Features Kyra Arthur delivers jobs for university students in Canada Melissa Doughty Tuesday 19 January 2021 TT-born Kyra Arthur, a student at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, was praised by the university's Career Development and Employment Centre for her effectiveness in enhancing its communications strategies so more students could benefit from its … Former president Donald Trump’s new legal team got off to a shaky start in a legal brief on Tuesday, addressing their arguments to the “Unites States Senate” instead of the United States Senate, the body that will try Mr Trump on 9 February on allegations he incited the 6 January attack on the Capitol. The locations are near Raccoon Point, where ExxonMobil discovered oil in 1978. Wonderful news about a news media antitrust lawsuit that deserves success in federal courts. In a letter in March the Corps said seismic testing led to “channelization” and had done extensive damage to “high quality wet prairie and dwarf cypress” — work the agency said violated federal environmental law. In 2017, the Charleston Gazette-Mail won a Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting for revealing how the pharmaceutical industry was, in essence, poisoning West Virginia communities by shipping them an astonishing overload of opioid pills. ", Citing details contained in the indictment, the statement said: "The efforts included payments to certain clerks’ campaign committees, donations to charities supported by certain clerks, financial sponsorship of events hosted by certain clerks, and free or discounted 'robocalls' made by Penn Credit on behalf of certain clerks’ campaigns.". “The report concludes that access to court records, both in person and online, was routinely delayed. “She spun around. In Florida, the clerks profit from the use of the electronic gateway and sell copies of records at the courthouse but, unlike clerks in other states, they do not charge for the records online. Shortly after the March 14, 2019 federal bribery and conspiracy indictment of PENN CREDIT CORP. and owner DONALD DONAGHER, JR., Brevard County officials promised to look into the matter, as reported by GANNETT's Florida Today newspaper. JONATHAN MILNE/LIGHTHAWK. Meanwhile, GANNETT's St. Augustine Record ignored the story, never reporting that HUNTER SINCLAIR CONRAD, Clerk of Courts and Comptroller, was "Clerk E" in the federal grand jury indictment. Holding Zoom meetings will help maximize public participation in a time of global pandemic. This would lead to his next position — but a reactivation by the Florida National Guard in 2003 to go to war in the Middle East delayed those plans by nearly two years. Upon graduation from St. Joseph Academy, he went into active duty with the US Army. His most recent position before he became St. Johns County’s new sheriff was as head of the St.Augustine Beach Police Department. “I was actually hired by the State Attorney as assistant chief investigator while I was deployed,” Hardwick said. The employee, who was not identified by name, filed a complaint against Hernandez, in which she said that he “disregarded her verbal instruction not to touch her, and then embraced her against her will.”. Airline stocks rose sharply on news of the new funding, with American Airlines up 4.2%, while United Airlines gained 5% and Southwest Airlines jumped nearly 6%. So a third explanation has been advanced, that their stated desire to protect privacy is an appealing political plank to put out to their constituents and ensure reelection. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers last year said Burnett had caused damage to sensitive habitats in Big Cypress, violating the Clean Water Act. It is 19% smaller than the overall U.S. average. The indictment said that, at the time the donation was made, Donagher wanted Ivey to call and let Ellis know Donagher was "a good guy," and that Donagher didn’t want to lose his contract with the Brevard County Clerk of the Court. The more than 60 election suits, none of which were successful in changing the election results or discovering evidence of massive voter fraud, also contained numerous factual blunders, such as accidentally arguing malfunctioning voting machines boosted Donald Trump and referring to a non-existent county in Michigan. The Florida clerks are likely to make a last-ditch stand against the change. From Courthouse News Service: The Florida Supreme Court strikes down an old rule requiring that court clerks find and redact private information in public records, based on damage caused to the principle of timely access. She added that it’s unclear what the company would do to transport the oil for refining, and how it would manage wastewater and other byproducts of oil drilling in such a sensitive ecosystem. David Hernandez was “not fully forthcoming and not truthful” about allegations from his co-worker during an investigation on the July incident. Here's an idea our local governments should implement. According to the indictment, around February 