Hey, Senator Hutson!  Just say NO, please

Hey, Senator Hutson! Just say NO, please

St Augustine attorney Jane West, Policy & Planning Director for 1,000 Friends of Florida, asked the Historic City News editorial review board to evaluate several pieces of what she described as “very damaging bills” that are moving forward quickly in the current session of the Florida legislature.

Editorial: Question anything that government does under cover of night

Editorial: Question anything that government does under cover of night

Michael Gold, Trustee
HISTORIC CITY NEWS

I am a native Floridian.  A St Augustinian, to be exact.  When the world was young, my business took me to Georgia where I had occasion to travel to a few large cities as well as a state-full of small rural communities.  After all those years spent growing up here, the southeastern-most state in the nation, it was during those seven years in Georgia that I learned something else about me.  I am also “a Southerner”; a heritage to be celebrated.

Defense lawyers say proposed bill is attack on the First Amendment and the right to assemble

Defense lawyers say proposed bill is attack on the First Amendment and the right to assemble

The Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers informed local Historic City News reporters that they oppose legislation urged by Gov. Ron DeSantis addressing “affrays, riots, routs, and unlawful assemblies” as a too broad an attack on the First Amendment and the right to assemble. The proposed legislation is a solution in search of a problem, the Association said.

Editorial: Resist the urge to start the next Civil War

Editorial: Resist the urge to start the next Civil War

Hello, everyone.  I hope all the Historic City News family of subscribers had a wonderful Christmas holiday.  We rang out the old year and rang in the hope and opportunity that comes with the new.  Honestly, I think the old year will probably go down as one of the worst.  I am concerned now that unless things change, and change soon, we are doomed to repeat some of our ugliest history.