Gov. DeSantis says it’s ‘wrong’ for the feds to forgive student loan debt....
Is Florida Governor RONALD DION DeSANTIS once again showing his yapping, whiny, adenoidal, vicious, vacuous side? (It's the only side we've seen as Governor).Rebarbative RON DeSANTIS wants to be...
View ArticleTrevor Noah’s best burns at the White House correspondents’ dinner. (WaPo)
Trevor Noah's bon mots include several directed at Governor RONALD DION DeSANTIS, who began his political life as our adenoidal AWOL Congressman from St. Johns County, Florida, stiffing local elected...
View ArticleOwners of tiny homes across Florida are seeking peace with local governments....
"Zoning is Communism," said St. Johns County Commission candidate Johnny Coe Counts, a farmer from Cracker Swamp, at the April 26, 2022 second Growth Management workshop at the County Commission Taj...
View ArticleAnimal melting pot created by climate change could lead to new disease...
Every time a developer kills another forest with deforestation here in North Florida, the chances of another global pandemic increase.Shady, foreign-funded developers with undisclosed investors (some...
View ArticleGANNETT mismanagers get Four Pinnochios for snarky comment on good Gina...
Good Gina Burrell letter from last Sunday's Record, but gaslighting comment by GANNETT is insulting. GANNETT broke its promise to its readers.On November 21, 2021, the Record's then editor wrote:...
View Article"Letters from an American": In the spring of 1890, Republicans were convinced...
Perceptive column by Professor Heather Cox Richardson!BY Boston College Professor HEATHER COX RICHARDSON, FROM SUBSTACKApril 30, 2022 (Saturday)In the spring of 1890, Republicans were convinced they...
View ArticleSpeakers at DeSantis event share vaccine misinformation “The vaccine changes...
The Governor doth protest too much bu admits a lot when he complains about the Biden Administration's concerns about disinfomration, saying it affects "people like us." From Tampa Bay Times:Speakers at...
View ArticleFlorida lost 70,000 people to Covid. It’s still not prepared for the next...
Public policy must be based on good science. Florida's COVID-19 policies leave much to be desired. Courageous St. Johns County Commissioner I. Henry Dean supported a mask mandate. In hindsight,...
View ArticleOpinion Surprise, surprise: Florida leads the nation in Jan. 6 defendants....
Good column by Washington Post contributing columnist Lizette Alvarez, former Miami Bureau Chief of The New York Times.Footnote: At St. Johns County Commission on November 1, 2011 -- the year before...
View Article1978: Consumer Protection Act bill defeated in Congress. (Mark Green,...
Mark Green's February 26, 1978 Washington Post article brings memories back re: 1978 when ACA was voted down. I was a nearly 21 year old consultant to the Consumer Federation of America. (My task...
View ArticleSILVERLEAF with 400 voters, gets its own precinct -- Developer is State...
St. Johns County Supervisor of Elections VICTORIA OAKES a/k/a "VICHY OAKES" withheld documents from County Commissioners and citizens alike on on what she called "my new voting precincts,: effective...
View ArticleColonial Jamestown, assailed by climate change, is facing disaster. Chronic...
"St. Augustine was already up for urban renewal," said the late University of Florida History Professor Michael Gannon, "when Jamestown was founded."For 1550 days, St Augustine had a splendid,...
View ArticleRecord prints SoE press release rather than report the news on new precincts
GANNETT's stinky, incredible shrinking St. Augustine Record does not do its homework. With no byline, its "staff report" is a re-write of St. Johns County Supervisor of Elections VICTORIA OAKES' press...
View ArticleSCIENCE Magazine: Wetland recovery urgently required to sequester carbon?...
The scientific proof is irrefragable, as established at Flagler College in 2016 at the fourth international scientific conference on mangroves and macrobethoes.From SCIENCE Magazine: REVIEWWETLAND...
View ArticleMarilyn Monroe v. Samuel Alito. (Maureen Dowd, NY Times Opinion columnist)
United States Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's leaked draft opinion in the Dobbs case from Mississippi has given us all lots to think about: the future of our Supreme Court, the influence of "dark...
View ArticleUF to change teachings on racism or risk $100M in funding due to 'Stop WOKE'...
Stop WOKE Act violating First, Ninth and Fourteenth Amendment rights of UF faculty? From Gainesville Sun: UF to change teachings on racism or risk $100M in funding due to 'Stop WOKE' billGershon...
View ArticleWHO IS "TIM FORSON," a/k/a "JAMES CHAMBERLAIN FORSON"?
"I'm done!" -- So saith St. Johns County School Superintendent to Gene Griffin and me upon our first taking the time to speak with him about environmental health hazards at SAHS, where the Wrestling...
View ArticleWhistleblowers Say EPA Endangers Public Health. (NPR, Living on Earth)
Good interview by Steve Curwood of Kyla Bennett, Public Employees for Professional Responsibility (PEER) lawyer for five EPA New Chemicals Division whistleblowers.From NPR:Whistleblowers Say EPA...
View ArticleFlorida Releases Reviews That Led to Rejection of Math Textbooks. (NY Times)
Deeply flawed process, a demagogic Boy Governor and ignorant ideologues -- a dangerous combination. From The New York Times:Florida Releases Reviews That Led to Rejection of Math TextbooksTo explain...
View ArticleCNN: Candidates Banning Reporters From Events
Scoop!CNN just discovered that Republican candidates hate reporters.Republican candidates seek to exclude the public's eyes and ears from candidate events. In Pennsylvania, they attempted to evict CNN...
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