2013, Donagher met with Brevard County Clerk of Courts Scott Ellis and members of Ellis' staff to discuss the bidding process for a debt collection contract. Steven Darling Jr., Brevard County's purchasing services and contracts manager, said one option the county has is to unilaterally end the contract — without citing a reason — if the county provides 30 days' written notice to Penn. Exclusive: Congressional Democrats set to back mor... Brevard to re-examine active contract with Penn Cr... Meet new St. Johns County Sheriff Rob Hardwick. Tyler Vazquez, J.D. So the question remained as to why they would try to hang onto it like a dog hanging onto a bone. The seismic work was being done under a permit granted by the National Park Service. The $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief proposal will provide $30 billion to transit agencies, $14 billion for passenger airlines, $8 billion to U.S. airports, $1 billion for airline contractors and $1.5 billion to Amtrak, the draft legislation says. But since drilling would be happening horizontally underground, covering a large area, there is a risk to water resources under the preserve and beyond, said Alison Kelly, senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council. Hardwick moved with his family to St. Augustine as a young boy when his father decided to move his business, Hardwick Fence, to the area. The shake-ups followed the departure of five lawyers from Mr Trump’s impeachment team in recent days. : Supreme Court Eliminates Requirement That Court Clerks Independently Search for Confidential Info in Civil Filings.”, Under the headline, a succinct summary added, “Thomas & LoCicero, on behalf of a coalition of news media organizations, published a report concluding that access to court records was routinely delayed because clerks had to review and redact every filing prior to allowing access.”. With new St. Johns County Sheriff Rob Hardwick’s career spanning military service and a variety of law enforcement positions, he believed the timing was right in 2020 for a new challenge. The clerk’s office, however, did not select the company or its services. Emergency Contact | Student Helpdesk | Staff Directory, Copyright 2015 The University of the West Indies St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, Accreditation Council of Trinidad & Tobago. The $3 billion aviation manufacturing program would provide a 50% government subsidy to cover costs of pay, benefits and training for employees at risk of being furloughed or who were furloughed due to the pandemic. The two most prominent explanations are that one, clerks treat the public records as a part of their fiefdoms and want to release them when they are good and ready, and two, that they profit from full control of the public records, primarily by selling copies. He came home, got married to high school sweetheart Kendall, began taking college courses (something he did part time for several years before finally earning a bachelor’s degree from Flagler College and a Masters from Barry University) and started working in the Florida Department of Corrections at the Tomoka Correctional Institute in Daytona Beach. There are flickers of hope for local journalism. (Courthouse News Service), “This court has previously expressed its commitment to safeguard the public’s right of access to court records,” said an, US Judge in Decade-Long Struggle Affirms First Amendment Right to Access ‘On Receipt’, National Press Corps Enters First Amendment Fray to See Court Filings on Same Day. In pressing her argument, LoCicero put together a report based on the travels of Courthouse News bureau chief Ryan Abbott who in late 2018 chronicled the extensive delays in access to new records in Florida courts, from south to north, large and small. The media can be glad for the Biden White House’s return to normalcy. TIM CHAPMAN  MIAMI HERALD STAFF. HD Media became its owner with the leading bid at auction. When the preserve was created in 1974, the National Park Service, which manages the area, allowed the Collier family, which owned part of the land, to continue to drill for oil in areas north of Alligator Alley and east of what is now the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge. dollars in 2019, for example — while newspapers have been struggling to replace the print-ad dollars that once sustained them. Representatives of Brevard County Property Appraiser's Office, Brevard County Supervisor of Elections Office and Brevard County Tax Collector's Office said those government entities do not have dealings with Penn Credit. Ask questions. GETTY IMAGES. The Corps concluded that there was “no clear evidence of any residual adverse effects from Burnett’s activities on the hydrology or biology of Big Cypress.”