Letter: Politics comes to the beach
Clay R. Seay
St Augustine, FL
Dear Historic City News editor:
Recently, the St. Augustine beach City Commissioners voted themselves into the City healthcare system, saying it was discrimination if they were not allowed participation as City employees.
Some of the precinct committeemen and women in the St Johns County Republican Party have drifted so far away from the party platform over the past 15-years, that it no longer resembles the party of Lincoln. We are supposed to be about the inherent ability of the people to be self-governed — not the election of unaccountable, self-serving tin pot Napoleons like we have today.
Letter: Where is the compassion in Compassionate St. Augustine?
Casey Eugene Leydon
St Augustine, FL
Dear Historic City News editor:
Why does an assembly of good people, gathered under the banner of “Compassionate” and “Saint Augustine”, proudly celebrate the genocide of the people of this land. Why?
Robert Olsen
Vilano Beach
Special to Historic City News
Looking back at the St Augustine Airport, it’s hard to imagine that the airport was closed for several years after serving a military function during World War II. It was reopened in 1955 and has grown to become a hugely important regional asset — much more than a place to land an airplane. Few other 668-acres in Florida have as intense a concentration of high-paying jobs and economic activity.
John Barnes
Hastings, FL
Dear Historic City News editor:
Four months ago, the Hastings Town Council was asked to reach out to the administration of St. Johns County and to request a feasibility study to see if the citizens of Hastings would be better off by dissolving the town charter.
Defending the public’s access to our government has never been more important – and rarely has that access been more threatened.
When you think of the man or woman who leads from the front of the county’s primary law enforcement agency, the person citizens depend on to protect them from hardened criminals and life threatening emergencies, you would like to think you are counting on someone unafraid of the dangers inherent in the job of sheriff. And then there is St Johns County’s sheriff — David B. Shoar.
By Lance Thate, Chairman
Saint Augustine Tea Party
Special to Historic City News
While the thunder roared and the rain poured outside, another storm raged inside at the regularly scheduled Monday night commission meeting of the City of St Augustine Beach on April 3, 2017.
