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Flagler’s Adult and Community Education and FTI Announce Winter 2013 Classes

| December 17, 2012

The Flagler County Schools’ Adult and Community Education Department announces the beginning of the Winter 2013 semester of classes. Winter Session will begin January 7, 2013. Students may register by phone from December 17 – 21 and January 2 – 9 by calling (386) 597-5480.

Kangaroo Express Donates $110,000 To Florida Hospital’s Breast Cancer Pink Army

| December 7, 2012

Florida Hospital Flagler received approximately $37,000 of the sums raised ntirely by customers’ donations at the Kangaroo Express registers throughout October in several counties, with the balance going to other Florida Hospital campuses.

Breathalyzer Risks, MTV’s West Virginia, Classical Music’s Women Problem: Five Reads Friday

| December 7, 2012

Breathalyzer tests aren’t always in your best interest, nor are so-called anti-terrorism fusion centers; MTV takes on West Virginia, Mo Yan’s Nobel lecture, Liu Xiaobo’s “No Enemies,” classical music has a women problem, and Flagler County jail bookings.

Morning Sickness: From Kate Middleton To a Dead Woman on I-95

| December 6, 2012

Between a nameless, homeless woman killed on I-95 Wednesday evening and Kate Middleton’s pregnancy, only one of those two items is news. Our media’s pornographic interest in royal exhibitionism ensures that it’s the wrong one every time.

So Long, Dave Brubeck (1920-2012)

| December 5, 2012

Dave Brubeck died on Dec. 5, a day shy of his 92nd birthday, after helping to repopularize jazz at a time when younger listeners had been trained to the sonic dimensions of the three-minute pop single.

Pickering Report: Driest November Since at Least 1994, Ending Active Hurricane Season

| December 3, 2012

Rainfall amounts for the year in Flagler County still remain near normal even though it has been dry this past month, according to ECO’s Bob Pickering, while NOAA recaps an active hurricane season with 19 named storms, 10 of them hurricanes.

Taxes Lower Than in the Reagan Era, Baldwin on Malcom X, Bach’s Purity: Five Reads Friday

| November 30, 2012

Your taxes are lower today than during Reagan’s 80s, Israel’s cynical retaliations in Jerusalem, James Baldwin on Malcolm X, women in Congress, America’s Cold War plans to nuke the Moon, cancer in every food, and Johan Sebastian Bach, pure and impure, plus Flagler jail bookings.

Robert Gill’s Mark Twain Takes Palm Coast at City Repertory Theatre

| November 29, 2012

Robert Gill has taken Mark Twain all over Florida, performing in Jacksonville, Orlando, Avon Park, and St. Augustine, but this will be the Palm Coast debut, and it flows with whiskey and irreverence.

Obama’s Third Term, Britain’s War on the Press, Atheist Muslims: Five Reads Thursday

| November 29, 2012

The Obama third-term conspiracy theory, Islam’s atheists coming out of the closet, Britain’s Leveson report on the press, boorish parents, and whether women want to be objectified, plus those lost Powerballs.

Mocking the Pledge of Allegiance

| November 25, 2012

A reporter is fired after only reluctantly mentioning that a city councilman refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance in the latest example of ignorance replacing the very values the Pledge stands for, values that apply especially for those who choose to sit it out.

Rubio’s Creationism, Boys’ Body Image, a Firing Over the Pledge of Allegiance: Five Reads Friday

| November 23, 2012

Marco Rubio doesn;t know how old Planet Earth is, boys are becoming as self-obsessed about their bodies as girls, a reporter is fired for not reporting a politician’s refusal to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, a Hitchens post-script on waterboarding, and those jail bookings.

Election Post-Mortem

| November 20, 2012

Democracy, or Rule of the People, is still the name of the ridiculously idealistic vision of organizing all of the infinite variations of the delightful human tadpole into a semblance of a community that functions nearly as well as a coterie of Prairie Dogs. We aren’t there yet, but we’re working on it.

Gen. Petraeus’s Phony Heroism and Obama’s Inner LBJ: Six Reads Monday

| November 19, 2012

David Petraeus as a phony hero for a phony war, Republicans’ phony math, Obama’s yin-yang as JFK and LBJ, the mounting massacre in Gaza, family leave’s better countries, trick or treating cocaine, Donald Trump’s boorishness on tape, and the Flagler County jail bookings.

Daytona State Launches Social Media Course This Spring, Available Online (Naturally)

| November 8, 2012

Daytona State College is offering Social Media Marketing, a college-credit, stand-alone course launching this spring semester, along with a parallel course, Advertising. Both courses will be offered online.

Election Antidote: A Schubert Sonata

| October 31, 2012

Between smarmy candidates who speak like hobbits on furlough from Neverland and the increasing juvenilia of the presidential campaign, there’s not enough oxycodone on earth to dull the torture. But there’s Schubert.

