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Putnam hammers DeSantis for Koch support. (POLITICO)
Stripped of its diplomatic language, did Adam Putnam just call RONALD DEON DeSANTIS a Koch Brothers puppet, or in North Florida redneck peckerwood Trumpspeak, a "Koch sucker?"Putnam hammers DeSantis...
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This Is So Much Bigger Than Paul Manafort With Donald Trump’s former campaign...
Question for St. Johns County officials: The Atlantic reports: "America has become the sanctuary of choice for laundered money, a bastion of shell companies and anonymously purchased real estate." When...
View ArticleFormer FEMA personnel chief denies atmosphere of widespread sexual harassment...
Hiring women as possible sexual partners for male employees? Hiring friends, cronies and fraternity brothers? Alleged prohibited personnel practices at the Federal Emergency Management Agency under...
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Lewis v. Alabama -- Home Rule Wins on Living Wage Ordinance Challenge
Here's the landmark federal appeals court decision in Marnika Lewis v. Alabama, upholding home rule principles and remanding for civil rights trial. The City of Birmingham enacted a $10.10 minimum wage...
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Minimum wages are rising. Pay for experienced retail workers is not. (WaPo)
"Hire them young and hire them cheap" said Levi Strauss heir Daniel Koshland, then-AAAS President and Publisher of SCIENCE Magazine in 1991. Corporate America has suppressed unions, suppressed wages,...
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Blame long line of politicians for Florida’s recurring algae crisis (Fred...
Addicted to Big Sugar campaign contributions, Florida politicians have helped cause or exacerbate an envirnmental crisis with pubilc health consequences. Here's Fred Grimm's column from the Ft....
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How slave labor built the state of Florida — decades after the Civil War (WaPo)
The Washington Post exposes Henry Flagler's copious use of slave labor to build the Florida East Coast Railway, and the State of Florida as we know it.East Tennessee coal miners rebelled against...
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JUDICIAL SEXISM EXPOSED: 5th Circuit criticizes federal judge for alleged...
Houston federal judge Lynn Nettleton Hughes was reversed for an order dismissing adoption fraud indictment after making sexist remarks about woman prosecutor.Judge Hughes said of federal prosecutors,...
View ArticleGive Florida back its open beaches | Opinion. (Tallahassee Democrat column)
St. Johns and Volusia Counties are the only two Florida counties that enacted valid beach access ordinances. Thanks to wise legal advice, both counties got this right before the legislature and...
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A ‘Rainbow Wave?’ 2018 Has More L.G.B.T. Candidates Than Ever. (NY Times)
Our Founders believed that the answer to speech was more speech. The answer to haters and hatred is more GLBTQIA+ candidates. We've made so much progress since Stonewall. Support and encourage good,...
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Commentary: Florida's great green algae disaster — we asked for it ... us and...
Governor RICHARD LYNN SCOTT is guilty, guilty, guilty -- catering to Big Business, abolishing the Department of Community Affairs and spaying and neutering the Department of Environmental Protection...
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Lincolnville Museum Director Ms. Regina Gayle Phillips on National Public...
HISTORYNew Context For Confederate MemorialsLISTEN· 5:345:34QUEUEDOWNLOADEMBEDFacebookTwitterFlipboardEmailAugust 5, 20188:29 AM ETHeard on Weekend Edition SundayRegina Phillips, director of the...
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Will D.R. HORTON pull its PUD on Fish Island destruction for gated community?
Will D.R. HORTON (number 211 on the 2018 Fortune 500) pull its Fish Island Planned Unit Development application at the August 7, 2018 City of St. Augustine Planning and Zoning Board meeting?Or will St....
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"This Land Is Your Land," Words and Music by Woody Guthrie © Copyright 1956...
Looking forward to the Fish Island PUD hearing August 7, 2018 at 2 pm at St. Augustine City Hall, 75 King Street, St. Augustine, Florida.My late friend and mentor, Wm. Stetson Kennedy, was a close...
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CRAB CAKES or CRAB FAKES?: An unsavory scam? Company accused of diluting...
Criminal conduct by crab meat sellers alleged in federal court. How many seafood dinners are counterfeit? We need more consumer protection law enforcement under the Lacey Act .An unsavory scam?...
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Corruption issue center stage in 2018 midterm elections: Georgetown...
OpinionsForget left and right. This is what will determine the midterms.President Trump at a rally on Saturday in Lewis Center, Ohio. (John Minchillo/AP)By E.J. Dionne Jr.ColumnistAugust 5 at 7:02...
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In expensive cities, rents fall for the rich — but rise for the poor (WsPo)
Divorce attorney SUSAN BURK, former City Commissioner and Vice Mayor, once expressed the desire to turn St. Augustine into Boca Ratón. This unthinking ukase is coming true as the City of St. Augustine...
View ArticleTrump claims California wildfires "made so much worse" by environmental laws...
Once again, TRUMP is WRONG. No scientific evidence supports his latest extremist statement. Scientific evidence suggests that the devastating wildfires are related to global climate change, global...
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Opposing Living Wage, GANNETT's "Tallahassee Democrat" newspaper prints...
The misnamed Tallahassee Democrat printed propaganda against Living Wage laws from some hobbledehoy in the employ of something called the "Economic Policies Institute," which is part of a PR firm....
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Florida East Coast Railway converts locomotive fleet to LNG (Railway Age)
How cool is that! I did not know until today. Odd that we did not read about this in any local newspapers here in St. Augustine, Florida long the HQ of FECR. November 13, 2017 Florida East Coast...
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