Kudos to Commissioners Leanne Freeman and Bill Leary for having shown a tremendous amount of “responsible sense” by voting against the purchase of the M&M Market.

Around this time last year I was looking for a pair of new Converse, Chuck Taylors to be exact. I had developed a bit of a reputation for wearing plain black Chucks with writing on the white toe area.

When St. Augustine’s latest high-profile, millionaire attraction owner, Pat Croce, moves his Pirate and Treasure Museum from Key West to its completely rebuilt headquarters at 12 Castillo Drive South — at the epicenter and adjacent to St. Augustine’s soon-to-be-built Visitor Orientation Center — who does he employ to create and serve as registered agent for his new Florida limited liability company, Grand Marana, LLC, but local mayor-attorney Joseph L. Boles Jr.

Dear Editor:

If you read the newspaper every day, as I do, you notice a common thread about St. Augustine recently: Everyone wants to change it.

ON THE NET: The case of crimes against Santa
Reprinted from Art in the Market
By: Gregory Travous

Dear editor:

The Firefighters issued a letter to the county giving them three dates in December to set the ground rules for the upcoming 2011 negotiations session.

Dear editor:

I want to expend my thanks to everyone who came out and walked or rode the Dartmouth in today’s St. Augustine Christmas parade.

I am not one of those people who expect too much from “quick fix” solutions — especially for large scale, social problems that never seem to get any better; however, I think there is always an opportunity to stop digging any deeper into a glaringly obvious hole.