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Editorial: The perfect Christmas fantasy gift
How many Historic City News readers grew up looking forward to the Christmas Book from Dallas department store, Neiman Marcus?
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Point of view: Christmas trees
Ben Stein
CBS Sunday Morning
My confession: I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees “Christmas trees”. I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against. That’s what they are, Christmas trees.
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Lower the cost of government services
While a pair of antiquated Florida laws, sections 50.011 and 50.031, Florida Statutes, require certain notices in civil, probate, and criminal proceedings to be published in “newspapers of general circulation”, that requirement does not extend to every public notice under every situation.
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Taxpayers expect proper business agreements
As citizens of St Augustine, in exchange for those public services which we have requested, through our elected and appointed representatives; we agree to pay our share of the cost through the levy of taxes. Included in those costs are the cost of administration of our municipal government.
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Gender neutral shouldn’t be the new normal
Hannah Bleau, Guest Feature Writer
Special to HISTORIC CITY NEWS
It’s a touchy subject. I can already assume that half the people who read the title have made specific judgments about me as a person, but I would hope that the most “tolerant generation” in modern history would hear me out.
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Letter: Thinking of all the men I know
Letter: Thinking of all the men I know
Malea Guiriba
Hastings, FL
Dear Editor,
This time of year always makes me pensive and this year I am thinking about all the men I have met in Hastings and all of those who have passed and all of those who continue on, some with our help, others not.
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Letter: Menace of kittens reach crisis level
Letter: Menace of kittens reach crisis level Louis C Wise Saint Augustine, FL Our city, like many others has a problem with…
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How many city workers does it take to wrap a light pole?
Christmas (yes Christmas, not “the holidays”) is coming soon — I can tell because of all of the television ads that have broken into my home reminding me of that fact since shortly after Memorial Day. Another clue has been the reappearance of decorations about town that have been out of sight for the past 10 months or so.