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Citing Costs, Flagler Beach Commissioners Reject Design of New ‘Beachwalk’ on and Around Pier for 2nd Time in 4 Weeks

July 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

A rendering of Flagler Beach's Beachwalk project, which failed to win city commissioners' approval for the second time in five weeks.

The design of a new “Beachwalk” and “Promenade” beneath and around the Flagler Beach pier drew raves from city commissioners. But what started as a $1.5 million project has ballooned to at least $2.8 million, with several design elements that were not part of the original concept as commissioners understood it, including a covered portion of the 4,200-square-foot promenade. Commissioners have tabled the project and asked for a third redesign.

At Mike Norris ‘Mayoral Town Hall,’ an Impressive Crowd Starring Cast of Familiar Faces, Fictions and Grievances

July 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Mike Norris was relaxed and relatively self-controlled if unfocused at his two-hour mayoral town hall Monday evening at the VFW hall in Palm Coast. (© FlaglerLive)

Palm Coast Mayor Norris’s self-vaunted, well-attended and uneventful “Mayoral Town Hall” at the VFW hall on Old Kings Road Monday evening was almost identical to a grousing public comment segment at a City Council meeting, but stretched to two hours, and with a larger audience primed by pizza, beer and wine on the mayor’s personal generosity. The two-hour event drew 154 people, based on a head count just before the halfway mark.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, July 29, 2025

July 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Tulsi Gabbard's Fraudulent Report by Bob Englehart, PoliticalCartoons.com

Food Truck Tuesday this evening in Palm Coast’s Town Center at Central Park, Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy at Cinematique, the Yankees’ Ryan McMahon meets Bruce Dern of “The Cowboys.”

As Israel Starves Gaza

July 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

A 4-year-old Palestinian girl, lost her life due to malnutrition and lack of treatment due to the war on Gaza. (Wikimedia Commons

Already around 60,000 Gazans have been killed and growing numbers are now dying from hunger and malnutrition. More than 90% of the private homes in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed. Israeli officials continue to speak of moving Gazans into what has been termed a “humanitarian city” but what former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert described as a “concentration camp”. In the same interview Olmert called decision to move Gazans into the camp as “ethnic cleansing”. All the while, the world’s leaders look on. Most are apparently content to condemn – but little action has been taken.

Flagler Sheriff’s Employees Donate $24,030 to the Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches

July 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Sheriff Staly previously served six years on the Board of Directors for the Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches, including as Chairman of the Board.

Flagler County Sheriff’s Office employees donated $24,030 to the Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches (FSYR), making FCSO employee’s total donations to the FSYR approximately $204,000 since 2017. Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly presented the latest employee donation check to FSYR President Maria Knapp today during the Florida Sheriffs Association semi-annual meeting.

Federal Judge Wants To Know ‘Who’s Running the Show’ at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

July 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

A cage at the Everglades migrant lock-up the state calls Alligator Alcatraz. (White House)

A U.S. district judge on Monday pushed state and federal officials to provide a copy of an intergovernmental agreement showing “who’s running the show” at an Everglades immigrant-detention center, calling the situation “urgent” as at least 100 detainees have been deported amid legal wrangling over the remote facility.

Mayor Norris Files for Rehearing in Lawsuit He Lost Over Gambaro Appointment and Distorts Ethics Decision

July 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Attorney Anthony Sabatini, center, is representing Palm Coast Mayor Mike Norris. (© FlaglerLive)

Palm Coast Mayor Mike Norris through his attorney filed a motion for rehearing of his lawsuit against the city and Council member Charles Gambaro, who Norris still claims was illegally appointed despite a court order to the contrary. Separately, Norris, in a truculent social media posting replete with errors and mischaracterizations late Friday, claimed that the Florida Commission on Ethics “has officially dismissed” the complaint the City Council filed against him, and did so “due to insufficient legal standing.” 

100 Cats Rescued from R-Section Home in Palm Coast Will Have Their Own Adoption Event

July 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

About half the cats in a collage by the Flagler County Sheriff's Office.

In a powerful show of compassion and teamwork, almost 100 cats were rescued this week from a single home in Palm Coast, thanks to a coordinated effort by city employees, local organizations, and dedicated animal lovers.

