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Former School Board Candidate Raven Sword Joins Livingston & Wolverton Law Firm

December 2, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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In her first political campaign, Sword lost to John Fischer. By joining Jay Livingston and Jim Wolverton, the trio is now one of the larger law firms on Flagler County.

More Foreclosure Screws, Jeb Bush Finds His Inner Hispanic, Christmas in Flagler Beach: The Live Wire, Dec. 2

December 2, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Flagler Beach celebrates Christmas Dec. 3 and 4, the GOP denies children their lunch, Amazon censors Wikileaks, remembering Rosa Parks’ moment, the decline of marriage, the latest from Little Miss Flagler Daviana Campbell, and more.

Your Papers Please: Arizona-Style Immigrant-Profiling Law Introduced in Florida

December 2, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

It’s already routine in Flagler: cops ask passengers in a car for their papers even if the vehicle isn’t involved in a crime. A proposed law would formalize the process and slap $100 fines on immigrants without papers.

Fake Robberies, Fake Guns, Fake Threats Over Real Pizza, Gas and Cigarette Money

December 1, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Palm Coast’s James Linskey may not have much of a career as a pizza delivery man after the bogus crime stories he concocted to Flagler deputies. He’s not likely to have a better career as a fiction writer.

Deceptive Calm: Flagler and Florida Spared 3rd-Busiest Hurricane Season on Record

December 1, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Hurricanes Karl, Igor and Julia (from left to right on Sept. 16) were part of the onslaught of Atlantic storms this season.

The calm is deceptive: Florida has done nothing to reduce its colossal property-insurance exposure. To the contrary. Builders are increasingly encouraged to build anywhere to reverse the effects of the real estate crash.

Flagler’s Poverty Gap: Boosting Food Stamps Enrollment–and More Accurate Numbers

November 30, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

While the Mobile Benefits Program is well-meaning and necessary–a few million dollars in food assistance are going unclaimed in Flagler–the inaccurate numbers backing up the initiative undermine the program’s credibility.

Spying Employers, Dont Ask Don’t Tell Idiocy and a Death Special: The Live Wire, Nov. 30

November 30, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The Pentagon discovers that gay soldiers aren’t nearly as scary as the bigotry keeping them out, employers discover the joys of spying on employees, Alice’s Restaurant is illustrated, and a big wild death special.

Dismantled or Reorganized, It May Be the End of the Department of Health As We Know It

November 30, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The state Department of Health is facing a reorganization–and possibly a dismantling–that may affect the way local departments of health are run, and the diseases they keep track of.

Palm Coast’s Secret Deal With Solar Company: Long Tax Holiday and Other Perks for 180 Jobs

November 30, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

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Dubbed “Project Iceman,” the deal calls for at least a $49 million investment and average wages of $34,500, though the fine print reveals exclusive perks and secrecy provisions that prevent public scrutiny of the deal’s implementation.

Bucking Long-Range Goals, Palm Coast Again Scales Back Cultural Arts Grants Funding

November 29, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Palm Coast is planning to award just $20,000 in cultural grants to 11 organizations this year, half the budget of three years ago, though the city is increasing the dollars and city resources it’s spending on its own special events.

Palm Coast’s BMX Gamble, Racism and Obama, Small Business Saturday Recap: The Live Wire, Nov. 29

November 29, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

BMX’s Renny Roker didn’t tell Palm Coast how checkered his financial past is, plus the best Congress money can buy, legacies of bullying, a naked tribute to Leslie Nielsen, Obama’s national security sham, and more.

Josh D. Crews, 1976-2010

November 28, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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First Baptist Church on Saturday (Nov. 27) overflowed with emotions, remembrances and people at a service for Joshua Crews, the Flagler County native, one-time owner and long-time bartender at Woody’s BBQ who died when his car rolled on U.S. 1 on Nov. 21. He was 34.

