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Florida House Speaker Calls for Cutting Sales Tax from 6 to 5.25%, Gutting Revenue by $5 Billion

March 26, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

House Speaker Daniel Perez, R-Miami, called Wednesday for a sales-tax cut. Colin Hackley/File

House Speaker Daniel Perez said Wednesday he wants to lower the state’s sales-tax rate, trimming revenue by almost $5 billion a year. Perez, R-Miami, told House members he has directed Ways & Means Chairman Wyman Duggan, R-Jacksonville, to produce a bill next week that would lower the rate from 6 percent to 5.25 percent.

Flagler County Sheriff SRD Nicholas Champion Takes National Association’s Top Honor

March 26, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Nicholas Champion. (FCSO)

The National Sheriffs’ Association has selected Flagler County Sheriff Office Master Deputy and School Resource Deputy Nicholas Champion as the 2025 Law Enforcement Explorer Post Advisor of the Year.

30 Years in Prison for Tyrese Patterson in Killing of Noah Smith In Last of Lives Lost Over ‘Stupid, Senseless Act’

March 26, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Tyrese Patterson, right, with his attorney, Tim Pribisco, this afternoon. (© FlaglerLive)

Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols’s 30-year prison sentence for Tyrese Patterson closes the book on four cases that sent four young men to prison for long terms, one of them for life, over what the judge described as the “stupid, senseless” behavior that led to the killing of 16-year-old Noah Smith in a shootout in Bunnell in January 2022.

Bunnell Approves Grand Reserve’s Last 141 of 847 Houses, with a Pointed Caution From Its Staff

March 26, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

At Grand Reserve, the big subdivision at the northeast edge of Bunnell, new houses neiughboring lots under construction are the norm and will be for several years before build-out. Bunnell government this week approved platting the development's final phase. (© FlaglerLive)

The Bunnell City Commission approved the final phase of Grand Reserve, the 847-home subdivision that will increase the city’s population by more than half and is already changing the city’s politics. The sixth phase consists of 141 houses on 100 acres. The city’s planning director cautioned the commission to review future developments more carefully than when Grand Reserve was originally approved.

Trump Names Derek Barrs to Transportation Department Post; He Will Leave Flagler School Board

March 26, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Derek Barrs this morning in Flagler Beach. (© FlaglerLive)

Less than five months after Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed him to a Flagler County School Board seat, where his presence helped restore a level of stability that had been lacking for two years, Derek Barrs will almost certainly leave the board for an appointment as administrator to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, March 26, 2025

March 26, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

From Clay Jones: voice of america

Clay Jones on the Voice of America, Tyrese Patterson sentencing, Weekly Chess Club for Teens at the public library, in praise of Hooters, refuge against conversion therapy.

Bezos’s Washington Post About Face

March 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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Journalists report news to inform the public, while editors and opinion writers analyze and explain news, putting facts into a larger context to aid understanding. Jeff Bezos is throwing that model of journalism out. Opinion and analysis in the Post will limit itself to one particular apparently libertarian viewpoint: what Bezos calls personal liberties and free markets.

Florida Senate Committee Approves Ignoring Preferred Pronouns in State and Local Government

March 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

An overflow crowd jammed into a Senate committee room in the Capitol on March 18, 2025, when the “Freedom of Conscience in the Workplace Act” was first slated to be heard (Photo by Mitch Perry/Florida Phoenix)

A measure (SB 440) prohibits requiring any employee to refer to another person using that person’s preferred pronouns if such pronouns don’t correspond to that person’s sex at birth. Job applications in public workplaces may only ask an applicant whether they are male or female and may not provide a nonbinary option.

Holocaust Memorial Is Dedicated in Tallahassee

March 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Rep. Hillary Cassel poses in front of the Holocaust memorial outside the Capitol on March 25, 2025. (Photo by Jay Waagmeester/Florida Phoenix)

Floridians visiting the Capitol can now see the names and faces of Holocaust survivors who moved to Florida featured on a memorial unveiled Tuesday. 

22-Year-Old J.T. Horovsky Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison and 10 on Probation for Molesting Child

March 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Joseph Horovsky losing his freedom for the next five years immediately after Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols sentenced him, with Assistant State Attorney Melissa Clark, who prosecuted the case, looking on. (© FlaglerLive)

When he was arrested last September, Joseph Thomas Horovsky, who turned 22 last week, faced life in prison if convicted on two charges of molesting a family member younger than 12 for several years. He pleaded last month, and this afternoon, walking into court a free man one last time, he was sentenced to five years in prison, followed by 10 years on probation. He will be designated a sex offender for life.

