Category: Editorials

From Kuwait this morning, Historic City News received an announcement from St. Johns County Commissioner Mark P. Miner announcing his endorsement of candidates in the upcoming elections.

I am a black tea party patriot faced with a serious problem concerning my 83-year-old father.

Historic City News is the creation of today’s technologies — we don’t cling to old fashioned notions or outdated methods of distributing news of interest to residents in the St. Augustine area.

As good citizens we are called on every two years to perform a simple task that doesn’t cost anything, takes less than 15 minutes to accomplish, and provides the single biggest protection we have to hold our government accountable. We are asked to vote.

I was driving home last night and one of those annoying chimes went off in my dashboard and the “WALK” light started flashing next to my fuel gauge so I pulled off the side of the road into a convenience store that sells gasoline.

David B. Shoar, St. Johns County Sheriff It has been nearly 46 years since a hurricane struck the first coast directly from the east and that hurricane, Hurricane Dora, has been the only one to strike from the east since records have been kept dating back to 1851.

As news stories persist and weekly bridge malfunction updates are coming out from Laurie Sanderson with the Bridge Rehabilitation Program, you have to ask yourself “What did we save?”

A self-interest group, appointed by another appointed board, selects a paid consultant from out-of-town and manages the overall evaluation process themselves.