. Conservation groups sent a letter to DEP’s Secretary Noah Valenstein and to the National Park Service this week opposing the company’s request and complaining about the lack of transparency in the process. It’s often said that timing is everything. Fox News is a hazard to our democracy. No other state or federal court in the nation has enacted such a rule. There's a tone of contempt to anti-maskers when they ululate, whether at government meetings or in Facebook posts. For many years, both companies have contributed to journalistic causes — helping newsrooms with their digital strategies, sponsoring industry events, sharing revenue and directing readership through various initiatives. “I’d like to thank voters for their overwhelming support,” Hardwick said. Oil exploration in Big Cypress has been going on since the 1940s. But given the importance of their quest, we can wish them godspeed. The very next year, the paper declared bankruptcy. Federal prosecutors said Donagher "met with (Ivey) and asked the sheriff to call (Ellis).". Is there still time for an industry to get up off its deathbed? In many of the courts Abbott visited, the clerk and the staff were friendly toward the press and frustrated by the redaction duty. The clerks association has since extracted millions of dollars from that gateway through “convenience fees.”. Brevard School District Chief Financial Officer Pennie Zuercher said she is not aware of any dealings between the school district and Penn Credit. The high court focused on the right of timely access to new court records and the old rule’s noxious effect of delaying access to the public record of the courts. During his tenure, the agency was accredited and re-accredited each year for his eight years. Florida, one of the states that became one of the largest U.S. coronavirus hotspots in the early months of the pandemic, has had more than 1.7 million recorded coronavirus infections and more than 27,000 fatalities as a result of the virus, according to the state’s health department. Advantages & Disadvantages of St. Augustine Grass. Advocates said at the time it was “suspicious” that the agency would change its mind about damage that had been documented at Big Cypress. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in the U.S. Congress are to release a sweeping plan on Monday to provide more than $50 billion in additional assistance to U.S. airlines, transit systems, airports and passenger railroad Amtrak and create a $3 billion program to assist aviation manufacturers with payroll costs, according to documents seen by Reuters and sources briefed on the matter. He stopped in the fall of 2018 in the small town of Madison, with a population of 3,000, in a region of former cotton plantations along the northern border of Florida. Attorneys for Donagher have denied claims of wrongdoing. May he learn his lesson. As a paratrooper, his first combat tour was with the 82nd Airborne during Desert Storm. Google and Facebook have said little publicly  in response to the new suit, and have maintained that Jedi Blue agreement was legal and aboveboard. A map attached to the permit applications shows the proposed site for a well pad. But, in representing the papers, he finds himself inspired by the famous “Braveheart” scene where Mel Gibson’s character leads an against-the-odds charge with an exultant cry of “Freedom!”. He served four years and then went into the reserves with the Florida National Guard. They are doing vital work. U.S. House committees are set to vote on the legislation on Wednesday. St. Augustine-area historical tornado activity is slightly below Florida state average. A few years later, oil was discovered in an area southwest of the Miccosukee reservation, and new wells were drilled. Our 7 faculties, professional schools offer more than 200 programs to some 15,000 graduate, undergraduate and continuing studies students. Go to, The two behemoth companies have pocketed billions of dollars in ad revenue —. “He was very genuine and told me they would make every effort to redact the files we need as quickly as they could,” said Abbott. Make disclosures. President Joe Biden had proposed $20 billion for struggling U.S. transit agencies - and nothing for airlines - while Democrats had pushed for more transit help, citing the collapse in travel demand as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a review of the case obtained by the Orlando Sentinel, the Longwood Police Department found that Cpl. Previously she covered climate change, business, political and general news as a correspondent for the world’s top news organizations: Thomson Reuters, Dow Jones - The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg, based in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Paris and Santiago. As described in the Tour of Florida, Abbott walked into the courthouse and found the clerk’s office. They all place the duty to check for privacy on the filing lawyer. “I didn’t know a darn thing about this subject a few years ago,” Eyre told me in 2017, “but over time you can specialize and become an expert.”. On 4/15/1958, a category F3 (max. Goodbye to the hometown paper: Margaret Sullivan has watched the decline of local news with growing alarm. (Miami Herald), Exclusive: Congressional Democrats set to back more than $50 billion for transportation sector. That’s not ‘cancel culture.’