Shaver led the way in addressing sea level rise – Upchurch follows (HCN)
Other than Mayor Nancy Shaver and Mayor Tracy Upchurch, we're chock-a-block with climate change deniers here in these parts.Last night, in Canada's national elections, the climate change-denying party...
View ArticleImpeachment Diary: The words that could end a presidency (WaPo)
Spot-on column on the October 22, 2019 testimony of our current chargé d'affaires ad interim to Ukraine and former U.S. Ambassador to the Ukraine, William Brockenbrough "Bill" Taylor Jr., a 1969...
View ArticleOfficial's homophobic slur ignites explosive reaction against Tennessee...
I attended the Tuesday Market tonight at the St. Augustine Amp, where there was GLBTQ+-inclusive calling for country square dancing by Tommy Bledsoe and the band, announcing how to dance, for...
View ArticleCorrupt City of St. Augustine expects to finish most of Coquina Avenue site...
Three feet elevation, with three foot sea level rise projection = FREEMAN's folly.Commissioner LEANNA SOPHIA AMARU FREEMAN, Vice Mayor, divorce lawyer, is subject of a pending Florida Ethics Commission...
View ArticleRead Opening Statement of Ambassador William Brockenbrough "Bill" Taylor Jr....
Every American needs to read the October 22, 2019 testimony of our current chargé d'affaires ad interim to Ukraine and former U.S. Ambassador to the Ukraine, William Brockenbrough "Bill" Taylor Jr., a...
View ArticleA Florida angle to the Ukraine scandal? That’s how we roll. (Florida...
Diane Roberts skewers the corruption of Flori-DUH's Boy Governor, RONALD DION DeSANTIS, who took money from Giuliani's clients who paid him $500,000, and who are being arraigned in the Southern...
View ArticleBipartisan Group of 20 Past Presidents of the DC Bar Write to the House of...
I agree with Phillip Allen Lacovara and the nineteen other Past Presidents of the District of Columbia Bar. The House of Representatives impeachment inquiry is right and just. I served on the American...
View ArticleIndicted Giuliani associate joined DeSantis on last-minute campaign swing...
Flori-DIU Boy Governor RONALD DION DeSANTIS's entourage reminds me of the scene in Mel Brooks'Blazing Saddles, where the Harvey Norman character, Wyoming Attorney General "Hedley Lamar," offers his...
View ArticleDoes Scott Israel’s removal rewrite the rules for Florida’s sheriffs? (Miami...
On May 7, 2019 I asked Governor RONALD DION DeSANTIS to remove Sheriff DAVID SHOAR pursuant to Article IV, Section 7 of our Florida State Constitution. Since Governor DeSANTIS' removal of Broward...
View ArticleWALTZ JOINS REPUBLICANS DEMANDING ACCESS TO HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE...
Desperate for a headline, whorish TRUMP loyalist Rep. MATTHEW GAETZ (R-FL1) and his motley crew of rebarbative retromingent Republicans risked national security today and violated Secure...
View ArticleTo protect Trump, Republicans are staging a display of lawlessness. It’s...
Sadly, MICHAEL WALTZ, the Congressman who represents the south half of St. Johns County, has acted like the North end of a South-bound mule today. Pray for Michael George Glen Waltz (born January 31,...
View Article‘Yawhoo!’: The 83-year-old grandmother hit with a lease violation for taking...
Evocative Washington Post article about dictatorial corporate abuse of power. Florida and St. Johns County need stronger institutions to remedy such abuses. Maladministered management at government...
View ArticleFormer Jacksonville U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers Employee Pleads Guilty To...
Even in Federal offices in Atlanta and Jacksonville, in this decade, African-Americans are treated with disdain and respect and a hostile working environment.In one such case, when I was riding circuit...
View ArticleFormer Jacksonville Army Corps Employee Pleads Guilty to Lying to Law...
The close and self-serving relationships between dredging companies and government agencies like the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers comes into sharp repose when you read about the criminal case of United...
View ArticleNEGLECT OF DUTY: Colonel Andrew A. Kelly, Commander and District Engineer,...
Here's PR handout from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers about our Commander and District Engineer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville, Florida, (2018-date)(USACE website), who arrogantly...
View ArticleNEGLECT OF DUTY: I've reported Jacksonville Army Corps Colonel ANDREW A....
Let justice be done though the heavens fall.Some USACE military officers have refused to provide documents or answer questions.I ask questions, demand answers, and expect answers and expect democracy....
View ArticleFDR: "We must especially beware of that small group of [people] who would...
As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said in his State of the Union address, January 6, 1941:"We must especially beware of that small group of selfish [people] who would clip the wings of the...
View ArticleSt. Augustine residents started electing their Mayor in 1812, some 207 years...
OLDEST CITY | Role of mayor started off contentiousOct 19, 2019 at 11:51 AMThe issue of how to select a mayor for the City of St. Augustine has been raised again. This topic comes around every so...
View ArticleCity burghers want to erase your vested right to vote for Mayor of St....
As my friend J.D. Pleasant first told me years ago, St. Augustine City burghers will say an do anything." Thanks to Mayor Tracy Upchurch for exposing this canard, surely and suavely, October...
View ArticleBattle Creek residents mull citizen-led ballot initiative for direct election...
The trend in America is to electing mayors and not appointing them. Even where there is a strong city manager form of government, throughout Florida and the United States, we elect our Mayors. Why? As...
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