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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, October 9, 2025

October 9, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

ICE attacks by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com

The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded this morning, Evenings at Whitney Lecture Series explores the skeletons of dinosaurs, The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, ‘Sweeney Todd’ at Athens Theatre, Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, October 8, 2025

October 8, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Electric grid and AI data center demands by John Cole, The Scranton Times-Tribune.

Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk, the TPO’s Bicycle/Pedestrian Advisory Committee meets, The Atlantic Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State meets, Weekly Chess Club for Teens at the county library.

AI’s Energy Consumption and Data Center Efficiency

October 7, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

chillers on the roof of a data center from above, work to cool the equipment inside the building.

Artificial intelligence is growing fast, and so are the number of computers that power it. Behind the scenes, this rapid growth is putting a huge strain on the data centers that run AI models. These facilities are using more energy than ever.

Florida Has No Clue How Many Kids Have Lost Health Coverage Since DeSantis Refusal to Comply with Eligibility Rule

October 7, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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In 2023. the Legislature ordered that children in families making up to 300 percent of the poverty level be eligible for KidCare, not 200 percent. The DeSantis administration has refused to comply, sticking with 200 percent, and causing enrollment to fall. But Brian Meyer, the state’s top Medicaid official, couldn’t answer a simple question: How many children have been disenrolled from the program because their families haven’t paid the premiums.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, October 7, 2025

October 7, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Hegseth Preaches Warrior Ethos by Monte Wolverton, Battle Ground, Washington.

The Palm Coast City Council, Flagler Beach’s and Bunnell’s planning boards all meet, when Nixon was claiming he would not use personal attacks in the same issue of the New York Times that led to the Sullivan ruling, Anthony Lewis on “Make No Law.”

Florida Attorney General Leads 21 States Backing ‘Parental Rights’ Over Child’s Gender Privacy in Court Case

October 6, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

An image on January Littlejohn's Facebook page, posted Sept. 22.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier led 21 states in a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court Monday supporting a Tallahassee mother who claimed her rights were violated when a local middle school created a secret plan supporting her child switching genders.

The Supreme Court Resumes Its Rightward Reel

October 6, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The U.S. Supreme Court building at dawn in Washington, D.C.

This year’s controversies at the Supreme Court focus on three dominant themes. One is the continuing constitutional revolution in how the justices read our basic law. The court has shifted from a living reading of the Constitution, which says the Constitution should adapt to the American people’s evolving values and the needs of contemporary society, to an original reading, which aims to enforce the constitutional principles understood by the Americans who ratified them.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, October 6, 2025

October 6, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

peace plan Gaza by Arend van Dam, politicalcartoons.com

The Flagler County Commission meets in the morning, the Beverly Beach Town Commission meets in the evening, and the Mediterranean brings back all sorts of memories from Homer to Braudel.

The US Edges Closer to War Footing with Venezuela

October 5, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

U.S. Marines park a Lockheed Martin F-35B fighter aircraft at Naval Station Roosevelt Roads in Puerto Rico on Sept 13, 2025.

For many in Venezuela, the question is no longer whether tensions with Washington will reach a boiling point – they already have. Rather, the big unknown now is whether the U.S. will follow up on threats and the sinking of drug boats with something more drastic: direct military engagement or even regime change.

Do ‘Conversion Therapy’ Bans Violate Free Speech?

October 5, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Points of view are protected by the First Amendment. Medical therapy is not a point of view. (Wikimedia Commons)

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Tuesday in a challenge to Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy” – treatment intended to change a client’s sexual orientation or gender identity – for young people. Kaley Chiles, a therapist in Colorado Springs and a practicing Christian, argues that the ban violates her right to free speech because it imposes “a gag order on counselors.” Colorado counters that the ban merely regulates the treatments that mental health professionals can provide because conversion therapy has been found to be “unsafe and ineffective.”

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, October 5, 2025

October 5, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Clay Jones shutdown

Final day of the Creekside Music and Arts Festival at Princess Place Preserve, final chance to see ‘Avenue Q,’ at City Repertory Theatre, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, ‘Sweeney Todd’ at Athens Theatre in DeLand, the wonderful George Hanns turns 79.

The Shutdown and the Battle Over Obamacare Subsidies

October 4, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Democrats demanded that Republicans negotiate with them on ACA subsidies and Medicaid cuts.

