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Joe Mullins Steps Back From Harsher Homeless and Panhandling Rules After...
Our City's namesake, Saint Augustine, wrote that "an unjust law is no law at all."Assistant City Attorney John Cary found no takers for our Nation's Oldest City's unjust law in neighboring Flagler...
View ArticleGainesville City commissioners: Publix stifles plastic ban. (UF Independent...
Nervous nellies voted 4-2 to repeal a ban on plastic bags and polystyrene foam containers.Is the headline misleading?Is there any evidence Publix has taken a position on this issue?Gainesville...
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My Request for Forensic Audit of St. Johns County, Florida and Sheriff's...
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Reprobate JOHN RUTHERFORD Skewered on Lies by WJCT's Melissa Ross This Morning
An angry, out-of-touch Congressman JOHN RUTHERFORD (R-FL4) notoriously disgraced himself at 9:06 AM on the Jacksonville, Florida public radio station, showing himself to be a cognitive miser. Listen...
View ArticleSt. Johns County Commission denies marina near Palm Valley bridge. (SAR)
Coquina Law Group attorney James George Whitehouse did an excellent job, representing actual natural persons, instead of corporations. Great work marshaling the evidence.In public comment, I...
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St. Augustine Port, Waterway and Beach District Faces Reforms, AG Opinion,...
The long-languid St. Augustine Port, Waterway and Beach District is coming to life, thanks to new Commissioners Sandra Flowers and Matthew Brown, who defeated two incumbents in 2018. For decades, the...
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Misleading advertising by St. Augustine Port, Waterway and Beach Commission...
The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation is investigating my report re: possible unlicensed activity and unethical advertising on LinkedIn by a longtime local elected official...
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A new high school will have sleek classrooms — and places to hide from a mass...
Every architect, every building owner, every school board in the land: please take note. I do wish I had an opportunity to hear the late architect Jerry Dion opine on the design of public spaces to...
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Michelle O'Connell Murder Case Hero: Deputy Debra Maynard Nominated for...
I just nominated Deputy Debra Maynard for a GateHouse newspapers First Responder Hero Award, stating in haec verba:St. Johns County Deputy Debra Maynard responded to the September 2, 2010 shooting...
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Michelle O'Connell Murder Case Hero: FDLE Special Agent Rusty Ray Rodgers...
I just nominated Deputy Debra Maynard for a GateHouse newspapers First Responder Hero Award, stating in haec verba:40 years of honest, effective law enforcement in Florida. As The New York Times...
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Michelle O'Connell Homicide: At 10 PM tonight, August 23, 2019, ABC News...
The 2018 ABC 20/20 program on the Michelle O'Connell homicide will be rebroadcast tonight at 10 PM, with new material.Will Florida Governor RONALD DION DeSANTIS comment about St. Johns County Sheriff...
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Senate race in Seminole County could tip balance of power in Tallahassee....
The dull Republicans' corporate codlock on our captive Flori-DUH State Legislature must end. It could end next year, by votes in Seminole County. We must count all the votes.The Orlando Sentinel...
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Group seeks approval to add lynching marker in the Plaza. (SAR, George...
I support the request to erect the historic marker on the 1897 lynching of Isaac Barrett. We need to tell all of our history, "warts and all," as Lincoln would say, to promote healing and justice in...
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Right-wing Climate Change Denier David Koch Dies, Maladroit Jacksonville NPR...
Know your "journalists" at Jacksonville, Florida'a third-rate NPR affiliate. When right-wing climate change denier DAVID KOCH died, Michelle Corum's shallow news story began by calling him a...
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GateHouse’s Takeover of Gannett: Bad News for Journalism and the Planet. (FAIR)
From Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), here's yet another reason for USDOJ, FTC and state attorneys general to block this misguided merger of GANNETT and GateHouse chain gang journalism news...
View ArticleSt. Augustine Public Montessori School back in the black after financial...
Good work. Good news.Three cheers for the St. Augustine Montessori School and its students, teachers, parents and St. Johns County School Board. I hope the Montessori School will thrive. If only...
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Feds search for site to house 500 immigrant children in Central Florida....
Coming to a concentration camp in Central Florida, immigrant children wrongfully separated from their parents by Herr DONALD JOHN TRUMP. (Unless GSA finds building owners refuse to commit violations...
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St. Augustine City Commission should authorize Civil Rights marker for 1897...
Our City Commission will consider tomorrow night a marker for the 1897 lynching murder of Mr. Isaac Barrett in Orangedale, which was reported in The New York Times with a St. Augustine byline. I...
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Scoop: Trump suggested nuking hurricanes to stop them from hitting U.S. (Axios)
Florida would be poisoned if TRUMP perpetrated this environmental disaster, which would violate a treaty, which is the supreme law of the land.Here is the most extraordinary scoop from Axios,...
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The Federal Election Commission Is About to Partially Shut Down. (Mother Jones)
FEC is a totally dysfunctional agency by design of Congress. Its requirement of four votes, with three Democrats and three Republicans, means that major corruption scandals like Florida's influential...
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