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Commissioners Punt on Appointing Sean Moylan Interim County Attorney in Motion That Possibly Violates Sunshine

June 17, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Assistant County Attorney Sean Moylan, left, and County Attorney Al Hadeed. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County Commission on Monday voted 4-1 to delay considering appointing Assistant County Attorney Sean Moylan the interim county attorney, and required each of its members to submit three candidates’ names to the administration’s human resources department by July 14 for consideration for the position. The motion was vague, leaving it to HR possibly to rank the candidates outside of a meeting. That would be a violation of the sunshine law.

Palm Coast Gets Just $5 Million for Wastewater Projects and $125,000 for YMCA In $115.1 Billion State Budget

June 17, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

House Speaker Daniel Perez (left) and Senate President Ben Albritton (right) took part in a traditional hanky-drop ceremony marking the end of the legislative session. (Tom Urban/NSF)

One of the more-contentious legislative sessions in recent history came to a close late Monday as lawmakers approved a $115.1 billion budget for next fiscal year and prepared to send it to Gov. Ron DeSantis. It is about $3.5 billion smaller than the budget for the current fiscal year. Lawmakers also approved a $1.3 billion package of tax cuts, dominated by the elimination of a commercial-lease tax that has long been a target of business lobbyists, but no broad cuts in the sales tax.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, June 17, 2025

June 17, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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Food Truck Tuesdays in Palm Coast’s Town Center, the Palm Coast City Council meets, the indifference of Americans as Israel bombs Iran, as John McCain sang about it, Andre Gide gliding on ice.

Israel-Iran ‘Threshold War’ on Brink of Nuclear Escalation

June 16, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Smoke rises from locations targeted in Tehran amid the third day of Israel’s waves of strikes against Iran, on June 15, 2025.

Israel’s conflict with Iran represents far more than another Middle Eastern crisis – it marks the emergence of a dangerous new chapter in nuclear rivalries that has the potential to reshape global proliferation risks for decades to come. What began with Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities and other targets has spiraled into the world’s first full-scale example of a “threshold war” – a new and terrifying form of conflict where a nuclear weapons power seeks to use force to prevent an enemy on the verge of nuclearization from making that jump.

Florida Was Set to Shield Lawmakers’ Home Addresses Before Minnesota Assassination

June 16, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Florida lawmakers in April overwhelmingly passed a bill (SB 268) to create a public-records exemption that would prevent the release of home addresses and telephone numbers of legislators and members of Congress. Also, the exemption would apply to the governor, lieutenant governor, state Cabinet members, county commissioners, property appraisers, elections supervisors, school superintendents, school board members, mayors and city commissioners.

County Officials Say There Will be No Fuel Depot Or Landfill on 1,900 Acres Bunnell Seeks to Rezone Industrial

June 16, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Protesters opposed to the rezoning demonstrated ahead of a Bunnell City Commission meeting last week. The item was not on the agenda. (© FlaglerLive)

There will be no fuel depot or fuel farm, nor a landfill, at the nearly 1,900 acres Bunnell city government is speeding through a rezoning from an agricultural designation to industrial, Flagler County officials said this evening. 

A Democratic Lawmaker Is Assassinated. Right-Wing Influencers Vomit Disinformation.

June 16, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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Immediately after Minnesota House Leader Melissa Horton’s assassination, right-wing influencers marred Hortman’s death and smeared Gov. Tim Walz on a pile of lies. In a different, saner world, they would be humiliated and slink away. But the smart money is that during the next moment of national crisis and mourning, they will again lie for profit.

Plan to Save the Beaches Still Elusive With No Solid Alternative to Sales Tax, But Commissioners Agree to Keep Talking

June 16, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

For Flagler County's embattled beach-management plan, the way forward remains unclear. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County commissioners agree that the county’s beach-management plan must include all 18 miles of beach, and do not dispute its $120 million cost over the next six years. As accomplishments, that was no small thing today for the issue that has most vexed and divided the commission’s five members. But with three commissioners still opposed to increasing the county sales tax, a funding plan remains elusive. Without it, the rest is moot as a viable beach well into the future. 