In the lead-up to the current shutdown, Republicans needed Democratic votes in the Senate to pass a bill that would keep funding the government at existing levels at least until November. In return for their support, Democrats sought several concessions. A major one was to extend subsidies for ACA insurance policy premiums, which were established during the COVID-19 pandemic. These subsidies addressed a shortcoming in the ACA by decreasing premiums for millions of Americans – and they played a crucial role in more than doubling enrollment in the ACA marketplaces.

Privatizing the VA Is a Disaster in the Making for Veterans

October 4, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

They're not just props for ceremonies. (Department of Defense)

The VA MISSION Act of 2018, passed under President Trump’s first term, established a parallel private network, the Veterans Community Care Program (VCCP). The VCCP now sees 60 percent of VA patients and eats up over $30 billion a year that could go to hiring more staff and improving the VA’s aging infrastructure. This year, VA Secretary Doug Collins asked Congress for a 50 percent increase in VCCP funding and — in an unprecedented move — a reduction in VA funding.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, October 4, 2025

October 4, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Trump Is The Madman Of The United Nations by R.J. Matson, Portland, Maine.

Creekside Music and Arts Festival at Princess Place Preserve postponed, ‘Avenue Q,’ at City Repertory Theatre, The Flagler Beach All Stars hold their monthly beach clean-up, Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy at Cinematique in Daytona Beach, the American Dream.

George Washington’s Lesson to Pete Hegseth

October 3, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

Hegseth envy. (© FlaglerLive)

Washington’s overall vision of a military leader could not be further from Hegseth’s vision of the tough warrior. For starters, Washington would have found the concern with “fat generals” irrelevant. Some of the most capable officers in the Continental Army were famously overweight. Washington became a soldier not because he was hotheaded or drawn to the thrill of combat, but because he saw soldiering as the highest exercise of discipline, patience and composure. His “warrior ethos” was moral before it was martial.

Teacher Who Certified Student as ‘Most Likely to Become Dictator’ Battles Pending Firing

October 3, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Teachers schooled on "effective instruction" in Alachua County schools last June. (Facebook)

With state Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas vowing to prevent her from teaching again, an Alachua County teacher is fighting a disciplinary case that includes allegations she presented a certificate to a student that said he was the most likely to “become a dictator.”

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, October 3, 2025

October 3, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

The Enemy Within by Bill Day, FloridaPolitics.com

First Friday in Flagler Beach, ‘Avenue Q,’ at City Repertory Theatre, First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, The Friday Blue Forum, Free Family Art Night: Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens, the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Jane Goodall Redefined What It Meant to Be Human

October 2, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Jane Goodall appears on stage at 92NY in New York on Oct. 1, 2023.

Anyone proposing to offer a master class on changing the world for the better, without becoming negative, cynical, angry or narrow-minded in the process, could model their advice on the life and work of pioneering animal behavior scholar Jane Goodall.

Loving Penguins Lose as Federal Judge Backs School Board’s Ban of ‘And Tango Makes Three’

October 2, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

The wagons have circled. An illustration from "And Tango Makes Three."

A federal judge this week rejected a challenge to a 2023 decision by the Escambia County School Board to remove the book “And Tango Makes Three” from school libraries, ruling the move did not violate First Amendment rights. “And Tango Makes Three,” which tells the story of two male penguins who raised a penguin chick at New York’s Central Park Zoo, has become a prominent part of a debate in recent years about removing or restricting access to books at Florida schools. The Escambia County lawsuit alleged the book was targeted for its depictions of same-sex parents raising a child.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, October 2, 2025

October 2, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

From Clay Jones:

Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry, Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond, ‘Nunsense,’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, ‘Sweeney Todd’ at Athens Theatre, the problem with theology, ideology and teleology.

What the 1st Amendment Protects, and What It Doesn’t

October 1, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Demonstrators protest the suspension of the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” show on Sept. 18, 2025, in Los Angeles, Calif.

What the First Amendment makes clear is that it does not just protect the rights of speakers who say things with which Americans agree. Or, as the Supreme Court said in a separate decision it issued one year after the case involving the funeral protesters: “The Nation well knows that one of the costs of the First Amendment is that it protects the speech we detest as well as the speech we embrace.” But free speech is not absolute.

