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Yovanovitch honored her oath. It’s time other officials did the same. (WaPo...
Lots of honest government officials making all good Americans proud. Now we look to our local officials, and thank everyone who is telling truth to power here in St. Augustine, St. Johns County, and...
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Yovanovitch hearing confirms that Trump is running a thugocracy. (WaPo...
Winning yet? DONALD JOHN TRUMP went to the hospital for an unscheduled two hour visit yesterday, November 16, 2019, claiming he was doing part of his annual physical early because he would be busy...
View ArticleAnother victory: St. Johns County Commission votes down paid beach parking...
I am happy that We, the People have been heard and heeded, once again. There was no proper background investigation on Republic Parking, a datum I learned through an Open Records request. Shortly after...
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St. Johns County Commission fires county administrator. (SAR)
Escorted out of the building at 5 pm under armed guard, the long Reign of Error of St. Johns County Administrator MICHAEL DAVID WANCHICK came to an end today, November 19, 2019, also the anniversary of...
View ArticleSt. Johns County awaits new leadership. (SAR)
By Sheldon GardnerPosted at 5:30 PMSt. Augustine Record St. Johns County officials were still working out the details of the leadership transition on Wednesday in the wake of former County...
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In Gordon Sondland, Trump has met his match. (WaPo)
How do the Trump strumpets recover? As Dana Milbank suggests, only by releasing documents they've hidden, or producing high-level witnesses whom they have prevented from testifying before Congress in...
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St. Augustine Beach: Yes, there IS an Embassy Suites Phase II. (SAR)
Albert Camus, the French existentialist philosopher, once said, "We must first posit denial and absurdity, because that is what our generation has encountered."I got both "denials and absurdity" from...
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to spend big on teachers, environment....
I agree with St. Johns County Commissioner I. Henry Dean -- delighted to have a governor who takes the environment seriously and has put money in the budget for land acquisitions pursuant to Amendment...
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How Republicans, Not Russians, Threaten Fair Elections. (FlaglerLive.com)
I've filed to run as a Democrat for St. Johns County Supervisor of Elections to help assure the integrity of elections here. After years of watching voter suppression in Florida, I feel empowered by...
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Environmental Science Prof. Barbara Blonder Files to Run For City Commission
Flagler College environmental science Professor Barbara I. Blonder has filed to run for St. Augustine City Commission, seat 2, held for eleven years by Leanna Sophia Amaru Freeman, an attorney,...
View ArticleAnother City Manager Fired -- St. Augustine Beach, Take Note.
In St. Mary's Georgia, the City Manager was fired last month. St. Johns County Commissioners fired our longtime County Administrator two days ago, on Tuesday, November 12, 2019.It takes a village to...
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Fish Island Is Ours. (City of St. Augustine Press release, my 2018 St....
It takes a village. As Vice Mayor Leanna Freeman said, was it a "miracle?"Protecting our town and defeating "temple destroyers" is what we do. Whether defeating a $1.8 million no-bid helicopter and...
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Fish Island deal closes; city of St. Augustine will manage land. (SAR)
By Stuart KorfhagePosted at 12:27 PM St, Augustine RecordNFLT, in partnership with the State of Florida, negotiated the deal to purchase the property from the owners for a price of $6.5 million. The...
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Trump’s next Secretary of State...Marco Rubio? (Tampa Bay Times)
Florida U.S. Senator Marco Antonio Rubio's term expires in January 2023. If Senator Rubio resigned his Senate seat, Florida Governor Ronald Dion DeSantis would appoint a temporary Senate successor who...
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The death knell for local newspapers? It’s perilously close. (WaPo)
Here in St. Augustine, we've documented the slow unravelling of the St. Augustine Record, founded 125 years ago by Henry Morrison Flagler's frontman, the grandfather of the late Pierre Thompson, local...
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STATE'S ATTORNEY RALPH JOSEPH LARIZZA RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN FACES AUDIT --
By October 16, 2019 letter from Florida Secretary of State Bureau of Election Records Chief Kristi Reid Willis, Seventh Circuit State's Attorney RALPH JOSERPH LARIZZA was notified his campaign is being...
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Appearance of Impropriety? Flagler County Administrator Jerry Thomas Cameron...
Somnambulistic developer tool, Flagler County Administrator JERRY THOMAS CAMERON, is in the news over a real estate deal, just days after his ex-boss, St. Johns County Administrator MICHAEL DAVID...
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Will Clay County be a "sanctuary" for gun owners? (Florida Politics)
Here's A.G. Gancarski's Florida Politics article today on our neighboring county:Clay County latest to pursue ‘sanctuary’ status … but not for illegal immigrationSanctuary status … but against federal...
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DISGRACEFUL PARDONS: DISHONORING OUR HONORABLE., by Dr. Pauline Kaurin and...
During the Civil War, an empathetic President Abraham Lincoln was known to pardon Union Army soldiers sentenced to death for crimes, including desertion, or avoiding combat by laming a horse.But...
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He helped end the Soviet empire. Now Lech Walesa wants to help Hong Kong. (WaPo)
Voter turnout in Hong Kong was impressive, at 71%. America, St. Johns County, let us do better in 2020. As we oust the oligarchs, from City Hall to the White House, do bear in mind the example of...
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