Man, 26, Faces Felonies for Placing Secret Video Cameras in His Ex’s and Her Daughter’s Bedrooms

June 16, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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The State Attorney’s Office on Friday filed a second-degree felony charge of video voyeurism against Jonathan Bernard Mahan, a 26-year-old Bunnell resident, after his video cameras were allegedly found in the bedrooms of his 43-year-old ex-girlfriend and of her 18-year-old daughter’s. 

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, June 16, 2025

June 16, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

ICE Law and Order by Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune

The Flagler County Commission meets in workshop at 9 a.m. to discuss the beach management plan, what may be a do-or-die meeting, Charles Van Doren and the great game-show fraud.

How Orwell’s ‘1984’ Explains the Debasing of History to Control You

June 15, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

George Orwell’s ‘1984’ has some lessons for 2025.

When people use the term “Orwellian,” it’s not a good sign. It’s a term used primarily to describe the present, but whose implications inevitably connect to both the future and the past. The president has revealed his ambitions to rewrite America’s official history to, in the words of the Organization of American Historians, “reflect a glorified narrative … while suppressing the voices of historically excluded groups.” Such ambitions are deeply Orwellian. Here’s how.

Flagler County Government’s Leadership Academy Graduates 12

June 15, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The graduates. (Flagler County Tax Collector)

Twelve executives, managers, and professionals graduated from the Flagler County Local Government Leadership Academy at a special ceremony at the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office Operations Center on Thursday June 12th at 4:30 p.m.

Maga Servility Ends in Humiliation for Santa Ono and UF

June 15, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Santa Ono takes questions from University of Florida trustees before they unanimously approved him as the school’s president-elect on May 27, 2025. He was rejected by the state Board of Governors on June 3, 2025. (Photo courtesy UF)

The trustees liked Santa Ono; Ron DeSantis liked him, especially since Ono, who was once all-in on diversity at UM, recently pulled a 180, loudly recanting his climate change-admitting, student protest-allowing progressive ways and parroting the governor’s War on Woke nonsense like a DeSantis Bot. It wasn’t enough. Poor old weathervane Ono fell victim to a nasty social media campaign against him, led by such intellectual giants as Don Trump Jr., who squawked “WTF!” on the twixter; New College trustee Christopher “They’re eating the cats!” Rufo, Sen. Rick Scott and the congenitally absurd Rep. Byron Donalds.

DeSantis Given Power to Investigate Local Governments for DEI, Overspending or Fraud

June 15, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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Lawmakers are giving Gov. Ron DeSantis the power to probe local governments for overspending or fraud and for supporting DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) initiatives. One of the final provisions finalized late in the budget talks this week allows the Office of Policy and Budget (OPB) within DeSantis’ Executive Office to investigate local government “functions, procedures, and policies” involving misspending and mismanagement of taxpayer money, DEI and redundant functions. 

Jim Guines, Mentor, Maverick and Force to Be Reckoned With on Flagler County School Board for 11 Years, Dies at 93

June 15, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Jim Guines watching a retrospective of his life 10 years ago at a celebration of his legacy at Flagler Palm Coast High School. (© FlaglerLive)

Jim Guines, the forceful, witty, always independent and at times unpredictable member of the Flagler County School Board for 11 years until 2007–the man many had known as Smokin’ Jim for his storied barbecue–died this morning (June 15) at 93 after battling many illnesses and what Lawrence Durrell called “the slow disgracing of the mind.”

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, June 15, 2025

June 15, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Reality Father's Day cards by Dave Granlund, PoliticalCartoons.com

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, memories of Louis Robilliard’s musician family, a few words from Solzhenitsyn.

DeSantis Signs Warrant for Eighth Execution of the Year

June 14, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis. (© FlaglerLive)

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a death warrant for a man convicted of murdering two people in 1993 in Duval County, setting the stage for a potentially record-tying eighth execution this year.

Stomping on a Senator: Another Dangerous Shift in American Democracy

June 14, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla of California is pushed out of the room after he interrupted Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem during a news conference in Los Angeles on June 12, 2025.

Democratic leaders and a lone Republican senator decried the treatment of U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla of California and called for an investigation after he was removed from a press conference with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Political polarization and a shift in American political decorum may have contributed to the shocking moment of an American senator being forcibly removed from a press conference.

