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Americans Think They Know A Lot About Politics. They’re Wrong. And It’s Hurting Democracy.

September 3, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Overconfidence about their political knowledge is common among Americans. FXQuadro/iStock/Getty Images Plus

Political overconfidence can make people more defensive of factually wrong beliefs about politics. It also causes Americans to underestimate the political skill of their peers. And those who believe themselves to be political experts often dismiss the guidance of real experts.

What in Jesus’s Name? Saving the Savior from Christian Nationalism.

September 3, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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In their zeal to stoke the fires of a culture war, conservatives have drafted Jesus into their army, with some proudly espousing Christian nationalism, which combines two character traits: religious zealotry and fascism. Meanwhile charlatan theologians give the politicians religious cover enough so that they can be assured that Jesus would vote Republican.

Cities, Including Flagler Beach, Looking Into Banning Smoking and Vaping on Beaches

September 3, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

A new law allows cities and counties to ban smoking and vaping on beaches they control. (© FlaglerLive)

Several communities in coming weeks and months could move forward under a new state law that allows cities and counties to ban smoking cigarettes and vaping at locally controlled beaches and parks.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, September 3, 2022

September 3, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Semi Fascism by Pat Byrnes, PoliticalCartoons.com

Sales tax suspension on tools and home-improvement items, Sunshine and Sandals Social at Cornerstone, Qatar’s unfreedoms ahead of the World Cup, Mark Twain in King Arthur’s court, Charlie Sheen.

What Abortion Opponents Ignore: Most Embryos Die After Conception

September 2, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The majority of fertilized eggs die and are resorbed into the body.

An important biological feature of human embryos has been left out of a lot of ethical and even scientific discussion informing reproductive policy – most human embryos die before anyone, including doctors, even know they exist. This embryo loss typically occurs in the first two months after fertilization, before the clump of cells has developed into a fetus with immature forms of the body’s major organs.

Flagler Beach Commission Set to Approve Budget With 13% Tax Increase

September 2, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Flagler Beach, when it had a beach. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler Beach City Commission is set to vote next week on a proposed budget that would raise the city’s property tax rate slightly and equate to a 13 percent tax increase for non-homesteaded property owners like businesses and renters.

Spared Life in Prison for Cooperating, Princess Williams Is Sentenced to 20 Years in Attempted Murder

September 2, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Princess Williams immediately after her sentencing this morning before Circuit Judge Terence Perkins at the Flagler County courthouse in Bunnell. (© FlaglerLive)

Princess Williams was 20 when she conspired with three others, all of them about her age, in an armed robbery four years ago that resulted in the shooting and disabling of 19-year-old Carl Saint-Felix. Her sentence today closes the book on the cases, with all four conspirators now in prison. Williams got the heaviest sentence.

Daytona State’s Engineering Technology Program Re-Accredited by ABET

September 2, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Daytona State College’s Bachelor of Science in Engineering Technology program has been re-accredited by ABET, a global nonprofit, non-governmental agency that accredits programs in applied and natural science, computing, engineering and engineering technology.

70% of Flagler County Students Fail Civic Literacy Test, 63% Fail Across Florida in Exam’s 1st Year

September 2, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

The Army base at Fort Hood, Texas, where Lt. Jack Robinson, who became known as Jackie Robinson, the trail-blazing baseball superstar, was stationed in 1944.

Just 30 percent of Flagler County students know the purpose of a constitution, understand the separation of powers, the concept of the rule of law, the reasons colonists rebelled against Britain, the Supreme Court ruling that ratified Jim Crow or what FDR meant by a New Deal. Students in a U.S. government course are required to take the new exam that covers everything from landmark Supreme Court cases to influential documents in American history to basic principles about how government functions.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, September 2, 2022

September 2, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Defund Trump by Christopher Weyant, The Boston Globe

Princess Williams is sentenced for her role in a 2018 armed robbery and shooting, Clarence Murphy is back in court to argue he had poor counsel when he pleaded and was sentenced to life, First Friday in Flagler Beach, Jimmy Connors, James Agee on FDR’s death, Schubert’s 13th piano sonata.

Black Girls Are 4.19 Times More Likely to Get Suspended Than White Girls

September 1, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Race, class and gender can not only impact the education that students receive, but also the punishments they receive.

