Joe Ryan
St Augustine, FL
High Stakes testing is planned for every public school child in Florida. If you thought the FCATs were bad the new common core aligned assessments are like “FCATs on Steroids”.
Letter: My message has not and will not change
Nancy Shaver
Linconville
Dear Editor and Historic City News readers:
As I’ve walked this City during my campaign and spoken to hundreds of you, I hear over and over again, how much you love St Augustine—and I’ve heard loud and clear what you expect from the City government and your Mayor.
Charles Meyers
St Augustine, FL
Dear Editor,
I think most of us today have had enough with empty campaign rhetoric, negative mudslinging attack ads, and self-serving hypocritical ‘scare crow’ positions. To this end, I am having some real trouble reconciling some things between St John’s County Commission Candidate Jeb Smith’s campaign statements and what he actually does.
James L Manfre, Sheriff
Flagler County, FL
As a young prosecutor, I was assigned to a newly formed “driving while intoxicated” task force that included highway patrol officers. The purpose of this task force was twofold—to focus on the rising tide of alcohol-related accidents and fatalities and to train prosecutors and police how to effectively build and present cases for trial.
Letter: Morris and Sanchez raised your taxes!
Harlan Mason
St. Augustine, Florida
Dear Editor,
St. Johns County politicians have mastered the art of raising taxes in non-election year budget cycles hoping voters will forget the pain in their wallets by the time the next election rolls around.
Letter: Who sent these offensive mailers?
Kim Kendall
St Augustine, FL
Two offensive mailers were just sent out to St Johns County voters – one against incumbent Ron Sanchez and one against me.
When I attended Ketterlinus Jr. High School in the 1960’s, the school district began to teach something called “new math”. I never understood that, since 10 + 10 was still equal to 20. But, I was a teenager then and didn’t care what they called it, so long as we could bring cans of Coca Cola from home for our lunch. In any case, me and Delinda, our official “sniff testing” pig, don’t like the smell of this.
Letter: Quality Inn posts fraudulent charges to credit card
Jessica Davis
Priscilla Goldston
Dear Editor:
We checked into the Quality Inn Historic District, located at 1111 N Ponce De Leon Boulevard, in Saint Augustine on Friday August 15th and rented one room for two nights.
