Clean Up City of St. Augustine, Florida

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!

Friday, August 21, 2009

City budget now online

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Thanks to the City of St. Augustine for putting its budget online. We've been asking them to do it for about four years. During that ti...

American Bar Association Journal:2 Disgraced Pa. Jurists Ask Fed’l Judge to Reconsider Nixed Plea

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2 Disgraced Pa. Jurists Ask Fed’l Judge to Reconsider Nixed Plea Posted 13 minutes ago By Martha Neil Two former Pennsylvania jurists whose ...

Boardwalk nearly complete -- Beachgoers will soon see unspoiled side of Maratea when 1,700-foot tract opens

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ANTHONY DeMATTEO Special to The Record Publication Date: 08/21/09 ST. AUGUSTINE BEACH -- Local residents and visitors soon will be able to w...

Government Auditors Need to Sharpen Their Pencils

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When DAVIS MONK presented its audit findings to the City of St. Augustine Beach, they bragged about having no audit findings. As Jimmy Bres...

OLSHAN GRUNDMAN Law firm: "Improper Influence on Conduct of Audits"

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M e m o r a n d u m To: Our Clients and Friends From: Olshan Grundman Frome Rosenzweig & Wolosky LLP Date: June 10, 2003 Re: Improper...

Record Was Wrong to Fire Printers, Outsource Printing to Jacksonville

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No Compass magazine today, folks. I sincerely hope that Morris Communications reconsiders its outsourcing printing to Jacksonville. That d...

St. Augustine Record:Compass Magazines to be delivered Saturday

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Friday, August 21st, 2009 at 9:57 am by Steve Carswell The Compass magazines, were not included in The Record this morning due to a producti...

Mosquito Board Deserves Strict Scrutiny, Fair Treatment

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"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive, ...

County delays Mosquito zoning

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PETER GUINTA peter.guinta@staugustine.com Publication Date: 08/19/09 Anastasia Mosquito Control District staffers walked out of St. Johns Co...

Guest Column: Mosquito control keeps residents safe from disease

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By JEANNE MOELLER St. Augustine Publication Date: 08/16/09 Historically speaking St. Johns County residents have battled and lost with many ...

Three historic homes saved

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PETER GUINTA peter.guinta@staugustine.com Publication Date: 08/21/09 Three St. Augustine buildings -- the earliest built about 1840, the lat...

Letter: Restructure health care or everyone's benefit

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Kaye Byrnes Ponte Vedra Publication Date: 08/18/09 Editor: For years my family was insured at little cost through very good, employer-provid...

Letter: Parking ticket, set-up sours resident

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Kate Rucker St. Augustine Publication Date: 08/21/09 Editor: We keep hearing that the city wants residents to support businesses downtown. L...
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Florida Schools Must Study St. Augustine and Civil Rights

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Great news -- the State of Mississippi will require that civil rights be taught "in every grade from kindergarten through high school....

AP: Miss. making civil rights part of K-12 instruction

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Miss. making civil rights part of K-12 instruction By SHELIA BYRD Associated Press Writer JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — In Mississippi, where mentio...

JFK: "I'm proud to say I'm a 'Liberal.'"

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If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someon...

Settlement Leads to Unethical Agreement to Delete Judicial Opinions from Legal Databases

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The settlement of the case of Klein v. AMTRAK (below) is contrary to public policy. The settlement requires that no less than eight (8) judi...

LAW.COM: After Settlement in Amtrak Case, Opinions Erased From Lexis and Westlaw

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Shannon P. Duffy 08-19-2009 Ordinarily, the decision to settle a case while an appeal is pending means giving up the opportunity to set a le...
Tuesday, August 18, 2009

EPA Sues City for Environmental Crimes --- Sound familiar?

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Photo credit: J.D. Pleasant The Justice Department and State of West Virginia just "sued the town of Fort Gay, W. Va. to stop discharge...

EPA Press Release: U.S., West Virginia Sue Town of Fort Gay for Violations of Clean Water and Safe Drinking Water Acts

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U.S., West Virginia Sue Town of Fort Gay for Violations of Clean Water and Safe Drinking Water Acts (PHILADELPHIA – August 18, 2009) The J...
Saturday, August 15, 2009

Opinion: The Swashbucklers of the New Media

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Garrison Keillor Syndicated Columnist Publication Date: 08/15/09 You know it's going to be a difficult day when you wake up with "G...
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Friday, August 14, 2009

Abuse of Judicial Authority

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A six month sentence for yawning in court? (See ABA Journal article below). A man serving three weeks in jail for yawning in court? It sou...
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American Bar Association Journal: Loud Yawn Lands Court Spectator in Jail; 6-Month Sentence Later Reduced

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Posted Aug 10, 2009, 09:42 am CDT By Debra Cassens Weiss Updated: A spectator in an Illinois courtroom who let out a loud yawn as his cousin...

City Taxpayers Should Not Pay for Architect FRED HALBACK's Faliure to Include Berm in Skate Park -- Record Editorial (Below) Is Spot On!

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FRED HALBACK www.halback.com Margo Pope wrote an excellent editorial (below). The term “Amateur Hour” came to mind Monday night as City Chi...

Skate park neighbors deserve fair shake

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Publication Date: 08/14/09 The new Upchurch Skate Park is a wonderful addition to recreation on Anastasia Island. But its back-fence neighbo...
Thursday, August 13, 2009

Yellow Journaism Editorial (below) typifies the genre of mediocrity in newspapers directed by City Manager WILLIAM B. HARRISS.

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If I owned a newspaper, I would not hire anyone to write news or editorials if they were overly trusting in abusers of authority. That would...

Record editorial: Plaza vendors shouldn't escape sales tax collection

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Publication Date: 08/13/09 As St. Augustine City Attorney Ron Brown rewrites proposed rules for vendor sales in the Plaza de la Constitucion...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009

City Manager WILLIAM B. HARRISS Creates Another Phony "Crisis"

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Photo credit: J.D. Pleasant So City Manager WILLIAM B. HARRISS has created another crisis. He wasn't even here to enjoy it. What a card...

Merchants want plaza reform -- Downtown businesses being 'strangled' by untaxed vendors nearby

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PETER GUINTA peter.guinta@staugustine.com Publication Date: 08/11/09 Twenty unlicensed, untaxed and unregulated vendors on the Plaza de la C...

The Tragedy of the St. Augustine Record

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The St. Augustine Record is no longer printing in St. Augustine for the first time in more than 114 years. Outsourced to the Times-Union in...

Record press staff pros to the end

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Publication Date: 08/08/09 Sunday night was special and sad as The St. Augustine Record closed out its printing press operation after 114-pl...

Letter: Lifeguards' acute sense averts tragedy

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Edward D. Hood, M.D. St. Augustine Publication Date: 08/07/09 Editor: On July 23 at about 4:15 p.m. at beach exit Ocean Trace, my wife and m...
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