Local newspapers have already been gutted. There’s nothing left to cut. The...
I agree with Steve Cavendish's column in The Washington Post. Corporate greed and hedge funds are a clear and present danger to journalism. Other than big daily newspapers like the Post and New York...
View ArticleSunken mastodon being excavated at Florida’s Wakulla Springs ( Panama City...
Archaeologists have been excavating another mastodon at Wakulla Springs, Florida, an extinct species ta reminds us that humankind has onky been around for a short time, and could likeswise become...
View ArticleMohammed bin Salman Is Running Saudi Arabia Like a Man Who Got Away With...
Did Donald Trump let MBS get away with murder, even as Rick Scott and Sheriff David Shoar let Deputy Jeremy Banks get away with murder in the September 2, 2010 Michelle O'Connell homicide?You tell...
View ArticleRyan Zinke told police a Post reporter caused a fracas at his house. Here’s...
Here's how Donald John Trump's inimitable immature il-informed first Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke behaved before he resigned. From The Washington Post:Climate and EnvironmentRyan Zinke told...
View ArticleThe Decline of Empathy and the Appeal of Right-Wing Politics Child psychology...
Michael Bader D.M.H.What Is He Thinking?The Decline of Empathy and the Appeal of Right-Wing PoliticsChild psychology can teach us about the current GOP.Posted Dec 25, 2016 SHARETWEETEMAILMORESource:...
View ArticleFormidable 2020 Sheriff Candidate Christopher Strickland
Impressed that 2020 St. Johns County Sheriff candidate Christopher Strickland:Promises to call FDLE when alleged deputy misconduct occurs, instead of self-investigating, as Sheriff DAVID SHOAR,...
View ArticleGov. DeSantis: Please request FBI investigation, suspend Sheriff David Shoar...
I have written to Governor Ron DeSantis and asked him to request an FBI investigation, suspend Sheriff David Shoar and order independent forensic audit and investigation of St. Johns County Sheriff's...
View ArticleFebruary 5, 1992
On this day in 1992, 27 years ago, The New York Times broke the story of my heroic environmental and nuclear whistleblower client, Charles D. "Bud" Varnadore, of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.Oak...
View ArticleBostonians Caught in Parking App Purgatory The city declined NBC10 Boston's...
As the City of St. Augustine Beach ponders but does not adopt a dodgy smartphone parking app scheme, Boston is coping with the continuing sequelae of BAIN CAPITAL's PASSPORT LABS, INC. scheme. From...
View ArticleBoston parking app overcharged thousands of customers Refunds given but...
Overcharges never researched by St. Augustine Beach City staff or St. Augustine Record. Oligopolistic PASSPORT LABS, INC. failed to show at the January 2019 St. Augustine beach City Commission meeting...
View ArticleThe Decline of Historical Thinking (Eric Alterman, The New Yorker)
It is especially annoying in Our Nation's Oldest City for someone to use the phrase, "that's ancient history" as a putdown, particularly when speaking of events that occurred only in this century....
View ArticleLongtime U.S. Rep. John Dingell, R.I.P.
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View ArticleTHOMAS ALVA EDISON honeymooned in St. Augustine, Florida, which is now a...
In 1886, a wise widower, 39-year old inventor THOMAS ALVA EDISON honeymooned with his bride Mina Mill, 20, here in St. Augustine, Florida. Frugal Edison et ux stayed at Standard Oil monopoly co-founder...
View ArticleWasteful Spending 101: City's 91-93 Coquina Land Purchase Requires Answers,...
Is HALF MILLION DOLLAR proposed City of St. Augustine land buy based on need -- or greed?You tell me. By 2030, 30% of the roads in St. Augustine could experience flooding 90 days each year. Should...
View ArticleRussian-Style Kleptocracy Is Infiltrating America--- When the U.S.S.R....
We must insist that St. Johns County and the Cities of St. Augustine and St. Augustine Beach each require the full disclosure of all beneficial owners and investors in all projects seeking approval. We...
View ArticleSenate Passes Extensive Public Lands Bill, Which Now Heads To House (National...
Exciting news. Now we can get the U.S. House of Representatives to add a National Park Service Study Amendment for proposed St. Augustine National Historical Park and National Seashore.From National...
View ArticleCity manager accused of more lies in Coquina land grab (Historic City News)
Join me February 25, 2019 in speaking out again against this latest example of corruption, fraud, waste, abuse, misfeasance, malfeasance, nonfeasance, flummery, dupery and nincompoopery in St....
View ArticleSpeak Out February 25, 2019 Against "Regan's Folly" -- It's Our Money.
SHAVER: Don’t compound a mistake by buying Coquina propertyBy Nancy Shaver / St. AugustinePosted at 2:01 AMSt. Augustine Record[On August 28, 2018, St. Augustine residents] elected me to a third term...
View ArticleI complained about this unfriendly discriminatory Galimore Center sign -- now...
Ask questions. Demand answers. Expect democracy. It's our town and our time. And our Community Center. Enough privatization of public fora.January 31, 2019:The mean-spirited, ugly sign is gone. One...
View ArticleSt. John Barrett, R.I.P.
Just found this online. As an undergraduate, I was honored to work for Mr. Barrett during 1980, as his antitrust paralegal working on an intriguing plaintiff's antitrust lawsuit against Amana...
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