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DeSantis defends Christina Pushaw after report of her registering as foreign...
Florida Governor's PR flak never registered as a foreign agent for her work for the country of Georgia 2018-2020. She's just registered belatedly under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, the law that...
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DeSantis spokeswoman belatedly registers as agent of foreign politician. (WaPo)
Governor DeSANTIS's ethically-challenged spokeswoman, CHRISTINA PUSHAW, sent him a fan letter and he hired her. Now we learn she was a Foreign Agent. CHRISTINA PUSHAW belated registered with the U.S....
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f COVID deaths early in the pandemic, had incomplete info on cases, auditor...
Florida missed more than 3000 deaths. We in the reality-based community are appalled at DeSANTIS's mismanagement, incompetence, insolence and arrogance. From Palm Beach Post:Florida missed 17% of...
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(Not) showing us the money: How Florida makes a merry-go-round of campaign...
Florida legalized big money PACs in 2013.This is empowering shady characters to buy elections. This stinks on ice. Who can trust any of Flori-DUH's Dull Republican political prostitutes?Who will tell...
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Gannett is scuttling daily editorial pages at its regional papers. (Poynter...
Monopolistic GANNETT lied to St. Augustine Record readers last year -- stating that daily editorials and letters to the editor would be restored once a replacement for Opinion Editor Krys Fluker was...
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‘Those are his people’: Nikki Fried links Ron DeSantis to Jan. 6...
RONALD DION DeSANTIS is suppported by a basket of deplorables. Thank you, Secretary Nikki Fried, for speaking truth to the bogus Boy Governor. From Florida Politics:‘Those are his people’: Nikki Fried...
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'For everything there is a season' | Steve Cottrell. (SAR)
GANNETT bean-counters planning to restore our daily Opinion page, with letters to the editor and columns? If so, good news. On another subject, glad that Steve Cottrell is back, Also, delighted that...
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RETROPOLIS A 1955 book on right-wing extremists predicted the Jan. 6 attack....
From The Washington Post:RETROPOLISA 1955 book on right-wing extremists predicted the Jan. 6 attackBy Theo ZenouJune 11, 2022 at 7:00 a.m. EDTRoughly 12,000 supporters of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy...
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Gov. DeSantis says Jan. 6 a ‘dead horse’ and a loser with voters. (By A.G....
Does feckless Florida Governor Ron Desantis need a checkup from the neck up?Is our unctuous, unpatriotic authoritarian Governor an insurrectionist sympathizer? You tell me.From Florida Politics:Gov....
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Mark Shields, TV Pundit Known for His Sharp Wit, Dies at 85. (NYTimes)
Mark Shields was a great American, whose first jobs were with Democratic U.S. Senators William Proxmire (Wisc.) and Robert Kennedy (N.Y.), two of my heroes. Mark Shields' decency, insights and persona...
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Republican Drive to Tilt Courts Against Climate Action Reaches a Crucial...
Good article on coming distractions from environmental protection and global climate change. Corporations and their hired hand Attorneys General are a disgrace to the human race. Caveat: I don't...
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Guest column: Don't overlook economic development benefits of providing...
Greedy corporations are pricing working people out of affordable housing in St. Augustine. Thoughtful column from St. Augustine Record: Guest column: Don't overlook economic development benefits of...
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Motivated ignorance” is ruining our political discourse (Brian Renick, from Vox)
Listening to people. It's what we do around here. But elsewhere, too many people have stopped listening to people who disagree with them. They drop putative friends and relatives for disagreeing. They...
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Ignoring the Jan. 6 hearings? Michael Luttig explains why you shouldn’t. (WaPo)
Radical insurrectionist Flori-DUH Governor RONALD DION DeSANTIS wants us to ignore 1/6/. Retired conservative appellate judge J. Michael Luttig testified about why 1/6 matters.We need serious people to...
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103,222 Registered Voters Disenfranchised: Phantom Write-ins qualifiy for...
Who are GRAHAM KELLAR McGEE (District 2) and MICHAEL C. LANZA (District 4)?Two Phantom Write-in candidates have disenfranchised 103,222 St. Johns County residents: 50,339 Democrats and 52,883 No Party...
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Roger van Ghent, R.I.P.
Our 2004 Democratic candidate for St. Johns County Commission, Roger van Ghent, has died. Mr. van Ghent was an effective advocate for conservation and land acquisition. He was a proud Democrat. He...
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Reflections on Juneteenth: Black civil rights and the influence of...
Thoughtful article from GANNETT's Palm Beach Post. Thanks to local celebrations of St. Augustine's African-American history, I attended my first Juneteenth celebration in West Augustine, circa...
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Celebrate Juneteenth in St. Augustine with music, history and more. (SAR)
Thanks to St. Augustine City Commission for working to make up for our City's Establishment and its long history of racism, including former Mayors and legislators who were Dixiecrat Jim Crow...
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Donald Trump: ‘I was very responsible for Ron DeSantis getting elected’....
Thank you for reminding us of the etiology of the DeSANTIS toxin in Florida politics.Is RONALD DION DeSANTIS showing signs of independence?Or is DONALD JOHN TRUMP's mini-me getting too big for his...
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Can Ron DeSantis Displace Donald Trump as the G.O.P.’s Combatant-in-Chief? A...
Good article and radio program by Dexter Filkins for The New Yorker: Can Ron DeSantis Displace Donald Trump as the G.O.P.’s Combatant-in-Chief?A fervent opponent of mask mandates and “woke” ideology,...
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