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Developer SLAPP-Sued Him For Libel, Voters Just Elected Him. (Flagler Live)
Congratulations to former St. Johns County Commissioner Joseph Kenneth Bryan (2008-2012), who was on March 17, 2020 elected to Flagler Beach City Commission, after a pointless Strategic Lawsuit Against...
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Who is MARK HERRON? (If "money is the mother's milk of politics," then what...
The late Jesse Marvin Unruh (1922–1987) managed JFK's campaign in California, was later California Assembly Speaker and California State Treasurer. "Big Daddy" Jesse Unruh famously said, "Money is the...
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Six-Figure SLAPP Suits Against Ethics Complainants Prosecuted by Florida...
The Florida Attorney General is in court, seeking to force three Flagler County citizens to pay more than $311,666 because they filed Ethics Commission complaints against public officials.Strategic...
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Coronavirus: St. Augustine to use smart thermometers against COVID-19. (SAR)
Once again, the itty-bitty city of St. Augustine lacks a welcoming spirit to questions and behaves badly. I am still waiting for documents on this scheme from the City of St. Augustine. Were city,...
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Mother Nature's way of saying, "Knock it off, Earthlings?" (Nature)
From the prestigious British journal Nature comes what we all inferred -- it's getting quieter. The air is cleaner. NEWS 31 MARCH 2020Coronavirus lockdowns have changed the way Earth movesA reduction...
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Here’s What a General Strike Would Take. (Hamilton Nolan, In These Times)
This is a time for labor law reform and activism, as in the 1930s, when my father was a young union organizer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. We need a new National Labor Relations Act, new...
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April 3, 1968, Memphis, Tennessee: Here is the speech Martin Luther King Jr....
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested in St. Augustine on June 11, 1964. He said the St. Johns County Jail was the nicest he'd ever visited, Some 23 days later, President Lyndon Johnson signed...
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‘It's a sh-- sandwich': Republicans rage as Florida becomes a nightmare for...
Florida is dependent on tourism, food, lodging, drinking, travel and leisure -- not necessarily in that order. Our failure to plan for pandemic has consequences. One of them is the dysfunctional...
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Captain Crozier Is a Hero. Theodore Roosevelt, my great-grandfather, would...
Navy Captain Brett Crozier deserves a JFK Profiles in Courage Award. He stood up for the rights of his sailors and paid the price for it. Likewise, I stood up for the rights of employees and paid the...
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Politico Ranks Florida Governor RONALD DION DeSANTIS Worst State Leader on...
The Gubernatorial Busts1. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R)DeSantis is one of Trump’s favorite governors and a potential 2024 presidential prospect. But he has made a bad first impression on the rest of...
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Flagler County Commission Lacks a Welcoming Spirit: "NO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC...
Authoritarians are abusing the coronavirus quarantine to do government business in secret.Case in point: This notice was posted on April 1, 2020 (April Fool's Day) on the Flagler County Board of County...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Local churches considered essential, can continue to hold...
Thanks to Bishop Estevez and local religious leaders for protecting public health. No thanks to narcissistic preacher at God's Way Baptist Church, who must take his inspiration from East Tennessee...
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Yuval Noah Harari: the world after coronavirus | This storm will pass. But...
Who guards the guardians, as the Roman satirist Juvenal asked?Already, authoritarians are abusing the virus for the purpose of more secrecy and greater surveillance.And they are either cancelling or...
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Outbreak hurts Trump's electability in Florida, poll says. (POLITICO)
President Donald Trump gestures as he walks toward the White House after spending the weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort in March. | Getty ImagesOutbreak hurts Trump's electability in Florida, poll...
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SUZANNE VAN WYK, FLORIDA ALJ, HELD TRIAL IN ABSENTIA, VIOLATED FIRST...
A "double-minded person is unstable in all her ways." James 1-8.A Florida Bar complaint was filed this week, by former Republican Flagler County Commission candidate, Mr. Mark Richter, Jr., against...
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Florida judge is suspended for ‘insubordination’ in footnotes he wrote about...
Under Governor RONALD DION DeSANTIS, Florida Administrative Law Judge independence is undermined by Republicans who presume to pressure, edit and censor and punish ALJs.Footnote: I was living in...
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Who is JOHN MacIVER? NOT confirmed as Chief Administrative Law Judge, Still...
Right-wing young lawyer JOHN MacIVER has never tried a case in any court. He's a former lobbyist with the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action. (The Russian-funded group...
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Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia faces blowback as he curtails scope of worker...
I provided written testimony opposing Young Scalia's nomination to be DOL Solicitor in 2001.Young Scalia was never confirmed, serving in an acting capacity. He went back to corporate law but was...
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A Florida ethics minefield: No free TV exposure for DeSantis during pandemic...
Do you share Steve Bousquet's odd view that Florida ethics laws are too strict? I objected to Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry's 2018 hurricane PSAs on local radio station WJCT-FM, NPR affiliate. The ads...
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