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Opinion: As Lou Grant, Ed Asner gave us comedy, drama and an indelible...
Edward Asner's Lou Grant character inspired me to consider journalism. The Fund for Investigative Journalism awarded me a grant the next year to investigate TVA, Howard Baker and East Tennessee coal...
View ArticleLong-time Fugitive, Self-proclaimed Offshore Gambling Operator Sentenced to...
To Florida racketeers: as Joe Louis said, "you can run but you can't hide."From the USDOJ comes news about a South Florida conman who fled the law for fifteen years, nabbed in Austria and brought...
View Article‘Virus politics’: Carlos Smith, government accountability group sue Ron...
Virus politics should not dictate what information is made available to citizens.'Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith has sued the Florida Department of Health and Surgeon General Dr. Scott Rivkees, citing...
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DeSantis Raises Money In N.J. On Sunday (New Jersey Globe)
Our pathetic, peripatetic, pathological Mini-Mussolini, Flori-DUH Governor RONALD DION DeSANTIS, was in New Jersey this past weekend with his bundlers and bagmen, raising money for a presumptuous race...
View ArticleGov. DeSantis snubs questions about New Jersey fundraising junket (By A.G....
The Governor won't comment on an out of state fundraising trip.In Jacksonville Monday, Gov. Ron DeSantis did not want to talk about his weekend activities in the Garden State as his own state struggles...
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How Florida condo associations wielded political power before the Surfside...
If elected to the Florida legislature, I would be a watchdog, as our Founders intended. Our Florida governments are lickspittles for developers, whose corruption killed people. From NBC News: How...
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FLORIDA COURT CLERK CORRUPTION -- UNITED STATES v. DONALD DONAGHER, JR. &...
Will federal corruption criminal defendants DONALD DONAGHER, JR. and PENN CREDIT CORP. provide evidence against St. Johns County Administrator HUNTER SINCLAIR CONRAD, "CLERK E" in the March 14, 2021...
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‘They Were Bullies’: Inside the Turbulent Origins of the Collapsed Florida...
Sound familiar? While St. Johns and Flagler Counties are not home to skyscrapers like the Champlain Tower, we in St. Johns County still have to find a resolution for "the bullies" -- the secretive...
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St. Johns County Young Republicans apparently bounced from Murray Brothers...
On September 14, 2021, 7 pm, the St. Johns County Young Republicans will hear Dull Republican Trump-loving Congressman JOHN HENRY RUTHERFORD speak at the Holiday Inn at World Golf Village. Apparently...
View ArticleRegina Ross hired as JEA chief legal adviser (Jax Daily Record)
Congratulations to attorney Regina Ross, Deputy St. Johns County Attorney, recently hired as the top legal adviser to troubled Jacksonville Energy Authority (JEA).After a long career working for St....
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September 2, 2021: Eleventh Anniversary of murder of Michelle O'Connell --...
Wake up, St. Johns County. JEREMY BANKS is still a St. Johns County Sheriff's Deputy, never having been taken before a grand jury to answer for homicide charges in the September 2, 2010 murder of his...
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Plea negotiations winding down in former St. Johns County contractor's...
Uanswered questions about HUNTER SINCLAIR CONRAD, referred to as "Clerk E" in 2019 criminal indictment. When did Commissioners learn of it? Was that why they arranged for CONRAD to become County...
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Former Jacksonville bishops failed to report sexual abuse allegations,...
Our Diocese of St. Augustine requires additional scrutiny from federal and state law enforcement. The recent guilty plea of the Diocese's corrupt, bribe-taking former Planning Director makes me sick...
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St. Augustine Diocese did not disclose priest was under investigation, AG’s...
Looking forward to more investigative reporting about powerful institutions in Northeast Florida, without fear or favor. Ask questions, demand answers, expect democracy. Here is some more good...
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Other People’s Rotten Jobs Are Bad for Them. And for You.
Happy Labor Day, America. We owe a duty to working people to change the rotten policies that leave people vulnerable to abusive working conditions in what the poet William Blake called "dark satanic...
View ArticleFormer Diocese of St. Augustine Planning Director Sentenced to Prison for...
Good work by U.S. Attorney's office prosecutors, FBI, IRS and Sheriff Robert Hardwick. Sentenced to 33 months in a federal prison, CHARLES JON DAVID. former Planning Director of the Roman Catholic...
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How many people have died of COVID-19 in your Florida community? State won’t...
Thanks to Florida State Representative Carlos Guillermo Smith and to public interest groups for suing over Florida's suppression of COVID-19 data. In the words of the late Senator Daniel Patrick...
View ArticleLabor Day 2021: Ed Slavin column on protecting American worker rights
Saint Thomas Aquinas preached the need for living wages and fair treatment of workers. The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights agrees, "Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of...
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Court of Appeals Again Upholds Food Not Bombs Right to Share Food in Ft....
The First Amendment has again been rescued from cruel maladministration by the City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Efforts to prevent sharing food with homeless people are wrong, illegal, and contrary...
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