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Saturday, March 3, 2018 Menorcan Heritage Celebration -- 241st Anniversary of...
Celebrate the epic history of some 700 Menorcans, Italians, Greeks, et al., who escaped British colonial "indentured servitude" (read: slavery by contract) tyranny and "voted with their feet,"...
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Freshman legislator FRANK HENRY WHITE Endorsed For Florida Attorney General...
Controversial St. Johns County Sheriff DAVID SHOAR has endorsed a 39-year old first-term state representative from Pensacola for Attorney General.Why it matters:FRANK HENRY WHITE is General Counsel and...
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FPL CORPORATE HOMICIDE? FPL was warned people would die at a sweltering...
This is the face of corporate homicide -- an investor-owned utility and a Governor who were warned that old people would die in a nursing home, which only needed an easy repair that could have saved...
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UNF POLL: SENATOR BILL NELSON LEADS FLORIDA GOVERNOR RICHARD LYNN SCOTT BY...
Florida U.S. Senator Bill Nelson is leading Gov. RICHARD LYNN SCOTT 48-42 in latest University of North Florida poll. Based on current committee assignments, IF the Democrats take the Senate and...
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Sinclair asks its news directors for political contributions (AXIOS)
Why this matters: Monopolistic, right-wing SINCLAIR controls Florida TV stations in Tallahassee, Gainesville, Tampa, West Palm Beach and Fort Pierce. SINCLAIR is a right-wing media powerhouse. Read...
View ArticleTampa Bay Times exclusive: Faulty jury instructions force do-overs in more...
Why this matters: Corporations that kill -- like FPL's killing Broward County) nursing home patients after Hurricane Irma -- must face manslaughter charges. Until the Florida Supreme Court corrected...
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Environmentalists suspicious of Gov. Scott's deal to block oil drilling off...
Why this matters: Secretary of the Interior RYAN ZINKE flew to Tallahassee for a media event with likely Republican Senate nominee, GOVERNOR RICHARD LYNN SCOTT. He emitted vague assurances and warm...
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Thanks to Gatlin Development Company CEO Frank Gatlin III and the headline...
Why this matters: Instead of creating city governments for 30,000 resident Nocatee, or other huge development, our St. Johns County Commission defer to developers to dictate development,...
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EPA ADMINISTRATOR SCOTT PRUITT'S LAVISH TRAVEL IS A BADGE OF FRAUD AND...
Washington Post investigative reporters have exposed EPA Administrator EDWARD SCOTT PRUITT's First Class travel and secrecy. Will PRUITT be fired or resign?First-class travel distinguishes Scott...
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Commission puts ‘nonessential’ programs under microscope (SAR)
Thanks to Mayor Nancy Shaver's leadership, the county is now talking about data-based decisions. It's about time. But watching St. Johns County Administrator MICHAEL DAVID WANCHICK try to introduce...
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Sidewalks! What a novel idea for U.S. 1 in corrupt St. Johns County! (SAR)
Why this matters: Pedestrian and bicyclist lives matter. As elsewhere, FDOT and St. Johns County burghers long ignored the need for sidewalks. Environmental racism? Deep insensitivity to human...
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President* TRUMP Shows the Way -- How NOT to Be President
Evocative column by Maureen Dowd in The New York Times. Trump Shows Us the WayBy Maureen DowdThe New York TimesFebruary 11, 2018Hope Hicks, who was dating her disgraced colleague Rob Porter, consults...
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Lincolnville resident Warren Clark named "Green Hero"
Lincolnville resident Rev. Dr. Warren Clark was named a "Green Hero" by the Northeast Florida Green Building Council February 8th. Rev. Dr. Clark is the co-founder of our St. Johns Solar Cooperative....
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Carl Halbirt, St. Augustine City Archaeologist, 1990-2017, Receives La...
Viva Carl Halbert, our City of St. Augustine's first City Archaeologist, 1990-2017! He documented our City's buried treasures.St. Augustine City Hall's Alcazar Room was full of archaeologists,...
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The "IRON FIST" AND "THE IRON HEEL" OF ST. AUGUSTINE BEACH
Is the City of St. Augustine Beach being run by an "IRON HEEL" of a somnambulistic longtime City "Manager" who stayed too long, like The Man Who Came to Dinner?"Controversial City of St. Augustine...
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First U.S. St. Patrick’s celebration held in St. Augustine, Florida in 1600...
Dr. Michael Francis's research has proved St. Augustine beat New York City by 162 years in celebrating St. Patrick's Day. Celtic Canada reports that Carl Halbirt, recently honored ed City of St....
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Can governments restrict public comment rights? NOPE. (SLPC)
From Southern Poverty Law Center:Legal Analysis: Can school boards restrict public comments?By Frank LoMonte | Published 02/21/17 4:41pm | Email | Print | Reprint this storyWhen Dean Paterakis...
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Local newspaper now edited and printed elsewhere
Why this matters:Our democracy is at risk when they censor the news at the source. Outsourcing of editing by American newspapers has included outsourcing to editors in India. Our local newspaper, The...
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STEVE COTTRELL column: Contextualization committee aims for balance
Historian Susan Parker speaks during the City of St. Augustine Confederate Memorial Contextualization Advisory Committee’s first meeting on Wednesday at City Hall. [CHRISTINA KELSO/THE RECORD]STEVE...
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$40 million worth of land in southern St. Johns County recently acquired from...
$40 million worth of land in southern St. Johns County recently acquired from RayonierBy Stuart KorfhagePosted Feb 14, 2018 at 2:01 AMSt. Augustine RecordA company called First Coast Land and Timber...
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