Rhey Palmer: We don’t need another $85,000 to do this.

Tonight Historic City News reporters will be watching as the St Augustine City Commission hears from its elite group of hand-picked representatives; tasked with recommending a course of action to update, or abandon and redo, a “Vision Statement” for the City — but if they want Herb Marlowe to continue as their “professional facilitator”, they…

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Senate candidate visits local Tea Party

Historic City News readers are patriotically invited to attend the general meeting of the Saint Augustine Tea Party being held at the Village Inn located at 900 North Ponce de Leon Boulevard in St. Augustine on June 10, 2014 beginning at 6:30 p.m.

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Editorial: The tide turns and we need different thinking

Editorial: The tide turns and we need different thinking According to the University of Florida’s Bureau of Economic and Business Research, from 1975 to 2000 the average Florida house value, measured in constant 2005 dollars, increased steadily from $110,000 to $169,000, a 54 percent gain; pretty incredible.

Editorials

Boston brings Heaven on Earth tour to Amphitheatre

Rock ‘n’ Roll legends BOSTON brought the highly anticipated “Heaven on Earth” tour live to the St Augustine Amphitheatre tonight, performing to a packed house. BOSTON is always a huge crowd pleaser, and tonight was no exception, according to Historic City News photojournalist Mark Cubbedge.

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With $500k warchest, Mica uses taxes for mailer

Tax dollars paid for Congressman John L. Mica to mail out a four-page letter touting his accomplishments, so, since he is running for re-election, a Central Florida television reporter asked Representative Mica if this was his way of using tax dollars to campaign.

Government

Flag Day in the Nation’s Oldest City

John Reardon reported to Historic City News that on Flag Day, Saturday, June 14th, St Augustine and St Johns County residents can participate in a national display of patriotism when Americans around the nation will raise their voices and come together to turn the national anthem into “the song that was heard around the world”.

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