Cadillac and Kia in Morning Smash-Up on Northbound I-95 Back Up Traffic for 2 Miles

November 28, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

The Kia Sportage was one of two vehicles involved in the Sunday morning wreck on I-95. (© FlaglerLive)

The 8:10 wreck at mile marker 295 on I-95 northbound shut down two of the three lanes and backed up traffic past the Matanzas Parkway overpass. There were injuries, but no fatality. The two vehicles were removed 90 minutes later.

Wrongful Foreclosure: What You Need To Know

November 27, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Banks and foreclosure defense attorneys disagree on whether errors in the process have caused wrongful foreclosures — but their definitions of what constitutes a “wrongful foreclosure” differ.

Eleanor Roosevelt: If I Were a Republican Today

November 27, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

In a 1950 piece for Cosmopolitan that could have been written today, Eleanor Roosevelt sees through the vacuous sloganeering of the Republican opposition, though she’s not much kinder to Democrats.

3,338 Days: U.S. Occupation of Afghanistan Is Now Longer Than Soviet Union’s

November 27, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

A photo gallery of the human and inhuman side of a conflict that’s worse than Vietnam in many ways, and is damaging American strategic and financial interests–with no end in sight. The only clear winner: al-Qaeda.

The Anti-Black Friday: In Flagler Beach, Small Business Saturday Rings Up Authenticity

November 26, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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Carol Fisher isn’t interested in the madness of Black Friday. In a column, she invites you to experience the more authentically American tradition of small, heartbeat businesses that are the life transfusions of local economies.

A Little Frankenstein to Brighten the Holiday Season: Culture Worth the Miles

November 26, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

You want culture? Free culture? You’ve got it: Winter Park’s Central Park offers the annual Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra’s Holiday Pops concerts Nov. 28; on Dec. 2, it’s the Bach Festival Choir singing to the illumination of the Morse Museum’s Tiffany windows. Plus Frankenstein and much more.

Terry Kilcoyne, 71-Year-Old Salvage Owner, Killed When His Truck Overturns on I-95

November 26, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Terry Kilkoyne's salvage truck was a 1988 Chevy flatbed. (© FlaglerLive)

Kilcoyne was traveling with a passenger on I-95 just north of the Flagler-St.Johns county line. She suffered minor injuries. None of the four people in the Durango that Kilcoyne’s truck hit when his tire shredded was injured.

Story of a Rescue: How 12-Year-Old Barak Ordonez Made It Out of the Bulow Marshes

November 26, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Looking for a shortcut to outrace his brothers during a hike deep in Bulow Plantation, 12-year-old Barak ended up lost 15 miles inside the marshy, park until a helicopter airlifted him out.

Casablanca, Thoreau, Haydn, Even Ayn Rand: A Thanksgiving Weekend LiveWire

November 25, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Big thanks to FlaglerLive readers, Dooley Wilson plays it again, the hero entrepreneur myth is questioned, Joseph Haydn as Rodney Dangerfield, Ayn Rand on atheism, Richard Pryor on “nigger,” and plenty more.

2,000 Meals and More: Feed Flagler Feasts As County Breaks Thanksgiving Bread As One

November 24, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Feed Flagler exceeded its goal of serving some 2,000 Thanksgiving meals as 10 locations around the county turned into community feasts Wednesday, hundreds of families went home with a week’s supply of food, and food pantries stocked up.

Purple Heart Monument at Palm Coast’s Heroes Park Is Slammed Over in an Act of Vandalism

November 24, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

The Purple Heart monument–a heavy, granite stone weighing a few tons–was dedicated less than two months ago at the city park along Palm Coast Parkway. A sheriff’s investigation is ongoing, with few clues.

Ice Skating in Palm Coast, Sex Advice From Poets, M*A*S*H Rewind: The Live Wire, Nov. 24

November 24, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Palm Coast finds ways to materialize Christmas, North Korea goes mad again, a liberal defense of money, Obama’s speech to the nation on pardoning a turkey, and more.