Four ‘No Kings’ Protests of Trump’s Authoritarian Swerve Draw Upward of 1,000 in Palm Coast and Flagler Beach

June 14, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 97 Comments

Today's anti-Trump demonstration on State Road 100, one of four in Palm Coast and Flagler Beach, drew upwards of 500 people who stretched over 1,000 feet along the highway, in places several rows deep. (© FlaglerLive)

Demonstrators by the hundreds in Palm Coast and Flagler Beach this morning peacefully but loudly, festively and–for Flagler County–massively transformed major intersections, a bridge overpass and a 1,000-ft. stretch of State Road 100 in Palm Coast into the largest anti-Trump protests to date. The size of the protests surprised even organizers and frequent participants, two of whom, after attending every protest this year on State Road 100, said today’s was more than double any previous one. 

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, June 14, 2025

June 14, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Trump’s Parade by Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune

No Kings Rally in Palm Coast, a Legacy of Care: Flagler Cares’ 10-Year Celebration at the Palm Coast Community Center, Peps Art Walk in Flagler Beach, Enrollment Day at Daytona State College, American Association of University Women (AAUW) Monthly Meeting, a sublime juxtaposition about the new world, Wendell Berry on militaristic morons.

Daytona State College Keeps Tuition and Fee Rates Flat for 15th Consecutive Year

June 13, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

DSC President Tom LoBasso. (© FlaglerLive)

Recognizing the need to keep college affordable for all students, Daytona State College is freezing tuition and associated fees for the upcoming 2025-26 academic year. This marks the 15th consecutive year of no increases in tuition and associated fee rates. The DSC District Board of Trustees approved the tuition freeze Thursday at its regular monthly meeting.

For Gen Z Militaristic Flag-Waving Rings False

June 13, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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Saturday’s military parade will occur amid bleak times for the U.S. military, as it experiences a multiyear decline in recruitment numbers. In the face of a pandemic and a strong civilian job market, the Army, Air Force and Navy all missed their recruitment goals in 2022 and 2023. In 2022, the Army missed its quota by 25%.

Federal Funding Cut Could Close Hundreds of Planned Parenthood Clinics

June 13, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Planned Parenthood's presence in Jacksonville. (© FlaglerLive)

If the budget reconciliation package before the U.S. Senate becomes law in the coming weeks, reproductive health advocates say the provision that would cut federal funding to Planned Parenthood clinics could serve as a backdoor nationwide abortion ban, eliminating access to 1 in 4 abortion providers.

Opening No Wrong Doors to Dignity, Flagler Cares Marks 10 Years of Closing Gaps For the Most Stressed and Depleted

June 13, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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As Flagler Cares marks its 10th year anniversary with a Legacy of Care celebration at the Palm Coast Community Center Saturday, its no-wrong-door approach under the leadership of Carrie Baird has served nearly 5,000 clients to date, including 765 last year with over $11 million in grants. Its rent, mortgage and utility programs alone have provided nearly $2 million in emergency help to keep people in their homes. The organization is navigating an increasingly challenging landscape for social service non-profits.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, June 13, 2025

June 13, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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Commissioner Leann Pennington on Free For All Friday, Volusia County Drug Court Celebrates 100th Graduation, targeting journalists, Jeff Sharlet’s “Scenes from a Slow Civil War.”

A Radical Change in Federal Environmental Reviews

June 12, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

A pumpjack in eastern Utah extracts oil from underground.

Getting federal approval for permits to build bridges, wind farms, highways and other major infrastructure projects has long been a complicated and time-consuming process. Despite growing calls from both parties for Congress and federal agencies to reform that process, there had been few significant revisions – until now. In one fell swoop, the U.S. Supreme Court has changed a big part of the game.

Senate Plan Would Lower Burden of Cost Shift to States for Food Stamps

June 12, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

t a farm market in St. Petersburg, Florida, SNAP recipients were able to use their Electronic Benefits Transfer cards for food. (Photo by Lance Cheung/USDA).

