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Editorial: Take your pills with plenty of water

May 22, 2013 | By More
Editorial: Take your pills with plenty of water

By the time you reach your late 50′s, you are supposed to have learned most of life’s lessons and have probably taught a few of them to those coming up in your family; but, apparently, I am still learning.

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Letter: Fiddlers Green is financial millstone

May 16, 2013 | By More
Letter: Fiddlers Green is financial millstone

Letter: Fiddlers Green is financial millstone Randy Covington St Johns, FL Dear Editor: The Fiddlers Green boondoggle is that special kind of pork barrel spending that just will not die. The county acquired the property in 2006 for the staggeringly out of bounds price of $5.5 million dollars.

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Letter: Still waiting for final paycheck

May 16, 2013 | By More
Letter: Still waiting for final paycheck

Letter: Still waiting for final paycheck Logan Guidry St Augustine, FL Dear Editor, I am a former employee of the downtown Dairy Queen on San Marco Avenue in St Augustine, and I am still waiting for my final paycheck.

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Letter: Students should be allowed inspirational message

May 16, 2013 | By More
Letter: Students should be allowed inspirational message

Letter: Students should be allowed inspirational message James S. Arpaia St Augustine, FL Dear Editor: The school board’s decision not to allow an “Inspirational message” at the upcoming graduation exercises for fear of a “lawsuit”, or not knowing what a student might say with an “open” microphone, sends a very poor message to our students.

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Letter: Report on digital learning task force

May 16, 2013 | By More
Letter: Report on digital learning task force

Letter: Report on digital learning task force Kim J. Kendall St Augustine FL Dear Editor: It has been a pleasure to serve on both of our State’s Appointed Digital Task Forces. Due to Legislation that required end-of-course exams online using digital textbooks, and due to the school districts and unions signing off on the “Race [...]

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Letter: House committee expects answers

May 16, 2013 | By More
Letter: House committee expects answers

Letter: House committee expects answers Congressman Ron DeSantis Ponte Vedra Beach, FL Dear Editor: Today, Attorney General Eric Holder testified before the House Judiciary Committee. My questions of the Attorney General focused on the following three issues:

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Letter: Bicycles and cyclists

May 15, 2013 | By More
Letter: Bicycles and cyclists

Letter: Bicycles and cyclists Herbie Wiles St Augustine, FL Dear Editor: We now see more and more bicycles on our streets. Bicycles could mean fewer cars as well, however our problem; most cyclists and some motorists do not understand the Florida bicycle laws contained in Chapter316 of the Florida Statutes.

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Letter: Commission needs to listen to taxpayers

May 8, 2013 | By More
Letter: Commission needs to listen to taxpayers

Letter: Commission needs to listen to taxpayers James S. Arpaia St Augustine, FL Dear Editor: The members of the Board of County Commissioners have obviously already made up their minds to build a 72,000 square-foot facility on their campus next to the “Taj Mahal”.

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