Category: Editorials

Editorial: Before you vote this year, learn the candidates Michael Gold, Editor in Chief HISTORIC CITY NEWS Across the nation, a movement started, or should I say re-energized, after the November 8, 2016 General Presidential Election. Half the country was cheering the return of a Republican to the White House. The other half sulked and…

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Editorial: Commissions need to tend to their knitting Michael Gold, Editor in Chief HISTORIC CITY NEWS Editorially, Historic City News has taken the position, and, as a consultant to candidates and elected public officials, I have personally advised my clients to “mind their own business” when it comes to issues that do not fall under…

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Letter: Too many two and three-wheeled scooters Brendan Freeman St Augustine, FL Dear Historic City News editor: I grew up here and appreciate the Disney World feel of our city, but I think there may be too many people renting scooters and three-wheeled scooters.

  Letter: Behavior by black church leader must stop Shane Boen St Augustine, FL Dear Historic City News editor: I would like to know what the City will be doing to address these ongoing and now personal threats to a majority of our population?

Letter: Restrictions on downtown Easter parking John Mountcastle St Augustine, FL Dear Historic City News editor: When the diamond-shaped “no parking” signs were placed on portable saw horses in the parking lanes of Cathedral Place and King Street on Easter Sunday, the number of available parking spaces were significantly diminished.  City of St. Augustine Ordinance…

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Historic City News readers following the Florida politics blog “The Buzz”, are familiar with Tampa Bay Times political editor Adam C. Smith; who created the award-winning news source and has been with the Times since 1992.

Letter: Echo House is under attack Lance Thate, Chairman Saint Augustine Tea Party Community Organizer, Ron Rawls, apparently hates history.   In 2012, the City of St. Augustine gave the AME Church a building and property known as the Echo House. The building was to be used as a school. Instead, Rawls removed the clay…

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The grave robbers came under cover of night. They took what they wanted, unimpeded and unquestioned by city police.