And hiring more teachers of color is only part of the solution: a major barrier to intervention is the perception adults hold about Black girls. Instead of receiving developmentally appropriate and socioemotional support, many Black girls are adultified – a concept coined to describe how Black girls are disproportionately perceived as less innocent, needing less nurturing, less protection, less support.

Ex-Judges, Prosecutors, Police Chiefs and Legal Scholars Lambast DeSantis Suspension of State Attorney

September 1, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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More than 100 legal scholars and dozens of former judges, prosecutors and police chiefs are decrying Gov. Ron DeSantis’ suspension of Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren, arguing that the move runs counter to professional standards, sets a dangerous precedent and violates the constitutional separation of powers.

Supreme Court Urged to Take Up 15-Week Abortion Law Case

September 1, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Attorneys for abortion clinics and a doctor Wednesday urged the Florida Supreme Court to take up a battle about a new state law that prevents abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The attorneys filed a brief arguing that the Supreme Court should review a decision by the 1st District Court of Appeal that tossed out a temporary injunction against the law (HB 5).

New Traffic Pattern Enforced Around Bunnell Elementary Starting Sept. 6 to Cut Down on Complaints

September 1, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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The new pattern was developed by Bunnell Elementary school and the Bunnell Police Department to alleviate issues that arose after the resumption of school in August, when the Police Department received complaints related to traffic safety during drop-off in the morning.

‘We Have Too Much Stuff’: Palm Coast Board Approves Key Steps for 3 More Self-Storage Facilities

September 1, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

Renderings of different perspectives of the Kings Crossing self-storage facility, to be built on acreage between Old Kings Road North and I-95, north of Palm Coast Parkway.

The Palm Coast Planning Board last week approved in three successive unanimous votes different regulatory steps advancing the development of three self-storage facilities–on Old Kings Road North, on Old Kings Road south, and on Matanzas Woods Parkway near U.S. 1. In contrast with considerations of such items before local boards in recent months, the approvals, which point to a continuing bullish trend in self-storage businesses in the area, drew neither opposition nor any appearances from the public.

Leroy Sampson Jr, Repeat Offender on Probation, Arrested After 2-Hour Stand-Off With Deputies

September 1, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Leroy Sampson in his most recent state prison photo, left, and in his latest Flagler County jail booking photo.

Leroy Sampson Jr. was wanted on five warrants involving aggravated assault with a weapon and a repeat felony battery charge, among others, when detectives readied to pick him up in Palm Coast’s Town center, only for Sampson to barricade himself in an apartment he did not live in, for which he got an additional felony burglary charge. He surrendered after two hours.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, September 1, 2022

September 1, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Radical left Socialism by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com

The Flagler County Canvassing Board conducts its legally required manual audit of the primary election, DeSantis’s weird woke obsession, Prostate Awareness Month, Ninon de Lenclos, old age as a massacre.

The World’s Retreat from Democracy Is a Boon to China

August 31, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

One authoritarian visits another: Hungary's Victor Orban at the White House in 2019, in an image from a pool video.

Only 8.4% of the world’s population lived in a fully functioning democracy, this shift is being referred to as a “democratic recession”. The gradual erosion of democratic values and freedoms and the slide towards authoritarianism is opening up more space for China to dominate the global agenda with its values.

Flagler Schools’ Budget Is Millions Short from 10 Years Ago as District Is Forced to Shift Tax Dollars to Private Schools

August 31, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Unlike any other local government, the Flagler County school district's tax rate has dwindled since 1995, cutting into local budgetary needs. Unlike any other local government, the school board does not get to set its own tax rate. It's set by legislators in Tallahassee. The district is opeating with fewer dollars this year than it had 10 years ago as a result. (© FlaglerLive)

Historically lower taxes it has no control over, a state funding formula that cheats it of 5 cents of every dollar it sends the state, and a state-required $6 million transfer to pay for private education vouchers have again left the Flagler County school district scrambling to balance its budget. But it’s been an annual erosion of local dollars, entirely at the expense of public education.

Daytona Lagoon Offers Free Waterpark Admission to First Responders Sept. 10-11

August 31, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Daytona Lagoon welcomes all active firefighters, lifeguards, emergency medical service (EMS) professionals and law enforcement to a free day at the water park. Daytona Lagoon’s Waterpark will be open from Noon to 6:00 p.m. on both Saturday, September 10 and Sunday, September 11.

