EDWARD A SLAVIN JR

Letter: City should have given proper notice before fee waiver

EDWARD A SLAVIN JR
EDWARD A SLAVIN JR
Letter: City should have given proper notice before fee waiver

Edward A. Slavin, Jr.
St Augustine, FL

Dear Editor:

I have written to our Mayor and St Augustine City Commissioners asking that they please reconsider their hasty, ill-advised, possibly unconstitutional, 5/7 waiver of archaeological excavation fees from David and Sandra Corneal for the property at 102 Bridge Street.

Guest Feature: Iron Curtain, right here in the United States

MARY ELLEN BEATTY
MARY ELLEN BEATTY
Iron Curtain, right here in the United States

Mary Ellen Beatty
Director of Citizen Outreach
Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity

Melissa Genson remembers growing up during the Cold War and learning that, behind the Iron Curtain, the government controlled the media. Citizens of the Soviet Union could only learn what their government wanted them to know.

Editorial: County employees used for political purposes?

MICHAEL GOLD
MICHAEL GOLD
Editorial: County employees used for political purposes?

Michael Gold, Managing Editor
St Augustine, FL

As Historic City News in St Augustine saw, and reported, last month; St Johns County’s abusive and unacceptably overpaid administration has realized that they are in jeopardy of losing their choke-hold on the sock-puppets on the Board of County Commissioners who they have under their control.

The value of a public relations guru

REMUS REID
REMUS REID
Judy Wallman, a professional genealogy researcher in southern California, was doing some personal work on her own family tree. She discovered that Congressman Harry Reid’s great-great uncle, Remus Reid, was hanged for stealing horses and robbing trains in Montana in 1889. Both Judy and Harry Reid share this common ancestor.

Editorial: It’s against the law!

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Editorial: It’s against the law!

Michael Gold, Managing Editor
HISTORIC CITY NEWS
St Augustine, FL

I love it when I hear people proclaim that some action or another is “against the law” — especially when they have no legal training, gullible followers buy into it, and, of course, on investigation, the action was not against the law at all.