Guest: Who benefits from less drama?

Guest: Who benefits from less drama?

Lee Geanuleas
St. Augustine, FL

Special to Historic City News

On March 9, 2019 The St Augustine Record published an editorial titled “Tracy is the right person at the right time,” extolling the selection of former Mayor-Commissioner Tracy Upchurch to fill the remainder of Mayor Nancy Shaver’s term.  Mayor Shaver resigned after suffering a stroke on February 25th at the end of an emotional City Commission meeting.

Citizen journalists?  Who saw THAT coming?

Citizen journalists? Who saw THAT coming?

It goes without saying that when The St Augustine Record was owned by Florida Publishing Company, they never got the concept of citizen journalism. But neither did their successor, Morris Communications — well, at least not until October 2, 2017, when they were forced to sell the newspaper. By then, Historic City News, St Augustine and St Johns County’s free press, was already seventeen years old.