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Missing Memorials to Two Lost Wars

March 17, 2013 | Pierre Tristam | 25 Comments

This week marks the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war, but as Iraq and Afghanistan have been lost, the focus of memorials has shifted from wars to the cult of the soldiers, while victims of war are as always passed over in silence.

Argentina’s Jorge Mario Bergoglio is Francis I, Church’s First Non-European Pope, Post-Columbus

March 13, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

76-year-old Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires is the first-ever South American pope, the first non-European pope in a millennium, and the first-ever pope to name himself Francis (Francis I), after St. Francis, patron saint of the poor.

How Mom’s Death Changed My Thinking About End-of-Life Care

March 2, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

None of his years of reporting had prepared Charles Ornstein for this moment, this decision–whether, and when, to let his mother die. In fact, he began to question some of his assumptions about the health-care system.

From Bankruptcy to Granny Nannies: Navigating the Shoals of Long-Term Care

February 27, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Long-term care insurance is expensive, but the costs of long-term care are far more so. The experiences of local residents and businesses contending ding with reality almost everyone will eventually face illustrate the dilemmas of aging in a society with a meager safety net. A special report.

What Researchers Learned About Gun Violence Before Congress Killed Funding

February 26, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

President Obama has directed the Centers for Disease Control to research gun violence as part of his legislative package on gun control. The CDC hasn’t pursued this kind of research since 1996 when the National Rifle Association lobbied Congress to cut funding for it.

Where Obama’s Drone War May Have Gone Too Far: Targeting U.S. Citizens

February 24, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

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The Justice Department memo on targeting U.S. citizens references a “broader concept of imminence,” which it holds “does not require the United States to have clear evidence that a specific attack on U.S. persons and interests will take place in the immediate future.”

From Guernica to Who Gives a Damn: Modern Warfare’s Droning Savagery

February 22, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

There was a time when people could actually be shocked by the slaughter of civilians during a war. No more. We kid ourselves that our warfare is moral and clean and good and that it’s the other guys who commit the war crimes. Don’t believe it, argues Donald Kaul.

Rubio’s Rebuttal: A GOP Disaster Reminiscent of Romney, With Hispanic Hues

February 20, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

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The performance by Florida’s junior senator following President Barack Obama’s State of the Union was an epic failure, argues Rhonda Swan. If Marco Rubio is the savior of the Republican Party, members of the GOP should start looking for their lifeboats.

Short Skirts, and How Fatherhood Is Changing My Politics

February 18, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Since having a baby, Peter Schorsch finds himself agreeing more with Rick Santorum and less with Beyoncé, whose short-skirt performance at the Super Bowl left his tongue hanging, but not out of desire. He has a daughter to think about.

Zero Dark Thirty’s Tortured, Losing Premise

February 17, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Zero Dark Thirty is a movie the CIA wants you to see. Torture is illegal under U.S. and international law and it is utterly immoral. It doesn’t “work,” but that’s beside the point to the movie-makers, argues Chris Toensing. The result is disturbing for all the wrong reasons.

This Is London: Of Returning to England After 34 Years of Happy Exile

February 16, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Making a return trip to England to celebrate a brother’s 50th birthday, after a 34-year absence, is occasion for reflection about the meaning of time, an unlikely vacation and the most seductive sounds of a train announcer anywhere in the world.

Flagler Fire Flight and Other Strike Teams Helping Volusia Battle Blaze Near County Line

February 11, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

What started as a controlled burn near Barberville in northwest Volusia County went out of control this afternoon, growing first to 100 acres, then possibly doubling in size by 4:30 p.m., according to Flagler County Fire Chief Don Petito. The fire was sending smoke and the familiar, acrid smell of burning brush wafting over portions of Palm Coast and Bunnell.

Rather Than Allow Middle School Gay-Straight Alliance, Lake Board Plans Ban on All Clubs

February 9, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

A group of students at Carver Middle School in Lake County, Fla. have tried to establish a GSA, saying the student-led club is needed to address name-calling, bullying and harassment in school. In response to the students request, the Lake County School Board has begun the process of banning every non-curricular club at every school in the district rather than follow their legal obligation to recognize the GSA at Carver Middle School.