The Agriculture section of the Senate’s budget reconciliation bill, like the House version that passed last month 215-214, would create the possibility that states for the first time would shoulder some of the cost of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits starting in 2028. But unlike the House version, the Senate’s language would allow states an opportunity to avoid paying anything if they hit an efficiency benchmark, Boozman, an Arkansas Republican, told reporters at the Capitol.

Officials Threaten Floridians with Jail as They Prepare for Anti-Trump Rallies

June 12, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 34 Comments

Anti-Trump protesters stand in front of the Florida Historic Capitol on Feb. 5, 2025. (Photo by Jackie Llanos/Florida Phoenix)

Floridians in more than 70 cities throughout the state plan to join nationwide demonstrations to protest the Trump administration on Saturday, prompting Attorney General James Uthmeier and other law enforcement officials to say they won’t hesitate to quash protests. The protests, part of the “No Kings” movement, are set to take place the same day as the multimillion-dollar military parade in D.C. and President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday. Two protests are planned in Palm Coast at 11 a.m. Saturday.

Commerce Parkway Slated for August Opening. But Why Is a County Release Snubbing Bunnell?

June 12, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

A picture of Commerce Parkway issued by Bunnell government as of June 6.

Flagler County government, upstaging Bunnell–and the Bunnell city manager’s reflexive incantation about his city–is calling it a “splendid day” when, sometime in August, the newly constructed roadway corridor called Commerce Parkway will open for traffic, linking State Road 100 to U.S. 1 in a 1.7-mile, two-lane loop.

As Pier Construction Begins in Flagler Beach, Major Changes to Pedestrians, Traffic, Boardwalk, Parking and Beach Access

June 12, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

A rendering of the eastern end of the 800-foot concrete pier about to start construction.

Significant restrictions to beach-goers, pedestrians, boardwalk buffs and parking are about to change the complexion of two and a half blocks near the Flagler Beach pier as its demolition begins in coming days and for the next year and a half. Here’s a rundown.

Palm Coast Woman Arrested for Chasing Down 14 Year Old on E-Bike on Pine Lakes Parkway Footpath

June 12, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

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Julia Lynn Kalthof, 65, faces a felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charge after she was captured on video driving off the road and onto a foot-and-bike path to chase a 14-year-old boy on an e-bike on June 7. The incident underscores the increasing prevalence of electric bikes on public roadways and foot paths. The boy was not at fault in any way and did not commit infractions. But certain cities are adopting tough new rules to regulate e-bikes.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, June 12, 2025

June 12, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

The Rise and Fall of maga, by Randall Enos, Easton, Conn.

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, the glee for arresting powers in traditional refuges, Learned Hand on red baiting.

Here’s How Government Silences Opponents Without Censorship

June 11, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The government can make you silence yourself – out of fear. Deepak Sethi, iStock/Getty Images Plus

When most people think of how governments stifle free speech, they think of censorship. That’s when a government directly blocks or suppresses speech. In the past, the federal government has censored speech in various ways. It has tried to block news outlets from publishing certain stories. It has punished political dissenters. It has banned sales of “obscene” books. Today, however, the federal government rarely tries to censor speech so crudely. It has less blatant but very effective ways to suppress dissent.

Per-Student Funding in Florida Will Increase Just 1.59%, Well Below Inflation

June 11, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Transportation issues, not student health or best practices--which call for later start times for older students--are driving the renewed debate on school schedules. (© FlaglerLive)

In a time when the Legislature is trying to pare back the size of the state budget, lawmakers agreed this week to pump more than $29 billion into K-12 education, a $945 million increase over current year spending.

Florida School Appeals to U.S. Supreme Court to Allow Christian Prayer Over Stadium Loudspeakers

June 11, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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Arguing the case “presents issues of utmost importance for religious liberty in this country,” a Tampa Christian school wants the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a years-long battle about whether the school should have been barred from offering a prayer over a stadium loudspeaker before a high-school football championship game.

