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Sheriff’s Newest K-9 Can Sniff Out Hidden Flash Drives and Cell Phones

February 4, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

A different kind of Flash Gordon: K-9 Birdie. (FCSO)

The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office introduced K-9 Birdie, the Agency’s first Electronic Storage Detection K-9. Birdie will serve alongside Detective Corporal Mark Moy in the Digital Forensics Unit. Birdie is trained to seek out electronic devices believed to contain evidence of a crime, including flash drives, hard drives, and cell phones.

Ag Commissioner on Heat-Related Farm Deaths: Blame Humans, Not Climate

February 4, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson told Florida House members on Feb. 4, 2025, that heat safety regulations would hamper the farming industry (Screenshot from Florida Channel)

Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson told state lawmakers Tuesday morning that human error was to blame for heat-related deaths on farms, which he described as few and far between. Florida’s sweltering heat became one of the hottest topics for lawmakers last year as the Republican-led Legislature passed a law prohibiting local governments from enacting their own heat-safety protections for employees.

Missile-Like Hunk of Ice, Possibly from Commercial Plane, Tears Through Seminole Woods Roof

February 4, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Ice falling from the sky with the force of a missile tore through the metal roof of a Seminole Woods house on Monday afternoon. No one was home. (Palm Coast Fire Department)

Local and federal officials don’t know what may have caused a missile-like shaft of ice 6 feet long to tear through the metal roof of a Seminole Woods house in Palm Coast Monday afternoon on a warm, cloudless day. But they have ideas.

35-Year-Old Palm Coast Man Loses Stand Your Ground Motion Over Bizarre Confrontation with Cyclist, 67

February 4, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

An image shown in court of the location of the confrontation between Eric Cooks, who was driving, and Peter Poznerowicz, who was on his bicycle. Poznerowicz was biking east, or toward the camera, and was stopped by Cooks's car as Cooks veered into the entrance closest to the camera, then looped back out to the second entrance, stopping in front of Poznerowicz. The incident took place in October 2023. (© FlaglerLive)

Eric Cooks, a 26-year-old resident of Palm Coast’s P Section and a supervisor at SMA Healthcare’s crisis-stabilization unit, where Baker Acts are triaged, lost a Stand Your Ground motion in circuit court Monday, clearing the way for his prosecution on a felony count of battering a man older than 65. The case touches on several elements that blur the line between good samaritanship and road rage, between the meanings of self-defense and provocation, and with an overlay of race and age disparities.

Sheriff’s Gala Raises $80,000 for Agency’s Employee Assistance Fund

February 4, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Christian Harrison accepts the Flagler County Sheriff's Office's Deputy of the Year award from Sheriff Rick Staly at the gala. (FCSO)

More than 180 guests attended the 2025 Sheriff’s Gala, held on February 1 at Hammock Beach Resort, helping to raise over $80,000 to benefit the Flagler Sheriff’s Employee Assistance Trust, also known as FSEAT.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, February 4, 2025

February 4, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Trump Floods the Zone by Christopher Weyant, CagleCartoons.com

The Palm Coast City Council, the Flagler Beach and Bunnell planning boards all meet, Celebrating Black Composers, a concert presented by the Stetson School of Music, on cartoonist Jules Feiffer.

Volusia/Flagler Boys & Girls Club Honors Its Outstanding Club members

February 3, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The club members. (Boys and Girls Club)

The Boys & Girls Club of Volusia/Flagler Counties hosted its annual Youth of the Year Luncheon on Saturday, February 2, 2025 at The Center of Deltona, celebrating the achievements and inspiring stories of local youth who have demonstrated exceptional leadership, service, and academic excellence. The event brought together community leaders, donors, and supporters to honor these remarkable young individuals and recognize their contributions to their clubs and communities.

Demonizing Migrants Can Be Part of a Violent Design

February 3, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Asylum seekers wait at Catholic Charities in McAllen, Texas, for humanitarian aid on Jan. 18, 2025.

Using hateful, polarizing language to gain a political advantage or make an argument against a group of people, like immigrants, is not unique to the U.S. The use of this language is associated with populist shifts in many parts of the world. In Italy, such language was accompanied by mob violence, mass evictions and demolition of informal camps set up in the streets.

