Category: Editorials

October 12, 2015 Historic Architectural Review Board City of St. Augustine, Florida It is with regret that I offer my resignation from the HARB board effective immediately. I also want to take a moment to explain my resignation from the HARB, and my reasons for wishing to serve on that board. As a practicing designer…

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Michael Gold, Editor in Chief HISTORIC CITY NEWS St Augustine, FL This week had some ups and downs, not unlike most autumn weeks after Labor Day, but one top story in St Augustine was concluded with little fanfare; a story about the American free press, the rights of citizens in this nation to criticize their…

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Letter: Large campaign contributors expect special treatment Mary Carrozza St Augustine, FL Dear Editor: I am happy to read that Commissioner Todd Neville has formally scrapped plans to seek a defamation lawsuit against Historic City News.

Editorial: Hey mister, can you spare $55,000? Michael Gold, Editor St Augustine, FL I’d be willing to wager that many, if not most, Historic City News readers living, working, and voting in the City of St Augustine, don’t have a spare $55,000 siting around the house, perhaps in a Yuban coffee can or stuffed in…

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Open Letter: to the residents of St Augustine St Augustine Residents Count Given the City Commission’s approval of the Cordova Inn PUD (aka Dow PUD) on August 24th, there will be a hotel and tavern in the city’s most restrictive residential zoning district, HP-1.

With only nine months under his belt in any elected public office, freshman city commissioner Todd D. Neville, a local Certified Public Accountant, has moved the City Attorney, Isabelle Lopez, to take on his case against Historic City News, a free press, and citizen journalist Michael Gold, for exposing campaign contributions taken by Neville from…

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On the web: Record editorial points out thin-skinned Neville’s mistake The Record St Augustine, FL Normally, I wouldn’t quote an entire editorial, but since its about us, I’m making an exception. Wading into finer points of law is a slippery slope. So we say upfront that our comments here are not aimed at the legality…

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Letter: Male deputy’s behavior violates protocol Unnamed Writer (Mailed from St Johns, FL 32259) Dear Editor: In this county, the Sheriff’s Office wants to believe that it is as bullet proof as the vests that they wear. This is displayed every day in the behavior of its male deputies.