Historic City News has learned that a constitutional amendment cutting business taxes took a step closer to getting on the November ballot yesterday as the state House overwhelmingly approved the measure; according to a report filed by Gray Rohrer with the Current.
King Street businessperson Bruce Maguire told Historic City News that he and other businesses and property owners along, adjacent to and near King Street, Riberia and Granada Streets are out to stop the 10-12 month FDOT King Street drainage project until it can be done right.
Anyone planning to market their business for St Augustine’s upcoming 450th anniversary commemoration knows they will need an easy to remember domain name — and Historic City News has four of them available for sale.
Laurie Sanderson reported the following St. Augustine and St. Johns County locations to Historic City News where the Florida Department of Transportation will be conducting roadwork that is expected to have an impact on driving, beginning this morning and continuing through the coming week.
“I am an alcoholic and needed something to drink,” a 56 year-old homeless man told St Augustine Police detective Michael Keegan last week, after he was taken into custody and charged with burglary (a third-degree felony) and larceny (a second-degree misdemeanor).
Yesterday, HB-3, outlawing all Internet sweepstakes cafes in Florida, passed through the House, as expected; but Historic City News learned from Tallahassee insiders, the measure is not likely to be taken up by the Senate; whose members embrace another entertainment option for residents and tourists that could raise as much as $4 million annually in licensing fees through regulation.
Members of the Board of Trustees for the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind convened in an emergency meeting today to discuss the flashpoint issue of taking property through a process known as “eminent domain” that has brought tempers in the otherwise peaceful neighborhood surrounding the campus to a rolling-boil.
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