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RECORD EDITORIAL: Leniency seems flawed in Wednesday sentencing. (SAR)
Great Editorial by Jim Sutton in St. Augustine Record. State's Attorney RALPH JOSEPH LARIZZA needs to resign or be fired.OpinionRECORD EDITORIAL: Leniency seems flawed in Wednesday sentencingPosted...
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Philadelphia’s District Attorney Just Showed America’s Prosecutors How to End...
Here's what Florida prosecutors, like maladroit RALPH JOSEPH LARIZZA, must do if they are to redeem themselves from their wastrel ways. Repent now, rebarbative reptilian reprobate Republicans. Stop...
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Florida DOT Ignored Engineer Warning on Cracking FIU Bridge? (WaPo)
Our Florida Department of Transportation may face possible liability for corporate homicide in the collapse of a Florida International University (FIU) bridge on March 15, 2018. The Washington Post...
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Here in St. Augustine, Florida, in 1600 -- The incredible story of America’s...
The Washington Post this morning reports on Professor Michael Francis' discovery that the very first St. Patrick's Day celebration in the USA was right here in St. Augustine, Florida. Viva San...
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THIS TIME, NO Gov. SCOTT VETO OF WEST AUGUSTINE SEWER APPROPRIATION -- IT...
On March 17, 2016 at 8 PM, Florida's racist Republican Governor RICK SCOTT vetoed a mere $200,000 matching grant legislative appropriation for West Augustine sewers, benefitting poor black people long...
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Another St. Augustine monument debated. (SAR, HCN)
Only 681 words. Does short word length detract from the ability of the Record to cover the news? Does Record want to promote healing? Does Record have the resources from GateHouse to cover the news?...
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Joe’s Crab Shack apologizes for using photo of lynching as table decor (USA...
The lynching photo was accompanied by a caption about the victims not liking the gumbo! From Bloomberg:Company OverviewIgnite Restaurant Group, Inc., a diversified restaurant company, operates a...
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SHERIFF HOAR's CHUTZPA: Hosting conference on old or cold cases, after 7...
St. Johns County Sheriff DAVID SHOAR is a legend in his own mind. SHOAR, who legally changed his name from "HOAR" in 1994, just hosted a conference of lawmen on "old" or "cold' cases here at the scene...
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Threatened Buc-ees' 120 pump "gas station" exposes maladroit St. Johns County...
St. Johns County Commission must consider eminent domain to stop 120 gasoline pump project. We need a growth moratorium until we can review our land use code, which was written by developers. Here's a...
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The City of St. Augustine Beach needs another adult in the room: Rosetta...
Adult in the roomLincoln's Birthday, February 12, 2018, St. Augustine Beach, Florida: Commissioners illegally decided four issues without public comment. Commissioners ejected two citizens for...
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Preserving and protecting St. Augustine Beach
Here's my vision for St. Augustine Beach (SAB) -- preserving and protecting:"Our [beach] village," as County Commission Chair Henry Dean calls it. Voters amended SAB Charter to establish a permanent...
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Cambridge Analytica, Trump-Tied Political Firm, Offered to Entrap Politicians...
Did the Trumpster-tricksters at Cambridge Analytica use the same weapons and technique of bribery and entrapment that St. Johns County Sheriff DAVID SHOAR and the late corrupt ROGERS TOWERS partner...
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No VIP tent; PZB Chair Jane West misses another workshop meeting with St....
St. Augustine Beach City Planning and Zoning Board Chair JANE WEST is absent without explanation from yet another meeting of the St. Augustine Beach Planning and Zoning Board and the St. Augustine City...
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Stop Apologizing for Being Elite by Susan Jacoby (NY Times)
Thomas Jefferson believed in an "aristocracy of virtue and talent." So do I.I was the first person in my family to graduate college. In high school, I was teased as a nerd. At Georgetown, I was...
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GROWTH MORATORIUM: COUNTY ATTORNEY PATRICK FRANCIS McCORMACK JUST ALLIED...
LYING LOUCHE County Attorney just lied to County Commissioners.Why it matters: I raised the issue of a growth moratorium again this morning, March 20, 2018, to St. Johns County Commission, speaking on...
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St. Augustine Beach Needs More Responsive, Responsible City Government...
Only three months in office, is St. Augustine Beach Mayor Undine Celeste Pawlowski George already repeating the "mistakes" of her unimpressive predecessors, ANDREA SAMUELS and RICHARD BURTT O"BRIEN? Is...
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Misguided "Indivisible" Group Lacks Originality, or Local Sensitivity, on...
Our City's Confederate Monument Contextualization Committee is on the right track -- I have thanked them for their efforts, based on facts.But I am appalled at the demagogic dupery demanding removal of...
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SJC Commission advances lobbying registration, hears Winton Circle resident...
Three cheers for County Commissioners supporting Tom Reynolds' suggestion to regulate lobbyists. We're making progress, and more people are coming to meetings and expressing concerns, no longer afraid...
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Remembering Awesome Florida Activist Marjorie Stoneman Douglas, Who Lived to...
I read the the excellent biography by UF Environmental History Professor Jack E. Davis on this magnificent lady, an inspiration to us all. Our St. Johns County Public Library has copies....
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Thank you, Sherman Gary Snodgrass -- we WILL enact the St. Augustine National...
Thank you, again, to former St. Augustine Beach Mayor Sherman Gary Snodgrass, for your inspiration -- yes we can!Yes, we're going to get the St. Augustine National Historical Park and National Seashore...
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