Cops May No Longer Search Your Car Based on Pot Smell Alone, Court Rules

October 1, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

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Florida’s 2nd District Court of Appeal’s main opinion said that for “generations, cannabis was illegal in all forms — thereby rendering its distinct odor immediately indicative of criminal activity.” But the opinion said legislative changes have “fundamentally changed its definition and regulation” and made cannabis legal to possess in multiple forms.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, October 1, 2025

October 1, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Political Violence by Pat Bagley, PoliticalCartoons.com

The Flagler County Cultural Council (FC3) annual meeting, The Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board meets, the Flagler County Republican Club holds its monthly meeting, Weekly Chess Club for Teens at the county library, reflections on the horrors of classical music at a young age and Bach’s Orchestral Suite in B Minor.

Militarism for Show

September 30, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Pete Hegseth likes to watch.

The president’s and the defense secretary’s campaign-like pair of bombastic speeches to hundreds of generals summoned to Quantico, Va., signals an escalation in the administration’s embrace of a militaristic mindset that, as long ago as 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned against in his farewell address, and that the nation’s founders deliberately aimed to constrain.

About 750,000 Federal Workers Will Be Furloughed in Shutdown

September 30, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

They're shutting down the wrong government workers. (Wikimedia Commons)

A government shutdown could have significant economic consequences, though an analysis released Tuesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said it’s difficult to pinpoint ramifications without knowing the length of a funding lapse or how exactly the Trump administration will try to reshape the federal workforce. Director Phillip L. Swagel wrote in a four-page letter the agency projects about 750,000 federal workers would be furloughed, leading to a $400 million impact per day. 

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, September 30, 2025

September 30, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Portland -- War Ravaged or Charming? by Monte Wolverton, Battle Ground, Washington.

“Nunsense,” at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, Random Acts of Insanity, the Trump’s peace plan for Gaza and what it owes Sykes-Picot and Wilson.

Charlie Kirk, AI-Generated Martyr

September 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

A makeshift memorial for Charlie Kirk outside the headquarters of Turning Point USA in Phoenix.

An AI-generated image of Charlie Kirk embracing Jesus. Another of Kirk posing with angel wings and halo. Then there’s the one of Kirk standing with George Floyd at the gates of heaven. When prominent political or cultural figures die in the U.S., the remembrance of their life often veers into hagiography. And that’s what’s been happening since the gruesome killing of conservative activist and Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk.

FPL Wants to Raise Base Rates by $1.71 Billion in Next 2 Years, Blasting Consumers’ Counter-Proposal of $1.27 Billion

September 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Powering up the rate increases. (© FlaglerLive)

Florida Power & Light on Friday fired back at a renewed request for state regulators to consider a “counter proposal” to a proposed settlement that would increase the utility’s base electric rates. Opponents of the proposed settlement, including the state Office of Public Counsel, which is designated by law to represent utility customers, want the Florida Public Service Commission to consider the counter proposal. Commission Chairman Mike La Rosa on Sept. 12 denied the request, but the Office of Public Counsel and its allies are seeking reconsideration of that decision.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, September 29, 2025

September 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Political Violence or Violent Politics by Christopher Weyant, CagleCartoons.com

The Palm Coast Charter Review Committee is hosting one of four community engagement meetings this evening, John Oliver and others on the Jimmy Kimmel turning point, the problem with Fara Dabhoiwala’s free speech.

How Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born to Run’ Speaks to America’s Psyche

September 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Bruce Springsteen performs in Atlanta on Aug. 22, 1975, during the ‘Born to Run’ tour.

Bruce Springsteen’s1975 “Born to Run” album was shaped by the times, particularly the malaise of the post-Vietnam and post-Watergate American landscape. There was an energy crisis, and it wasn’t only oil that was in short supply. These lyrical, operatic songs about freedom and fate, triumph and tragedy, still resonate, even though today’s music is more likely to emphasize beats, samples and software than extended guitar and saxophone solos.

