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Florida’s Latest Stab at Sharia Law Fails, Barely, But May Not Be the Last

March 14, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

A bill to ban Islamic or Sharia law’s application in state courts cleared the House and two Florida Senate committees easily, and would have gotten Gov. Rick Scott’s signature. It mirrors a concerted anti-Islamic campaign in at least 20 other states.

Piety’s Double Edge: When Deeds Speak Louder Than Public Prayers

March 14, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

As Gov. Rick Scott readies to sign into law Florida’s school prayer bill, how can legislators push for “inspirational messages” in classrooms while they work to destroy access to affordable healthcare, a woman’s right to choose and the rights of service workers to earn a decent wage?

Diana Sallee Dies from Injuries in Monday’s Bike Crash on A1A; First Bike Week Fatality In Flagler

March 13, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

Billy and Diana Sallee were vacationing for the first time in 12 years, to Bike Week, when their bike rear-ended an SUV on A1A Monday. Diana, 39, died of her injuries Tuesday evening at Halifax in Daytona Beach.

Flagler Reads Together: The Red Badge of Courage, Chapter 2

March 13, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

A scene from the camp of the 31st Pennsylvania Infantry near Washington, D.C., woman with sleeves rolled up holding basket, posed in front of tent with a soldier (possibly her husband) and three children, 1862. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Stephen Crane’s Red Badge of Courage, Chapter 2: Union soldier Henry Fleming, still anxious about his first battle, projects his anxieties and anger on generals around him.

The 2012 Florida Legislature: Winners and Losers

March 13, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The 2012 Florida legislative session is over. Here’s a recap list of some of the bills that passed and some that failed, from abortion to charter schools to Sharia law.

Abandoned By Its Chief Executives and Board, Heritage Academy Loses Appeal to Stay Open

March 13, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

A seven-hour hearing ended in the Flagler County School Board voting 4-1 to uphold its decision to close Heritage Academy, whose CEO, Doug Jackson, and own board members were no-shows, leaving the school’s defense in the hands of its dean of students.

Woman’s Arm Severed in 3rd Bike Week Wreck in 5 Days on Flagler Roads

March 13, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

A single-bike wreck on State Road 11 south of Cody’s Corner left a woman with a severed left arm and her fiancee, who was piloting the bike, with various fractures Tuesday afternoon.

Shannon Diamond, Flagler County Youth Center’s Assistant Director, Arrested on DUI

March 13, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 35 Comments

Shannon Diamond, a full-time employee of the school district, is a role model to the 80-some students who use the Youth Center daily, his employers say. A decision on his status hadn’t been reached Tuesday. He was due at work.

Flagler Unemployment Improves to 13.5%, Florida’s to 9.6% as Trend Solidifies

March 13, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Flagler County’s January unemployment rate of 13.5 percent,. released Tuesday, is the best in three years, going back to December 2008, when it was 11.8 percent.

From “I’m Not a Dog” To Compromising Bullets as Teachers Union and District Negotiate

March 12, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

After recriminations and a particularly insulting whistle from the district’s lead negotiator, the two sides appeared headed for compromise over the one issue–how teachers are to be evaluated–keeping the district from approving the 2012-13 teachers contract.

62-Year-Old Zip-Tied and Robbed on Lancaster Lane; 2 Girls Charged With Burglaries

March 12, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

In a pair of unrelated events, a 62-year-old was robbed of guns, cash and jewelry on Palm Coast’s Lancaster Lane Sunday evening while two girls, 16 and 17, were charged with a half dozen car burglaries they called “car shopping.”

Better Assisted Living Oversight Fails as Legislature Drops Several Health Care Bills

March 12, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Florida lawmakers ended the 2012 session without passing major health-care bills dealing with assisted-living facilities, malpractice lawsuits and physicians dispensing drugs to workers-compensation patients.