‘I’m Done,’ Judge Tells Derrius Bauer in Final Attempt to Win Plea; He’d Rather Risk Life in Prison

March 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols in a final attempt to convince Derius Bauer to take a 15-year plea deal to avopid life in prison if convicted at trial on a murder charge. (© FlaglerLive)

Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols attempted again to convince Derrius Bauer, 30, to take a plea deal that would have him out of prison in eight and a half years rather than risk life in prison if convicted on a murder charge, as was his friend Marcus Chamblin last year in the same courtroom. Bauer was adamant against a plea. Trial will be set for late summer or early fall.

Is Mike Waltz Out of His Depth? Ex-Flagler Congressman May Have Violated Espionage Act with Leak

March 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 56 Comments

Then-U.S. Rep. Mike Waltz talking beach renourishment with Flagler County Administrator Heidi Petito last August on the Flagler Beach pier. (© FlaglerLive)

Mike Waltz, the former congressman representing Flagler County and the 6th Congressional District, whom Donald Trump tapped as his national security adviser, is at the center of the gravest scandal facing an administration embroiled in controversies since its first day, 64 days ago. Waltz may have violated provisions of the Espionage Act that control national defense information.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, March 25, 2025

March 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Trump's Embrace of Putin and Authoritarianism by Peter Kuper, PoliticalCartoons.com

The Flagler County School Board meets at 1 p.m. in an information workshop and again at 6 p.m., Budgeting by Values, where people are the happiest (and the least happy).

AdventHealth Palm Coast Earns National Recognition for Senior-Friendly ER

March 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The hospital earned the Age-Friendly Emergency Department designation from the American College of Emergency Physicians

AdventHealth Palm Coast is making emergency care safer and more effective for older adults. The hospital earned the Age-Friendly Emergency Department designation from the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), recognizing its commitment to meeting the unique needs of seniors.

What You Should Know About What TikTok Calls News

March 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Here are three crucial things to know about news you get on TikTok: What videos count as news, how they got to you, and what you should do when you see them. These are three of what media researchers know as the “5 C’s” of news literacy: content, circulation and consumption. While they can be applied to any kind of news use, they are especially important for TikTok, where anyone can create content, and the algorithm decides what we see.

Federal Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against Florida Law Restricting Minors on Social Media

March 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The Joseph Woodrow Hatchett U.S. Courthouse and Federal Building in Tallahassee.

Senior U.S. District Judge Mark Walker in Tallahassee dismissed a challenge against the state’s law barring Floridians younger than 14 from using social media apps with addictive features filed by industry organizations NetChoice and Computer & Communications Industry Association representing companies including Google, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube.

To Prevent Renewed Wars Over Annexation, Flagler County Will Aim for Joint Planning Group with Cities

March 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Looming over the Hammock, Palm Coast's water tower brings back bad memories of the water wars of two decades ago, when the city attempted to use its utility's muscle to force the Hammock to annex. It was repulsed.

Flagler County government is proposing to create a Joint Planning Committee with Palm Coast, Flagler Beach and Bunnell to review all developments and annexations that straddle county-city or city-city boundaries. The committee would be responsible for drafting service agreements defining who will provide law enforcement, fire, water and sewer services and road maintenance. The County Commission is all for it. But getting the cities to sign on to what amounts to more transparent coordination may be a challenge.

New $7 Million Fire Station 51 and Sheriff Substation on County Road 305 a Step Closer to Construction

March 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

A rendering of the future Fire Station 51 on County Road 305, front and back.

Flagler County Fire Rescue’s new Fire Station 51 is one step closer to construction later this year as the county’s planning board recommended approval of its site plan to the County Commission. The commission is expected to ratify the decision within weeks, clearing the way for construction.

Flagler Sheriff Staly Exploring Deployment of Drones as First Responders: A ‘Much Cheaper Helicopter’

March 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

A state trooper practices shooting the new Taser 10 with Master Instructor Wade Weaver at Axon's road show at the Flagler County Sheriff's Office's Operations Center last week. (© FlaglerLive)

The parking lot of the Flagler County Sheriff’s Operations Center last week was transformed into a showplace for Axon, the Arizona-based technology company whose tasers, body cams, car cameras, simulators, interview rooms and real-time crime center equipment and software redefined policing in the past years. It continues to do so with new products–among them, the drone as first responder, which Sheriff Rick Staly is studying for possible deployment in Flagler County.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, March 24, 2025

March 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Trump-Putin ceasefire call by John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

A new flag flies above the Flagler Beach Police Department, the Bunnell City Commission meets, the Flagler County Beekeepers Association, Sheldon Cooper’s fun with flags, Omar el Akkad’s fear of flags.

