Bad Cop, Bad Cop: Sheriff Darryl Daniels’ former HR director goes on record....
Corruption is pandemic among America's elected Sheriffs, but few newspapers worker to uncover it. One exception is Folio Weekly, which has for some 34 years uncovered corruption in four Northeast...
View ArticleEndangered Right Whales Win Federal Court Victory (AP)
Three cheers for Judge Boasberg and the lawyers for the endangered right whale. Right whales have their babies off our shores in Northeast Florida. There are only 350-400 left. From the Associated...
View ArticleHow Trump and His Team Covered Up the Coronavirus in Five Days: The president...
PRESIDENT DONALD JOHN TRUMP PROMOTED COVERUP. Proof is irrefragable. To elected dull Republicans, willing accomplices to mass manslaughter: repent now. Still time.Renounce DONALD JOHN TRUMP and all...
View Article"In Government Procurement, Buying Local Is Popular. But Is It Beneficial?"...
St. Johns County Commission Chair Paul Waldron surfaced this morning at the virtual meeting of the County Commission the idea of procurement preference for local vendors. I called in and demurred. The...
View ArticleIRS relents, providing masks for 10,000 returning workers (Politico)
Thank God for free democratic labor unions and collective bargaining. Yesterday, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service ordered 10,000 employees to return to work with masks, while asking employees to bring...
View ArticleAfter the pandemic
What will be our future after the global coronavirus pandemic?We're dependent on tourism and education. What happens next? What are the lessons learned from our stay-at-home time?Built on a house of...
View ArticleBoth Sides-ing Bleach Injection (FAIR)
From the group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, a riposte for those of us in the reality-based community who prefer science to poisons, witchcraft, sorcery and speculation, and who wonder,...
View ArticleLesbian Who Sued Sheriff After He Fired Her Defeats Him in Dem Primary...
Cincinnatti is maturing, past the bugaboos of its barbarous former leaders. Hence, there's hope for Northeast Florida and St. Johns County and the twin itty-bitty cities of St. Augustine and St....
View ArticleBACKWARDS BEACH TOWN DISRESPECTS CITIZENS AT "VIRTUAL" MEETING
Citizens were allowed into th St. Augustine Beach City Commission meeting briefly to speak, kept waiting outdoors. Commissioners Undine George (on video) and Commissioner Dylan Rumrell appeared...
View ArticleWhat happened at the treasured Big Cypress National Preserve was...
Who would allow destruction of our Big Cypress National Preserve?I agree with Craig Pittman: Florida Forever funds should be used to buy the mineral rights.And the City of St. Augustine needs to...
View ArticleFederal Court Upholds Greyhound Racing Ban: Florida Amendment 13
Judge Mark Walker has provided a roadmap for future Florida constitutional amendments, upholding Amendment 13 under the police power as rationally related to a compelling state interest, rejecting a...
View ArticleEditorial: Sorry Orange County, no beach weekend for you. (Los Angeles Times)
For some perspective on St. Johns County and Florida beach closing issues, here's an editorial from today's LA Times.Editorial: Sorry Orange County, no beach weekend for youBeachgoers enjoy a partly...
View ArticleTrump's name can be first on Florida ballot, court says. (AP)
A petition for en banc review should be filed asking the entire 11th Circuit to decide this case. Trump's name can be first on Florida ballot, court saysBy GARY FINEOUT 04/29/2020 05:41 PM...
View ArticleDon’t let “COVID kids,” already on a shaky ground, fall further behind in...
The notion of home computer-based learning as a substitute for the classroom remains to be proven. Here's an editorial from today's Miami Herald:Don’t let “COVID kids,” already on a shaky ground, fall...
View ArticlePublic companies received $1 billion in stimulus funds meant for small...
BILLION DOLLAR BABIES -- Remember the Greediest! While stressed St. Augustine businesses got stiffed, publicly held giant companies arrogated $1 billion to themselves in stimulus funds intended for...
View ArticleJudge orders return of seized Land Rover that led to SCOTUS civil forfeiture...
Fourteen months after the Supreme Court's landmark ruling on civil forfeitures, the plaintiff got his Land Rover back this week.Grant Superior Judge Jeffrey D. Todd issued the order on Monday. He was...
View ArticleFlagler commissioner Mullins calls anonymous email linking him to escorts a...
Flagler County, Florida Commissioner JOSEPH MULLINS (R-Ga.) is exposed in this morning's Daytona Beach News Journal, stating inter alia,"Joe Mullins could soon be under state investigation amid claims...
View ArticleSt. Johns County: "Florida county’s medical examiner begged officials to...
From The Washington Post, encouraging news that an assistant medical examiner working for Dr. Predrag Bulic, M.D. exercised her God-given First Amendment constitutional rights to engage in protected...
View ArticleDeSantis wants probe into Scott spending on flawed unemployment website....
Anyone who ever filed for unemployment compensation in Florida, 2009-date, could have told how mucked up the computer system is, but Republicans don 't listen to unemployed workers unless there's a...
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