. U.S. airplane manufacturer Boeing and suppliers have cut thousands of manufacturing jobs over the last year as demand for new planes has shrunk amid the collapse in airline travel. Career-wise, Hardwick’s experience is diverse. Expect democracy. 4,340 jobs available in Saint Augustine, FL on Indeed.com. But with only three full-time reporters, they can’t cover the area the way two robust newspapers once did. These ham-and-egger-lawyers might not be scholars, but their lack of proof-reading shows their shoddy attitude toward the entire case. Burnett Oil Co., which already did seismic testing to look for oil in Big Cypress in 2017 and 2018, filed two applications to Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection to fill in wetlands and build new infrastructure south of Interstate 75. The email lists Mothers Against Drunk Driving as another recipient of a donation. Donagher persisted with the offers, even after learning of Ellis’ practice of not accepting campaign contributions or other gifts from those seeking to do business with the office, according to the indictment. And for residents without Internet access or tech savvy, their journalism may go unseen, though they offer it free to newspapers across the state. winning investigative reporter and some of its top editors had decamped to a new, nonprofit newsroom, =, Mountain State Spotlight. ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — The 10th bishop of the Catholic Diocese of St. Augustine will officially submit a letter of resignation to Pope Francis on Feb. 5, according to diocesan officials. “When the software is not broken, and a complaint image is successfully sent over to the clerk’s office, it must be hand-redacted by court personnel before it becomes public,” said the Miami entry of the Tour of Florida. Transit agencies have previously been awarded $39 billion in emergency assistance by Congress. For a newsroom of fewer than 50 employees, winning a Pulitzer was a triumphant moment, a demonstration that the paper could still live up to its proud, long-held mission of “sustained outrage” against wrongdoing. “We are fighting not only for the future of the press but also the preservation of our democracy,” said Doug Reynolds, the company’s managing partner, in a statement last week. US Judge in Decade-Long Struggle Affirms First Amendment Right to Access ‘On Receipt’January 27, 2021In "Civil Rights", Access Law in the Electronic AgeMarch 10, 2020In "Civil Rights", National Press Corps Enters First Amendment Fray to See Court Filings on Same DayJuly 7, 2020In "Appeals", Help continue the triumph of democracy, investigative reporting, environmental protection, historic preservation and honest government. In the permit applications, Burnett provides a proposed timeline for its exploration plans: begin building the site in December 2021, start drilling in June 2022 and begin production about 12 weeks after that. The Zoom meetings are set for the following dates. Later, I was blessed to have several of the world's best proofreaders, God rest their souls, including the late David Brian Wallace, and the late retired U.S. Department of Labor Chief Administrative Law Judge Nahum Litt (1979-1995), who was also Civil Aeronautics Board Chief Judge (1977-79). The indictment also details a Dec. 16, 2014, meeting with Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey and Titusville Fire Chief Michael Woodward. Be involved. We're transforming our City -- advanced citizenship. Brevard County Sheriff's Office spokesman Tod Goodyear on Friday said the BCSO "never had a business relationship with (Donagher) or a contract with him, or anything like that. U.S. airlines have been awarded $40 billion in payroll support since March and airline unions had asked Congress for another $15 billion to keep thousands of workers on the payroll past March 31, when the current round of funding expires. (Ponte Vedra NewsLine, The CreekLine), Florida officer fired for alleged physical harassment, taunting colleague for fears of COVID-19. Now as sheriff of St. Johns County, Hardwick has begun the task of molding SJSO into his vision. (The Hill), These local newspapers say Facebook and Google are killing them. Now they’re fighting back. Operating quietly and with speed, the state’s elected clerks took over the electronic gateway to the courthouse early in the chaotic jump between paper and electronic realms. Our 7 faculties, professional schools offer more than 200 programs to some 15,000 graduate, undergraduate and continuing studies students. I am forever grateful for FIJ support and grateful for the advisce from experts, including the late Harvard Law School antitrust scholar Philip Areeda (who now has an HLS building named for him). Relationships between the Sheriff’s Office with the Board of County Commissioners, the St. Johns County School Board, local businesses and the faith community are all key, he said. He attended Catholic schools and graduated from St. Joseph Academy, where he met his wife, Kendall, whom he calls his “best friend.” The couple will celebrate their 30th anniversary in April and have two adult sons: Cole, a graduate of Florida State University and law school graduate who works locally, and Brett, a Flagler College graduate who is a Chinook helicopter pilot in the Florida National Guard. Rob Hardwick and family on the morning of his swearing in as St. Johns County Sheriff, Jan. 5, 2021. The Facebook Live stream will allow people to comment in real-time and the video can also be rewatched following the initial stream and additional comments can continue to be made. Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, who opposed the state taking over wetlands permitting because it would eliminate federal oversight she says is crucial for the protection of Florida’s environment, criticized the applications. It will remain available for comment at any time in the future. He … Donagher is a resident of Palm Beach Gardens and of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. The people behind this antitrust lawsuit hope to find out. Report: Tour of Florida Courthouses to Access Court Records, Texas-based oil company applies to build well pads and roads in the Everglades. The Charleston newspaper went bankrupt as a result of collusion between Facebook and Google, the complaint alleges. “The clerks support the current rule and have hawkishly served as the primary protectors of confidential information,” said the association in an earlier letter. The Sentinel reported that there was currently no criminal investigation being pursued based on a specific request from the woman who filed the complaint. The mistakes come after the former president announced two new lead lawyers on Sunday, including David Schoen, who’d discussed representing Jeffrey Epstein before his death by suicide in 2019. “Based on existing production within the Preserve and new seismic data, we are confident that our proposed wells will be economical and not merely exploratory,” she said in emailed response to questions. The report also suggests the primary reason for the delays is because the clerks of court are responsible for reviewing and redacting every filing prior to allowing access,” the note added. “This was more than sufficient indication for you to know to stop trying to embrace her; however you ignored her comments and moments later embraced her,” Dowda added. Enough already. Sign up for the Afternoon Update and get the day’s biggest stories in your inbox. Not mentioned in the indictment is a contract the company has with Brevard County government that currently involves debt collection services for four county departments. The sign will be placed on the island between South Illinois Avenue (state Highway 62) and Bethel Valley Road as drivers come off the Solway bridge heading toward the city and exit to Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Y-12, a city news release stated. The rule gave them a reason to deny public access, for weeks or indefinitely until they received a specific request. Be involved. Penn received a percentage of the money it collects from people who owe Brevard County money, with the current arrangement being 16 percent if the debt is collected without the use of an attorney and 20 percent if an attorney is involved. The first Zoom meeting will take place Wednesday, Feb. 17, from 9:30 to 10:15 a.m. In taking control of the gateway and the public records that went through it, the clerks were helped by a 2010 rule that imposed on them an independent duty to search records and redact private information. Hardwick was moved to the detective unit, where he worked closely with the State Attorney’s office and often testified in court cases. According to Darling, the Brevard County Clerk of the Court's Office currently has three other companies performing collection service work. But just a month later, the Corps reversed its assessment and said it had “engaged with the staff at Big Cypress and re-evaluated all of the current and available information” related to Burnett’s exploratory activities. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) President Robert Martinez urged lawmakers to back the effort to provide payroll assistance to “help this critical workforce and supply chain weather the storm of this historic pandemic.”, Reporting by David Shepardson, Editing by Franklin Paul and Dan Grebler. Organized citizens exposed and defeated pollution, racism and cronyism. We shall overcome! Alia Faraj-Johnson, a spokesperson at Burnett, said the purpose of the applications is to request access to privately owned mineral prospects “by way of a small limestone pad accessed by single-lane limestone road.”. View the Saint Augustine, FL waste services. Demand answers. Environmentalists, who have opposed the industry’s sporadic plans to expand exploration and drilling in an important freshwater wetland, were surprised by the applications. 