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City of St. Augustine Lacks Basic Internal Controls, Needs Inspector General...
When will they ever learn? Thanks to City of St. Augustine, Florida Audit Committee Chair Todd David Neville, C.P.A., for asking questions and demanding answers about dozens of accounting errors in...
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USAHS NEGLIGENT MISREPRESENTATION CASE MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR JURY VERDICT...
St. Johns County Circuit Court Judge R. Lee Smith is ordering the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences, Inc. to pay damages. Judge Smith has upheld November 21, 2019 jury verdicts before...
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David Nolan Will Be Honored April 22, 2019 With Adelaide Sanchez Award
Recognizing 42 years of historic preservation work here, historian David Nolan will receive the Adelaide Sanchez award at 4 pm, before the 5 pm City Commission meeting on Monday, April 22, 2019.David...
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Easter Parade Revived on Saturday, But A Few Chauvinists Appalled
The long-declining St. Augustine Easter Parade was held today. -- attendance was up and for the first time in four years there was a marching band. Organizers reasonably changed the day of the parade...
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"THE FIXER IS IN" -- JERRY THOMAS CAMERON a/k/a "CONMAN" HIRED AS PERMANENT...
From FlaglerLive.com, comes word that controversial former Assistant St. Johns County Administrator JERRY THOMAS CAMERON has been hired permanently as Flagler County Administrator. CAMERON a/k/a...
View ArticleRecord letter opposes metastatic growth in St. Johns County, Florida
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: April 18, 2019Posted Apr 18, 2019 at 2:01 AM What city are you in?I read the letter from Kay Miller regarding the growth in St. Augustine. She stated that the current Planning and...
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St. Johns County was eighth-fastest growing county in US last year. (SAR)
Faster than a speeding dump truck, our St. Johns County quality of life is being destroyed by greedy developers, foreign investors, corporate lawyers and craven public officials. With no lobbyist...
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MATT ARMSTRONG's STRONGARM TACTICS -- Unscholarly UF Schoolmarm Tries to...
Within one hour of my posting on a Facebook page, Historic St. Augustine, University of Florida Historic St. Augustine enforcer MATTHEW ARMSTRONG tried to silence me from discussing corruption in St....
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District teachers made $2,500 less than state average last year while many...
The highest per capita income county in Florida underpays its high-achieving teachers and overpays its administrators. "This is a {disgrace to the human race," as Jimmy Carter once said of tax laws....
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Defending St. Augustine's History -- ALL of It!
154 years after the Civil War, Confederate memorial/monument discussion divides St. Augustine. Our Castillo (then Fort Marion) peacefully changed hands twice, with no bloodshed. An outgunned U.S. Army...
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TAX FRAUD?: ST. AUGUSTINE COMMISSIONER JOHN OTHA VALDES FACES HOMESTEAD...
St. Augustine City Commissioner JOHN OTHA VALDES is under investigation by the St. Johns County Property Appraiser for possible homestead tax fraud concerning the $139/night AirBnB rental of "THE TREE...
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PLAGIARISM?: St. Johns County Board of Realtors Weekly Column by VICTOR...
I've written VICTOR RAYMOS, St. Johns County Board of Realtors Association Executive and CEO, and St. Augustine Record Editor Craig Richardson, re: RAYMOS' apparent overt weekly acts of plagiarism in...
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City of St. Augustine gets independent audit committee
After more than 453 years, the City of St. Augustine is getting an Audit Committee comprised of a majority of "outsiders," e.g., non-employees.The stunning development took place not under reform Mayor...
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Homestead exemption fraud audit of 70,000 properties to proceed with vigor in...
Thanks to Property Appraiser Eddie Creamer on his work to make rich guys pay their damn taxes. It is expected that the homestead audit will uncover lots of avoided and evaded ad valorem property taxes,...
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$3 MILLION FOR-PROFIT EDUCATION FRAUD VERDICTS UPHELD: SIX MULTIMILLION...
On April 22, 2019, St. Johns County Circuit Court Judge R. Lee Smith ordered the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences, Inc. to pay some $2,598,268.30 in damages to six former students foe...
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EMBASSY SUITES LOSES APPEAL ON SPLASH PARK: City of St. Augustine Beach...
Three cheers for the City of St. Augustine Beach, Florida for defeating EMBASSY SUITES, HILTON and KEY INTERNATIONAL in their appeal of the City's ruling on its proposed splash park.Circuit Court Judge...
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COURT RULES AGAINST EMBASSY SUITES WATER SLIDE PARK -- IN HAEC VERBA: Circuit...
Here is the full text of the order by Judge R. Lee Smith, denying any relief to the developer of the St. Augustine Beach Embassy Suites hotel, which demanded to add an ugly "multicolored monstrosity"...
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"The Appeasement of Donald Trump," by Andrew Sullivan (New York Magazine)
In the words of the late Ernest Warren LeFever, "Appeasement is always wrong."Quo vobis videtor? (What do y'all reckon?). My favorite line in the Mueller report is when DONALD JOHN TRUMP notices White...
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ANOTHER PUBLIC INTEREST VICTORY; St. Augustine Confederate Memorial Now...
The City of St. Augustine City Commission and its Confederate Monument Contextualization Advisory Committee did the right thing -- contextualizing (not removing) the Ladies Memorial Association's...
View ArticlePOPE’S VIEW: Resolve to be a citizen activist for quality of life (SAR)
Former St. Augustine Record Editorial Page Editor Margo Pope's Christmas column on citizen participation in government. It made the difference in two public interest victories that we celebrated this...
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