On Tuesday, September 15, 2009, please remember to go to the polls and vote.

“Silent no more” was one of the chants as we marched on DC on September 12, 2009. The march was not scheduled to start until 11 am but it had to start early because of the overflow of people.

This letter is in response to an article written by Peter Guinta that appeared in The Record on Friday, September 11th; entitled “Senate candidates jab during final forum”.

On Friday, September 11th, 2009, an American flag should be displayed outside every home, apartment, office and store in the United States.

Hard to believe that four months have passed since congress allowed the floodgates of money, nearly eight hundred billion dollars in the shape of the federal stimulus funds, to supposedly flood the economy.

Forty years ago, or so, when I was in my teens, my mother, who was a typing teacher at the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind, began the onerous task of trying to teach me to use a typewriter.

The future of the St. Augustine Record remains uncertain as the newspaper shuts down its local printing facility and its publisher, Morris Publishing Group, LLC, continues to accumulate debt – failing to pay the $9,746,730 interest payment due to its lenders February 1, 2009 and an additional $9,746,730 interest payment that was due August 3, 2009.

I’ve taken the last week to sort out my feelings about the response of the St. Augustine City Commission in unanimously voting August 24th to raise the city’s fire assessment fee.