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ATTEMPTED RUSSIAN HACKING OF ELECTIONS: MICHAEL ERTEL DOTH PROTEST TOO MUCH
From the website of Seminole County Supervisor of Elections MICHAEL ERTEL, nominated by Governor-elect RONALD DION DeSANTIS to be Florida's Secretary of State, with suzerainty over elections and...
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Gov.-elect DeSantis taps Seminole County SOE for Secretary of State (Tampa...
I recall that Seminole County Supervisor of Elections MICHAEL ERTEL was cruelly unfair with our 2008 Democratic Congressional candidate, economist Faye Armitage, falsely claiming she was two minutes...
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Dave Barry's 2018 Year in Review (WaPo)
Florida's best satirist strikes again. Happy New Year!Dave Barry’s Year in Review 2018You thought 2016 and 2017 were bad? Let’s look back at this past year.Story by Dave BarryIllustrated by Ryan...
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10 WHO MAKE A DIFFERENCE: Called a ‘national treasure,’ David Nolan helped...
From St. Augustine Record re: our heroic local historian of St. Augustine Movement civil rights and African-American history, DAVID NOLAN: 10 WHO MAKE A DIFFERENCE: Called a ‘national treasure,’ David...
View ArticlePush to rename Senate office building for McCain fizzles: 'We are left with a...
At age 17.5, as a freshman and sophomore at Georgetown University, my first government office was working Sen. Ted Kennedy's mailroom and main office in the Old Senate Office Building a/k/a "Old SOB,"...
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‘Exhibit A’: How McKinsey Got Entangled in a Bribery Case The consultancy’s...
Three-time Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times reporter Walter Bogdanich's latest article on McKinsey consulting company's blurred ethical lines and lawbreaking. This article involves a McKinsey...
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DR. KATHLEEN DEAGAN: 10 WHO MAKE A DIFFERENCE: For nearly 50 years, Kathleen...
Great article by Margo Pope, a retired St. Augustine Record editor, the President of the St. Augustine Historical Society, on Dr. Kathleen Deagan, Ph.D., the indefatigable archaeologist who has worked...
View ArticleAlachua County ends prison labor contract
From Gainesville Sun:County ends prison labor contractBy Sarah Nelson / Staff writerPosted Dec 13, 2018 at 6:35 PMUpdated Dec 13, 2018 at 6:35 PM A state DOC spokeswoman said prisoners are often glad...
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Right whale watchers rejoice as calf seen off Jacksonville coast. (SAR)
Delightful news. To protect endangered right whales and other cetaceans, we need to ban seismic drilling, ban offshore oil drilling, and adopt the St. Augustine National Historical Park and National...
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The perfect New Year’s resolution for 2019 was written 154 years ago. (WaPo)
An amazing performance of President Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address is portrayed at the end of Steven Spielberg's movie, Lincoln.Here's an epic, simple, understated editorial from The...
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It's 2019. What's next? Democracy is on the march here
The late William F. Buckley, Jr. once rather snidely quoted UN Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson's shopworn cliche: "Ladies and gentlemen, we have the future before us."We do, indeed.It's 2019. What's...
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DeSantis named 'Biggest Suck-up to Trump' of 2018 for ad 'building the wall'...
Quo vobis videtor?Florida's next Governor is in the tank for TRUMP, kookoo for TRUMP, slavishly, self-abasingly, laughing-all-the-way-to-the-Flori-DUH Governor's mansion for DONALD JOHN TRUMP.What a...
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Dr. DOROTHY ISRAEL, Ph.D.: 10 Who Make A Difference: New city meant new...
Last installment in St. Augustine Record's annual "10 Who Make A Difference," about Dr. Dorothy Israel. Cool Lady. Great profile by Margo Pope. We miss her writing in the Record and wish they would...
View Article“I swear to tell the truth:” Lawmaker files bill that would make lying in...
Great idea. Need it here locally in St. Johns County, for County Commission and City Commissions of City of St. Augustine and St. Augustine Beach. Every time I testified before Congress, I was sworn...
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CANCELLED -- Failed St. Augustine Mayor Candidate KRIS PHILLIPS' HATE RADIO...
Finis.Laura Ingraham’s radio show has ended. The world will be a better place without it.Unfortunately, Ingraham’s extremism will still be available on her new podcastBlog ››› December 28, 2018 8:29 AM...
View ArticleHeading into Congress, Michael Waltz urges bipartisan deal on shutdown....
I met Congressman-elect Waltz last month at St. Johns County Commission and spoke with him about the proposed St. Augustine National Historical Park and National Seashore. Looking forward to his...
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DeSantis administration taking shape, but vacancies remain (Gainesville...
Here's Florida's next Governor, RONALD DION DeSANTIS, b. September 14, 1978, sitting in the White House with President DONALD JOHN TRUMP. Note: Gov.-elect DeSANTIS has his nose in the air, in a...
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Probable cause hearing scheduled Jan. 25 for Andrew Gillum ethics case....
I wrote to Mayor Gillum and his lawyer, Barry Richard, this morning, requesting they request the Ethics Commission probable cause hearing be opened to the public. Here is the letter:Dear Mayor Gillum...
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New bill would ban smoking on Florida beaches. (Orlando Weekly)
I agree with California Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr., who vetoed similar Draconian legislation three years in a row, in 2016, 2017 and 2018. Four-term California Governor Jerry Brown was elected...
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Nonprofit staff and tour guides are keeping South Florida national parks...
Here in St. Augustine, our Nation's Oldest European-founded city, the interiors of the Castillo de San Marcos and Fort Matanzas remain CLOSED by edict of President DONALD JOHN TRUMP.The Castillo is our...
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