Letter: No minority producers in St Augustine?
Derek Boyd Hankerson
Freebooters Productions
St Augustine, FL
Dear Editor:
I read your series of articles on the mishandling of the “Journey: 450 Years of the African-American Experience”. I would like to applaud your honesty and willingness to report yet another missed opportunity for the city to be more inclusive of local members of the black community.
Eric West
St. Augustine
Dear Editor:
Thursday the County Commissioners asked for feedback on their proposal to increase revenue including adding 1% to the sales tax.
Letter: Commissioners and staff behaving badly
Patti Henderson
St Johns County, FL
Dear Editor:
First, I’d like to say I respect the St Johns County Commissioners for what they sat through at Tuesday’s meeting. After being there much of the day, I felt like I had put in a long day of work.
Randy Covington
Once again, the county Administrator is threatening reductions in services if you do not give him more of your money. They are threatening to cut parks and recreation and libraries and the things they know are closest to you because they have a short term problem and only seem able to rely on cynical methods of manipulation to solve their problems at the expense of the greater community.
Harlan Mason
St. Augustine, FL
Dear Editor,
St. Johns Board of County Commission Chairperson Rachel Bennett and Administrator Michael Wanchick challenged citizens who oppose a sales tax increase to choose which county services to cut from the budget. This challenge is a clever way to frame the sales tax increase debate with the false assumption that there is no county waste.
The voters in St Augustine sent a clear message in November to those who have run roughshod with taxpayer funds, prioritizing their own personal preferences over those of the citizens who pay the bills. The citizens are at the top of the organizational chart — the politicians are “hired help” that work for us, not the other way around. See also: Public Servant.
Guest Commentary: Noche de Gala
George Gardner, Former Mayor
St Augustine, FL
“There was a very distinctive social class system during the Middle Ages. Most Medieval people were peasants, over 90%, but the divide between peasants and nobility was very clear-cut.
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