Florida TaxWatch urged Governor Rick Scott to veto 107 budget items Thursday, including three in St Augustine, but top Florida Senate leaders said the policy-study organization’s annual list of financial “turkeys” is a worn-out publicity gimmick — intended more to get publicity for TaxWatch than to safeguard the taxpayers’ money.
Historic City News readers and their families are invited by the St Johns County Horse Council to attend the Second Annual Horse Farm Tour on Saturday, May 18, 2013. Three farms will be featured, each offering various demonstrations, activities, food, prizes, and giveaways.
The St Johns County Republican Assembly reported to Historic City News that their organization has officially adopted a resolution concerning modification of the original agreement between the St Johns County Board of Commissioners and Florida Lands Trust concerning the dilapidated Fiddlers Green building on Vilano Beach.
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.
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.
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.
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 to the Top” program that required digital implementation for all classrooms within 2 years, our Task Force was presented the challenges and was tasked to create solutions.
Eight young men from St Augustine Youth Services are getting to tell their story through an unusual medium: all-natural, handmade, biodegradable soap, with help from Flagler College Enactus; a student organization that focuses on creating community projects to empower people socially, economically and in an environmentally sustainable way.
