Guest Column: Time for everyone to say “enough”
Guest Column: Time for everyone to say “enough” Ed Slavin St Augustine, FL St. Augustine has come a ways from the days of Jim Crow segregation, but official oppression still persists.
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Guest Column: The importance of mobility in St Augustine
Guest Column: The importance of mobility in St Augustine Nancy E. Shaver, Mayor City of St Augustine, FL Dear Historic City News readers: It’s no secret that we are a popular place and getting around in our City is often a challenge. Whether it’s the couple of million vacation visitors we have every year, or…
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Editorial: Preachers, Painters, and Politicians
In the 1990’s, I was licensed by the South Carolina Board of Financial Institutions to operate a small loan company. One of my mentors who had been making loans in Columbia for many years offered me some advice at a Christmas party one year — she told me if I wanted to keep a profitable…
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So a Record columnist upset the city attorney – so what?
In an editorial titled, “Right, wrong and the great in between” that appeared in the Sunday March 13, 2016 edition of The St Augustine Record, editorial page editor, Jim Sutton, reveals some things I wish he hadn’t. I hope they are not completely true, because, if they are, our community is not being well served.
Letter: Seniors need more than one week notice to move
Letter: Seniors need more than one week notice to move Judy Smith St Augustine, FL Dear Editor: My mother-in-law lives in a Senior Community; Southern Villas Apartments, located at 52 Sunrise Boulevard off SR-207.
Freeman yearns for return to taxpayer-financed aristocracy
When Historic City News readers think of “perks”, they think of rewards paid in private businesses to executives who have earned them by exceeding profits or some other measurable goal. In government, taxpayers expect that if perks for staff and elected officials exist at all, they are limited to de minimis conveniences like a parking…
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Letter: Veteran disgusted with “blind pride” of some service men
Letter: Veteran disgusted with “blind pride” of some service men Heather Carroll St Augustine, FL Dear Editor: Jason Kaplan, listed as owner operator of Conch House in St Augustine, replied to a post on my son’s Facebook page that he apparently viewed via a mutual friend.
Letter: Why are school districts distributing pornography?
Letter: Why are school districts distributing pornography? Kelly Lorbeer St Johns County, FL Dear Editor, I am shocked to learn that the 2015 summer reading list for 6th graders attending public schools in Collier, Lee, and Marion County recommends books like Beautiful Bastard that contains dialog like, “You wouldn’t be such a tease if you…
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