Sen. Tom Leek Files Bill to Name St. Johns County Site for Florida’s Black History Museum

February 3, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

A sketch of the Florida Normal & Industrial Institute, which is now Florida Memorial University. Photo courtesy of FMU. The Black History Museum Task Force voted to recommend land owned by the university as the museum site.

Sen. Tom Leek, a North Florida Republican, filed a bill Monday to officially name St. Johns County as the site for Florida’s Black History Museum. Leek’s filing of SB 466 comes more than six months after a panel tasked with making recommendations for the museum’s construction issued its final report to Gov. Ron DeSantis and the leaders of the Republican-led Legislature.

Judge Refuses to Release 14-Year-Old Girl Accused of Hateful Death Threats as Her Lawyer Claims She’s in Danger

February 3, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Josh Davis, the attorney representing L.H., stands in Judge Melissa Distler's courtroom this afternoon, arguing for the release of his client. The judge, who appeared from Tallahassee by zoom, declined to grant the release and set a pre-trial conference to follow up on claims that the girl may be in danger. (© FlaglerLive)

County Judge Melissa Distler today rejected a request by the attorney representing L.H. to release her to her parents, for lack of proof that she is in danger in a youth detention jail in Daytona Beach. The girl, 14, was arrested last week in palm Coast for making death threats laced in homophobic slurs, and for violating her probation. Her attorney argued that the attention the case has drawn, including the posting of her picture, name and address, has led to death threats against her family in Seminole Woods, and threats against the girl in detention.

Deadline Looming, Palm Coast Council Prepares Response to Lawsuit Threat by Developer of Cascades in Seminole Woods

February 3, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

The byrndog property--the future Cascades development--facing northeast of Seminole Woods Boulevard. (Byrndog)

The Palm Coast City Council is almost certain to discuss, for the first time, the threat of a lawsuit by the developer of Cascades, a 375-acre planned development in Seminole Woods, who was denied more than half the 850 housing units he was seeking when the council approved the development in November 2023. Public anger at the higher density caused the council to reverse course from an initial approval. The developer last November filed what’s called a Bert-Harris claim. If it goes to court, the developer will seek $12.2 million in damages from the city. The council will decide Tuesday how to respond.

An 82-Year-Old Palm Coast Resident Dies After He Is Pulled from the Surf, Disoriented, in Marineland

February 3, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

The incident unfolded midday Friday in shallow surf by the gray rock revetment in Marineland. (© FlaglerLive)

Carmelo Legato, an 82-year-old resident of Palm Coast on an outing in Marineland Friday morning, was pulled out of the surf after he had stumbled in the water, lost consciousness, and died after CPR efforts by a good Samaritan and Flagler County Fire Rescue proved unsuccessful.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, February 3, 2025

February 3, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

Lady Liberty Sent Back to France by Jeff Koterba, patreon.com/jeffreykoterba

The Beverly Beach Town Commission meets, on Peter Singer’s ethics about animal rights and the annual slaughter of turkeys, Jeff Koterba on the Statue of Liberty’s deportation.

Is Capitalism Falling Out of Favor? Don’t Bet On It.

February 2, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Since the 1940s, positive sentiment toward capitalism has improved. In the 2020s, the average article with capitalism got a more balanced 37% negative and 34% positive sentiment score. While capitalism clearly isn’t loved in the press, it’s also not disparaged as much as it was just after World War II.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, February 2, 2025

February 2, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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‘Crimes of the Heart’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, the inability of half of Americans to name a single concentration camp from the Holocaust.

Germany’s Far Right Is Roaring Back

February 1, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

A screen shot from an Alternative for Germany (AfD) rally earlier today, as shown on the party's Facebook page.

A vote in Germany’s national parliament (Bundestag) has led to fears that the firewall supposedly separating mainstream political parties and the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has been blown apart.

DeSantis Will Seek an Increase in Homestead Exemption and Pay Increase for FHP Troopers

February 1, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

A future homestead. (© FlaglerLive)

With home prices continuing to be a big flashpoint for Floridians, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday that he plans to work on an overhaul of property taxes, including an increase in the state’s homestead exemption, which shields part of the value of homes. DeSantis floated the idea when he noted that he is plans to release his budget recommendations over the weekend.