Ex-Council Member Ed Danko’s Ethics Complaint Against Mayor Norris Found ‘Legally Insufficient’

June 11, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Mike Norris, left, took his seat as Palm Coast Mayor last November, when Ed Danko stepped down. (© FlaglerLive)

The Florida Ethics Commission on Friday tossed out a complaint by former Palm Coast City Council member Ed Danko against Mayor Mike Norris, finding it “legally insufficient.” As often as not, that sort of dining is equivalent to saying: “Not the Ethics Commission’s venue.” It is not necessarily to the discredit of the complaint’s allegation, as indeed several of those allegations are either in the public record, have been corroborated in an investigation conducted on behalf of the city, or have been argued in a city filing in Circuit Court. 

Taxable Property Values Rise 9% Over Last Year, But Rate Is 3rd Decline in a Row in Cooler Housing Market

June 11, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

The rate of increase in taxable property values has declined for the third year in a row, but remains solid in Flagler County and its cities. (© FlaglerLive)

Annual taxable property value increases local governments depend on to fuel growth in their budgets have continued their descent from a post-crash high of 18 percent in 2022, to just 9 percent as of June 1 in Flagler County, according to figures released by the Flagler County Property Appraiser. In Palm Coast, values increased 9.29 percent in 2025, with more than half of that powered by new construction. In Flagler Beach, it was 7.56 percent, and in Bunnell it was just 5.5 percent.

Coaches in All Local Sports Organizations Will Need Higher-Level Criminal Background Checks; Palm Coast Seeks Standards

June 11, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

A new Florida law requires coaches and their assistants in all organized sports to be more thoroughly backgrounded. (© FlaglerLive)

Palm Coast government wants to align city policy with a new state law requiring more detailed criminal backgrounding of youth athletic coaches and others who supervise children in organized sports even when they do not work for the city. The backgrounding could result in disqualification from coaching in some cases, but council members want to more precisely define those thresholds so that, say, a drug offense from 10 years ago isn’t a life sentence away from coaching. The city attorney is cautioning council members to be consistent, whichever policy they adopt. 

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, June 11, 2025

June 11, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Beware of Everything by Christopher Weyant, CagleCartoons.com

Flagler Beach is hosting a Public Engagement Forum on Pier Replacement, Weekly Chess Club for Teens at the Flagler County Public Library, on the death of Socrates and Lao-Kung on the arts by way of Hendrick van Loon.

Gutting USAID Is Musk’s Deadliest Legacy

June 10, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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By making disease-stemming drugs, clean water, and food available to millions, USAID has probably saved more lives worldwide than any entity in history. Since 2000, USAID’s programs have prevented the deaths of 58 million people from tuberculosis, 25 million from HIV/AIDS, and over 11 million from malaria. It’s given 70 million people access to safe drinking water and, working in concert with global vaccine initiatives, helped to nearly eradicate polio. All that is getting demolished.

The Authoritarian Message Behind Military Parades

June 10, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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Adolf Hitler turned his birthdays into massive national events with military parades, mass rallies and highly estheticized scenes of domestic cheer. These displays blurred dominance and intimacy, fatherliness and force — an approach revived today in the digital era, where curated imagery and social media entangle leadership with affective spectacle.

$118 Million Buy of 76,000 Acres for Preservation in North Florida Approved

June 10, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Camp Blanding to Raiford Greenway Florida Forever Project (Lauren Yoho/Wildpath via St. Johns River Water Management Disrict)

Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Cabinet on Tuesday approved spending nearly $118 million to conserve about 76,000 acres of land in North Florida. Using money from the Florida Forever program, the state will buy two conservation easements.

Abandoning Most Public Responsibilities, But Not Pay, Palm Coast Mayor Norris Forces Council Members to Pick Up Slack

June 10, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

Palm Coast Mayor Mike Norris has abandoned most of his public responsibilities, forcing his colleagues, especially Council member Theresa Pontieri, the vice mayor, left, to pick up his slack. He is also refusing to get briefed before meetings. (© FlaglerLive)

Attending and chairing most meetings aside, a piqued and vengeful Palm Coast Mayor Mike Norris is no longer fulfilling basic public and administrative council responsibilities that his four colleagues are fulfilling, in some cases causing his colleagues to carry the weight of the responsibilities he’s shrugging off. He has abandoned all but one of his committee responsibilities, he refuses to meet with the acting city manager to prepare for meetings, his petulance or absence has required Theresa Pontieri, as vice mayor, to step in and lead high-profile public functions, and he’s now refusing to participate in town halls.