Americans Still Believe They Live in a Compassionate Country

March 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

Most Americans responding to a survey said compassion is declining but still strong.

A new study on the state of compassion in America by the Muhammad Ali Center, which the late boxer co-founded 20 years ago in Louisville, Kentucky, to advance social justice, found that the desire to help others still animates many Americans despite the nation’s current polarization and divisive politics. Cities with high compassion scores have more community engagement and civic participation than those with low scores.

Lawless Persecution of Mahmoud Khalil Is a Threat to Free Speech Everywhere

March 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

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Without a warrant or charges, plainclothes Department of Homeland Security agents forced their way into Columbia University’s student housing and detained Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil, who had demonstrated against the Israeli genocide in Gaza. They then shipped him to an immigration jail in Louisiana, impeding his access to attorneys and visits from family. Khalil is a lawful U.S. permanent resident who hasn’t been charged with any crime. Khalil’s fate — and the larger battle over the First Amendment — concerns all of us.

Can Democrats Get Their Act Together Before Its Too Late?

March 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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For more than a century, Democrats were the party of slavery, states’ rights, and Jim Crow, but, gradually and imperfectly, became the party of civil rights, voting rights, and workers’ rights, switching places with Republicans, who once had a strong streak of social progressivism. For 30 years, Florida elected New South governors such as Reubin Askew, Bob Graham, and Lawton Chiles, leaders who believed in education, open government, protecting the environment — crazy stuff like that. Where are they now?

Florida Senate Releases Plan to More Easily Finance Massive Exodus to School Voucher

March 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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With massive growth in school voucher programs, the Florida Senate on Friday released a plan that, in part, would seek to address funding concerns as students move between schools. The Senate Pre-K-12 Education Appropriations Committee is scheduled Wednesday to take up the bill (SPB 7030), which would make changes affecting public schools and voucher programs.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, March 23, 2025

March 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Astronauts: from Stranded to Shocked by Jeff Koterba, patreon.com/jeffreykoterba

‘Violet’ at City Repertory Theatre, “Warbirds Over Flagler” fly-in at the Flagler Executive Airport, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, a conjunction between David Copperfield and Willie Nelson.

Bill Making It Easier for Exonerated People to Be Compensated Moves to Senate Floor

March 22, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Many Florida prisons have no air conditioning, leaving prisoners broiling in an ongoing heat wave, and the state has no plans to change the fact beyond cosmetic allowances. (© FlaglerLive)

Legislation to help Florida exonerees seeking compensation for their being wrongly imprisoned is bound for the Senate floor after receiving uniform support through three committee stops.

The Hidden Epidemic of Violence Against Nurses

March 22, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Nurses in the United States face a high rate of burnout.

An alarming 8 in 10 nurses face violence at work. As a result, health care workers are more than four times as likely to be injured by workplace violence than workers in all other industries combined. Despite these staggering numbers, the full extent of this epidemic may not be fully understood because nurses and other health care workers chronically underreport violent encounters.

Clinton Huggins, 1971-2025

March 22, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Clinton Huggins.

Clinton Huggins, loving husband and dad, passed away on March 18, 2025 at the age of 54, but his larger-than-life persona and ability to spot fish in tannin-stained water will never be forgotten. Commissioner Leann Pennington and her son, Clint, sincerely thank the many friends, family and residents who have reached out to express their condolences and offered support during this devastating time.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, March 22, 2025

March 22, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Courts Hammer White House by Monte Wolverton, Battle Ground.

‘Violet’ at City Repertory Theatre in Palm Coast, “Warbirds Over Flagler” fly-in at the Flagler Executive Airport, Gamble Jam, The Flagler Wellness Expo, George Hanns’s one-liners are still sharp.

Why Forecasting A Tornado’s Strike Zone Is Still Elusive

March 21, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Pinpointing exactly where a tornado will touch down – like those that hit states including Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama on March 14 and 15 – still relies heavily on seeing the storms developing on radar.

A Moratorium Won’t Help the Crappy Utility ITT Left Palm Coast. Painful Rates Might.

March 21, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

Origins of a crisis: Waste Water Treatment Plant 1 in Palm Coast's Woodlands. (© FlaglerLive)

There’s no question that water and sewer rates in Palm Coast are among the most expensive in the state. That was true even before the City Council this week approved the sharpest and fastest rate increase in the city’s 25-year history. But neither a building moratorium nor blaming the City Council is a solution for a problem seeded by ITT, the original owner of the utility.