In a First for Flagler, Palm Coast’s Southern Recreation Center Wins Energy and Environmental Design Award

February 1, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

An EV charging station at the Southern Recreation Center, which is in the background. (© FlaglerLive)

The Palm Coast Southern Recreation Center has been awarded LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold certification for its design and construction. This marks the first building in Flagler County to receive this prestigious ranking. The Southern Recreation Center off Belle Terre Parkway, near Fire Station 25, achieved all 64 points during the review process, underscoring the City’s commitment to environmentally responsible practices and thoughtful development.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, February 1, 2025

February 1, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Hegseth Sec of defense by Dave Granlund, PoliticalCartoons.com

Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley, St. Augustine and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, a presentation by Dr. Butler of Flagler College at the Flagler County Public Library, when your cat shows white supremacist tendencies.

Inside the Collapse of Disney’s America, the US History Theme Park

January 31, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Disney's long-time district in Central Florida would be taken over by the governor's appointees if a proposed bill clears the Legislature. (© FlaglerLive)

In the 1990s Disney began buying land in northern Virginia for a planned theme park called America. It would be centered on American history. It was a colossal failure. Questions over how Disney would tell the complex – often discriminatory – history of the nation spurred a group of historians, led by David McCullough, to lodge their concerns: How would Disney construct its narrative of the United States? And how would the park affect Manassas, one of the most important Civil War battle sites?

Education Department Kills Biden’s Title IX Protections Against Gender-Based Discrimination

January 31, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Such a sign, at Motorworks, the pub in Orlando, would no longer be allowed in publicly owned venues. (© FlaglerLive)

The U.S. Department of Education said Friday it is scrapping a Biden administration rule about gender-based discrimination in education programs. The department will use a previous rule about enforcement of Title IX, a landmark 1972 law that bars discrimination in education programs based on sex. In 2020, the Flagler County School Board revised a policy that added “gender identity” to the list of explicit protections in the school district’s anti-discrimination policy. That wording may now be in question.

Bullied Buddy Taylor Student Arrested for Bringing BB Gun to School for ‘Protection’; 4 Student Arrests in a Week

January 31, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

A 13-year-old Buddy Taylor Middle School Student who said he was being bullied brought a BB gun to school as protection. He was arrested and faces a felony charge. (© FlaglerLive)

A 13-year-old Buddy Taylor Middle School students became the fourth Palm Coast teen in the span of six days to face a felony charge and arrest, in this case for bringing a BB gun in the shape of a Glock. The student said he did so to protect himself against bullies, knowing that school officials would not protect him. 

Replacement Concealed Weapon Licenses Now Provided at Local Tax Collector’s Office in Flagler Beach

January 31, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The Tax Collector's office in Flagler Beach. (© FlaglerLive)

Local residents who may have lost their statewide concealed weapon license and still want one may replace it for $27 at the office of the Flagler County Tax Collector’s Office Flagler Beach Branch. For out of state residents, the replacement fee is $99. Until recently, replacement licenses were available only through the Department of Agriculture in Tallahassee.

In Rare Vote Against Business, Bunnell Sides with Residents and Rejects Rezoning That’d Have Allowed Concrete Plant

January 31, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Hard Rock's plant in Elkton. The company is seeking to open a similar plant in Bunnell, at the end of Hibiscus Avenue. (Google)

In a rare rejection of a land-use change that would have opened the way for a new company and new jobs in the city, the Bunnell City Commission voted 3-2 to turn down the rezoning of 1.4 acres at the end of Hibiscus Avenue from residential to light industrial. The vote closed the way for Hard Rock Materials Inc., a concrete manufacturing company, to build a batch plant there and on a much larger parcel attached to it. A batch plant mixes cement to produce concrete for delivery. It can be noisy, affect air quality and significantly increase traffic on Hibiscus Avenue with concrete trucks.

