Category: Editorials

“The #WalkAway Campaign is a true grassroots movement,” founder Brandon Starka tells Historic City News.  “It is a video campaign movement, dedicated to sharing the stories of people who can no longer accept the current ideology of liberalism and what the Democratic Party has become.” Editorially, Historic City News has remained true to our conservative…

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Letter: Proud to release Gullah Geechee film through Historic City News Derek Boyd HankersonProducer and DirectorSt Augustine, FL Beatrice-Boyd Productions is proud to announce that my ahkh (Hebrew for “brother”) Michael Gold, will be streaming our new film “Gullah Geechee Corridor and the East Coast Greenways” in his newsfeed, Historic City News, when it is…

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Hope in the midst of rural America’s opioids crisis By Sydney Gruters Special to Historic City News Opioid misuse seems to be a topic on the minds and in the hearts of so many Americans these days. Most of us know someone who has been personally affected by this horrific epidemic. Rural America is being…

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Letter: Proposed contextualization is intentionally misleading Gregory C. White St Augustine, FL Dear Historic City News editor: How does a simple monument erected with private funds raised by the citizens of St. Augustine to memorialize its local dead just a few years after the bloodiest war in American history, have to do with white supremacy?…

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Wolfgang Schau, the man who the city allowed to donate a pair of lion statues for the east side of the Bridge of Lions, owns a catamaran. It is a beautiful sailing vessel and I am sure that he and his family find it easy to navigate in and out of our historic channel when…

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Mayor responds to inquiries about context of confederate memorial Mayor Nancy E. Shaver Lincolnville, FL Special to Historic City News I try with every vote I take to do the right thing to represent our town; and in this case, to consider those who lived here in the past and those who will come in…

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Letter: Please reconsider vote that will deface 140-year-old memorial David R. McCallister Temple Terrace, FL Special to Historic City News Dear Mayor Shaver and Commissioners of St. Augustine, The Sons of Confederate Veterans is a nationwide organization with a Florida Division and local Camps, including one in St. Augustine. As the legal successor organization to…

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Letter: Open letter to St Augustine City Commission Jennifer White Special to Historic City News City of St. Augustine 75 King Street St. Augustine, Florida 32084 Re: Clarification of Material Misstatements in City Manager Memorandum regarding Santa Maria Development Agreement dated July 17, 2018 Dear Mayor Shaver and Commissioners: I feel compelled to respond to…

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