School Security’s Buy-A-Cop Delusions

February 3, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 45 Comments

The Flagler County School board this week will debate adoption of a new security plan that includes adding armed cops in elementary schools. The approach would be costly, ineffective, and more emotional than intelligent. Smarter approaches–and far greater priorities–abound.

To Combat Bullying, Middle School Student Wants Gay-Straight Alliance, But Officials Balk

January 23, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

As Flagler County schools continues to grapple with bullying through various forums, middle school student Bayli Silberstein in Leesburg sees a Gay-Straight-Alliance club at her school as one measure against bullying–but school officials have so far resisted, in sharp contrast with their admission of other clubs, such as the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

Obama II

January 21, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Far from a dud, as these second inaugurals tend to be, Obama’s today was bracing in its realism, and hopeful, ironically, for having finally shed the imagery of hope for hope’s sake, replacing it with an agenda for equality, little heard of since the days of the New Deal and the Great Society.

The Thanks and Reverence We Owe Undocumented Immigrants

January 20, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 63 Comments

We’ve admitted that these immigrants aren’t going away. Let’s admit our co-dependence, let’s restore their dignity, and America’s, and admit that illegal immigration is as American as apple pie, if not as American as empanadas.

57 Republicans Who Voted for Bush’s Katrina Aid Voted Against Obama’s Sandy Aid

January 20, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

When Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, Congress passed two relief bills almost unanimously. But when it comes to Hurricane Sandy,179 Republicans and one Democrat opposed aid. Signal differences are the occupant in the White House and the states getting help.

Arming Teachers Isn’t Enough: A Proposal of Modest Caliber

January 13, 2013 | Pierre Tristam | 30 Comments

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The NRA’s Wayne LaPierre is proposing having an armed guard in every school. That’s insane, because it’s not enough: teachers, principals, librarians, counselors, bus drivers should all be armed, and of course children, too, should be armed.

Bunnell’s Leroy Gadson Sentenced to Life in Prison On Murder and Robbery Conviction

January 12, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Leroy Rashad Gadson is–was–a resident of 106 East Short Street in Bunnell. He will be a ward of the Florida prison system for the rest of his life following his conviction Friday on a second-degree murder charge and an armed robbery charge, and his sentencing to life in prison, plus 30 years.

Accused Chilean Murderer Pedro Pablo Barrientos Buys a Home in Deltona

January 10, 2013 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Barrientos was recently accused by an investigating judge in Chile of the murder in September of 1973 of the internationally popular theater  director, teacher and folk/protest singer Victor Jara, then 40 years old.

Obama Rule Gives 1 Million Undocumented Immigrants Clearer Path to Legal Status

January 4, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Many of Florida’s 700,000 undocumented immigrants would be eligible for the new path to the permanent residency status that is also a step toward citizenship as the Obama administration recalibrates the immigration issue.

Mondex’s Kenneth Morrow Is Shot and Killed in a Suicidal Confrontation With Volusia Cops

January 3, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

Volusia County Sheriff’s deputies attempting to negotiate with a suicidal man armed with a handgun opened fire and killed 52-year-old Kenneth Morrow of Daytona North Wednesday evening in Ormond Beach after Morrow “advanced” on deputies while brandishing a gun, according to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office.

That New Year Resolution to Exercise? Your Local State Park Wants You.

December 20, 2012 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Rangers at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park and Faver-Dykes State Park are organizing guided walking tours on New Year’s Day for those who have resolved to exercise more.

Abuse of Girls at Milton Detention Facility Exposes Flaws in Florida’s Juvenile Justice

December 18, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

The Florida juvenile prison for girls got a 100 percent satisfactory rating from the state a year ago, though two staffers have been accused of abusing girls there, and one was caught on video.

The Soft-Core Terrorism
Of Florida’s Gun Worship

December 16, 2012 | Pierre Tristam | 63 Comments

Florida’s gun-worship is part of a lethal, juvenile romance for guns and a national disease that doesn’t hesitate to lock and load the words “gun” and “hobby” in the same chamber while vilifying those who’d imply a connection with the consequences.