Palm Coast Will Spend $6.2 Million to Buy 69 Vehicles and Heavy Equipment Items, Including 3 Fire Trucks

August 31, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 37 Comments

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In one of the largest such expenditures in the city’s history at one time, the Palm Coast City Council on Tuesday gave its approval for spending $6.2 million to buy 69 vehicles and pieces of heavy equipment for various departments, including three fire trucks.

DeSantis Press Conference: Bash Biden. Praise Self. Bash Biden. Campaign Shrilly. Bash Biden.

August 31, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis, Aug. 30, 2022, in North Florida’s Live Oak, in Suwannee County. (Gov. DeSantis’ Facebook.)

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ “news conferences” are heavy on campaigning and Biden-bashing and light on actual policy announcements. The governor packs these events with supporters who cheer him plus local officials and administration figures who lavish him with praise.

Less Than Half of Flagler’s 10th Graders Pass English, Worst in 11 Years; FPC Down 9 Points, to 45%

August 31, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

Tenth grade passing rates of level 3 or better in reading since 2011. The assessment has changed over that time span, but the scoring method has not. (© FlaglerLive)

On the heels of a year and a half of a dysfunctional school board riven by ideological battles, only 49 percent of Flagler County’s 10th graders last school year were reading English at grade level, the lowest proportion in over a decade and a decline from 53 percent in 2021. Flagler’s 10th grade reading scores have declined every year since 2018.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, August 31, 2022

August 31, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Flooding Rain by Bob Englehart, PoliticalCartoons.com

The Flagler Youth Orchestra holds its open house at the Flagler Auditorium for all interested participants at 5:30 p.m., John Hersey’s “Hiroshima” on its 76th anniversary, and how this is not your life.

The Problem With Virtue Signaling

August 30, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

A sign in a yard listing many virtues – an example of virtue signaling.

Virtue signalers are often inclined to pat themselves on the back for their moral insight and courage. This refuge doesn’t work: talking about virtue is useful, but real virtue requires work. It is far more demanding and is far harder to fake.

Woody’s BBQ Now Serving Ketchup with a Cause, Benefiting Families of Fallen and Wounded Soldiers

August 30, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Woody’s Bar-B-Q is proud to announce that it is teaming up with Red Gold. Through Red Gold’s national “Ketchup with a Cause” partnership with the Folds of Honor Foundation, with every case of Red Gold ketchup Woody’s Bar-B-Q purchases to stock its restaurants, the Jacksonville, Fl.-based franchise will be doing its part to benefit the families of fallen and wounded soldiers.

County Attorney Al Hadeed Addresses Florida Tax Collectors Association on Short-Term Rentals

August 30, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Flagler County Attorney Al Hadeed last week made a presentation about the proposed state preemption for advertising platforms for short-term rentals as part of the education forum for the Florida Tax Collectors Association. Tax collectors are responsible for collecting Tourist Development Tax – also referred to as resort tax, bed tax, local option tourist tax, or transient rental tax.

Florida Sets Limits on How Much Medical Pot Doctors May Order for Patients

August 30, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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The highly anticipated emergency rule sets a 70-day total supply limit of 24,500 mg of THC for non-smokable marijuana and establishes dosage caps for different routes of administration such as edibles, inhalation and tinctures.

Police Lock Down Bridgehaven Drive in Standoff With Suicidal Man

August 30, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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A law enforcement situation involving a person who’d barricaded himself on Bridgehaven Drive this afternoon led the Flagler County Sheriff’s deputies to close off streets in that neighborhood and divert a school bus from making its usual run and dropping off elementary age students at their regular bus stops.

On the Run from Charges for 2 DUI Crash Deaths, Randall Howard, 46, Is Arrested at Econo Lodge

August 30, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Randall Thomas Howard after his arrest at Palm Coast's Econo Lodge, where he was staying in Room 222. (FCSO)

Howard 46, originally from Gaston, S.C., was staying at the Econo Lodge on Kingswood Drive in Palm Coast., wanted on warrants stemming from the death of two people who were in his car when he crashed, allegedly high on meth.