A Perplexed Flagler Beach Hears Vague County ‘Options’ to Pay for Beach Protection After Sales Tax Plan Collapse

July 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

A rebuilt beach at the south end of Flagler Beach. (© FlaglerLive)

Kim Carney, the county commissioner who played a significant role in defeating the proposed sales tax increase to finance a comprehensive beach-protection plan, went to the Flagler Beach City Commission Thursday with five options from which the city could choose to protect its own beach. Four of the options would require Flagler Beach to impose a new tax or fee on its residents. The fifth would have the city supporting a 2026 referendum to raise the sales tax–the very option the County Commission could have approved, and that Carney opposed. 

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, July 28, 2025

July 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Netanyahu Fish Bloodbath Gaza War Coffin Ceasefire by Emad Hajjaj, Alaraby Aljadeed newspaper , London

The Bunnell City Commission meets, learning all about Earth Overshoot Day, or how natural resources are eroding faster than they can be restored, an echo of the same from 10,000 years ago.

Is There Any Hope for the Internet?

July 27, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Hate and mental illness fester online because love and healing seem to be incompatible with profits.

As the internet has become more integrated in our daily lives, few would describe it as a place of love, compassion and cooperation. Study after study describe how social media platforms promote alienation and disconnection – in part because many algorithms reward behaviors like trolling, cyberbullying and outrage. Is the internet’s place in human history cemented as a harbinger of despair? Or is there still hope for an internet that supports collective flourishing?

Administration Releasing Billions in Federal Education Funding

July 27, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The dismantling of LBJ's legacy will be delayed. The Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building in Washington, D.C., in a file photo from November 2024. (Shauneen Miranda/States Newsroom)

To Flagler County Schools’ relief, the Trump administration said Friday it’ll soon release billions in Education Department funding that has been frozen for weeks, delaying disbursements to K-12 schools throughout the country. The funding — which goes toward migrant education, English-language learning and other programs — was supposed to go out before July 1, but the administration informed schools just one day before that it was instead holding onto $6.8 billion while staff conducted a review. Members of both parties in Congress objected to the move.

Trump Voters Wanted Relief From Medical Bills. For Millions, the Bills Are About To Get Bigger.

July 27, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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President Donald Trump rode to reelection last fall on voter concerns about prices. But as his administration pares back federal rules and programs designed to protect patients from the high cost of health care, Trump risks pushing more Americans into debt, further straining family budgets already stressed by medical bills. Millions of people are expected to lose health insurance in the coming years as a result of the tax cut legislation Trump signed this month, leaving them with fewer protections from large bills if they get sick or suffer an accident.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, July 27, 2025

July 27, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Government Handouts by Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers State Recreation Area, Richard Beck’s new book on the war on terror at home.

The Nostalgia of Comfort Smells from Fresh-Cut Grass to Hamburgers

July 26, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The foods and scents we associate with our childhoods can provide a meaningful source of comfort and connection.

Triggered by sensory stimuli such as music, scents and foods, nostalgia has the power to mentally transport us back in time. This might be to important occasions, to moments of triumph and – importantly – moments revolving around close family and friends and other important people in our lives. As it turns out, this experience is good for us.

Sen. Rick Scott Trolls New York’s Mamdani with Florida-Baiting Campaign

July 26, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Rick Scott issues a manifesto. (© FlaglerLive)

With New York City on the brink of electing a democratic socialist Mayor, U.S. Sen. Rick Scott wants New Yorkers escaping to Florida. The Naples Republican launched an ad campaign in the Big Apple encouraging just that, as first reported by the New York Post. The messaging will include a banner flown over New York City that reads: “Hate Socialism? Us too! Move 2 FL.”

Flagler County Cancels ‘Boots on the Ground’ Line Dancing Event at 11th Hour as Sheriff Blasts Permitting Flop

July 26, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

A road sign on County Road 13 just ahead of the Fairgrounds this afternoon, on the cancelled "Boots on the Ground" event. The actual wording does not look chancy to drivers: that's only the shutter's doing. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County government ordered the permit for a “Boots on the Ground Line Dance Competition” revoked on Friday, cancelling the event 24 hours before it was scheduled to start. The county did so after the organizer of the event “engaged in serial misrepresentation of the event, continually contradicted by his social media promotion,” according to the email by the deputy county administrator.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, July 26, 2025

July 26, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

From Clay Jones.

