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City of St. Augustine Beach vice mayor calls for resignation of City Manager...
When I read and heard St. Augustine Beach Vice Mayor Maggie Kostka's letter to maladroit City Manager BRUCE MAX ROYLE, I agreed: ROYLE needs to resign and retire. Now.Commission will have a discussion...
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Florida Judge Tosses Environmental Lawsuit Brought By Children, Latest Loss...
Oscar Psychas, 22, left, and Isaac Augspurg, 15, right, stand near Paynes Prairie in Gainesville, Fla., on Saturday, May 30, 2020. The two are part of the group of eight youth plaintiffs who say...
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Jim Mattis blasts Trump in message that defends protesters, says president...
I agree with General Mattis. The actions of DONALD JOHN TRUMP must not divide us. We must remain one America, celebrating diversity and democracy. Add to listJim Mattis blasts Trump in message that...
View ArticleProud of Local Civil Rights Demonstrators, and Proud of Local Cops
Proud of local demonstrators and proud of local cops during peaceful, friendly courteous demonstrations inspired by Minneapolis police homicide and sequelae. Don't let haters like Historic City News...
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June 6, 1944, Sainte-Mère-Église, Normandy, France
My dad was part of the 82nd Airborne 505th P.I.R., which parachuted in at 1 AM and swiftly took over the first Nazi-occupied European town before sunrise. It was 76 years ago, on D-Day, June 6, 1944....
View ArticleReforming Our Criminal Injustice System
We must reform our Criminal Injustice system, which is guilty of systemic racism, as was explained to me by Anderson County, Tennessee's District Attorney General James Nelson Ramsey, when I was a...
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Florida Forever becomes Florida never in the hands of the Legislature (Craig...
Did you know? Isaac Henry Dean, 5th District St. Johns County Commissioner, helped write Amendment 1 (Florida Forever) along with two law professors and the Sierra Club. From Florida Phoenix:Florida...
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Gov. DeSantis signs HB5, 'eviscerating' the democratic process in Florida....
Here's the latest Republican effort to destroy our democracy here in Florida. Culpable are your Dull Republican state legislators and boy governor, RONALD DION DeSANTIS. From News Service of Florida...
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The Trump effect: New study connects white American intolerance and support...
Rigid reactionary bigots support authoritarianism? Who knew. From NBC News:The Trump effect: New study connects white American intolerance and support for authoritarianismThe research suggests that...
View ArticleEx-planning director of Catholic Diocese of St. Augustine indicted on wire...
We thought our Diocese was oddly dodgy when it attempted to inflict a parking garage and an amphitheater on our Mission Nombre de Dios/ Shrine of La Leche in historic St. Augustine. We, the People,...
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Independence Day Fireworks Cancelled After May 11, 2020 Sunshine Violation is...
At their meeting this morning, our estimable St. Augustine City Commission never reprimanded City Manager John Patrick Regan, P.E. for lying to them on May 11, 2020, or for inducing them to make a...
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DEPUTY BANKS PULLS OVER SCHOOL BUS WITHOUT PROBABLE CAUSE, SHERIFF SHOAR...
So controversial St. Johns County Deputy Sheriff JEREMY BANKS pulled over a school bus on September 25, 2019, without probable cause, acting on unethical personal impulse motives and got only a written...
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ANOTHER VICTORY: WJCT, NPR Affiliate, CONVERTS TO NEWS-TALK. (TALKERS MAGAZINE)
It takes a village. And lots of complaining. Over the past several years, I've filed complaints with the Federal Communications Commission, the Ombudsman for the Corporation for Broadcasting, and WJCT...
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Edmund Burke said it best in 1774 about elected officials owing their...
RepresentationCHAPTER 13|Document 7Edmund Burke, Speech to the Electors of Bristol3 Nov. 1774Works 1:446--48 I am sorry I cannot conclude without saying a word on a topic touched upon by my worthy...
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ANOTHER VICTORY: EARLY VOTING LOCATIONS EXPANDING IN ST. Johns County
I've asked for an early voting location in the territorial limits of the City of St. Augustine since 2008. County Attorney Patrick Francis McCormack suggested the Public Library, but controversial...
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ANOTHER VICTORY: BARRY BENJAMIN BAILS -- CLAIMED TO VOTE FROM BOAT -- PORT,...
Missed by GANNETT's incredible shrinking St. Augustine Record: Port, Waterway and Beach District Commission Chair BARRY MARK BENJAMIN failed to qualify to run for re-election. While Chairman BENJAMIN...
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GLBTQIA Rights: 6-3 SCOTUS Decision in Landmark Employment Rights Case
“An employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender defies the law,' Justice Neil M. Gorsuch wrote for the majority in the 6-to-3 ruling." -- NY Times, June 15, 2020Thanks to...
View ArticlePhantom write-in candidates bar more than a million voters from Florida...
If you're an independent or a Democrat and you're wondering why you can't vote for St. Johns County Sheriff, Commissioner and other partisan offices, even though there are no Democrats running and we...
View ArticleResident says water woes worsened with new development (SAR)
There are more than 30 housing developments in St. Johns County experiencing flooding due to bad planning, the rest of corrupt one-party developer-directed government. Scott C. Boutwell spoke out...
View ArticleWHO IS SCOTT C. BOUTWELL? -- PHANTOM "WRITE-IN" CLOSES SHERIFF'S RACE --...
SCOTT C. BOUTWELL is a putative write-in candidate who signed up at 9;16 AM on the last day of qualifying who showed up yesterday, almost half the voters in St. Johns County -- 93, 454 of us can't vote...
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