Daytona Solisti String Quartet Will Feature Mozart, Irish Tunes and Guest Guitar Soloist Miles McConnell

January 31, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Guitarist Miles McConnell will perform classical works and Irish tunes at Daytona Solisti’s Feb. 16 concert, “Chamber Music Masterpieces.” (Miles McConnell)

A work Mozart wrote for a king, but which the cash-strapped composer sold “for a song” to a music publisher, will be featured during “Chamber Music Masterpieces,” a concert by the Daytona Solisti String Quartet. The concert, the second in Daytona Solisti’s Winter Festival celebrating the group’s 20th anniversary, also will include a Mozart serenade featured in the 1984 Oscar-winning biopic “Amadeus,” and Orlando-based guitarist Miles McConnell will perform classical works and Irish tunes.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, January 31,. 2025

January 31, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Canada fifty-first state by Guy Parsons, PoliticalCartoons.com

Palm Coast City Council member Ty Miller and Code Enforcement Manager Barbara Grossman on WNZF’s Free For All, the Friday Blue Forum, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, contending with the carpet-bombing of executive orders.

Hillsborough Commissioner Donna Cameron Cepeda Wants Lawmakers To End Sunshine Law for All County Commissioners

January 30, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Hillsborough County Commissioner Donna Cameron Cepeda would cut cold the Sunshine Law for commissioners. (X)

Among the list of legislative proposals that the Hillsborough County Commission is asking their state lawmakers to enact this year is a request from one commissioner to eliminate the Sunshine Law for county commissioners across Florida. Donna Cameron Cepeda, a Republican first elected in 2022, claims it’s not about reducing transparency but giving county commissioners more room to talk about sensitive subjects out of view of the public.

Want To Be a Health Influencer? Join 2025 MedNexus Innovation Challenge

January 30, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

A team of high school students presenting their innovation to the judges at last year's MedNexus Challenge. (Palm Coast)

The University of North Florida (UNF), in partnership with the City of Palm Coast and Flagler Schools and sponsored by AdventHealth, has announced the 2025 MedNexus Innovation Challenge. This exciting competition offers regional high school students the opportunity to pitch innovative solutions to Florida’s evolving healthcare needs while competing for scholarship prizes. This year’s theme, “Becoming a Health Influencer,” challenges teams of four high school students to develop strategies leveraging social media to positively influence adolescent health.

Nearly 1 Million People Visited Flagler County in 2024

January 30, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Lighting up. (TDC)

According to independent research, the county welcomed 948,800 total visitors and generated $4,321,126 in tourist development tax in Fiscal Year 2024, down from the $4,587,725 collected in 2023.

Flagler County Historical Society Prepares Inaugural Bunnell History Day as Accelerant for City’s Renaissance

January 30, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

View showing the Pure Oil Co. gas station on US 1 at Moody Drive in Bunnell, Florida.

With a $5,000 state grant and local sponsorships, the Flagler County Historical Society is organizing Bunnell History Day, with the inaugural all-day event scheduled for June 7. Society members outlined the plan to the Bunnell City Commission as an effort to use history to focus attention on the city’s identity and enduring impact on the county.

26-Year-Old Palm Coast Woman Charged with Molesting 13-Year-Old Boy During Family Christmas

January 30, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Angel Marie Sexton.

Angel Marie Sexton, a 26-year-old resident of Royal Oak Drive in Palm Coast, was charged with molesting a 13-year-old boy whose family was visiting Sexton’s family over Christmas in Palm Coast. The child’s mother uncovered the alleged assault when she found romantic texts between Sexton and the boy on a family phone the boy had taken for himself. The older woman, according to the texts, was telling the boy that he could be emancipated at 16 and that she would leave her husband and marry him when he was 18.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, January 30, 2025

January 30, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

Cycles of Democratic Outrage by Monte Wolverton, Battle Ground, Washington.

Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, ‘Crimes of the Heart’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, a conjunction between a Swiss cartoon and Laure Federiconi’s new novel.

RFK’s Nomination and the New Era of Anti-Intellectualism in US Politics

January 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert Kennedy Jr., on Capitol Hill on Jan. 9, 2025.

The many controversial people appointed to the Trump administration, from Elon Musk to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have at least one thing in common: They dislike and distrust experts. While anti-intellectualism and populism are nothing new in American life, there has hardly been an administration as seemingly committed to these worldviews.