Between Garfield and Reagan, Palm Coast OK’s 15% Tax Increase, Claiming It for Good of Future Residents

August 30, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 73 Comments

Bill Reischmann, the city's lpong-0time attorney, may have thought he'd seen everything in a city that keeps disabusing him. Today, after invoking the name of Ronald Reagan, Palm Coast Mayor propped up Garfield, the cynical and lazy character, to make a point about preservation of Palm Coast's quality of life. The city issued the image to media, along with Alfin's complete speech.

A 4-1 majority of the city council agreed to raise property taxes 15 percent for next year’s budget despite the highest year-over-year tax revenue increase in 16 years and the strongest growth in a decade and a half, all while claiming that the tax increase was necessary in order to lower taxes for a future generation. Mayor David Alfin bookended his argument with the peculiar evocation of Ronald Reagan and Garfield, the lazy and fat cartoon character, not the assassinated 20th president.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, August 30, 2022

August 30, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Threat Assessment by Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune,

The Palm Coast City Council get a presentation on the final $249 million budget proposal for 2022-23, the National Hurricane Center keeps an eye on a potential hurricane in the Atlantic, the Hellespont Swim.

Federal Judge Urged to Halt Law Muzzling Instruction on Gender and Sexual Orientation

August 29, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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The 26-page motion contends that the law, passed this year by the Republican-controlled Legislature and signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, “was enacted with the purpose to discriminate and has the effect of discriminating against LGBTQ+ students and those with LGBTQ+ family members.”

The Greenland Ice Sheet Is Losing Ice Faster Than Forecast

August 29, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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Even if all the greenhouse gas emissions driving global warming ceased today, we find that Greenland’s ice loss under current temperatures will raise global sea level by at least 10.8 inches (27.4 centimeters). That’s more than current models forecast, and it’s a highly conservative estimate.

Flagler Sheriff’s Cpl. Rob Myers, Who’d Been Drinking and Driving, Demoted Following Heated Stop

August 29, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

The Sheriff's Rob Myers told an internal investigator that he'd had four to five beers at St. Patrick's Day festivities at European Village over an eight-hour period before being pulled over by a deputy, shortly after leaving the village. He said he was not impaired. The deputy who stopped him disagrees. (© Jon Hardison for FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Sheriff’s Cpl. Rob Myers, a nine-year veteran of the agency, was demoted to deputy and placed on 18 months’ internal probation following an internal investigation that found he had been drinking and driving and drove alarmingly close to a deputy who was conducting an unrelated traffic stop. He was only given a warning at the traffic stop, and had a ride arranged for him to get him home.

Fundraiser Gets Handyman and Everywhere Cyclist Frank Diaz, 79, New Bike 2 Weeks After Crash

August 29, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Francisco Diaz, who turns 80 next month, is back on a brand new bike after his porevious bike was totaled in a crash with a car on State Road 100, when Sheriff Rick Staly, right, responded, and helped organize a fund-raiser to get Diaz back on his wheels. (© FlaglerLive)

Two weeks ago Francisco “Frank” Diaz was thrown off his bike, injured and hospitalized after an SR100 crash with a car that totaled the bike. Sheriff Rick Staly had responded to the call at the time, and was instrumental in a fundraiser by The Bike Man non-profit that raised $2,300, paid for a brand new bike and left some money over for Diaz to pay his medical bills and a $166 traffic ticket.

4 Years Later, Suspected Armed Robber of Kay Jewelers Near Target Is Booked at Flagler Jail

August 29, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The man believed to be Tyrone Walker reaching into a display case after drilling a hole in the glass with a hammer, during a robbery four years ago at the store in the Target shopping center in Palm Coast. Walker was booked at the Flagler County jail for that robbery on Saturday.

After spending the last four years incarcerated in Georgia, Tyrone Walker, now 29, was booked at the Flagler County jail on a first-degree felony robbery with a weapon charge dating back from 2018, when he is accused of robbing Kay Jewelers in Palm Coast’s Target shopping center. An accomplice remains at large.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, August 29, 2022

August 29, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Fauci Fear by Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune, UT

The school board discusses its service union workers’ contract in a closed session, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’s vapidity of values, Michael Jackson’s thriller birthday.

