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George Bush, 41st President, Dies at 94 (NY Times)
As President George H.W. Bush said in signing the Americans with Disabilities Act, "“Let the shameful walls of exclusion finally come tumbling down.” President Reagan vetoed it, but Bush signed it....
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President George Herbert Walker Bush and Civil Rights
President George Herbert Walker Bush has died.In February, 1989, at the beginning of President George H.W. Bush's Presidency, I was in Denver for a midyear meeting of the American Bar Association,...
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Mueller’s targets seem to share a problem: They tell whoppers. (LA TIMES)
DJT's thuggery reminds me of Jimmy Breslin's books, The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, and How The Good Guys Finally Won (fiction about a mafia family and nonfiction about Watergate).DJT's thuggery...
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Trump borrows his rhetoric — and his view of power — from the mob. (WaPo)
TRUMP is a real estate developer with mafia connections. As my great grandmother would say, "He's typical of his type." The same type kind of developers who are building in swamps, destroying forests,...
View ArticleDespite existing pace, developers see county’s great potential (SAR)
Developer fanboy STUART KORFHAGE's latest puff piece -- partly based on an e-mail from a developer. Not even an interview. Sad.Pitiful puff piece (yawn) is unadorned by any data analysis or...
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We mourn George H.W. Bush, and the presidency’s loss of dignity, by Patti...
President Ronald Reagan's daughter compares and contrasts GHW Bush and DONALD JOHN TRUMP:"We might also want to mourn the loss of dignity that we have long associated with the office of the presidency...
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GUEST COLUMN: Time to tackle Red Cox Road traffic morass. (St. Augustine Record)
Unsafe for St. Augustine pedestrians, bicyclists, rickshaw drivers or automobile and truck drivers, the intersection of State Route A1A, Old Quarry Road and Red Cox Drive is unsafe at any speed. It...
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RECORD EDITORIAL: City sits down with FDOT on Anastasia intersection.
Traffic lights cost about $130,000. FDOT spends more on paper clips.What's FDOT's imputed value of a human life? Who makes these rules? Do they have the force and effect of law? We need more...
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Happy birthday, Shirley Chisholm. You’re getting a statue. (Associated Press)
Shirley Chisholm, first African-American woman member of Congress, retired to nearby Palm Coast in 1991, and lived there for some fourteen years, until she died in 2005. Perhaps NYC and Palm Coast...
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U.S. Representative-elect VINCENT ROSS SPANO acknowledges possible...
VINCENT ROSS SPANO, the Tampa Republican Congressman-elect from the 15th Congressional District, may have conspired with his friends to violate federal election laws. These are the same federal...
View ArticlePresident George H.W. Bush's Funeral Train (WaPo)
President Bush's funeral will end with a funeral train in Texas. How cool is that?My mother and I were two of the millions who watched U.S. Senator Robert Francis Kennedy's funeral train in June 1968....
View ArticleEditorial: Florida hurt by inaction on climate change (Gainesville Sun)
HIDE CAPTIONA hotel guest carries his shoes through a flooded street in Miami Beach. [AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File]By The Gainesville Sun editorial boardPosted Dec 2, 2018 at 2:01 AM Florida is on the...
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The Surprising Climate And Environmental Legacy Of President George H. W....
Like all good Republicans, the first President Bush believed in environmental stewardships. DONALD JOHN TRUMP stands out like a broken sore thumb among the history of Republican leaders since Lincoln...
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Sleeping in Meeting AGAIN: St. Augustine Beach City Manager BRUCE MAX ROYLE
City of St. Augustine Beach City Manager BRUCE MAX ROYLE was sleeping on the job -- again -- while Rose Bailey spoke at the December 3, 2018 City Commission meeting. Watch tape.Ms. Bailey, her...
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St. Augustine Beach Follies
At last night's St. Augustine Beach City Commission meeting, Mayor Undine Celeste Pawlowski George stated she had unilaterally removed from the agenda of the November meeting an item about the no-bid,...
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How George Bush Mellowed on Gay Rights. (NY Times)
Forgiveness is like a muscle -- if you don't exercise it, it atrophies. While President George H.W. Bush allowed himself to ally with some of the darker forces in American politics -- the Monster...
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Maureen Dowd Says Goodbye to President George H. W. Bush
Delightful story by Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd about her relationship with President George Herbert Walker Bush, 1988-2018. I love Maureen Dowd. Footnote: I hope that...
View ArticleVINCENT ROSS SPANO Scandal: Florida Dem chair says incoming GOP Congressman...
My mother told me that Big Business and Republicans never steal anything small. Boldly, this wannabe right-wing Republican Congress critter, VINCENT ROSS SPANO took some $167,000 in illegal campaign...
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ENVIRONMENT, AGRICULTURE: Governor-elect RONALD DION DeSANTIS NAMES 40 TO...
The list reminds me of a rotten mullet by moonlight -- it both shines and stinks. It shines with the wattage and intelligence of the appointees, but it stinks with the lack of visionaries and...
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DELTRA LONG: Esteemed Former St. Augustine PZB Vice Chair Pleads Guilty to...
In its 17-page plea agreement, USDOJ agrees not to object to probation or supervised release and mentions the possibility of "cooperation, if any" by Ms. Long being reported to other offices. Source:...
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