Tampa Bay Times: 2020 Presidential candidates on global warming
PolitiFact: The leading 2020 Democrats’ climate change plans, explainedThe candidates’ proposals reveal differences in how they plan to approach the issue.Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie...
View Article3 St. Johns County deputies on leave after video shows man beaten, tased...
It is unconscionable that Sheriff DAVID SHOAR rejects body cameras, stating he rejected the "false narrative" that "police need to be watched," as he said in 2016 debate with his opponent, Debra...
View ArticleRead 111 page House of Representatives brief on impeachment trial of DONALD...
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES Sitting as a Court of ImpeachmentIn reIMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMPTRIAL MEMORANDUMOF THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESIN THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL OF...
View ArticleHouse Democrats say Senate must ‘eliminate the threat that the President...
House Democrats say Senate must ‘eliminate the threat that the President poses to America’s national security’House impeachment managers including Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif), and Rep. Jerry Nadler...
View ArticleTrump May Be Even More Unpopular Than His Approval Rating Shows. (538.com)
Good analysis from Nate Silver's 538.com -- TRUMP is even less popular than his dull Vice President, Michael Pence, and less popular than former Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin....
View ArticleI FEEL SORRY FOR ROB HARDWICK`
"Well, Richard, it profit a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world But for Wales?-- Saint Thomas More, the patron Saint of lawyers and whistleblowers, says in Robert Bolt's play and movie, A...
View ArticleSheriff DAVID SHOAR delays filing fraud lawsuit for fourteen months
Good article in the Historic City News blog (below) about the fraud lawsuit belatedly filed by corrupt St. Johns County Sheriff DAVID BERNARD SHOAR against his corrupt hand-picked former Finance...
View ArticleGUEST COLUMN | Hold the line on over-development. (SAR)
Mr. Keto Burns has a wonderful guest column in this morning's St. Augustine Record. I hope SACA revises its charter to include all of St. Johns County. SACA is a great group and does great work, under...
View ArticleHackers Are Coming for the 2020 Election — And We’re Not Ready, Why the...
Our democracy is under attack.That's why I'm running as a Democrat for St. Johns County, Florida Supervisor of Elections to help Make America Safe For Democracy.On December 8, 1941, President Franklin...
View ArticleWatch SUPPRESSED: THE FIGHT TO VOTE (Brave New Films)
I watched this movie last week at the meeting of the St. Johns County Indivisible Chapter, followed by a spot-on presentation by indefatigable Indivisible leader Mary Lawrence,I'm running for St. Johns...
View ArticleJudge orders CPD to turn over 48 years’ worth of misconduct files. (Chicago...
Good news for Chicago, and America. Here in Florida, we have the best Open Records law in the Nation, the result of a 1992 state constitutional amendment adopted by vote of 3.8 million Florida voters...
View ArticleThe Senator Who Stood Up to Joseph McCarthy When No One Else Would....
Wonderful, courageous woman, a pioneer in the all-male United States Senate. I never got to meet her -- she retired in 1973, and I did not go to work as a Senate intern for Ted Kennedy until August 29,...
View ArticleGeorge Conway: The worst thing about Trump’s answer to the impeachment...
No President is above the law. DONALD JOHN TRUMP has contempt for the law and disrespects democracy. His "Answer" to the impeachment is absurd. It does not pass the laugh test. It does not pass the...
View ArticleRev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Unions and Gays: The Omitted Part of Our...
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. worked with unions to adopt our civil rights laws -- they were essential. So were Gay people -- Bayard Rustin his right hand man, was nearly written out of the...
View ArticleA Day of Healing in St. Augustine, But More Work Remains to Be Done Here. Now.
So proud of my town today, celebrating the holiday for the birthday of martyred Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who once called St. Augustine "the most lawless city in America."He was arrested here...
View ArticleSexist Misogynist Max Royle, St. Augustine City Manager, Under Fire: PZB...
St. Augustine Beach Planning and Zoning Board Chair Jane West and Vice Chair Elyse Sloan have resigned, citing disrespect and dishonesty by City Manager BRUCE MAX ROYLE.Three cheers for Ms. West and...
View ArticleSUNSHINE VIOLATION?: Oligarchs Choose New County Administrator
No Sunshine notice this was to be decided on January 21.Not on the agenda.Top job neither posted nor advertised. No women or minorities considered. No backup material on national search on County...
View ArticleJustice for Michelle O'Connell. Justice for Ellie Washtock. Now.
Still no response from Governor RONALD DION DeSANTIS to my request that he remove St. Johns County Sheriff DAVID SHOAR pursuant to Article I, Section 24 of our Florida Constitution. The one year...
View ArticleCommissioner PAUL WALDRON said he did not want someone from California...
WALDRON and four other dull Republicans voted to hire a County Administrator without advertising or posting the job, or a national search.Commissioner PAUL WALDRON said he did not want someone from...
View ArticleJim Crow Law Lives in St. Johns County: January 21, 2020, St. Johns County's...
To the good people of St. Johns County, Florida:It happened in America, in St. Johns County, Florida, which Dr. King called "the most lawless place in America" -- on the day after the MLK birthday...
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