Title IX Lets Girls Be Both Quarterback and Homecoming Queen

December 13, 2012 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Erin DiMeglio made history as the first female in Florida to play quarterback in a varsity high school game, and was elected South Plantation High’s homecoming queen. That wouldn’t have happened without Title IX, the landmark legislation assuring females the same opportunities as boys at both the high school and college levels.

Three Students Hospitalized, One With Head Trauma, After A1A Crash in Ormond Beach

December 5, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Toni J. Kilgore-Byriel, 45, of Ormond Beach, was driving south on Oceanshore Boulevard and taking her son and two other boys to school at Seabreeze High School this morning when she was struck by Jacob Shannon, 26, who was driving a Nissan.

Mazel Not: Israel and the United States, Married on the Wrong Side of History

December 2, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 46 Comments

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Israel likes to claim that Palestinians deny Israel’s right to exist. the reality is the opposite. Israel has spent the last six decades denying Palestinians’ right to exist in fact, going as far as denying them their history and identity. The UN vote for Palestinian statehood begins to right the injustice.

For African-American Voter Turnout, a New Normal

December 2, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Ever since the process toward full citizenship of African Americans began with the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, politicians and others have been trying to stop us from exercising the hard fought, hard won right to vote, writes Leslie Watson Malachie. It’s not working anymore.

Taxes Lower Than in the Reagan Era, Baldwin on Malcom X, Bach’s Purity: Five Reads Friday

November 30, 2012 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Your taxes are lower today than during Reagan’s 80s, Israel’s cynical retaliations in Jerusalem, James Baldwin on Malcolm X, women in Congress, America’s Cold War plans to nuke the Moon, cancer in every food, and Johan Sebastian Bach, pure and impure, plus Flagler jail bookings.

For FPL Customers, Bills $20 Higher in 2013 for Nuke-Plant Construction That May Never Happen

November 27, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Flagler County customers of FPL will pay an additional $1.69 a month, or $20 for the year in 2013, for nuclear-plant construction slated for the distant future, and that may never take place. It’s the third year in a row that customers are paying those up-front costs.

Mocking the Pledge of Allegiance

November 25, 2012 | Pierre Tristam | 24 Comments

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A reporter is fired after only reluctantly mentioning that a city councilman refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance in the latest example of ignorance replacing the very values the Pledge stands for, values that apply especially for those who choose to sit it out.

Do Prisoners Have a Constitutional Right to Dental Floss?

November 16, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

In Florida, five inmates have separately sued Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw in federal court, claiming deprivation of federally protected civil rights through the denial of dental floss. The sheriff is denying it to them. Angel Castillo argues the sheriff is wrong.

Astronaut Suni Williams Enthralls 1,000 Flagler Students in a Ham Radio Chat From ISS

November 16, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Suni Williams, one of the most decorated American astronauts, was 210 miles above Florida as she fielded some 20 questions for 10 minutes from students before a packed audience of 1,000 at Indian Trails Middle School today, in a thrilling, old-fashioned hook up made possible by the Flagler Palm Coast Amateur Radio Club.

Unemployment Drops Sharply in Flagler, to 11.3%, as State and U.S. Trends Also Improve

November 16, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Flagler County’s unemployment rate in September dropped sharply to 11.3 percent, from a revised 12 percent in August, as improving economies statewide and in the country continue to to trickle down. Flagler’s 11.3 percent rate is the lowest in four years: it was last at 11.3 in November 2008.

Corporal Punishment: When a Religious Exemption Becomes a License to Brutalize

November 14, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

A harrowing recent series in the Tampa Bay Times detailed how for 30 years a handful of homes for troubled youth have used a misguided exemption in Florida law to get away with all manner of abuses by using religion as a shield.

Amendment Shock: A More Tolerant Nation Is By-Passing Smug, Regressive Florida

November 11, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Many of Tuesday’s 176 popular referendum that passed speak of a more tolerant, more freedom-loving nation. Except in Florida, where the Legislature’s 11 proposals put the state at odds with national trenbds–and the Florida Legislature at odds with the people it claims to represent.

Central Florida Helps Democrats Erode GOP’s Legislative Majority as State Realigns

November 8, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

For the first time in three decades, Democrats get a net increase in Florida Senate seats. They reduced the GOP majority in the house from 81-38 to 76-44, despite redistricting, and the state’s direction appears no longer to favor Republicans as easily as it has.

