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Carrie Johnson, R.I.P. (By Ed Slavin, David Nolan, First Coast News, St....
Christmas won't be the same without her. Lincolnville won't be the same without her. I miss her already. Her "soul fire," as Andrew Young would call it, was contagious. In the early 1990s -- at a...
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SEASIDE VILLAS IN ST. AUGUSTINE BEACH -- BIG FINE$ COMING OVER BIG CODE...
A California corporation owned by DEEPAK ISRANI (above), and the current employer of Commissioner and ex-Mayor RICHARD BURTT O'BRIEN (STEVEN CUPOLO, above in top photo at right, above with his...
View ArticleSt. Augustine City Commission holding mobility workshop Tuesday, December 4,...
November 29, 2018City Commission to hold mobility workshopDiscussion includes presentation of the Vehicle for Hire Study and update on upcoming King Street Complete Street Master Plan On Tuesday,...
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Poll: Majority of Republicans break with Trump on climate change. (Earth.com)
We in the "reality-based community"welcome the majority of Republicans to the ineluctable truth of climate change. As Governor RICHARD LYNN SCOTT once said, "Let's get to work."With the inauguration...
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$2.7 Million Verdict Buried on Page 3 -- University of St. Augustine for...
After midnight on November 21, 2018, a St. Johns County jury returned a huge jury verdict against University of St. Augustine for six students victimized by negligent misrepresentations about an...
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Miami judge rules red-light cameras break state law. Will it help you beat...
Good news. Righteous ruling. Here in St. Augustine Beach, red light cameras were proposed by City Hall burghers, led by SABPD Chief Robert Hardwick, who had police chiefs from other jurisdictions come...
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How a future Trump Cabinet member gave a serial sex abuser the deal of a...
It happened in South Florida. ALEXANDER ACOSTA, then United States Attorney, now Secretary of Labor, our next Attorney General? We're grateful for dogged investigative reporting of the Miami Herald:How...
View ArticleFlorida Is Second Highest State in Uninsured Children -- Number of uninsured...
Put up or shut up, "pro-life" Florida. Florida is just ahead of Texas: we're the state that is second-highest in numbers of uninsured children. Ex-Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) rightly said: “The Moral...
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Walgreens and CVS are the latest targets in Pam Bondi’s opioid lawsuit....
Damning allegations about opioid selling by the two-firm oligopoly drug store chains in Florida. Departing Attorney General Pamela Jo Bondi, perhaps wishing to burnish her resume to be United States...
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In wake of Sheriff's office embezzlement, Clerk of Court and Comptroller...
At the Tuesday, December 4, 2018 County Commission meeting, Clerk of Courts and Comptroller HUNTER S. CONRAD is set to make a presentation on financial controls and checks and balances. It's agenda...
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Nikki Fried announces full transition team, job openings on new website:...
Wonderful news. Democrat Nikki Fried's inauguration means there's a Democrat in the Cabinet, to protect consumers and the environment. She's one of four votes in the Board of the Florida Internal...
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The NRA should not dictate who licenses concealed weapons. (Sun Sentinel...
Marion Hammer and the NRA have bossed and bullied Tallahassee legislators for long enough. Prediction: Nikki Fried will triumph over this tedious tendentious termagant.The NRA should not dictate who...
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Carl Hiaasen's "Memo to Donald Trump’s gut: Shut up. Just. Shut. Up." (Miami...
For DAVID SHOAR, the DONALD JOHN TRUMP-loving corrupt conman Sheriff of St. Johns County and his henchmen, and the mendacious members of the St. Johns County Republican Executive Committee and its...
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Trump should be freaked out right about now (WaPo)
I love Jennifer Rubin. In her Washington Post opinion column, she concludes: "Cohen is helping Mueller to tie Trump — financially, personally, politically — to the highest levels of the Russian...
View ArticleTRUMP ADMINISTRATION ACCUSED OF 'RAMPANT' ETHICS ABUSES AFTER 6 MORE...
Once again, the independent Office of Special Counsel has found Hatch Act violations by federal employees working for DONALD JOHN TRUMP. Tete cheesy unjust stewards are making America "grate"...
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Trump’s Lawyer Discussed Business Deal With Putin’s Office -- That's...
Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller, III and his staff are national heroes. Enough of TRUMP. This traitor was in negotiations for a lucrative business deal, and planned to offer a BRIBE, a $50...
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Trump Admits He “Lightly Looked” at Developing a Russian Building Project...
For our Republican friends. Hoping they repent of their misguided, uncritical support for DONALD JOHN TRUMP, who lied to them about business deals being negotiated with VLADIMIR PUTIN at a time when...
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House Democrats to unveil political reform legislation as ‘H.R. 1’. (WaPo)
The Democrats' first bill in the 116th Congress, H.R. 1, will propose "public financing of elections, voting rights reforms and new ethics strictures for federal officials."House Democrats to unveil...
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Trump admin approves seismic airgun surveys for Atlantic drilling. (WaPo/...
After reading this article, I wrote our Mayors and City and County Commissioners:Sent: Fri, Nov 30, 2018 5:34 pmSubject: URGENT: Trump admin approves seismic surveys for Atlantic drilling.Dear Mayors...
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George Herbert Walker Bush, R.I.P.
Thanks to Mississippi Clarion Ledger editorial cartoonist Marshall Ramsey, for capturing the mood of George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Bush. From The Washington Post and Mississippi Clarion...
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