Civil rights historian David Nolan to speak on St. Augustine Movement,...
Come hear our friend David Nolan speak about the history made in St. Augustine, when local residents led by Dr. Robert B. Haying, D.D.S. and national leaders including Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr....
View ArticleReport: Florida still the most dangerous state for pedestrians. (Tampa Bay...
How many people have died in St. Johns County because FDOT and County Administrator don't give a fig about pedestrians or bicyclists? Streets and highways built without consideration to pedestrian and...
View ArticleHow anonymous tweets helped ignite a national controversy over MAGA-hat...
We've all been played by Russian disinformation goons seeking to divide Americans. Case in point: St. Augustine Confederate monument debate, which was stirred up to divide and conquer us.Commencing...
View ArticleThe most conservative Florida Supreme Court in decades (Sun Sentinel Editorial)
This is what happens when demagoguery combines with effrontery, electing a Boy Governor who knows little about law that was not spouted at Federalist Society meetings, supposing that a McGuireWoods...
View ArticleAlleged rape victim sues U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee for retaliation, Rep....
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee was elected our Congresswoman from Houston in 1994, and I reckon I voted for her. Rep. Lee is being sued now by a "Jane Doe" client represented by my fellow Government...
View ArticleRussell Baker, R.I.P. -- Pulitzer-Winning Times Columnist and Humorist, Dies...
I never met Russell Baker, but read his column, three times a week, starting as a junior high school student. He and Tom Wicker personified what a newspaper columnist should be -- erudite, factual,...
View ArticleClimate Changed: Corporate America Is Getting Ready to Monetize Climate...
CORPORATE AMERICA created this problem. Our love affair with the automobile, air pollution and the internal combustion engine helped, but Big Oil and Big Coal and the electric power industry's...
View ArticleCouple prepping for 'fall of U.S. government' accused of swindling $5 million...
This tobacco company only took a year to figure out it had been embezzled from by its accountant. In sharp contrast, our joke of a St. Johns County Sheriff, DAVID SHOAR, took five (5) years to figure...
View ArticleQuotations from Russell Baker, 1925-2019. (Wikiquote)
Russell BakerJump to navigationJump to searchRussell Baker (August 14, 1925 – January 21, 2019) was an American writer best known as a newspaper columnist and author of memoirs on his life and times....
View Article2018 was the fourth warmest year on record -- and more evidence of a ‘new...
Irrefragable. Global warming and global ocean level rise exist, and are a clear and present danger to our history, future and nature in St. Augustine and St. Johns County, Florida. Three cheers for...
View ArticleJohn Regan, expert on black holes
No, not John Patrick Regan, P.E. Not our City of St. Augustine City Manager, who recently proposed spending $500,000+ on a piece of swamp land without data or policy support. These are articles on...
View ArticleTampa Bay Times political editor to join Mercury PR firm. (POLITICO, Daily...
One of two firms hired by convicted fraudfeasor PAUL MANAFORT, TRUMP's campaign manager, MERCURY represents foreign clients, has some 21 offices worldwide, and is a subsidiary of FLEISCHMAN HILLARD,...
View ArticleTurning the Toxic Tide: Florida must reinvent the way it manages growth. (USA...
Our rights to fight toxic pollution start with growth management. Growth management laws were decimated under Governor RICHARD LYNN SCOTT, but are fixin' to be restored under Governor RONALD DION...
View ArticleFlorida has a serious problem with right-wing extremists. (Orlando Weekly)
My late friend and mentor, KKK-infilitrating Florida civil rights hero Wm. Stetson Kennedy told me that every single KKK member in St. Johns County became a Republican. President DONALD JOHN TRUMP...
View ArticleKARMA: Florida official resigns after blackface photos emerge of him dressed...
Update: St. Augustine Record buried this story on page A3, unadorned by blackface photos.Sometimes KARMA strikes fast, and furiously: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis saw the 2005 blackface photos of...
View ArticleFlorida Secretary of State Michael Ertel blackface firing illustrates...
Governor Ron DeSantis rightly fired Florida's Secretary of State Michael Ertel this afternoon, January 24, 2019, for wearing blackface, in drag, portraying a Hurricane Katrina victim.Blackface ceased...
View ArticleI LOVE IRONY -- HERE'S A ROSE BETWEEN TWO THORNS -- St. Augustine's Own "Iron...
Mayor Nancy Shaver, center, earlier tonight at St. Augustine Art Association, between ex-Mayors LEN WEEKS and JOE BOLES, partners in no-bid below-market rate City lease exposed by this blog and Folio...
View ArticleY-12 workers produce unit for nuclear weapons ahead of schedule. (The Oak...
Disgusted by what GateHouse has done to the The St. Augustine Record, a/k/a The Mullet Wrapper (founded 1895 by Henry Flagler's frontman -- whose greedy grandson, landowner Pierre Thompson, destroyed...
View ArticleUnited States of America v. ROGER JASON STONE, JR. -- Video of FBI Felony...
The long arm of the law reached down into Ft. Lauderdale, Florida on Friday, January 25, 2019, arresting ROGER JASON STONE, JR. for seven federal crimes. Let justice be done though the heavens fall....
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