Republican Push for Snitching on Charlie Kirk Posts Drives Unprecedented Purge of Public Workers

September 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

A fingerprinting and interrogation room at Stasi prison in Berlin

An ongoing purge of public employees is driven in part by Republican elected officials who are encouraging Americans to report co-workers, their children’s teachers and others who make comments seen as crossing the line. They have been egged on by the Trump administration, with Vice President JD Vance urging listeners of Kirk’s podcast to call the employer of anyone “celebrating” his killing.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, September 28, 2025

September 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

James Comey indicted by Dave Granlund, PoliticalCartoons.com

‘Avenue Q,’ at City Repertory Theatre, live football from Dublin at Beachfront Grille, Gamble Jam, ‘Nunsense,’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, ‘Sweeney Todd’ at Athens Theatre in DeLand, George Carlin on free speech, John McPhee on the Alaskan flag.

At Least in France They Imprison Their Felon Ex-Presidents

September 27, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

It's all over for Sarkozy, who was sentenced to five years in prison for corruption. (Wikimedia Commons)

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been found guilty of criminal conspiracy. Sentenced to five years in prison, he is due to appear in court on 13 October to learn the date of his incarceration. The unprecedented ruling enshrines the Republican principle of full and complete equality of citizens before the law.

As He DOGE-Targets Blue Governments for ‘Fraud,’ Florida CFO Ingoglia Wants $600,000 for His Own Bureaucracy

September 27, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia. (X)

In a state Legislative Budget Request filed last week, Blaise Ingoglia, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ hand-picked new Chief Financial Officer, is seeking more than $600,000 and six full time employees to permanently establish a new “Florida Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Office,” with the provocative acronym “FAFO.” Its mission is to review local government data and “uncover the truth about how these government entities are using taxpayer funds, especially property taxes,” according to the budget request.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, September 27, 2025

September 27, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Trump delivered a confusing, rambling, and embarrassing speech today at the United Nations.

Peps Art Walk, “Avenue Q” at CRT, the Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, “Sweeney Todd” at Athens Theatre, from Andre Gide to Hemingway, a few deep thoughts from Charlie Sheen.

Trump’s Targeting of ‘Enemies’ Like Comey Echoes Grimmest History

September 26, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

The building in Media, Penn. where burglars in 1971 found evidence of decades of FBI abuses against citizens.

At the Department of Justice, a “Weaponization Working Group” has a long list of Trump’s perceived enemies to investigate. It marks the first time since J. Edgar Hoover’s 48-year reign as FBI director that the FBI has targeted massive numbers of people perceived to be political enemies. The recent statements from both Trump and top aide Miller suggest the FBI’s independence, and broader constitutional requirements that the administration remain faithful to the law, are meaningless to them. They suggest that, like Hoover, they would criminalize dissent.

US Passport Is Best Defense Against ICE False Arrest as Supreme Court Approves Profiling in Mass Detentions

September 26, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

The gold standard against false arrests by ICE. (© FlaglerLive)

The aggressive drive to carry out mass deportations of people without legal status already has led to U.S. citizens being swept up in raids and detained, according to news reports from around the country as well as immigration experts. Such detainments now will increase, experts predict. Once in detention, it can take time to verify citizenship. A passport is considered the gold standard for proof that an individual is a citizen, but fewer than half of Americans hold passports, according to the State Department’s most recent data from 2024. Even fewer are likely to carry the bulky document around.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, September 26, 2025

September 26, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Jimmy Kimmel returns by Dave Granlund, PoliticalCartoons.com

“Avenue Q,” at City Repertory Theatre, Harold Bloom on how to read a book, ‘Nunsense,’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, the origin of wokism on a Paris street.

The Extremist Federalist Society’s Lock on the Supreme Court

September 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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Justices affiliated with the Federalist Society will advance the conservative legal agenda decades into the future. The Federalist Society’s educational mission is pursued chiefly in law schools. That’s where it trains the next generation of lawyers in the approaches and goals of the conservative legal movement. This includes promoting the judicial philosophy of originalism – the idea that the best way to interpret the U.S. Constitution is according to how it was understood at the time of its adoption.

Florida CFO Ingoglia Targets Blue Alachua County with Unspecified Claim of ‘Wasteful Spending’

September 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Blaise Ingoglia speaking at the Tampa Firefighters Museum on Sept. 22, 2025. (Mitch Perry/Florida Phoenix)

Florida Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia traveled to Alachua County Thursday, where he said his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team of auditors had determined that the local government had indulged in more than $84 million in “wasteful spending” over the past five years. As has been the case with the other local government budgets that Ingoglia’s team has reviewed this year, he did not mention any specific programs that constituted what he defined as wasteful spending.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, September 25, 2025

September 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

State won't reveal police-ICE details by John Cole, Tennessee

Palm Coast Concert Series brings SoulFire to The Stage at Town Center, Connecting to Palm Coast Expo at the Palm Coast Community Center, the Flagler Beach City Commission meets, AI compares Captain nemo and Ahab.

