I can't believe three County Commissioners have spent $35,000 of taxpayer money to convince our own citizens they voted incorrectly on the charter amendment. The charter was just voted down in August by 63 percent. We are not a bunch of "Flintstones."

ST. JOHNS COUNTY — In a letter mailed yesterday, Americans for Prosperity formally challenged the St. Johns County Commission to a publicly held debate discussing the proposed $22 million sales tax increase that will be decided on the November ballot.

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Turning the protester stereotype on its head, well-scrubbed, button-down conservative activists turned out at the Capitol on Friday to protest big government and the $700 billion package it produced to rescue the nation's financial sector.

A coalition of small-government advocates today launched an effort to place a constitutional cap on local government growth on the 2010 ballot.