY CAROL MARBIN MILLER...
View ArticleWatch Beautiful 1995 Barack Obama Speech at Cambridge, Mass. Public Library
40:00 "Black folks are the most forgiving people because they have the most experience."
View ArticleRussian oligarch docks yacht in Palm Beach ahead of Trump visit (The Hill)
What do you reckon?Russian oligarch docks yacht in Palm Beach ahead of Trump visitBY JULIA MANCHESTER - 11/18/17 05:51 PM EST © Getty ImagesA prominent Russian oligarch with ties to President Vladimir...
View ArticleRon Rawls' Asinine Astroturf® Protest at Commencement of Nights of Lights:...
REV. RONALD RAWLS' inauthentic, insincere, illogical, ill-timed, irritating Astroturf® "protest" annoyed but did not inform, and it did not promote healing. RAWLS' phony protest included out-of-town...
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