Peps Art Walk at  Beachfront Grille in Flagler Beach, Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley, John Updike’s sexism and the trappings of ugliness, Bach and Francis Parkman on the Oregon Trail.

Risk and Resonance of Comparing ICE to the Gestapo

July 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers gather for a briefing before an enforcement operation on Jan. 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Md.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz recently sparked controversy by comparing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to Nazi Germany’s notorious secret police, the Gestapo. Among other responsibilities, the Gestapo was tasked with investigating political crimes and monitoring opposition activity. It later enforced racial laws in Germany and across occupied Europe.

100 Migrants Deported from ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ So Far as Flights Ramp Up from Everglades Lock-Up

July 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

A Florida Highway Patrol officer looks on as protesters gather to demand the closure of the immigrant detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz" at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in Ochopee, Florida, on July 22, 2025.

About 100 undocumented immigrants have been deported from an airstrip adjoining the detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” and “the cadence” of outgoing flights is increasing, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday. Speaking to reporters outside the detention complex in the Everglades, DeSantis and other state officials staunchly defended Florida’s efforts to aid President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts amid litigation over the controversial site.

Home Surveillance Video Helps Lead to Arrest of Austin Brammer, 35, After Palm Coast Burglary

July 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Austin Brammer

The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a repeat offender after he was caught on camera committing a residential burglary of a Palm Coast residence. On July 24, deputies responded to a report of a residential burglary on Colleen Court after the victim told dispatchers that she had home surveillance video showing an unknown male breaking into her home. According to the victim, the suspect, later identified as Austin Brammer, 35, of Palm Coast, stole a box of watches.

4 Council Members Ask DeSantis to Suspend Mayor for ‘Malfeasance, Misfeasance, Neglect of Duty, and Incompetence’

July 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

Mike Norris in court on July 3, among supporters, before Circuit Judge Chris France's ruling against Norris's lawsuit. (© FlaglerLive)

Twice charging Palm Coast Mayor Mike Norris with “malfeasance, misfeasance, neglect of duty, and incompetence,” the rest of the Palm Coast City Council today issued a letter to Gov. Ron DeSantis, asking him to suspend Norris from office and appoint an acting mayor in his place. 

Flagler Beach Will Consider Moving Its Elections to Even Years to Save Money, and Alter Commissioners’ Terms

July 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

A scene from last March's election in Flagler Beach.

Flagler Beach will consider moving its elections from March every year to November, coinciding with general and presidential election cycles. Commissioners’ three-year terms would have to revert to two years, as had been the case two decades ago, or go to four-year terms. The change, suggested as a discussion point by City Clerk Penny Overstreet Thursday evening, would potentially save the city $18,000 per election. 

School Board’s Lauren Ramirez Prevails in Conflict-of-Interest Dispute at Ethics Commission, With Help from a Familiar Face

July 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Theresa Pontieri, the Palm Coast City Council member, represented Flagler County School Board member Lauren Ramirez (slightly to the right) in Pontieri's capacity as an attorney today before the Florida Ethics Commission in Tallahassee. (© FlaglerLive via Florida Channel)

Flagler County School Board member Lauren Ramirez’s challenge of proposed restrictions on her private business not only prevailed today before the Florida Ethics Commission, which unanimously took her side, but spurred a request by the commission that the Florida Legislature rewrite the relevant portions of law to prevent similar conflict-of-interest restrictions in the future. Ramirez all but won her challenge behind arguments to the Ethics Commission by her attorney, Theresa Pontieri, the Palm Coast City Council vice mayor. 

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, July 25, 2025

July 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

What Trump Was Right About by Pat Byrnes, PoliticalCartoons.com

The Florida Ethics Commission meets, Palm Coast Council member Ty Miller on Free For All, Acoustic Jam Circle at the Community Center In The Hammock, Ian Frazier, Casanova, Yussuf and the Great Plains.

The Marco Rubio Deep Fake Is Just the Beginning

July 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Several people received voice messages that claimed to be from – and sounded like – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

The FBI warned in a May 15 alert about an “ongoing malicious text and voice messaging campaign” in which “malicious actors have impersonated senior US officials.” The alert noted that the campaign includes “vishing” attacks. Vishing is a portmanteau of the words voice and phishing, and refers to using voice deepfakes to trick victims into giving information or money, or compromising their computer systems.