Flagler Reads Together: The Red Badge of Courage, Chapter 1

March 12, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Stephen Crane’s Red Badge of Courage, Chapter 1: Union soldier Henry Fleming mulls his fears and apprehensions before his first battle against Confederate forces on the other side of the river.

Seeking Thaw, Flagler School Board Pleads Its Case Against Teachers’ Charge of “Bad Faith”

March 11, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

School Board member Colleen Conklin and Superintendent Janet Valentine explain why the controversy over a controversial provision in teachers’ contract doesn’t tell the whole story.

Rush Does SNL

March 11, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Rush Limbaugh wants you to know that he’s doing just fine with sponsors on his show. The Saturday Night Live cold opening, compliments of Taran Killam.

Special Session of the Legislature Begins Wednesday to Fix Senate’s Gerrymandering

March 11, 2012 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Citing gerrymandering, the Florida Supreme Court threw out eight of the 40 Senate districts, including Flagler County’s District 6, along with the numbering system, which means that most districts have to be redrawn as a special session begins Wednesday.

Rascal With a Cause: The Wiles and Women Of Peter Cerreta, at Hollingsworth Gallery

March 10, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Peter Cerreta, left, and a detail from his 'Don't Ask Don't Tell,' at Hollingsworth Gallery through March. (© FlaglerLive)

Peter Cerreta’s one-man show at Hollingsworth Gallery is a jaunt through brash themes, colors and shapes with a common denominator: sympathy for the underdog, and a love of storytelling.

Florida Department of Children and Families Secretary Wilkins Sums Up Legislative Session

March 10, 2012 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Florida Department of Children and Families Secretary David Wilkins writes of the Legislature’s measures improving DCF’s Child Protective Investigative operations and employee pay in light of the Nubia Barahona scandal.

The North Atlantic Garbage Patch: A Plastic Soup Ladled from Consumption

March 10, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Typical plastic parts gathered in North Atlantic. Source: Sea Education Association

A floating garbage dump consists of billions of small plastic man-made items stretches in the Atlantic from Cuba to Maryland by way of Florida. Here’s what you can do to keep plastics and other litter out of the oceans.

The GOP’s War on Women: Electoral Bombs From Komen to Rush to Virginia’s Vaginal Probes

March 10, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 31 Comments

sandra fluke The Democrats' renaissance woman.

The Republican war on women, conservative columnist Kathleen Parker writes, is “a perfect storm of stupefying proportions” that may have ruinous consequences for the GOP at election time. But it was a collapse foretold.

In Playhouse’s “Over the River and Through the Woods,” Migrations from Corny to Poignant

March 10, 2012 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Joe DiPietro’s Off-Broadway hit comedy, ‘Over the River and Through the Woods,’ ending its run at the Flagler Playhouse this weekend, has its issues, but is worth seeing if you can make it to the second act.

Parent Trigger Bill: Florida Senate’s Rebel Republicans Help Defeat Charter School Ploy

March 9, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The Senate on a tie vote defeated a bill that would have let parents turn failing schools into charters, the latest and perhaps final victory for a dissident faction of the GOP caucus as the curtain came down on the 2012 legislative session.

Sorry, Kansas City: FAA Training Facility Will Stay in Palm Coast–For Now

March 9, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

The FAA Center for Management and Executive Leadership training facility will remain in Palm Coast for the foreseeable future, U.S. Rep. John Mica said Friday, but Palm Coast will still have to compete with other cities in the future to keep the facility and its 80 to 100 jobs.

Bike Week Claims First Flagler County Victims As 3 Are Hospitalized After U.S. 1 Wreck

March 9, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

Flagler County Fire Rescue's Fire Flight helicopter takes off just before 4 p.m. on U.S. 1, south of Bunnell, with two of the three victims in a motorcycle-and-Cadillac wreck on the highway. Click on the image for larger view. (c FlaglerLive)

The wreck took place at 3:15 p.m. and sent a woman and two men to hospitals, two of them by air, in trauma alerts. All three are expected to survive.