Trump’s ‘Your Countries Are Going to Hell’ Speech

September 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

Trump at the United Nations

Trump congratulated himself, for turning the US into the “hottest country anywhere in the world” for repelling a “colossal invasion” of migrants at America’s southern border and for ending seven wars – for which he repeated his line that he should have been given the Nobel peace prize.

Advocate for Hands-Free Driving Law in Florida Blasts Lawmaker Who Blocked It

September 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Tallahassee resident Demetrius Branca addresses the Hillsborough County legislative delegation in Tampa on Jan. 10, 2024. (Photo by Mitch Perry/Florida Phoenix)

An advocate for legislation that would have banned drivers from operating a motor vehicle while using a cellphone lashed out at a state legislator on Wednesday, claiming that she prevented the measure from advancing in the Florida House of Representatives and potentially becoming state law earlier this year.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, September 24, 2025

September 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Israel and Gaza genocide by Dave Granlund, PoliticalCartoons.com

Ex-Firefighter James Melady is scheduled for a pre-trial, the River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization meets, Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Israel’s genocide and a few lines from Philip Roth’s Operation Shylock.

The Problem with Auschwitz-Birkenau’s New Digital Camp Replica

September 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The digital Picture From Auschwitz project. (Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum)

Use of digital technology to safeguard Holocaust memories for future generations is symptomatic of a global shift towards digitising the Holocaust as the survivor generation passes on and heritage sites decay over time. While the virtual site digitally preserves and encourages historically rooted depictions of the camp, it cannot ensure ethical engagement with the Holocaust. In fact, its creation only raises further issues about the extent to which the Holocaust’s digitisation goes hand-in-hand with ethical modes of remembrance and representation.

County and City Leaders Push Back Against DeSantis Claims of ‘Waste, Fraud and Abuse’ in Property Tax

September 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Rep. Vicki Lopez and Rep. Toby Overdorf speak to reporters after a House property tax committee meeting. (Liv Caputo/Florida Phoenix)

After months of financial abuse allegations lobbed by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration against local governments, city leaders pushed back Tuesday in a Florida House meeting focused on cutting property taxes. “Waste is in the eye of the beholder,” said Casey Cook, the Florida League of Cities’ chief of legislative affairs. “Nobody likes paying taxes, but safe isn’t free. Clean isn’t free.”

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, September 23, 2025

September 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

MAGA Logic by Pat Bagley, PoliticalCartoons.com

The Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop, the School Board has a pair of meetings, including Derek Barrs’s last, Budgeting by Values: A Free, Virtual Class to Learn Budgeting Skills, on accommodating an uninvited guest.

Florida Is Misleadingly Invoking Slavery as It Readies to Kill All Vaccine Mandates in Schools

September 22, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Vaccination rates in Florida schools have dipped below the threshold for immunity to certain preventable diseases.

On Sept. 3, 2025, Florida announced its plans to be the first state to eliminate vaccine mandates for its citizens, including those for children to attend school. Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Florida’s surgeon general and a professor of medicine at the University of Florida, has stated that “every last one” of these decades-old vaccine requirements “is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery.” He is wrong.

30 New Laws Go In Effect Next Week, Including Steeper Penalties for Several Crimes and End of Business Rent Tax

September 22, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Tax-free leasing, but it'll cost the state more than $1.5 billion a year in revenue. (© FlaglerLive)

The elimination of the business rent tax is projected to collectively save businesses–and cost the state–nearly $1.15 billion during the current fiscal year, which will run through June 30. That amount is projected to increase to $1.53 billion next fiscal year. Other laws include harsher penalties for people who flee police, harass utility workers and kill someone while driving drunk.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, September 22, 2025

September 22, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Press Freedom Day in America, by Marian Kamensky, Austria.

Flagler County Government’s second and last tax and budget hearing, the Bunnell City Commission meets, Ernest Gaines’s new volume in the Library of America and a thought from “A Lesson Before Dying.”

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