Rotary Club of Flagler County Donates 1,000 Dictionaries to 3rd Graders

| October 30, 2012

The Rotary Club of Flagler County is donating 1,032 dictionaries to third grade students of Flagler County Public Schools. The presentation will take place on Tuesday, October 30 shortly after the noon meeting begins, at The Grand Club at Pine Lakes Golf Course, 400 Pine Lakes Parkway N, in Palm Coast.

Big Storm Requires Big Government: Five Reads Tuesday

| October 30, 2012

Mitt Romney wants to send FEMA’s responsibilities to the states. Hurricane Sandy proves him wrong. Joseph Stiglitz on inequality, Bahrain, an American ally, bans all protests, coal mining’s bigger costs, the FBI’s cell-phone stingrays, and Flagler jail bookings.

Flagler County Library’s 2012 Teen Photography Contest Winners Announced

| October 25, 2012

The winners, in a contest made possible by the Friends of the Library, are Anila Lahiri, Melanie Kantasee, Mary Thompson and Madison Gibbs. Their original works will be on display at the Flagler County Public Library until the end of November.

Global Warming Silence from Romney and Obama: Five Reads Thursday

| October 25, 2012

Global warming is the nonexistent issue in the Romney-Obama campaign, I-4 as the road to the White House, a Biden tell-all, justifying obscenely expensive meals, Voyager’s continuing outer-space miracle.

Yes Virginia, Government Does Create Jobs: Five Reads Tuesday

| October 23, 2012

Government’s powerful and necessary job-creation engine, Romney tries to bail himself out of telling Detroit to drop dead, the joys of assisted suicide, Hef explains Playboy to William F. Buckley, young people’s reading and library habits, young adult slackers, and Flagler Jail bookings.

Watch the Presidential Debates in Full

| October 22, 2012

In case you cannot get to a television–or in case you’re at work, or on a dull date, with your iPhone in your lap–we’re embedding Google’s YouTube feed of tonight’s presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.

The Psychology of Ignorance and How the Tea Party Is Helping Democrats: Five Reads Friday

| October 19, 2012

The tea party is helping Democrats hold on to the U.S. Senate, Jon Stewart with Bill O’Reilly and Chris Wallace, an undercover cop in a Clay County charter elementary school, bombing Beirut, and the Flagler County jail bookings.

The Orlando Sentinel Endorses Romney

| October 19, 2012

Right-wingers’ elation at the Romney endorsement aside, to call the Orlando Sentinel liberal of course is to seriously misread the house organ of the Florida Chamber of Commerce, central Florida edition.

Obama Wins Romney’s Binders Full of Women: Five Reads Wednesday

| October 17, 2012

Obama wins the second one but not overwhelmingly, the lame rules of corporate debates, Romney’s binders of women, the Cuban missile crisis’s eyeball-to-eyeball myth, half your facts are wrong, a polarized electorate, Flagler jail bookings.

Environmentalist Lawyer Clay Henderson Is Stetson’s George and Mary Hood Award Recipient

| October 16, 2012

Clay Henderson, the New Smyrna Beach lawyer and environmentalist who’s leaving his mark on Florida’s geography, is the 2012 recipient of Stetson University’s George and Mary Hood Award, one of the university’s most prestigious honors.

Military Dollars Vote Obama, Early Voting Wins in Ohio: Five Reads Tuesday

| October 16, 2012

Obama is outraising Romney by almost 2-to-1 from military donors, the U.S. Supreme Court rejects a GOP attempt to limit early voting in Ohio, a video on why debates matter, torture at the Chicago police, humans at their fittest ever, plus Flagler jail bookings.

Farrakhan to Obama: Be A Little Black, Flipping Houses Booms Again: Five Reads Monday

| October 15, 2012

Farrakhan suggests to Obama to “be a little black” at his next debate, Mitt Romney’s weird idea of tax studies, flipping houses booms again, Stephen Fry on swearing, the HPV vaccine and teen girls’ promiscuity (no connection), Lloyd Shapley and Alvin Roth’s Nobel, and Flagler County jail bookings.

Biden Bites Back, Drones Kill, Pot Gains: Five Reads Friday

| October 12, 2012

Joe Biden restores order in the Democratic universe, Obama’s drone war, the police’s embrace of legalized marijuana, the European Union wins the Nobel peace prize, the psychology of big-wave surfing, and the usual Flagler jail bookings.

Seniors Are Overspending on Medicare’s Prescription Drug Plan

| October 11, 2012

Seniors spent on average $368 more than they needed to on drug coverage through Medicare Part D plans, their decisions complicated by the sheer volume of plans available–1,736 in all–and difficulties involved in determining what makes a plan a good choice, a Health Affairs study finds.

Mo Yan, China’s Rabelais, Wins Literature Nobel: Five Reads Thursday

| October 11, 2012

A Deepwater Horizon-type slick forms in the Gulf, Florida wants to double charter school enrollment, Florida tops the foreclosure charts again, Gail Collins explains Democrats’ bipolar disorder, Mo Yan tells the story of modern China, and Flagler’s jail bookings.

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