HISTORIC CITY NEWS

Legislature shields thirteen more public record types

Members of the Florida House and Senate attempted to block access to more than 50 additional types of public records this legislative session; information used by investigative reporters like Historic City News and other businesses.

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St Augustine government meeting schedule and agendas

Historic City News has received updated information regarding next week’s local government meetings in St Augustine from the public affairs department director, Paul Williamson.

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Sales tax increase to be heard by commissioners

St Johns County Commission Chair, Rachael Bennett, reported to Historic City News this morning that the results of the private telephone survey regarding the collection of an additional one-cent sales tax will come before the commission on May 19, 2015.

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Supervisor of Elections indicted and surrenders at jail

In Flagler County, former Supervisor of Elections Kimberle Barcelona Weeks has been indicted, according to information provided to Historic City News this morning.

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Florida Weekend Recap – May 1

Florida Weekend Recap – May 1 A recap of this week’s best political and policy happenings; Historic City News brings you what you missed this week in Florida policy and politics. The Week in Review for April 27th – May 1, 2015

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First America: An exercise in fraud, waste and abuse

Definition: STRAWMAN; a person set up to serve as a cover for a usually questionable transaction. They won’t want you to remember who they are, but the actors in First America Foundation, Inc., it’s incorporators, officers, and very public “board of directors”, may go down as the most flagrant abusers of taxpayer money in the…

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Public will have more opportunity to observe budget process

Mark Litzinger, Director of Finance, Budget and Management for the City of St. Augustine, has announced to Historic City News his schedule for the preparation of the City budget for the fiscal year 2015-2016

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Rawls: City embarrassed by exposure of past mistakes

Historic City News, reporting on Monday night’s City Commission meeting, recorded audience applause when St Augustine commissioners and staff were cautioned about the consequences of their past failure to be “transparent, issue educated, and proactive” by St. Paul AME Pastor Ron Rawls, speaking for the local “300 Concerned Citizens” group.

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