ICE Arrests in Florida of Migrants Without Criminal Records Surged 450% in June

July 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Immigration officials questioned and detained contractors working on apartment buildings in Tallahassee on May 29, 2025. (Jay Waagmeester/Florida Phoenix)

Since the start of the second Trump administration, ICE has carried out more than 10,818 arrests in Florida, up from 3,496 in the same period last year. But in June, the largest share of arrests, 36%, were of people the federal government labeled as having no criminal history in the country, a 457% increase from June 2024.

DeSantis Wants Redistricting to Help Save GOP’s House Majority

July 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

more gerrymandering ahead

With President Trump fearful that congressional Republicans could lose their slim majority in the House of Representatives in the 2026 midterm election, he has urged the state of Texas to redraw their congressional map to add as many as five GOP seats to Congress, and that he’d like other states to follow suit. Gov. Ron DeSantis says that Florida can be one of those states.

Stop the Grift: Florida’s School Vouchers Are Scamming Taxpayers and Sabotaging Democracy

July 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 30 Comments

Florida's voucher scheme is undermining the fabric of America's public education, essential to the democratic fabric, while eroding accountability for taxpayer dollars. (© FlaglerLive)

Our public schools are America’s great equalizer, the engine room of our democracy, where kids of different incomes, races, abilities, and beliefs learn side by side. That’s not “just education.” That’s democracy in motion, argues Colleen Conklin, the former School Board member. And that’s precisely why the current voucher experiment—built on selective enrollment, hidden finances, and zero public oversight—is the opposite: it fractures the common schoolhouse, privatizes accountability, and poses a real threat to the democratic fabric that public education holds together.

3rd Arrest in 7 Years on Domestic Violence Charges for William Krivanek, 43, Who Was on Probation

July 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

William Karl Krivanek

William Karl Krivanek, a 43-year-old resident of Comanche Court in Palm Coast, is at the Flagler County jail on $200,000 bond following his arrest on four felony charges stemming from a domestic violence incident, including a count of aggravated assault causing bodily harm. Krivanek was on probation for a charge of felony battery. He went by the alias “Bedlam.” 

School Board Fails Math as It Adds Deputy Despite Increased Costs in Lean Times and No Increased Safety

July 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

One of the Flagler County Sheriff's School Resource Deputy patrol cars. (© FlaglerLive)

Just hours after the Flagler County School Board bemoaned sharply leaner times as enrollment drops, state dollars drop with it and federal dollars are being withheld, the board voted to  add one more school resource deputy to its ranks even though the deputy will not improve school safety and the cost-benefit data is not in favor of adding one. 

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, July 24, 2025

July 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

What's worse than cuts to PBS? by Jeff Koterba, patreon.com/jeffreykoterba

‘Let’s Talk Palm Coast’ Town Halls with Council Member Ty Miller, The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, Model Yacht Club Races in Palm Coast’s Central Park, Israel’s genocide and its apologists.

Daytona State College Rolls Out Mobile Library

July 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The book bike. (DSC)

Daytona State College is rolling out a mobile “Book Bike” with support from a $6,100 grant from the Northeast Florida Library Information Network (NEFLIN).

Australia Condemns ‘Inhumane Killing’ of Palestinians as Gaza Suffering Reaches New Depths

July 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

A mother cries for her 4-year-old daughter, who lost her life due to malnutrition and lack of treatment due to the war on Gaza. (Wikimedia Commons)

Australia has joined 28 international partners in calling for an immediate end to the war in Gaza and a lifting of all restrictions on food and medical supplies. Gazans, including malnourished mothers denied baby formula, face impossible choices as Israel intensifies its use of starvation as a weapon of war. In Gaza, survival requires negotiating what the United Nations calls aid “death traps”.

University of Miami Under Investigation for Scholarships to Undocumented Students

July 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

The investigation focuses on the University of Miami's "U Dreamers Program.”

The University of Miami is one of five universities being investigated by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights for allegedly violating federal civil rights laws in awarding scholarships to academically eligible students lacking permanent legal status.

Flagler Beach Pier Contractor Strikes Power Line, Causing Minor Fire and Shutting Down Funky Pelican and Surf 97.3 Radio

July 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

The scene of the incident south of the pier this afternoon soon after the beam struck a power line. Vern Shank, the Flagler Beach DJ, was on the air when power went off and he ran outside, taking that picture soon after. “That’s kind of like the ail end of the smoke coming out," he said.

