Category: Government

Today, Governor Rick Scott announced to local Historic City News government reporters, the appointments of two new members and two reappointments to the Northeast Florida Regional Planning Council, in Region Four.

The St. Augustine City Commission voted unanimously last Monday, June 23, to accept Commissioner Roxanne Horvath’s plea for almost $75,000 in consulting fees to pay a Gainesville man to “facilitate” the fifteen-handpicked volunteers that will tell us where we want to be in fifteen or twenty years.

Conservative two-term chairman of the Putnam County Tea Party, and former vice chairman of the St. Johns County Republican Executive Committee, Derek Boyd Hankerson, has announced to Historic City News his campaign seeking election to the Florida Senate, 6th District, which includes St. Johns, Putnam, Flagler and a part of Volusia County.

Historic City News followed this morning’s joint meeting of the St Augustine City Commission and members of the St Johns County Commission, and their staffs; there were only three items on the agenda, but, if it was not clear to everyone at the beginning of the meeting, it was certainly clear by the close of…

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Yesterday, a new consultant has reported to Historic City News that St Augustine Republican Senator, John Thrasher, a former chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, will no longer receive special consideration in his bid to become the next president at Florida State University since the April departure of former president Eric Barron.

Supervisor of Elections Vicky Oakes reported to Historic City News this afternoon that at the close of Qualifying Week, today at 12:00 noon, a record had been set for the St Johns County Elections Office – 90 candidates qualified for the 2014 election cycle.