Is your Internet provider watching you?
September 26, 2008
In a staff piece that appeared in PC World today, I was reminded of how “comfortable” most Internet users are with the companies who provide them with their Internet service — not realizing just how much information about them their ISP has. Read more
Publishing public record information
September 14, 2008
We received a complaint from a reader – a complaint concerning Historic City News as well as The Record and the St. Johns County Clerk of Court who publish information about applicants for local marriage licenses. Read more
Remembering 9/11
September 11, 2008
I suppose today is a lot like November 22nd to me – a day that I will always remember “where I was” when tragedy struck. Read more
Newsworthy doesn’t always make the news
September 7, 2008
We live in the land of the free, only because of the brave.
Petty Office 2nd Class Mike Monsoor, a Navy EOD Technician, was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for jumping on a grenade in Iraq — giving his life to save his fellow Seals.
During Mike Monsoor’s funeral in San Diego, as his casket was being moved from the hearse to the grave site at Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery, Seals were lined up on both sides of the pallbearers route — forming a column of two’s with the casket moving up the center.
It was observed that as Monsoor’s casket passed, each SEAL, having removed his gold Trident from his uniform, slapped it down embedding the Trident in the wooden casket. The slaps were audible from across the cemetery. By the time the casket arrived grave side, it looked as though it had a gold inlay from all the Tridents pinned to it.
This was a fitting send-off for a true warrior hero.
This should be front-page news instead of the crap we see and hear every day in media sources across the nation.
Because, in many cases, the mainstream media doesn’t consider this type of “news” to be “newsworthy”, I choose to “make it news” by editorializing the event as it was shared with me.
I am damn proud of our military. You can rest assured that these fine men and women continue to serve and protect us, whether or not their story is told on the 6:00 news.
Stevenson thanks voters for support
September 2, 2008
Historic City News followed the District 1 race for County Commissioner very closely during the Primary Election and in making our editorial endorsements we looked at all three candidates, focusing on the two Republicans who faced off in August. Read more