Palm Coast Observer’s Brian McMillan Is Local Media Association’s Journalist of the Year

March 9, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

The Observer's Brian McMillan. This time, John Walsh had to be cropped out. (© FlaglerLive)

The national award by the Local Media Association, formerly known as Suburban Newspapers of America, caps a succession of milestones for the Palm Coast Observer in the midst of its torrid duel with the News-Journal.

Maintaining Momentum, Economy Adds 223,000 Jobs; Unemployment Stays at 8.3%

March 9, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

The U.S. economy is maintaining its job-creation momentum, adding 223,000 jobs in January, and revising upward previous job-creation figures for December and January by 61,000 jobs. Over the past three months, the economy added 730,000 jobs.

Accused of Abuse, Palm Coast Man Uses His 2-Year-Old Son as a Shield Against Deputies

March 8, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

When the deputy made contact with David Romero, 35, he was holding the boy in a headlock and standing in the doorway of the lanai, next to the swimming pool. He’d threatened to throw the boy into the swimming pool if his wife didn’t come out of the house.

Palm Coast At Its Worst: Felled on Old Kings Road, and for 20 Minutes, Nobody Stops

March 8, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 59 Comments

Inna Hardison’s 20-year-old son was traveling on his motorcycle on Old Kings Road the evening of March 3rd when he struck a boar and was thrown from the bike and injured. It was 20 minutes before anyone bothered to stop and help.

Charter School Giveaway Bill Veiled as Parental Control Drawing Frantic Opposition

March 8, 2012 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Democrats are looking to the Senate and a rogue set of lawmakers to help them defeat an education bill they think is a giveaway to the charter school industry at the expense of public schools.

Picasso and Jackson Pollock’s Glass Symphony

March 8, 2012 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Jackson Pollock's No. 8.

Pablo Picasso in his Vallauris workshop, in the 1950 film by Belgian filmmaker Paul Haesaerts, and Jackson Pollock filmed the same year, doing the same thing, by Hans Namuth.

Timucuan Indians Program
At Faver-Dykes State Park March 31

March 8, 2012 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

This unique, hands-on Native America experience at Faver-Dykes State Park will let visitors discover the life ways of the Timucuan Indians and their relationship to the land that they loved.

ICI Homes Gets Its Way, Mostly, in Cypress Knoll Development as Palm Coast Settles Suit

March 7, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

Mori Hosseini’s ICI Homes has been battling Palm Coast since 2004 over a zoning designation in the E Section that ICI claims denied it its development rights. The deal means 58 homes on lots smaller than the norm in Cypress Knoll can now be built there.

The New iPad in High Definition

March 7, 2012 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The new Apple iPad 3, introduced in San Francisco Wednesday (March 7), ships to stores on March 16. Here’s a quick recap of its main new features and what it means to the tablet industry.

Trust-Busting: Union Angered as Flagler School Board Rescinds Its Vote on Teachers’ Contract

March 7, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Negotiations are back to zero and mutual trust damaged as the Flagler County School Board said it could not legally approve the contract, as it mistakenly did two weeks ago, by carving out a controversial portion of it dealing with teacher evaluations.

Joe the Plumber, Congressman?

March 7, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

While Dennis Kucinich lost his primary in Ohio’s 9th Congressional district, Samuel Wurzelbacher, also known as Joe (the alleged and tax-evading) plumber, barely won his Republican primary, though he has no chance of beating Marcy Kaptur.

Buddy Taylor Middle’s Winnie Oden Moving To Pathways in June, Carla Taylor To FPC

March 7, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Neither administrator volunteered for the new assignments, but administrators work at the will of the district. No one has been named to the principal’s post at Buddy Taylor Middle School yet.

