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Letter: We are taxed enough already
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.
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Letter: Commissioners and staff behaving badly
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.
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Guest Column: Stop threatening to reduce services
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.
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Letter: Sales tax increase
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.
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Noche de Gala sends the wrong message
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.
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Guest Commentary: Noche de Gala
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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Money doesn’t grow on trees
Browning described fundraising as a "crawl, walk, run" process. "When we mail this flash drive, we’re starting to stand up and walk." James Browning, President FOCUS 450 INC Unless those flash drives contain the pass-codes needed to open the drop safe at every convenience store in Florida, I predict they might raise almost enough money ... Read more
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Letter: The Record got government editorial wrong
Michael D. Wanchick
John P. Regan, P.E.
St Augustine, FL
Dear Historic City News readers:
We are jointly writing in response to The St Augustine Record’s January 27th editorial referencing the perceived relationship between St Johns County and the City of St Augustine.