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ED SLAVIN'S ST. AUGUSTINE (Folio Weekly)
From this week's Folio Weekly Magazine, my nominations for the best and worst of St. Augustine and St. Johns County, Florida, including elected officials, lawyers, developers, non-profits. What do you...
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The War on Cars Is Real, and It's Being Led by Cities: Congestion pricing is...
Car and Driver features editor Jeff Sabatini should come to St. Augustine, Florida, where our Nation's Oldest City is smeared, bleared and teared by cars, a cut-through city being destroyed by too many...
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Michael Bloomberg awards St. Pete $2.5M to mitigate climate change. (Florida...
Wouldn't it be great if Michael Bloomberg made St. Augustine one of the cities awarded money to help mitigate climate change? With Mayor Nancy Shaver's leadership, I would not be one bit...
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Millions face delayed tax refunds, cuts to food stamps as White House...
Earlier today, President DONALD JOHN TRUMP predicted the government shutdown could go on for months, or years. His pestilential obsession on an obsolete technology is a testament to his inhumanity and...
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Forcing Sexual Harassment, Retaliation Victim To Quit: State Senate...
Florida State Senate General Counsel JEREMIAH HAWKES, son of a controversial former appellate judge and current lobbyist, negotiated a $900,000 settlement with Senate Appropriations Committee Chair...
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Government shutdown: Federal inmates feast on Cornish hens, steak as prison...
Good article in USA Today about how Florida federal prison inmates ate steak and Cornish hens for holiday dinners, while their federal prison guards go unpaid due to President Trump's government...
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Beach commission to hear proposed parking plan — some residents resisting (HCN)
I applaud the St. Augustine residents resisting the hare-brained scheme to let a giant corporation profiteer from first-ever charges for parking, using a smartphone app. How much profit would PASSPORT...
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FLORIDA FIRE COLLEGE POLLUTES WELLS, DELAYS NOTIFYING NEIGHBORS. (Tampa Bay...
This is unconscionable, and what often happens when the polluter is a government or government contractor. In Oak Ridge, Tennessee, I won declassification of the world's largest mercury event, which...
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Witness list in sexual harassment retaliation case included top legislators,...
After the EEOC ordered a hearing, with seventeen witnesses listed, the Florida State Senate:Filed a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation against EEOC,Settled with harassment victim Rachel...
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SOLVING BEACH EROSION: Will St. Augustine Beach and St. Johns County Get a...
Dutch coastal engineers have come up with an elegant, cheaper, more natural way of replenishing sand on beaches. No giant bulldozers, huge pipes or safety hazards interfere with enjoyment of our...
View Article78 Environmental Rules on the Way Out Under Trump. (NY Times)
The most corrupt President ever -- far worse than the administrations of corrupt Republican Presidents Warren Gamaliel Harding, Richard Milhous Nixon, et al -- DONALD JOHN TRUMP is a clear and present...
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Will ADA-violating City Manager MAX ROYLE Get PASSPORT LABS, INC. Parking App...
Paid Parking Plan Illegal?: ADA is litigation likely to challenge St. Augustine Beach's PASSPORT LABS, INC. smartphone parking app scheme. NONE of the 300 paid parking spaces is set aside for free...
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DOES PASSPORT LABS, INC. "CONFIDENTIAL" CONTRACT VIOLATE FLORIDA OPEN RECORDS...
Yes, it does. Controversial longtime St. Augustine Beach City Manager BRUCE MAX ROYLE is violating Florida Open Records laws again.Florida Statute 119.0701 requires government records provision in...
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Fraudfeasing client-cheating ex-prosecutor CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM ADAMEC...
Ex-prosecutor was sentenced for stealing money from tort victims and insurance company on January 9, 2019: CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM ADAMEC -- 22 months in prison and ten years probation and restitution to...
View ArticleFish Island Ditch Delayed, Party House Rezoning Denied (SAR)
Good news. I am impressed with our current St. Augustine Planning and Zoning Board, which has shown remarkably good judgment in rejecting unlawful, unwise zoning requests by developers.We're preserving...
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DeSantis names Supreme Court pick and considers yanking Scott's last-minute...
Congratulations to new Florida Governor RON DeSANTIS for reconsidering last-minute appointments and working to reverse eight years of environmental law desuetude.Why did outgoing Governor RICHARD LYNN...
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Judge: Gov. Rick Scott violated embattled Broward County election...
The Governor's powers to suspend local officials under Article IV, Section 7 of our Florida Constitution is limited by the requirement for due process and a right to be heard. Another righteous ruling...
View ArticleCommissioners REJECT PASSPORT LABS, INC. "Confidential" Contract for parking...
Our St. Augustine Beach neighbors filled City Hall January 8th and won victory over the dodgy proposed PASSPORT LABS, INC. "Confidential" contract to provide, at 35 cent "convenience fee" per parking...
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Post office to be named for black postmaster who was lynched in 1898 --...
It happened in America, on February 22, 1898. An African-American postmaster, Frazier B. Baker, was lynched by racists after he declined to resign the job he was appointed to by President William...
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Gibson Dunn, Reporters Committee Ask Courts to Unseal Records in Apparent...
Prediction: Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press will win this motion to unseal the files on the foreign government controlled corporation's lawsuit. "Justice may not be done in a corner, nor...
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