Category: Editorials

Iron Curtain, right here in the United States Mary Ellen Beatty Director of Citizen Outreach Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity Melissa Genson remembers growing up during the Cold War and learning that, behind the Iron Curtain, the government controlled the media. Citizens of the Soviet Union could only learn what their government wanted…

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Letter: Common Core not what it claims to be Joseph Ryan St Augustine, FL Dear Editor: If common core was really what it claimed to be, there would be little opposition to it. However, they are not common, not core, and not state led and not only standards.

Letter: Thumbs up — and down on Riberia Pointe Nancy Shaver St Augustine, FL Dear Editor: Kudos to the City Commission who unanimously instructed City Staff to stop pursuing the development of Riberia Pointe.

Editorial: County employees used for political purposes? Michael Gold, Managing Editor St Augustine, FL As Historic City News in St Augustine saw, and reported, last month; St Johns County’s abusive and unacceptably overpaid administration has realized that they are in jeopardy of losing their choke-hold on the sock-puppets on the Board of County Commissioners who…

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Judy Wallman, a professional genealogy researcher in southern California, was doing some personal work on her own family tree. She discovered that Congressman Harry Reid’s great-great uncle, Remus Reid, was hanged for stealing horses and robbing trains in Montana in 1889. Both Judy and Harry Reid share this common ancestor.

Editorial: It’s against the law! Michael Gold, Managing Editor HISTORIC CITY NEWS St Augustine, FL I love it when I hear people proclaim that some action or another is “against the law” — especially when they have no legal training, gullible followers buy into it, and, of course, on investigation, the action was not against…

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Letter: Is an increase in County’s credit rating – a good thing? Dan Abel Ponte Vedra Beach, FL Dear Editor and Historic City News readers: As a Financial Advisor and Retirement Planning Counselor, I talk with clients everyday about their budgets. We talk about balancing their income verses their spending, and setting the extra income…

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