Highest paid local public employees
According to figures obtained by Historic City News this week from the Florida Office of Economic and Demographic Research in Tallahassee, as of FY-2012, the average income in the state was $41.012 per year.

According to figures obtained by Historic City News this week from the Florida Office of Economic and Demographic Research in Tallahassee, as of FY-2012, the average income in the state was $41.012 per year.
Historic City News readers are invited to join members of the St Johns County Chamber of Commerce and their guests for one of St. Johns County’s largest political events each season, Politics in St Johns.
St. Francis House Executive Director Judith Dembowski reported to Historic City News the recent donation of nearly $400 from the Resident Council of Allegro Senior Living in St. Augustine.
The downtown streetscape project, envisioned by former mayor Len Weeks to benefit residents along Spanish Street will incorporate a new manhole cover design; among other design elements reported in recent weeks.
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.
As we prepare to celebrate Independence Day, a Jacksonville man is blowing the whistle on cell phone surveillance equipment the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office has that he says is hijacking our civil liberties.

Jason Stverak, President
Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity
Washington, DC
On this day 238 years ago, just after John Hancock made the most indelible signature in all of history, our namesake, Benjamin Franklin, uttered, “We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.”

Hannah Bleau
St Augustine, FL
Americans didn’t invent freedom. It was given to us by God, and we’ve embraced it unlike any other country in the history of the world.