Editorials

Letter: Up-zoning threatens the stability of residential neighborhoods Melinda RakoncaySt Augustine, FL Dear Historic City News: “Up-zoning” is something that should concern all property owners living in residential neighborhoods. Up-zoning is the practice of rezoning […]

Letter: PZB to hear requests to Up-Zone the Mission Grounds William FerrignoSt Augustine, FL Dear Historic City News readers: Our Historic Uptown District on San Marco Avenue is under siege again! The Bishop and the […]

Historic City News will have published for 19-years next month (March 18, 2000) and we’d like to have some fun testing our knowledge of local facts.  We invite you to play along and see just […]

Susan W RathboneDavis Shores Dear Historic City News Editor: Our City and its politics are starting to seem like an episode out of Boss (a gangster TV show on Netflix). All we need is Kelsey […]

Editorial: Mr Regan, have you earned the public’s trust? Michael Gold, EditorHISTORIC CITY NEWSSt Augustine, FL I learned early on that you can buy a lot of things, but trust must be earned. In the […]

Peggy HattonSt Augustine, FL Dear Historic City News editor: Attached you will find two pictures of a vagrant that is well known to the St Augustine Police Department. She’s frequently warned and arrested, she’s been […]

Two days before the first meeting of the St Augustine City Commission this year, before the mayor or any of the other three commissioners had met in the sunshine to discuss the Coquina Avenue Land […]

Letter: Fix this mistake before it happens Nancy Shaver, MayorCity of St Augustine To the people I serve, Last fall you elected me to a third term as your Mayor, trusting me to lead us […]

Lee GeanuleasSt Augustine Residents Count Dear Historic City News readers: Remember on January 14, 2019 when Michael Cullum, Public Works Director for the City of St Augustine, told the City Commission that the city “did […]

Letter: No more free rent Merrill Paul Roland, Esq.St Johns County, FL Dear Historic City News editor: On Wednesday, January 23, 2019, I requested a copy of the rental agreement or lease for office space […]