Board Approves New Tattoo Parlor for Palm Coast’s St. Joe Business Center

March 21, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Some of the images Ryan Sherwood included in his application for a special exception to open a tattoo parlor off Palm Coast Parkway.

Tattoo artist and business owner Ryan Sherwood had a much easier time than a self-storage facility when he requested a special exception from the Palm Coast Planning Board to open a new tattoo parlor and art gallery in Unit Seven of the St. Joe Business Center, off Palm Coast Parkway. The board voted unanimously to grant the exception.

New But Familiar Attorney Files for Re-Hearing in Latest Old Dixie Motel Case Twist

March 21, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Dennis Bayer in court last year. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler Beach attorney Dennis Bayer is now representing the owners of the dilapidated Old Dixe motel, which Flagler County government has been seeking to have either rehabilitated or demolished. The county was very close to winning an order that would have pushed the building into foreclosure when Bayer stepped in and asked for a re-hearing.

In Rare Rebuke, Palm Coast Planning Board Denies Application for Self-Storage Business on Pine Lakes Parkway

March 21, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

A rendering of Hillpointe Way Storage, planned for Pine Lakes Parkway.

The Palm Coast Planning Board in a 4-2 vote denied an application for an 850-unit, 100,000 square foot self-storage facility on Pine Lakes Parkway, halfway between Belle Terre and Palm Coast Parkway. The facility would have 26 outdoor recreational vehicle and boat storage spaces. The decision is not final, and may not have been reached within the legally permissible parameters of the Planning Board’s responsibilities.

Edward James Is Killed by Lethal Injection for Murders of Betty Dick and her Granddaughter, Toni Neuner in 1993

March 21, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The state prison in Raiford. (© FlaglerLive)

More than three decades after he murdered a Seminole County woman and her 8-year-old granddaughter, Edward James was put to death by lethal injection Thursday night at Florida State Prison. James, 63, was pronounced dead at 8:15 p.m. and became the second person executed in Florida this year. Earlier Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected attempts by James’ attorney to halt the execution.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, March 21, 2025

March 21, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Ed Dept cut in half by Dave Granlund, PoliticalCartoons.com

‘Violet’ the musical opens at City Repertory Theatre in Palm Coast, J.S. Bach is 340 years old and we celebrate with the Art of Fugue, the Friday Blue Forum and Free For All.

Stetson Opera Theatre Presents Mozart’s ‘Marriage of Figaro’ Friday and Sunday

March 20, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

A scene from Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro" from the Victrola book of the opera (1917).

Stetson University’s School of Music invites the community to experience Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s beloved opera, The Marriage of Figaro. The Stetson Opera Theatre will stage this classic comic opera with performances on Friday, March 21, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, March 23, at 3 p.m., at University High School in Orange City, Florida.

President’s Defiance of Court Order Fuels a Constitutional Crisis

March 20, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

The Supreme Court is seen on March 17, 2025, one day before Chief Justice John Roberts issued a rare rebuke of a president.

The president is flouting U.S. District Court Judge James Bloasberg’s order that planes carrying deportees must return to the United States. The subsequent legal back-and-forth, which is still going on, intensified so quickly and dramatically that many legal scholars say the U.S. is past the point of a constitutional crisis, as the Trump administration appears to be defying a federal court order, for which Boasberg may hold the government in contempt.

County Attorney Al Hadeed, Stalwart of Environmental Stewardship and Local History, Is Retiring in August

March 20, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

County Attorney Al Hadeed in the foreground, with Assistant County Attorney Sean Moylan and County Administrator Heidi Petito to his right, at a recent meeting in Marineland. (© FlaglerLive)

County Attorney Al Hadeed announced his retirement come August. He had been the county attorney for nearly a decade until the commission in a dubious move ended his contract in 1998. A different commission re-hired him in 2007. His retirement will remove the single-most important store of institutional memory from county government, though his signature achievements would fill volumes.

Measure Deporting Gulf of Mexico Name from State Law Moves to Florida House Floor

March 20, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

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While a public opinion poll conducted last month shows that a majority of Floridians do not support updating changes in the state from the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America,” that was of little concern to the House State Affairs Committee on Thursday. The committee voted along party lines to advance two proposals making that change into both state law and state agencies. Both measures will now head to the entire House for floor votes.

