Month: April 2011

More than five years of planning will move into action beginning tomorrow morning when Historic City News reporters join St. Augustine City Commissioners to mark the start of the $3.4 million Riberia Street Rehabilitation Project.

While Historic City News was covering Governor Scott’s speech to a crowd of supportive Tea Party members, just around the corner from the applause, a coalition of union members and students organized by Fight Back Florida were holding their own rally for public education.

Senator Bob Graham is the former two–term governor of Florida and served for 18 years in the United States Senate.

The winds of change were strong at the St. Johns County Fairgrounds today — Historic City News numbered the crowd at about 1,500 – 2,000 state and local Tea Party members who turned out to show their support for smaller government, less government spending and lower taxation.

Michael Gannon is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Florida.

Dr. J. Michael Francis received his PhD in History from the University of Cambridge. Since 1997, he has taught at the University of North Florida, where he is Professor of History. Dr. Francis has published numerous articles on the history of early-colonial New Granada (modern day Colombia).

Since March 12, 1993, Katherine Fernandez Rundle has served Miami-Dade County as State Attorney. Ms. Fernandez Rundle’s series of being “The First” began in 1991 upon her election as the first woman president of the Miami-Dade’s Cuban American Bar Association. Ms. Fernandez Rundle is also the first female Hispanic State Attorney in the history of…

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