I am Ed Slavin, Box 3084, candidate of Anastasia Mosquito Control District of St. Johns County, seat 4.
Congratulations on the Black History Museum. That's progress. Now let's reinstate Mr. Trey Alexander Asner, the Cultural Resources Coordinator who courageously stood up in defense of African-American history. Show us you're sincere about human rights here.
Happy St. Patrick's Day.
Our first Irish-American President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy said, "here on Earth, God's work must truly be our own." In 1963, JFK said at American University, "our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."
Overdevelopment is killing our trees, killing our wildlife, breeding mosquitoes, overcrowding our roads, overcrowding our schools and destroying what we know and love about this magical place, which we call "God's country." We moved here on November 5, 1999, more than 25 years ago.
Foreign investors purchase influence and clearcut entire forests, leaving flooding in some 33 communities.
The axis of overdevelopment does not give a tinker's dam about people like us. Or nature.
As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said 90 years ago, "“We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.”
This is our time, and our country and our county: we can do better, we must do better and we all do better
St. John County voters elected three of five Commissioners for the rest of us, untainted by campaign contributors that fund clearcutting horrors.
We need a lobbyist disclosure law, a County Ethics Commission, and investigations of the power of organized money here.
St. Johns County needs a strong tree protection law, like our City of St. Augustine.
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