Ox-Bow Development: Councilman Meeker Sees Palm Coasters as Business-Hunting Posse
FlaglerLive | September 2, 2010
Frank Meeker would award $1,000 per job over three years for local residents who convince businesses elsewhere to "uproot" themselves and move to Palm
3 comments / Read More »Softball League: Flagler Beach Interviews 3 Hometown Candidates for Manager, Gently
FlaglerLive | September 2, 2010
Easy questions, general answers: that sums up the day's interviews of three familiar faces in Flagler Beach. Commissioner Ron Vath was absent. The show
5 comments / Read More »North By Northwest: State Rejects Palm Coast’s Sprawling Growth Horizon
FlaglerLive | September 1, 2010
While the state approved of Palm Coast's plans to develop the Bulow Creek area, it rejected the city's planned expansion to its west and
11 comments / Read More »3 Local Candidates for Manager on Flagler Beach’s Interviewing Schedule Thursday
FlaglerLive | September 1, 2010
See all eight candidates' resumes, as well as the interviewing schedule of four candidates on Thursday: James P. Gallagher, Caryn Miller, Michael Evans and
No comment / Read More »It’s Raining Taxes, Cont’d: Behind Scenes, County Manager Floats Sales Tax Increase
FlaglerLive | September 1, 2010
One proposal would increase the half-cent sales tax by a super-majority vote of the county commission, bypassing voters.
22 comments / Read More »Where’s Ron Vath? Without Explanation, Flagler Beach Commissioner Is Out Indefinitely
FlaglerLive | August 31, 2010
The 69-year-old commissioner has missed several meetings and is about to miss many more, including budget hearings and interviews with 12 candidates for city
14 comments / Read More »Flagler Student Is Jailed After Setting Off A “Bottle Bomb” at a Bus Stop
FlaglerLive | August 31, 2010
18-year-old Giuseppe Verdone Jr. set off the "bottle bomb" at Bird of Paradise and Biscayne Drive while waiting for a bus to Pathways, the
6 comments / Read More »For First Time in Memory, Flagler School Enrollment Stalls; No Budget Cuts Foreseen Yet
FlaglerLive | August 31, 2010
The 240 additional students the Flagler school district expected this fall haven't materialized, resulting in a projected loss of $1.62 million in state funding.
3 comments / Read More »Should You Be Worried About Hurricane Earl? No (For Now)
FlaglerLive | August 31, 2010
Hurricane Earl is on track to pass some 350 to 400 miles away from Flagler County Thursday and Friday, though the storm will produce
2 comments / Read More »Enterprise Flagler’s Tax and Build Plan Revealed: How They’ll Seek Your Vote
FlaglerLive | August 30, 2010
The 4,200-word plan is presented here uncut, providing readers with a first, comprehensive look at how Enterprise Flagler will sell its tax plan to
31 comments / Read More »THE LIVE COLUMN
Mosque Madness and the Shame of New York
Pierre Tristam | September 3, 2010
As a model of understanding, New York City was once an American redemption. Relatively, anyway. Not anymore, as a majority of New Yorkers are joining the mob-like reaction against an Islamic center near Ground Zero.
No comment / Read More »August Unemployment Up to 9.6% as 54,000 More Jobs Are Lost; 15 Million Unemployed
FlaglerLive | September 3, 2010
Private sector job growth of 67,000 was not enough to overcome a loss of 114,000 in the government sector as more Census workers lost work.
No comment / Read More »Stetson Professor Monique Forte’s Death Attributed to Cocaine Abuse
FlaglerLive | September 2, 2010
Stetson Professor Monique Forte, beloved as a friend and mentor, had been battling mounting stress in her work and personal life.
3 comments / Read More »Variations on Root Canals: Credit Card Fraud from a Dentist Near You
FlaglerLive | September 1, 2010
Beware, consumers: those credit cards with fabulous terms you're getting at your dentist's office may hide seriously rotten business.
No comment / Read More »In 5-2 Ruling, Florida Supreme Court Rejects Ballot Measure Banning Federal Health Reform
FlaglerLive | August 31, 2010
Citing "misleading and ambiguous language," the court rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that would have banned mandated federal health insurance in Florida.
1 comment / Read More »Stetson Scores $610,000 Federal Stimulus Grant to Renovate Labs
FlaglerLive | August 30, 2010
Stetson's grant will renovate its main science building's labs. The grant is part of $3 billion awarded the National Science Foundation in stimulus dollars in 2009.
1 comment / Read More »Culture Worth the (Orlando) Magic: The Week’s Calendar Collage
FlaglerLive | August 30, 2010
Eat royally, save money and support the arts: Orlando's September magical dining experience; the art of collage gains new respectability, and soars to the Magic's heights; Stephen Sondheim's Mad Cow, and more.
No comment / Read More »THE LIVE COLUMN
Neo-Supremacy Chic: Glenn Beck
And Sarah Palin’s Tea-Scalding of MLK
Pierre Tristam | August 28, 2010
Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin's biggest "tea party" rally on the anniversary of Martin Luther King's most famous speech signals the arrival of a neo-supremacist political movement in god's clothing.
165 comments / Read More »Back to School Jam: The Video
FlaglerLive | August 28, 2010
Watch the six-minute video of the Aug. 7 Back to School Jam, where some 2,600 backpacks and school supplies were given away.
No comment / Read More »Tanking GDP: When No One Wants to
Admit to Double-Dipping
FlaglerLive | August 27, 2010
The latest figures darken a picture already gloomy with collapsing home sales and persistently high unemployment. Deflation may be next.
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Quit Surfing. Quit Working. Go Vote.
Unless you have a well articulated political science doctor's note, you have no excuse but to go vote today. Precinct locations and guides included.
Aug 24, 2010 / More »
Latest Crime Reports
A robbery at the Palm Harbor Parkway Kangaroo, a driver passed out drunk at the wheel of his car on Old Kings Road, a mess of electronics robbed from a Shady Oaks Drive
Aug 29, 2010 / More »
Mia Bella’s Dancers: From Non-Existent to National Champions in Seven Months
Brie Valenti opened her Mia Bella dance studio last January at City Walk, and returned from a competition in Tennessee with two national trophies this week for her students and her choreography.
Jul 29, 2010 / More »
Culture Worth the (Orlando) Magic: The Week’s Calendar Collage
Eat royally, save money and support the arts: Orlando's September magical dining experience; the art of collage gains new respectability, and soars to the Magic's heights; Stephen Sondheim's Mad Cow, and more.
Aug 30, 2010 / More »
Emerson: The American Scholar
Emerson's "American Scholar," a graduation speech to Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa, redefined the way Americans saw themselves--as intellectual individuals on their own terms. Take a second look in this season of commencements.
May 29, 2010 / More »
When Even Language Is Taxing: What You Always Wanted to Know About Mills & Millage
Even John Quincy Adams complained almost 200 years ago that few people could figure out the meaning of "mills," and he wasn't even talking about millage rates. Here's an explanation and some history
Jul 31, 2010 / More »
Smetana’s Fatherland: “The Moldau”
For your Sunday fix: "The Moldau" evokes the power of nature and nationalism as if flows through Smetana's Czech fatherland.
May 16, 2010 / More »
$15 Million Short, Federal Insurance Fund Takes Over News-Journal’s Pension Plan
A federal judge ruled against adequately funding News-Journal retirees' pension plan, ordering instead that $40 million in cash and other values should go to Cox, the newspaper's former minority owner.
Aug 19, 2010 / More »
