In secret, behind locked gates, our Nation's Oldest City dumped a landfill in a lake (Old City Reservoir), while emitting sewage in our rivers and salt marsh. Organized citizens exposed and defeated pollution, racism and cronyism. We elected a new Mayor. We're transforming our City -- advanced citizenship. Ask questions. Make disclosures. Demand answers. Be involved. Expect democracy. Report and expose corruption. Smile! Help enact a St. Augustine National Park and Seashore. We shall overcome!
Monday, August 04, 2008
How nice of the military to finally address bombs from old bombing range -- decades after it did so in other places!
We're astonished it took so long but grateful our federal government cares so much about us as to actually ask questions decades after it first rained bombs down on our county.
In Oak Ridge, Tennessee, folks asked questions about nuclear weapons pollution commencing in 1981, when I moved there to start the Appalachian Observer.
Reckon the local rags hereabout -- and County Commissioners -- were too busy for decades passing out cigars to celebrate their power that they forgot to ask the vital questions about bombing runs in our county.
Glad the Army Corps of Engineers had the sense to ask the questions in quo, because those questions would never have been asked if left up to our putative environmental regulators like the Department of Environmental Protection and our county mismanagement -- like SJC's Code Enforcement Tsar, Mr. Acosta, a/k/a the "Fatass Barney Fife" (of 11th Circuit Court of Appeals case law --- protected poliitcal sign -- fame).
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