The Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles is asking Floridians to vote on one of four choices, online, starting today and until Dec. 14. The redesigned plate with the most votes replaces existing plates beginning in 2014.
Strings on Speed: Bowfire Brings Its Holiday Blaze to the Flagler Auditorium
Thursday, Bowfire returns to the Flagler Auditorium, this time with its new Holiday Heart Strings show, giving Christmas favorites the Celtic, Blue Grass, Rock, Texas Swing, Gypsy and Klezmer treatment.
Your Homeland Security At Work: $430 Million on Radios No One Knows How to Use
DHS has spent $430 million over the past nine years to provide radios tuned to a common, secure channel to 123,000 employees across the country. Problem is, no one seems to know how to use them.
The Conservative Case Against Compromise
A Democrat and one a conservative say Republicans in Congress need to compromise so the government can “get things done,” and that it is better to do something than nothing. No. It is not, argues Lloyd Brown.
Reaching for a Cell Phone, a Palm Coast Woman Is Injured In Single-Car Wreck on U.S. 1
Rachelle Horne, 40, was on her way to work at Belk’s when she was injured Saturday afternoon as she lost control of her PT Cruiser on U.S. 1 shortly after 1 p.m., and after her cell phone rang.
Get Set for Higher Power Bills in January as FPL Bids for Annual Increases Through 2016
A house consuming the typical 1,000 kWh would see its base monthly rate increase by $5.23, but if a state settlement is approved with FPL, there would actually be no change in net costs to customers in the coming year, but the settlement would also ensure that there would be rate increases every year for three straight years thereafter.
Rubio’s Creationism, Boys’ Body Image, a Firing Over the Pledge of Allegiance: Five Reads Friday
Marco Rubio doesn;t know how old Planet Earth is, boys are becoming as self-obsessed about their bodies as girls, a reporter is fired for not reporting a politician’s refusal to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, a Hitchens post-script on waterboarding, and those jail bookings.
Calling It Flawed and Damaging, Teachers Union Wants Evaluation System Delayed
The state’s largest teachers union is pushing for lawmakers and Gov. Rick Scott to delay a new system of teacher evaluations, saying the formula for measuring teachers’ performance is flawed and could wreak havoc on their careers.
Feed Flagler Multiplies the Loaves–and the Turkeys, Hams, Pies, Chops and Volunteers
Some 3,500 free meals were served across the county Wednesday, with 500 more to be served Thursday in Bunnell, as the fourth annual Feed Flagler marked Thanksgiving with what has become the single-largest philanthropic community-wide project in Flagler.
Ellsworth Rosenberger, 69, Dies in a Wreck on Palm Coast Parkway Near Roma Court
Ellsworth Rosenberger, 69, died Wednesday following a wreck at 440 Palm Coast Parkway Northwest, just past Wendy’s and before Roma Court in the eastbound lanes of the Parkway.