Insults and the Power of Taboo Language

January 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

social media free speech censorship fan lijun propaganda

“Off limits” words – a category ranging from insults and swear words through to racial slurs and hate speech – have extraordinary power. They elicit strong emotional responses, and reveal a massive amount about a society’s values, cultural norms, and psychological processes.

DeSantis Ramps Up Feud with Legislature, Pledging to Veto Bill Targeting Undocumented Immigrants

January 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

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Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday pledged to veto an immigration bill passed during a special legislative session Tuesday, triggering a potential showdown with Republican House and Senate leaders in a tug-of-war over efforts to carry out President Donald Trump’s agenda. The governor’s latest criticism ramped up what has become a brutal — and public — feud between the Republican legislative leaders and DeSantis, who repeatedly called the bill “weak” and “pathetic” and lobbed personal attacks at his foes.

Two FPC Students Arrested for Texting Joking Death Threats Against Each Oher

January 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Phone trouble. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office has arrested two students at Flagler Palm Coast High School for sending threats toward each other in a text group chat. The threats were not meant seriously. The felony charges are.

How Judge Nichols Talked 2 Defendants Off Ledge of Risking Life in Prison at Trial and Accepting Plea Deals Instead

January 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols two weeks ago, reading the verdict form from a jury that had just convicted a man on all charges, resulting in his mandatory life in prison sentence. "I don't think any judge enjoys sentencing a 22 year old to life in prison," Nichols told a defendant today, trying to convince him to take a plea and not risk life in prison. (© FlaglerLive)

Stephanie Raimundo, 48, and Jeba Johnson, 22, were both facing life in prison on stacks of charges if convicted at the trials they wanted: Raimundo for trafficking drugs and for manslaughter in the death by overdose of 22-year-old Calvin Stull, Johnson for armed burglary and other acts of violence. In a remarkable 75-minute hearing for both before Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols this afternoon at the Flagler County courthouse, the judge talked both of them out of going to trial and accepting plea deals that will result in less than 13 years for Raimundo, once gain time is counted, and 25 years for Johnson.

Bunnell Rubber-Stamping Development Agreement for 8,000-Home Haw Creek Reserve, Residents Complain

January 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

The Bunnell City Commission has not publicly analyzed the development agreement controlling the 8,000-home Reserve at Haw Creek. Residents want the commission to do that work. (© FlaglerLive)

The Bunnell City Commission devoted just 60 minutes to a workshop its own planning board had requested to review the 65-page development agreement with the Reserve at Haw Creek, the 8,000-home development west and south of the city that will change the complexion of Bunnell. Residents complained that 60 minutes wasn’t enough, and raised numerous issues that have been raised over the past few months, to a non-reactive commission. But the commission subsequently agreed to set a future workshop.

Indian Trails’ Brandy Anderson Is Teacher of the Year, Wadsworth’s Brande Martz Is Employee of the Year

January 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Brandy Anderson, left, and Brande Martz. (Flagler Schools)

Flagler Schools congratulates Ms. Brandy Anderson of Indian Trails Middle School as the 2024-2025 Teacher of the Year and Ms. Brande Martz of Wadsworth Elementary School as the 2024-2025 Employee of the Year. Both will represent Flagler Schools in the Florida Department of Education State Competition later this year.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, January 29, 2025

January 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Have mercy by John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

Help Night at Flagler Cares, when total expenses for 24 hours at the hospital only cost $105. Now it’s approaching $3,000 a day in Florida. Separation Chat, Open Discussion, Weekly Chess Club for Teens at the library.

Behind Bishop’s Plea to President to ‘Show Mercy’

January 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

Bishop Mariann Budde leads the national prayer service attended by President Donald Trump at the National Cathedral in Washington on Jan. 21, 2025.

Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde’s sermon on Jan. 21, 2025, in which she appealed to President Donald Trump to have mercy toward groups frightened by his position on immigrants and LGBTQ+ people – especially children – drew reactions from both sides of the aisle. In a post on his social networking site, Truth Social, Trump called her comments “nasty in tone” and remarked that she “brought her church into the World of politics in a very ungracious way.” Christian history is full of examples of people who have spoken out, unafraid to risk official censure, or even death.

