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County Lawyers Misleading Federal Judge Timothy Corrigan on LGBTQIA+...
In otiose, obnoxious federal court filings in the LGBTQIA+ Pride Proclamation lawsuit, Sara Bloomberg v. Jeremiah Ray Blocker, Chairman, St. Johns County Commission, did St. Johns County's Hessian...
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Do County Republican Leaders' Anti-LGBTQIA+ Pride Proclamation Antics...
Sunday Morning Memo to:St. Johns County Commission Chair JEREMIAH RAY BLOCKER, County Administrator HUNTER SINCLAIR CONRAD, a/k/a/ "Church Lady,"et al, facing federal court injunction hearing Tuesday,...
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Marguerite Blocker: Will You Kindly Tell Your Son, Jeremiah, to Stop...
Ms. Marguerite Blocker (left) with her son, St. Johns County Commission Chairman JEREMIAH RAY BLOCKER (right), and U.S. Senator MARCO ANTONIO RUBIO. Dear Ms. Blocker: hopefully your family will be...
View ArticleSt. Johns County Commissioners vote for resolution to make St. Johns a 2nd...
Overbearing St. Johns County Commission Chairmam JEREMIAH RAY BLOCKER last year pushed for a "Second Amendment Sanctuary" resolution for St. Johns County, while in 2021 repeatedly violating First...
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"The King Will Remain A Tyrant"
In the great American musical play and movie, 1776, Continental Congress members considering the Declaration of Indepenndence carve up Thomas Jefferson's draft. Some of the edits are minor (jury...
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County Refused Proclamations on Equal Pay, School Choice and Worker Memorial...
In paragraph 9 of his affidavit filed in federal court last week, St. Johns County's recently demoted Public Affairs Director MICHAEL RYAN states that SJC BoCC Chairs turned down resolutions on Equal...
View ArticleGrateful for NCAA Opinions by Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh
NCAA's serial antitrust violations were rightfully condemned by trial and appeals court judges and by a unanimous Supreme Court. The Court's unanimous opinion is by Justice Neil Gorsuch, who helped...
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Grateful for NFL Football Player Carl Nassib's Coming Out as Gay
Carl Nassib is the first current-serving member on NFL football team to come out as Gay. Since Dave Kopay came out as a Gay ex-player in 1973, no current NFL player has come out. Three cheers for the...
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June 22, 1981: Appalachian Observer Begins Work
Forty years ago today I woke up in Washington, D.C., flew to East Tennessee, met my new publisher, started the Appalachian Observer and took in my first Anderson County School Board meeting.Anderson...
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Federal judge denies injunction over St. Johns County Pride proclamation....
U.S. District Court Chief Judge Timothy Corrigan found that the remedy sought was too "extraordinary," so Sara Bloomberg v. St. Johns County Commission Chairman JEREMIAH RAY BLOCKER and St. Johns...
View ArticleFeds need to reject Florida’s fatally flawed gambling deal with Seminole...
I agree with the Orlando Sentinel editorial board. The latest Seminole Nation gambling deal inked by arrogant, money-hungry, other-directed Florida Governor, RONALD DION DeSANTIS, and rubberstamped by...
View ArticleJune 23, 1972: PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON "SMOKING GUN" TAPE
My mother hated President RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON, once taunting the President of the 82nd Airborne Division Association, of which my father was a Director, stating, "How do you like your President now,...
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Only the Incompetent Need Apply. (Paul Krugman, NY Times)
Nobel economics prize winning NY Times columnist Paul Krugman explains the anti-empirical, anti-expertise animus of today's Dull Republicans:OPINIONPAUL KRUGMANOnly the Incompetent Need ApplyJuly 1,...
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Federal judge blocks Florida law that would penalize social media companies....
Saint Augustine, patron Saint and namesake of our Nation's Oldest City, wrote that "an unjust law is no law at all.' We are grateful for the scholarship and integrity off United States District Court...
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JERRY THOMAS CAMERON a/k/a "CONMAN," Retires for Third Time
After a quarter of a decade -- two (2) years and four (4) months -- as Flagler County Administrator Ad Interim, overpaid, ethically-challenged satrap JERRY THOMAS CAMERON has retired, for the tbird...
View ArticleHouse passes bill to strengthen authority of federal watchdogs. (The Hill)
My late client and mentor, EPA Senior Special Agent Robert E. Tyndall passed away last year, but he would have been delighted and plum tickled by the passage of this bill. Too often, as we established...
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Full-time Federal Employee Representing Applicant Seeking Planned Unit...
GARY BRIAN DAVENPORT, a full-time federal employee of the Florida National Guard, will take annual leave tomorrow to represent the applicant seeking to create a Planned Unit Development, which former...
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Celebrate Independence!
On July 4, 1981, Appalachian Observer publisher Ernest F. Phillips and Editor Ed Slavin (that would be me) distributed copies of the Prospectus for the AO in Lake City (formerly Coal Creek, now Rocky...
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Bigoted Republican Chair ROY ALAIMO, JR.'s July 6, 2021 Hate Letter --...
----- Forwarded Message -----From: Roy Alaimo, Chair, St Johns County Republican Party <royalaimo83@gmail.com>Sent: Tuesday, July 6, 2021, 11:36:08 AM EDTSubject: STANDING with SJC Commissioner...
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