"Thank yous" to the St. Augustine Record for two early Christmas gifts:
First, to reporter Jake Martin, for this morning's thorough investigation of alleged fraud against students by the "University of St. Augustine," the for-profit school founded by Stanley Paris and sold quietly to a multinational corporation. Jake's article is fair, balanced and investigative -- exactly what we told the Augusta, Georgia federal bankruptcy court Morris Communications needs to serve our community and be profitable.
Second, to publisher Delinda Fogel and newly-designated Executive Editor Craig Richardson, who will move to St. Augustine within 24 months. Craig has been interim editor, after the firing of awful Director of Audience/Editor Kathy Nelson, a disaster who fired all the most experienced reporters in a series of enviously, invidiously discriminatory, mean-spirted acts, while beginning her Reign of (T)error as tedious toady termagant-in-charge by trashing The New York Times and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Walt Bogdanich for their having "parachuted" into St. Augustine and "not making any friends at the Sheriff's Department.
Early on during his work as interim editor, I had urged Mr. Richardson to apply for the job, but he demurred, as his family lives in Jacksonville; I responded by telling him they would be happier here. He agrees now.
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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