Attend any government meeting and you will hear citizens speak, rarely quoted in the St. Augustine Record. Why? THe owners don't care what the people think. Even when we move mountains and motivate reforms, the Rcord won't quote local residents. How timidly tiresome and tawdry 00 showing the Record is a doormat for the controlling political machine in St. Johns County and its sequelae, whose members the Record regularly lionizes and kisses up to, whether former City Manager WILLIAM BARRY HARRISS or Sheriffs SHOAR, PERRY or DAVIS.
Yesterday, Historic City News covered a city visioning meeting, actually quoting a little bit of what five people said in public comment. Thank you!
How refreshing for public comment to be incuded in a news story. If only the Morris family and its putative "publishers" valued public opinion more.
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!
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