No Outright Indications of Mechanical Failures in Plane Crash That Claimed Pilot’s Life in West Flagler

March 20, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The crash site the morning of Feb. 15, 2025. (FCSO)

A preliminary investigation of the Feb. 14 plane crash that took the life of pilot 75-year-old Thomas Harvey in western Flagler County reveals that the plane had followed a normal flight path until it suddenly began to drop rapidly, at more than 200 feet per second before impact. There was no evidence of a fire on board and “no indications of a flight control anomaly were discovered,” according to the National Transportation Safety Board’s preliminary report, suggesting that Harvey may have suffered a medical episode.

City Repertory Theatre Takes Trip to Matters of Faith and Race with ‘Violet’ Musical

March 20, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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In “Violet,” a musical that opens Friday at Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre, it’s 1964, and Violet is about to travel by bus from her North Carolina home to Tulsa, Okla. The play’s themes are reflected in music that spans gospel, Memphis blues, bluegrass and jazz, with the cast singing to recorded backing tracks. Christian faith is an ongoing theme, as is race, judgment and life’s scars, visible and invisible.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, March 20, 2025

March 20, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Constitutional Crisis by Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News

Shawn Peter Cona on trial over written threats, Town of Marineland commission meeting, The Bronx Wanderers at the Fitzgerald Performing Arts Center, following the logic of going childless as an ethical choice.

Israeli Politics Kill Gaza Ceasefire

March 19, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

ceasefire left in ruins after airstrikes on March 18, 2025.

While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sought to blame Hamas for the resumption of fighting that killed more than 400 Palestinians on March 18 – “only the beginning,” Netanyahu warned – the truth is the seeds of the renewed violence are to be found in Israeli domestic politics.

Flu Deaths Near 7-Year High As Anti-Vaccine Disinformation Spreads

March 19, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

One of Palm Coast's more notorious anti-vaxxers at the county airport last year, where the Health Department was conducting vaccination clinics. (© FlaglerLive)

Flu-related deaths hit a seven-year high in January and February, the two months that usually account for the height of flu season, according to a Stateline analysis of preliminary federal statistics. There were about 9,800 deaths across the country, up from 5,000 in the same period last year and the most since 2018, when there were about 10,800.

13 Applicants, Including Several Familiar Names, Apply to Fill Palm Coast Council Seat Vacated by Stevens

March 19, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

The empty seat they seek to fill. (© FlaglerLive)

Thirteen candidates have filed for the District 3 seat on the Palm Coast City Council that Ray Stevens resigned at the end of February. The list includes several familiar names, among them Dave Ferguson, a former appointee to the council, Dave Sullivan, who just ended two terms on the County Commission, Cornelia Manfre, who has had three unsuccessful runs for a council seat or the mayorship, Mark Stancel, who lost a primary vote to Stevens by two votes, and Andrew Werner, who lost to Stevens.

44-Year-Old C-Section Dad Arrested When 2-Year-Old Is Found Wandering the Street, and Dog Is Near Death

March 19, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Ross Judy.

Ross Judy, a 44-year-old resident of Collins Lane in Palm Coast, was arrested Sunday on felony child neglect and a misdemeanor charge of abandoning an animal to neglect after his 2-year-old child was found wandering alone in the middle of a street in pajamas and a soiled diaper and a dog was found barely alive.

Florida Senate Proposal Would Raise Speed Limits to 75 on Interstates

March 19, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

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Highway speeds could increase under a bill that has started moving forward in the state Senate. The Republican-controlled Senate Transportation Committee on Wednesday approved a wide-ranging measure (SB 462), filed by Sen. Nick DiCeglie, R-Indian Rocks Beach, that includes boosting the maximum speed on interstates and Florida’s Turnpike from 70 mph to 75 mph.

County’s Kim Carney, Crucial Vote on Sales Tax Proposal, Appears to Waver, Putting Beach Plan at Risk

March 19, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

County Commissioner Kim Carney’s support for the county-wide beach-management plan she endorsed just weeks ago appeared to waver when she raised questions about it at last Monday’s commission meeting, potentially putting the entire plan in jeopardy, especially with an undecided Palm Coast looking on.

10 Years on, Palm Coast Finally Breaks Ground on Nerve-Center Maintenance Facility’s $12 Million 1st Phase

March 19, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The sun rises on Palm Coast's future maintenance facility off U.S. 1. (© FlaglerLive)

Palm Coast hosted a groundbreaking for what will eventually be a nearly 100-acre maintenance facility gathering public works, stormwater and utility departments in one location off U.S. 1, to the northwest of the city. The $12 million phase is the first of three. The City Council in 2016 set the project in motion, but funding has been a challenge, as has the criticism of the project.

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