Bunnell Kills 8,000-Home ‘Reserve’ Development as Commission Reflects Public Furor Over ‘Enormity’ in 4-1 Vote

June 10, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

A map of the proposed 8,000-home Reserve at Haw Creek looms over the Bunnell City Commission Monday evening, before the vote that killed the development. (© FlaglerLive)

The Bunnell City Commission in a 4-1 vote on Monday rejected the planned Reserve at Haw Creek, a stunning defeat for a proposed 2,787-acre, 8,000-home development and 800-site RV park that would have increased Bunnell’s population sixfold and in the words of a commissioner, “forever change the face of the city of Bunnell” and Flagler County. The Reserve–a name as disingenuous as its representative’s recurring claim that it was “everything you as a city asked for to grow orderly in a controlled manner,” or that it would shower the city in dollars–would have been the largest single development in the county since ITT planned Palm Coast in the 1960s.

28-Unit Affordable Apartment Complex for Foster Youth and Poor Wins Swift Approval in Bunnell

June 10, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The Phoenix Crossings property is outlined in Blue, in Bunnell. (Flagler Property Appraiser)

Without discussion, the Bunnell City Commission on Monday evening unanimously approved the development agreement for Phoenix Crossings, the 28-apartment complex breaking ground this summer on 8 acres off North Bay Street, not far from the city’s sewer plant. The project overcame some strident but localized public opposition in recent months. In contrast, Monday’s hearing drew no public participation, and the commission approved the development order in barely a minute.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, June 10, 2025

June 10, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

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The Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop, a special school board meeting on rule development, remembering the blood of Hungarians in the 1956 uprising, Albert Camus, and the Los Angeles uprising.

Reported Abortions in Florida Down 46% from 2024

June 9, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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A reported 17,377 abortions had been performed in Florida this year as of June 2, a 45.8 percent decrease from a comparable period in 2024, according to state data.

Facing $3 Million Deficit, Flagler County Asks Sheriff, Court Clerk and Other Constitutionals for Doge-Like Cuts

June 9, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 47 Comments

Flagler County Clerk of Curt Tom Bexley, left, and Sheriff Riock Stalky, seen here in a file photo, demurred when Commission Chair Andy Dance asked them if they were going to participate in the state's doge-like efficiency drive, citing the fact that the state did not direct its letter to them,. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County Commission must close a $2.9 million deficit as it prepares a $150 million 2026 budget that goes in effect on Oct. 1. The county and its five constitutional officers are projecting a 10.7 percent growth in their collective budgets, from $137.2 million this year to a requested $151.9 million. Projected revenue will grow by 9.6 percent, or $11.8 million. But that is not enough to fully cover the gap.

Charter Review Committee Field Grows to 10, With Notably Experienced Additions

June 9, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

It's not Constitution Hall, but still" Palm Coast is having trouble attracting qualified candidates to serve on its Charter Review Committee. (© FlaglerLive)

The list of applicants to serve on the five-member Palm Coast Charter Review Committee has grown to 10, with a little over a week left before the application window closes. The four new applicants since last week bring distinct and varied experience, including Donald O’Brien, who just ended an eight-year tenure as county commissioner, two of them as chair, Jake Scully, the data architect, former member of the Palm Coast Planning Board and former long-time owner of PC Bike, and Karen Sousa, a 10-year employee of the Flagler County Supervisor of Elections office.

From Kent State to Los Angeles: Risks of Using Troops Against Civilians’ Legal Protests

June 9, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 41 Comments

Smoke and tear gas surround a protester in Los Angeles on June 7, 2025, amid confrontations between immigration rights advocates and law enforcement personnel.

Responding to street protests in Los Angeles against federal immigration enforcement raids, the president has ordered 2,000 soldiers from the California National Guard into the city on June 7 to protect agents carrying out the raids, and authorized the Pentagon to dispatch regular U.S. troops “as necessary” to support the California National Guard. The actions chillingly echo those that led up to the Kent State shootings. Some active-duty units, as well as National Guard troops, are trained today to respond to riots and violent protests – but their primary mission is still to fight, kill, and win wars. It is not policing.

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