READ IT FOR YOURSELF: Florida Attorney General 2000 opinion re: County...
Advisory Legal Opinion - AGO 2000-06 Print VersionNumber: AGO 2000-06Date: January 27, 2000Subject: Expenditure of infrastructure surtax revenuesMr. James G. SiscoSt. Johns County AttorneyPost Office...
View ArticleArizona Court Says Pinal County Transportation Tax Invalid The Arizona...
Thanks to the Goldwater Institute's pro bono legal representation, the Arizona Supreme Court eariler this month rejected a voter-approved sales tax that exempted luxury purchases of more than. $10,000....
View ArticleFlorida Supreme Court finds Hillsborough County's transportation tax charter...
Florida Supreme Court overturned a Hillsborough County sales tax adopted by voters because of detailed spending instrutions that violated Florida Constitution. From WTSP: HILLSBOROUGH COUNTYFlorida...
View ArticleGov. Ron DeSantis rejects push for Florida to sell Russian investments. (NY...
Florida Governor RONALD DION DeSANTIS seems petrified of taking a stand on State of Florida's $300 million in Russian investments, and Russians' investments in Florida real estate. Wonder why? From NY...
View ArticleFlorida Avoids Voting on Divesting from Russian Companies. (Tampa Bay...
Other-directed Republicans dominating the Florida legislature won't vote on divesting our Russian investments. Read the list of Russian companies our Florida government funds are helping. From...
View ArticleAppeals court asks state tough questions on protest law. (Capitolist/News...
As expected, the 11th. Circuit Court of Appeals panel is looking skeptically at Florida's anti-protest law, which appears to be overbroad and thus unconstitutional. From Capitolist/News Service of...
View ArticleRobert Jason Alvarez Lifetime Achievement Award by ANA/NIRS
I attended today -- albeit with flawed video conferencing technology -- the lifetime achievement award for Robert Jason Alvarez today. I look forward to seeing the video.As a top U.S. Department of...
View ArticleSt. Johns County Commission vendor contracts will go online, County...
Kudos to St. Johns County Administrator Hunter Sinclair Conrad announcing, in response to public comment, at tbe March 15, 2022 Board of County Commissioners meeting, that all of our County vendor...
View ArticleSTATEMENT OF RICHARD B. ROSENTHAL, ESQ. on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson...
ELOQUENT SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE TESTIMONY by Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's high school classmate from Miami, Florida's Palmetto High School, lawyer Richard B. Rosenthal: STATEMENT OF RICHARD B....
View ArticleNebraska Rep. Jeff Fortenberry found guilty of lying to the FBI. (WaPo)
Despite the United Supreme Court's erroneous assumption about the corrupting power of money in politics in its Citizens United case, foreign dirty money is contaminating our politics. On March 24,...
View ArticleGinni Thomas Pressed Trump’s Chief of Staff to Overturn 2020 Vote, Texts...
Justice Clarence Thomas[s wife, VIRGINIA THOMAS, sent repeated hectoring text messages encouraging a coup to prevent President Biden from taking office. From New York Times: Ginni Thomas Pressed...
View ArticleDo Unions Still Work? (NPR Freakonomics transcript, March 9, 2022)
Both my parents were union organizers. Proud of their activism. Proud of American workers today, who are winning victory after victory against the forces of union-busting and intimidation.Anti-union...
View ArticleEEOC Filing Explodes RING POWER's "affirmative defense" to systemic race...
Read the January 2022 filing by U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which explodes the pretexts of race discrimination Defendant RING POWER, INC., founded by RANDALL L. RINGHAVER, who owns...
View ArticleNicole Crosby: No unconstitutional restriction on Soil and Water boards; veto...
Governor RON DeSANTIS's very first veto in 2019 was of HB 771, an unconstitutional bill passed by our legislature and sponsored by our nasty, conflicted corrupt local developer-Senator TRAVIS HUTSON,...
View ArticlePREVENTABLE DEATH at St. Augustine Airport -- 45 Minute Delay. NO 24/7...
Did Marianne Fox die a preventable death at St. Augustine Airport on March 2, 2022?You tell me.Ms. Sherry Badger and her son were witnesses to the crash, heard Ms. Fox cry for help for some 25 minutes,...
View ArticleCensure of Politician Did Not Violate First Amendment, Supreme Court Rules....
Good news for democracy. Unanimous ruling that collegial government bodies can censure members without violationg the First Amendment. Potential applications locally include: Bigoted County...
View ArticleGannett has sold 23 publications back to local owners It’s part of a larger...
Hoping some local St. Augustine residents will buy the incredible shrinking St. Augustine Record from the orotund oligarchs at oligopolistic GANNETT and restore local news. Check out the correction at...
View ArticleRevenues are still declining, but Gannett insists it is meeting its digital...
Looking forward to someone writing a definitive corporaate history of GANNETT, perhaps with a title as evocative as the Pennsylvania Railroad corporate history, Ride the Pennsy to Ruin. From Poynter...
View ArticleJournalists report working hundreds of hours of unpaid overtime at Gannett...
Thanks to the NewsGuild and Poynter Institute for revealing the exploitation of journalists not paid proper overtime, at newspapers like the Florida Times-Union and the incredible shrinking St....
View ArticleGannett’s Wisconsin newspapers will move printing to Central Illinois The...
Another sign of the decrepit mismanagers who run GANNETT. Not only is sports reporting delayed due to early deadlines at the St. Augustine Record, but news on government meetings and court filings is...
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