Our Opinion: Open government takes a beating
by Editorial Board
Tallahassee Democrat
What’s that you hear? It might be the sound of mice in your walls. Or maybe it’s just the Florida Legislature, slowly gnawing away at the idea of open government.
Nancy Shaver
St Augustine, FL
The development plan for the St Johns Children’s Museum does not make sense to me, and it shouldn’t to the City Commissioners or the administration at the City of St Augustine, either. For a minute, let’s not use the term “Children’s Museum” and instead, say “developer”.
Edward A. Slavin, Jr.
St Augustine, FL
Dear Editor:
I have written to our Mayor and St Augustine City Commissioners asking that they please reconsider their hasty, ill-advised, possibly unconstitutional, 5/7 waiver of archaeological excavation fees from David and Sandra Corneal for the property at 102 Bridge Street.
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 them to know.
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.
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.
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 they have under their control.
