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On Thursday’s show: Saving the jail where MLK was detained
News that a historic St. Johns County jail was slated for demolition sparked a movement to save it. The jail was where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was detained after being arrested for demonstrating against segregation in St. Augustine. It was the only time King was arrested in Florida, and preservationists want to see the historic site saved.
Guests:
- Noah Hertz, St. Johns County reporter at Jacksonville Today.
- Adonnica Toler, director at the Eartha MM White Museum.
- Rabbi Merrill Shapiro, board chair of the St. Augustine Jewish Historical Society.
10 comments:
Save the jail ok... but still a bulldozer needs to be run through Lincolnville after a little eminent domain and rezoning. Just think about the beautiful, commercial area that could be built instead of having only two streets worth seeing. Think about all the extra money that could be made to sustain population.
Assume you are being facetious, like Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal." Your comment reminds me of former City Manager William Pomar, who once told a Commissioner he wanted to have twelve bulldozers move south from King Street, to destroy Lincolnville. Fortunately, we have the Constitution, Due Process and the Fifth Amendment. Eminent domain is not favored in Florida, and certainly not based upon animus and animadversions Read the Bert J. Harriss, Jr. Private Property Protection Act, which is even stronger than the Fifth Amendment.
All those things you mentioned are costing the people of St Augustine perhaps a billion in tourist revenue... but whatever you say.
False. You make up false "facts" and emit cant opinions.
It's common sense that a new commercial zone down there would bring in more tourists and more money... but whatever you say. Saying things just to say them I suppose.
Your proposal to violate property rights under our Fifth Amendment and our Bert J. Harris, Jr. Private Property Protection Act is, at best, facetious. Time waster.
I'm saying they should buy them out yes...as well as the houses falling into the ocean and driving up insurance prices. They've permanently stunted the growth of St Augustine with poor planning and zoning. It's gonna have to change eventually. You suggest that be done in other areas of the county but not others?
We have NO oceanfront land in Lincolnville. But one former St. Augustine City Commissioner advertised his short-term rental property in Lincolnville claiming otherwise! Since there's no oceanfront property in Lincolnville, may I inquire as to your interest, identity and biographic location?
Fun fact: A third-generation Florida construction contractor, former St. Augustine City Commissioner JOHN OTHA VALDES advertised his $2000/month AirBnB in Lincolnville as if it were "oceanfront," without adjusting his homestead exemption to reflect the rental. https://cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com/2019/05/st-augustine-city-commissioner-john.html
I believe it. There's a crook around every corner in Florida.. especially North Florida. In a post agrarian, post industrialist economy, so called "services economy" there's gonna be an abundance of crooks, grifters, exploiters, and flim flam men. Snake oil salesmen everywhere.
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