Why I Left The Flagler County Art League: It’s like IBM vs. Apple

November 24, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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“Staunch conservative Businessmen vs. Creative Young Men working out of their garage” is how Weldon Ryan, the art league’s ex-president, describes the tension that led to his resignation.

Flagler Fireflight Recovers 12 Year Old
Lost for 3 Hours in Bulow Plantation Ruins

November 23, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The 12-year-old Palm Coast boy was lost for less than three hours in the state park, between 4:50 and 7:50 p.m., when he was picked up unharmed by the Fireflight and flown back to his parents.

Feed Flagler Ingredients: 100 Turkeys, 450 lb. of Ham, 170 Pies, and 2,000 Guests Wednesday

November 23, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

The kitchen at Buddy Taylor Middle School was a feast’s brew as Hammock Dunes Club’s chef and other volunteers were wrist-deep in preparation for Wednesday’s feasts for 2,000 in 10 locations around Flagler County.

Ending 8 Years of Extortion, Bunnell Quietly Invites Drivers to Get Their Money Back

November 23, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

From 2002 to May 2008, Bunnell charged owners a $350 “administrative fee” for impounding their vehicles, even when there were no legal grounds to impound the cars. The burden is now on vehicle owners to get their money back.

Shooting in Bunnell at South Church and MLK: Oxycontin Deal Gone Bad

November 22, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Bunnell Police Chief Arthur Jones said a man was shot in the chest and airlifted to a hospital around 9 p.m. Monday. It was a drug deal gone bad–over Oxycontin, the pain pill.

Don’t Call Them Pill Mills: Palm Coast’s Pain Management Practices Recoil at Bad Rap

November 22, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

When Flagler Sheriff Don Fleming described three local pain management practices as “pill mills,” their doctors and practitioners were stunned and explained: Pill mills are a problem. Pain management clinics are not.

Former School Board Member and Realtor Eddie Herrera Jailed On a Battery Charge

November 22, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 68 Comments

Eddie Herrera served eight years on the school board, two as chairman. The Realtor’s fight with acupuncturist Scott Beat, with Herrera’s daughter in the car nearby, was over an accusation of infidelity.

Armed Robber Takes Hundreds of Oxycodone Pills from Winn Dixie Pharmacy on SR 100

November 22, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

The robber, who used yellow gloves at the Winn Dixie pharmacy, handed the pharmacist a note just before noon Sunday, demanding the pills. He walked out the front door and drove off in a dark vehicle.

More Florida Follies, JFK, Keith Richards and John Updike Redux: The Live Wire, Nov. 22

November 22, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Too many Florida follies, corporations and privacy rights, JFK’s inaugural, Lebanese independence, against dumb, an unpublished interview with Updike, Keith Richards on Mick Jagger, the beauties of Bayonne, and much more.

Video: Gobble Trot in Central Park Raises Dollars and Turkeys for the Needy

November 21, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Local residents with a spring in their step gathered Saturday morning at Palm Coast’s Central Park for the First Annual Gobble Trot Benefit walk to help provide Thanksgiving dinner to those in need.

Josh Crews, Long-Time Woody’s Bartender and Manager, Killed in Sunday Morning Wreck

November 21, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 60 Comments

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Josh Crews was 34 and had been a fixture behind Woody’s bar in Palm Coast and St. Augustine since 2005, and had once owned the restaurant with his brother Matt when it first opened in 1998.

Why Flagler Beach Blocked Disabled Veterans’ Request For a Penny-Ante Gambling Hall

November 20, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Unless they were willing to risk changing the character of the town, city commissioners had little choice but to block an attempt to open what would have been a penny-ante gambling hall at the DAV property.

Is Anybody Normal?

November 20, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Sanity is not the natural condition of the human mind, Bertrand Russell argued in this 1934 column, but a product of social life. It is a form of politeness, generated by the pressure of other personalities, which makes us know that we are not omnipotent.