Flagler Fish Company and Blue at the Topaz Join for Charity “Blue Fish Dinner”

March 7, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

blue at the topaz restaurant flagler beach

Blue at the Topaz and Flagler Fish Company in Flagler Beach are joining chefs Gary Maresca and Chris Casper to offer dinner for 12 at a place of your choosing, with 10 percent of proceeds going to charity.

In a Major Victory for State Workers, Judge Rules 3% Contribution Unconstitutional

March 6, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 49 Comments

The ruling is major victory for 560,000 state workers, including, cops, firefighters, teachers and other school employees, but it again digs a $2 billion hole for the state budget.

R-Section Argument Escalates, Girlfriend Hits Boyfriend With a Car, and Faces Charges

March 6, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

A 24-year-old man was air-lifted with traumatic injuries from Palm Coast’s R-Section this evening after an argument on Rylin Lane between him and his girlfriend went out of control.

Palm Coast, Tree City USA Again

March 6, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

The City of Palm Coast has been re-certified once again as a Tree City USA and also received a Tree City USA Growth award, from the National Arbor Day Foundation.

Florida Legislators Cut Higher Ed $300 Million Even as They Create a 12th University

March 6, 2012 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

House and Senate lawmakers agreed to create Florida Polytechnic University, a pet project of Sen. J.D. Alexander’s, and slash university spending by $300 million, paving the way for an on-time ending to the legislative session.

Florida Highway Patrol’s Move-Over Enforcement Nets 1,200 Citations in 29 Days

March 5, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Troopers also issued more than 69,000 traffic citations and made 620 arrests for Driving Under the Influence of alcohol or drugs. They also cited nearly 24,000 drivers for speeding in the 29-day campaign.

After 11 Years, Beverly Beach Mayor Steve Emmett Says Farewell a Year Early

March 5, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Emmett, 70, said he was tired. He won his sixth election last March. He wasn’t up for re-election until a year from now. But he said he’d had enough. Gerry Gersbach replaced him in a ceremony at the Beverly Beach Town Hall.

Flawed Verdict: Ernie Lopez, After 9 Years in Prison for Child Rape, Is Only Half-Free

March 5, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

In Canada and the U.S. at least 23 people who were wrongly accused of killing children based on flawed or biased work by forensic pathologists have been cleared over the last 15 years.

Fire Flight and Ground Crews Contain Black Point Road Wildfire in 2 Hours

March 5, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Fire Flight and Division of Forestry bulldozers are being deployed around the fire, in a dry, thickly wooded area about half a mile from Deen Road.

Flagler Forest Division Chief Warns of Fire Season “Possibly as Severe as 1998”

March 5, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Persistent dryness, long-term weather patterns and dried-up swamps are combining for a dangerous fire season ahead for Flagler County, Mike Kuypers, district manager for the Florida Division of Forestry, told the county commission this morning.

Evening Fire in a Home on Palm Coast’s Federal Lane Is Contained to a Bedroom

March 4, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

One resident was taken to the hospital with smoke inhalation. The fire broke out at about 9:10 and was out about 15 minutes later as the Palm Coast Fire Department made it to the scene within moments of a 911 call.

The Myth of Liberal College Indoctrination

March 4, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Attacking liberal professors and universities as elitists or snobs like Rick Santorum did helps position the conservative movement as a populist enterprise by identifying a predatory elite to which conservatism stands opposed — an otherwise difficult task for a movement strongly backed by holders of economic power.

Excluding Themselves, Florida Lawmakers Pass Drug-Testing Program for State Workers

March 4, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 34 Comments

The House voted largely along party lines to allow state agencies to set up drug testing programs for their workers over the objection of Democrats who said it wasn’t just unconstitutional, but a bully tactic.

What It’s Like to Be The Whale Guy: The True Story of Getting A Life

March 3, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

In his debut column for FlaglerLive, Frank Gromling relates his long association with the Marineland Right Whale Project and the Atlantic right whales’ 1,400-mile annual migrations along Flagler and Florida shores.

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