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. His career continued with a stint with the St. Augustine City Police Department in the mid-1990s. The grants cover up to 25% of a company’s U.S. workforce. Then CONRAD was elected CLERK over Mr. Lareau in 2016. I asked to see it, she sent it across the counter,” said Abbott. Deaths in truck crashes keep rising as your govern... Executive Order 13988: Preventing and Combating Di... More racist Georgia police caught on video (NBC News). “We became aware of these permit applications as a result of an exploratory search of the Department’s new Section 404 permit program database. “There is no financial stake large enough,” to make up for what’s happened to the newspaper industry in the past two decades, said Farrell,  the lead lawyer in HD Media’s suit against the tech giants. In the Tour of Florida, bureau chief Abbott and reporter Marilyn Aciego chronicled how the redaction responsibility caused clerks to simply “lock” public documents — conveyed on the clerk’s website by an image of a padlock superimposed on document icons. Make disclosures. Antitrust was my first love in the law, going back to undergraduate school work investigating Howard Baker and coal monopolies in East Tennessee, empowered by a Fund for Investigative Journalism Grant. FEBRUARY 8, 202112:48 PMUPDATED 8 HOURS AGO. Dealing with the mental health crisis is a priority. “It is truly ‘in your face’ policing, with no car to protect you and I found it very satisfying.”. Within hours after its release, the Media Law Resource Center, a nonprofit organization supported by many news outlets including Courthouse News, linked to the opinion in its “MediaLawDaily,” with a headline that said, “Fla . Local NBC affiliate WESH reported that at one point the woman struggled to free herself from Hernandez, causing her to injure her finger and back. The legal memo, which (sic) argues the president can’t be impeached after leaving office, was exercising his free speech rights criticising the election, and didn’t cause the riot, also contains, for the true grammariansout there, a missing apostrophe. To paraphrase the Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, our environment is "smeared, bleared and teared" with petroleum. “They try to make up for what they’ve done by donating huge sums of money to support local journalism while they’re killing local journalism,” he told me. Mark Lowry, a Christian singer, songwriter and comedian, was born in Houston, Texas, June 24, 1958, to Charles Lowry, an attorney, and Bev Lowry, a singer, songwriter and pianist. The UWI, St. Augustine ranks first in Trinidad and Tobago among accredited tertiary-level programmes. I hope they win. Report and expose corruption. “So all the civil complaints got sidetracked for redaction review.”. In Thursday’s opinion, the Supreme Court wrote, “Since Subdivision (d)(1) was adopted, however, news media organizations in Florida have reported concerning delays in their access to nonconfidential court records, in part due to the requirement that the clerks of court independently review all new filings for confidential information. Attention Customers: We're excited to announce that Waste Management, North America's leading environmental solutions provider, has acquired Advanced Disposal. The two meetings will be audio- and video-recorded and subtitles will appear on screen for those who are hearing-impaired. The company also said in the application that it’s proposing to use directional drilling from a single well pad to minimize environmental impact at the sites. Florida officer fired for alleged physical harassment, taunting colleague for fears of COVID-19, BY CELINE CASTRONUOVO - 02/06/21 10:54 PM EST  418. Search for and apply to open jobs from APTA's Career Center. Would the newspaper industry be healthier — and therefore would our democracy be healthier? Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. Expect democracy. Those who care about local newspapers may not love the little guys’ chances in this David-vs.-Goliath situation. Ask questions. The city of Oak Ridge invites the public to participate in a series of virtual public input sessions on the design of a new Oak Ridge gateway sign that visitors and residents will pass on their way into the city. “I want to make sure we have the best partnerships with all these groups and everybody knows we are ‘all in,’” he said. HD Media, which owns not only the Gazette-Mail but the Herald-Dispatch in Huntington and several weekly papers, is urging “every other newspaper in America” to join their suit. We elected a new Mayor. Nationwide, more than 2,000 local newspapers have shuttered since 2004; half of all newsroom jobs have been eliminated. Help enact a St. Augustine National Park and Seashore. Proud of our Florida Supreme Court, which is once again a bulwark of protection against encroachments on our constitutional Right to Know about our Government. More:Debt collector indicted on charges he tried to bribe court clerk offices - including Brevard County.

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