Violent Conspiracies and the Convictions of Michigan Governor’s Kidnapping Plotters

August 28, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Barry Croft Jr., left, and Adam Fox were found guilty by a federal jury on charges related to a 2020 plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Witmer. (Kent County Sheriff's Office

The verdict in the trial of co-defendants Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. comes after a previous trial ended in acquittals for two other co-defendants, Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta, and mistrials for Fox and Croft. Their two other alleged accomplices, Ty Garbin and Kaleb Franks, pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with the prosecutions against the others.

Marco Rubio and Rick Scott Fight Phantom Commies As the World Burns

August 28, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Fidel Castro and his men in the Sierra Maestra, Dec. 6, 1956, To hear Republicans tell it, America is on the verge. (Wikimedia Commons)

Our two upper-chamber gents aren’t merely lobbing charges of Banana Republicanism at Democrats. At the recent CPAC meeting, Rick Scott gave a rootin’ tootin’ slap-your-dog-and-arrest-your-undocumented-mama speech warning, “The militant Left has now taken control of our economy, our culture, and our country.”

In America, Cancer Patients Endure Crushing Debt on Top of Disease

August 28, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

A radiation beamer at UF Shands hospital in Gainesville. (© FlaglerLive)

Medical breakthroughs mean cancer is less likely to kill, but survival can come at an extraordinary cost as patients drain savings, declare bankruptcy, or lose their homes, an investigation finds.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, August 28, 2022

August 28, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Grace Community Food Pantry, composer Peter Boyer’s Fanfare for Tomorrow, when Orwell watched a man hanged, a few more days before the open house of the Flagler Youth Orchestra.

NASA’s Artemis 1 Moon Launch and Routine Exploration Ahead

August 27, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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NASA’s Artemis 1 mission is poised to take a key step toward returning humans to the Moon after a half-century hiatus. The mission, scheduled to launch on Monday, Aug. 29, 2022, is a shakedown cruise – sans crew – for NASA’s Space Launch System and Orion Crew Capsule. Here’s the significance of the mission.

Ex-Public Defender Matt Shirk of Jacksonville Suspended for Year

August 27, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Mark Shirk's official photo when he was a public defender.

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday approved suspending former Jacksonville-area Public Defender Matt Shirk from practicing law for one year. Justices unanimously approved a suspension recommended in April by appointed referee Kenneth James Janesk.

Crist Adds Teachers Union Leader Karla Hernandez to Gubernatorial Ticket

August 27, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Karla Hernandez in a Facebook photo from the United Teachers of Dade Facebook page, earlier this month.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist on Saturday formally announced Karla Hernandez, the teachers union president in Florida’s largest school district, as his running mate in the November election.

75-Year-Old Man Killed, Dive Team Searching for Another Victim at Head-On Crash on US1

August 27, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The crash occurred in the northbound lanes of U.S. 1 at Eagle Rock Road, just north of the Flagler-Volusia County line, before 4 a.m. today. (Google)

A 75-year-old Deland man was killed and a dive team was called out to search for possibly another victim at the scene of head-on, wrong-way crash on U.S. 1 at Eagle Rock Road in Favoretta early this morning.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, August 27, 2022

August 27, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Redacted affidavit by John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, Gamble Jam, celebrating Theodore Dreiser and celebrating Hegel a little less, but with a nice long lecture.

Citing Grand Jury Report, DeSantis Suspends Broward School Board Members Over Parkland Massacre

August 26, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The Borward County School Board in a May photo posted to the board's Facebook page.

The grand jury report, completed in April and released last week, said the targeted board members’ and Runcie’s “uninformed or even misinformed decisions, incompetent management and lack of meaningful oversight” resulted in cost overruns and delays in a $1 billion school-safety program approved by county voters in 2014.

How Trump’s Thefts May Have Compromised National Security

August 26, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

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The most telling new information is that the FBI agent says that a review of Mar-a-Lago documents the government had already obtained by grand jury subpoena earlier this year were marked in a way that would clearly indicate national security was at risk.

Flagler Voters’ Message to Poison Peddlers

August 26, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 90 Comments

From left, Janet McDonald, Jill Woolbright, Ed Danko, Joe Mullins, Will Furry and Christy Chong. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler voters made damn sure that white nationalists, bigots and liars like Joe Mullins, Jill Woolbright and Janet McDonald had a short and embarrassing shelf life. If Flagler is solidly conservative, it remains sanely, moderately so for now, even for a one-party county with just three Democrats among 33 elected officials on six government boards.

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