For the third time in two months in Flagler Beach a contractor struck an underground utility line today, this time near the Flagler Beach pier, causing triggering a fire, shutting down traffic on State Road A1A, and cutting off power to both the Funky Pelican and Surf 97.3, Flagler Beach’s radio station, which operates from the pier. 

Flagler County’s Industrial Development Authority Holds Inaugural Meeting and Has Its 1st Interested Client

July 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Deputy County Attorney Sean Moylan schools the new Indusrial Authority members on the Sunshine law, open records and ethics rules. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County Industrial Development Authority Board met for the first time today to learn its purpose and limitations as an advisory board to the County Commission. The authority’s primary responsibility is to recommend the issuance of tax-exempt bonds to industry or developers as a spur to economic development. To the group’s happy surprise, its first interested parties were in the slim audience of three: RJ Santore and Rick Gil of Ralph Santore & Sons, the pyrotechnics manufacturer in West Flagler.

Flagler School Board Wrestles with Smoke and Mirrors Budget as $17 Million in Vouchers and Trump Cuts Hit Home

July 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

The majority of the Flagler County School Board are unquestioning supporters of Gov. DeSantis and President Trump. That majority withheld criticism even as it contended with potentially devastating cuts to the district's budget directly caused by the two leaders' policies and orders. (© FlaglerLive)

If Flagler County School Board members aren’t panicking over next year’s budget, they’re either putting on a good act or not fully grasping the breadth of the rapidly changing financial landscape and disappearing dollars that district staff outlined for them at a meeting Tuesday. Large parts of the budget are cloaked in smoke and mirrors–not because district staff is playing with the numbers, but because the federal and state governments are requiring the district to bank on dollars it will never see, or dollars that may never materialize, even though the dollars have to be included in the budget. 

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, July 23, 2025

July 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Netanyahu and his friends pass through Gaza, by Nikola Listes, Croatia, politicalcartoons.com

The Flagler County Industrial Development Authority holds its inaugural meeting, weekly Chess Club for Teens at the Flagler County Public Library, memories of the Iran-Contra affair and Gibbon’s take.

How QAnon Entered Mainstream Politics

July 22, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

QAnon supporters wait for Donald Trump to speak at a campaign rally at Atlantic Aviation on September 22, 2020, in Moon Township, Pennsylvania.

Over time, what started as a baseless conspiracy on obscure platforms has migrated into the mainstream. It has influenced rhetoric and policy debates, and even reshaped the American political landscape. To some, the delay in the release of the Epstein files feels like a betrayal, or even the possibility of his wrongdoing. Others are trying to reinterpret Trump’s actions through increasingly baseless conspiracy logic.

Florida Bar Opposing Attorney General Opening a Door to Out-Of-State Government Lawyers

July 22, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

out of state lawyers

The Florida Bar’s Board of Governors has backed a proposal by the Bar’s Rules Committee to file a comment opposing an effort by Attorney General James Uthmeier to create a new way for out-of-state government lawyers to practice in the state. Uthmeier’s petition would allow “certain state government lawyers” to practice in Florida for up to three years without having to take the Florida Bar exam or undergo a “character and fitness” evaluation.

Man Accused of Carjacking Woman at Palm Coast RaceTrac Extradited to Flagler 5 Years After Incident

July 22, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Chad Langlois in his Georgia State Prison photo.

Chad David Langlois, the 45-year-old man accused of carjacking a woman at the Palm Coast RaceTrac on State Road 100 five years ago, was extradited from Georgia, where he had been imprisoned on separate charges, to face charges in Flagler County. He could face up to 65 years in prison locally. He was serving 15 in Georgia.

Flagler School Board Isn’t Dancing About YMCA’s Request for $3 Million for Palm Coast Y in Town Center

July 22, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

A rendering of the Palm Coast YMCA in Town Center, seen from above. Don't raise the roof yet.

Volusia Flagler YMCA officials made their pitch to the Flagler County School Board for a $3 million contribution to help pay for the $16 million Y planned for Palm Coast’s Town Center. The same officials made the same request of Palm Coast government in April. Palm Coast is almost in. The School Board was much cooler. It shut down the possibility that any cash would be made available unless the district were to sell property–not just because the district’s reserves of around $6 million are limited, but because of restrictions on how the district may spend the money it has.