Feed Flagler Raises $13,000 and Tons of Food Ahead of Wednesday’s 2,000 Free Dinners

November 19, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Ahead of next Wednesday’s community-wide celebration, featuring 2000 free Thanksgiving dinners at 10 sites, Team Feed Flagler’s success is the talk of the county–and a blueprint for Flagler’s grass-roots battle against hunger.

Sharples Gets a $1.2 Million Parachute, Free Will, Death Row and Steven Wright: Live Wire Weekend

November 19, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Kent Sharples nails Daytona State College and gets a $1.2 million reward for it, Dick Cavett reminds us what talk shows were really about, foot-in-mouth diseases, Bill Nye on science and religion, and much more.

Flagler Unemployment Falls to 15.5%, But County Labor Force Shrinks By 1.5%

November 19, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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Flagler County’s unemployment fell only because the labor force is shrinking faster than jobs. But the county still lost jobs in September, and Palm Coast still tops the state’s metropolitan unemployment rates.

On a Mission From God: Blues Brothers Tribute Friday at the Flagler Auditorium

November 18, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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It’s Jake and Elwood all over again Friday evening as Bluzmen recreate the great Blues Brothers band that featured Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi in a romp through blues, R&B, jazz and those dance moves with no likeness.

Graduation Rates: FPC Falls to 83.5%, Matanzas Soars to 90.4%, Both Beat State’s 79%

November 18, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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It’s Matanzas High School’s best graduation rate to date, helping the district increase its overall graduation rate by either state or federal standards.

44 Florida Doctors With Troubled Past On Big Pharma Payroll To Promote Drugs

November 18, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Pharmaceutical companies are not only buying off doctors’ loyalties and PR. They’re doing so without paying attention to morally and medically questionable doctors, including 44 in Florida.

20 Years On, With $1.17 Million Pay-off, County Approves Hunter’s Ridge Megadevelopment

November 18, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

The 3-2 vote clears the way for yet another development, this one for 2,302 houses and 600,000 square feet of commercial and industrial space, in a county facing a potential for 40,000 new homes despite a depressed real estate industry.

Chicks With Cans, Enterprise Flagler Undead, Flabby Supremes, Flabbier Sex Drives: The Live Wire, Nov. 18

November 18, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Chicks With Cans show how Feed Flagler is done, Enterprise Flagler returns from the dead, militarist madness, philosophy on the radio, Wallace Stevens Week, mental illness redefined, and more.

Delbrugge’s Letter to Flagler, Part II: How Egypt Compares And What Matters Most

November 17, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

The former school superintendent reflects on life in Egypt by deflating myths about the difference between private and public schools, comparing his in Egypt with Flagler’s school district, and speaking about what matters most in life.

Flagler Health Department Downplays Worries As First Cholera Case Is Confirmed in Florida

November 17, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The disease, carried from travelers from Haiti, is dangerous and can be deadly, but its chances of spreading in the United States are next to nil, treatment is simple, and recovery swift–when it’s caught in time.

Jim Morrison Pardon, Sharia in Oklahoma and Lennny Bruce: The Live Wire, Nov. 17

November 17, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Crist may pardon Lenny Bruce, how Suzanne Johnston collects more than taxes (for Feed Flagler), embracing earmarks, Thelonius Monk and homemade bread. And more.

Music Boxes, Puppets, and Highwaymen Artists: Culture Worth the Miles

November 17, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

An exhibit of music boxes at the Orlando Science Center, the 6th Annual Orlando Puppet Festival, Goldsmith’s “She Stoops to Conquer” at the Mad Cow Theatre, the Highwaymen’s African-American art, and more.

Bill Delbrugge’s Letter to Flagler, Part I: America’s Place In the World–And Yours

November 16, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

In the first of two parts, Delbrugge recaps life in Egypt, America’s image abroad, and all the things Americans take for granted–but shouldn’t, including the importance of local government and civic engagement.

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