GOP’s Randy Fine and Democrats’ Josh Weil Win Placid Primary for Waltz Congressional Seat

January 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

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In one of the dreariest elections in recent memory, Randy Fine, the Brevard County state Senator, today won the Republican primary in the race to fill the congressional seat vacated by Mike Waltz, whom President Trump named his national security adviser. Josh Weil won the Democratic primary. Fine and Weill will face off in the general election on April 1.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Calls Undocumented Immigrants ‘Dirtbags’

January 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem does not have a better way with words than with dogs. (U.S. Army Reserves)

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, the former governor of South Dakota, was in New York City, accompanying U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in arrests across the city. In a video posted to social media, Noem — clad in a vest labeled POLICE/ICE — said she was in the city “to get the dirt bags off our streets.” 

14-Year-Old Palm Coast Girl Arrested After Sending Hate-Filled Video Targeting Trans and Other Students

January 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Logan High School. (Logan school district)

L.H., a 14-year-old resident of Seminole Woods in Palm Coast was arrested last Friday (Jan. 24) on a felony charge of written threats to kill after she allegedly sent a racism-laced rant and threats directed at a transgender student through Snapchat, on a “story” connected to the Ohio high school L.H. attended last year.

Selling Palm Harbor Golf Course Draws Strong Opposition as Council Meanders Over Purpose of City ‘Amenities’

January 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 27 Comments

For nearly a decade Palm Coast government has considered its Palm Harbor golf course as a city amenity that does not necessarily have to make money. Several council members now disagree. (© FlaglerLive)

The Palm Coast City Council found little support for any suggestion of selling the city-owned Palm Harbor golf course even as council members agreed it could not keep bleeding losses. At the same time, council members differed over the meaning of city amenities like parks and the golf course, which a different council agreed several years ago are not intended to, or expected to, make money. Council member Charles Gambaro wants a fuller analysis of all amenities profit and loss statements, raising questions about the meaning and purpose of city functions.

Unhappy with Choices, Palm Coast Reopens City Manager Search for ‘Unicorn’ Even as It Culls Second-Best Shortlist

January 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

A detail from "The Unicorn in Captivity," a wool, silk, silver and gilded-silver wrapped thread from the south Netherland area, around 1495 to 1505, on display at the Cloisters in New York. Palm Coast is looking for its unicorn. (© FlaglerLive)

It’s not exactly what the short-listed candidates want to hear: you’re OK, but we’d rather not settle for you. We’re still looking. That was, putting it kindly, the message the Palm Coast City Council sent the six candidates it short-listed, out of a shallow pool of 37, as it seeks to hire a permanent city manager. The more precise message is that a majority of council members aren’t happy with the candidate pool it got, and that it’s re-opening the search for at least a month. 

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, January 28, 2025

January 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

clay jones roll call

A busy day of meetings at the Palm Coast City Council, the School Board and the NAACP, so take a break with ‘Crimes of the Heart’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, and the wiliness of John Marshall and judicial review.

Remember Scalia’s Ruling: Threatening Local Officials to Cooperate with Immigration Orders Is Illegal

January 27, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

A fundamental tension exists between state and federal power in the United States that has not been resolved.

In a 1997 opinion, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that the Constitution barred the federal government from impressing into its service…the police officers of the 50 States.’

Diane Rado Appointed Executive Editor of Florida Trident, Barbara Petersen Will Serve as Publisher

January 27, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Diane Rado. (Florida Trident)

Statewide investigative news outlet, The Florida Trident, published by the Florida Center for Government Accountability, announced today two significant changes. Co-founder and CEO, Barbara Petersen will now serve as Publisher and Diane Rado has joined the team as Executive Editor. Rado is an award-winning journalist who has covered government, education, policy and politics for over 30 years.

Sharply Rebuking DeSantis, Lawmakers Opt for Special Session on Their Own Terms, and Override Budget Veto

January 27, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

House Speaker Daniel Perez, R-Miami, said Monday the House will "not be moved by threats." (Colin Hackley/NSF)

The House and Senate started and quickly ended a special legislative session that DeSantis called — and then immediately opened their own special session and released proposed immigration legislation. The moves came after DeSantis angered House Speaker Daniel Perez, R-Miami, and Senate President Ben Albritton, R-Wauchula, by calling a special session that they said was premature.

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