DeSantis Targeting Democratic-Leaning Broward County and Gainesville with ‘Doge’ Probes

July 22, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia announced Tuesday that state officials will probe spending by the governments in Democratic-leaning Broward County and Gainesville. DeSantis said reviews by his Office of Policy and Budget and Ingoglia’s Department of Financial Services will focus on governments that have “refused” to comply with state “Department of Government Efficiency” efforts, which were announced in February. The reviews also are tied to DeSantis’ effort to get the Legislature to put a proposed constitutional amendment on the 2026 ballot to lower property taxes.

Palm Coast’s Policing Budget Set to Increase 24%, with 9 New Deputies; Sheriff Proposes Strict E-Bike Ordinance

July 22, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 31 Comments

A screen capture from a chase by a Flagler County Sheriff's deputy of an e-bike rider who was eventually arrested. Sheriff Rick Staly showed the video, a news item on Spectrum News, during his budget presentation today, when he discussed a proposed e-bike ordinance.

Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly submitted a policing budget for Palm Coast that would increase the number of deputies patrolling the city from 57 to 66 and increase the city’s policing budget 24 percent, from $9 million to $11.18 million. In 2022, the budget was $5.74 million.  Also, responding to what he says is increasing complaints from pedestrians and people on regular bikes and others who’ve had close calls with electric bikes, Staly is proposing an ordinance to regulate e-bikes in Palm Coast.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, July 22, 2025

July 22, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Venn Will We See There's No Separation Of Powers? by Ratt, PoliticalCartoons.com

A Celebration of the life of Jim Guines, the Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop, the Flagler County School Board holds a trio of meetings, a text exchange with a friend, Mortimer Adler’s seminar on Justice with Bill Moyers, Vernon Louis Parrington on the Mathers of New England.

Unlike Government Propaganda, PBS and NPR Are Generally Unbiased

July 21, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Congress’ cuts to public broadcasting will diminish the range and volume of the free press and the independent reporting it provides. MicroStockHub-iStock/Getty Images Plus

Accusing the media of liberal bias has been a consistent conservative complaint since the civil rights era, when white Southerners insisted news outlets were slanting their stories against segregation. But those charges of bias rarely survive empirical scrutiny. That independence in the United States – enshrined in the press freedom clause of the First Amendment – gives journalists the ability to hold government accountable, expose abuses of power and thereby support democracy. That’s what GOP lawmakers call a liberal bias.

As Data Centers Hog Power, Regular Customers Foot the Bill

July 21, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

As power-hungry data centers proliferate, states are searching for ways to protect utility customers from the steep costs of upgrading the electrical grid, trying instead to shift the cost to AI-driven tech companies. (© FlaglerLive)

Regular energy consumers, not corporations, will bear the brunt of the increased costs of a boom in artificial intelligence that has contributed to a growth in data centers and a surge in power usage, recent research suggests. Between 2024 and 2025, data center power usage accounted for $9 billion, or 174%, of increased power costs in 13 states and Washington, D.C., where this spring, customers were told to expect roughly a $25 increase on their monthly electric bill starting June 1.

Any Hope of Stricter Development Regulations in Palm Coast, Bunnell or Flagler County ‘Dead in the Water’ Until 2027

July 21, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

All clear: Senate Bill 180, now law, is giving developers a far freer hand from regulations until late 2027. (© FlaglerLive)

Forget a building moratorium of any kind. A For the next three years, something closer to a moratorium on regulations is in effect in Flagler County, its cities and across Florida, thanks to a provision in a new state law–what emerged from the Legislature as Senate Bill 180–that local governments are only now beginning to understand. The law ties the hands of local land use regulators, prohibiting any “burdensome” restrictions on developers, while giving anyone the right to sue a local government that appears to violate the law. 

Palm Coast Couple Face Felony Child Neglect Charges After Leaving Infant in Car While Drinking at a Bar

July 21, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The parking lot a Smiles and other businesses on Palm Harbor Way.

Norman E. Finnegan Jr., 60, and Clarisse Finnegan, 28, both of Coral Reef Court in Palm Coast, were booked at the Flagler County jail shortly after midnight Saturday, each on a charge of felony child neglect after their infant child was left in the backseat of their car while the couple had drinks at a bar. 

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