Obama Clings to Smallest Lead in Florida, But His Ohio Margin May Make Florida Irrelevant

October 31, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 32 Comments

The latest Quinnipiac/New York Times/CBS News poll–one of the more reliable polls tracking the swing-state electorate–shows President Obama again in the lead in Florida. A larger lead in Ohio may make Florida irrelevant to Obama’s path to 270 electoral votes.

Republican Presumptions Aside, Florida Is Not a One-Party State Yet

October 28, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

There are plenty of reasons to argue who might make the best candidate. The majority or minority status of each candidate's party is not one of them. Above, Democrat Milissa Holland and Republican Travis Hutson, candidates for the Florida House seat that includes all of Flagler County, last week at the Flagler Women's Club. (© FlaglerLive)

Florida is dominated by Republicans, but to argue against the election of a Democrat to the Florida House–as the GOP’s Travis Hutson is arguing in his bid against Milissa Holland–is a reflection of the arrogance of a majority party that considers minorities, if not democracy, irrelevant, and that assumes that once a majority, always a majority.

Free Morgan: A Killer Whale’s Punishing Captivity Gets Its Day in Court

October 28, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Morgan, in captivity at Loro Parque (© Ingrid Visser/Free Morgan Foundation)

In June 2010, Morgan, an orca, or killer whale, was captured from the North Atlantic and rehabilitated, but instead of being returned to the wild, was sent to an amusement park. A judge may decide its fate on Nov. 1.

Environmentalist Lawyer Clay Henderson Is Stetson’s George and Mary Hood Award Recipient

October 16, 2012 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Clay Henderson, the New Smyrna Beach lawyer and environmentalist who’s leaving his mark on Florida’s geography, is the 2012 recipient of Stetson University’s George and Mary Hood Award, one of the university’s most prestigious honors.

For Opponents of Amendment 8, “Religious Freedom” Has Never Been Under Threat

October 15, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

The so-called “religious freedom” proposal to amend the Florida constitution would create a government bureaucracy to channel tax dollars to religious organizations, its opponents say, jeopardizing the very religious freedoms it claims to be protecting.

A Radio Voice of America from Palm Coast: Mario Jr. Alive and Green, and National

October 13, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Palm Coast’s 14-year-old Mario Ridgley has been hosting “Mario Jr. Alive and Green,” a radio show on Voice of America Kids, since he was 10. Columnist Frank Gromling was a guest on his show, and relates the tale.

Flagler Tax Collector Suzanne Johnston Criticizes State’s License Plate Rule Changes

October 9, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

The local tax collector's office stocks almost all the state's varieties of license plates. If the motor vehicle department has its way, that'll end in January 2014, when drivers will have to get their plates by mail from Tallahassee. (© FlaglerLive)

Citing a likely drop in customer service and an eventual increase in costs, Flagler County Tax Collector Suzanne Johnston joined tax collectors across the state to criticize parts of Florida’s plans to redesign the state’s license plates and end local residents’ ability to get their plates locally and immediately.

Three Florida Supreme Court Justices Fire Back at Attempted Conservative Putsch

October 9, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Justices R. Fred Lewis, Barbara Pariente and Peggy Quince pushed back against a campaign to push them off the bench that has spread from a conservative grass-roots uprising to a denouncing of the three by the Republican Party of Florida. The justices spoke to an audience at the FSU College of Law comprised mostly of students.

Reported Abduction Trails Up I-95 Before Getaway Near Flagler Border

October 8, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Ormond Beach Police were called this morning by a man who reported that he was abducted early today in Boynton Beach, Fla., and forced to drive some 220 miles north on I-95, to Ormond Beach, where the man executed a getaway. Police are looking for a suspect in the area.

The News-Journal’s Predatory Sensationalism On Sex Offenders Near Local Schools

October 4, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

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A News-Journal article on 445 registered sex offenders living near Flagler and Volusia elementary schools was dangerously alarming and misleading, argues George Griffin, and perpetuates numerous myths about sex offenders, encouraging bad laws.

Canaveral Seashore Plein Air Paint Out on Oct. 21-27 Gets Its Poster Child

October 4, 2012 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

John Caggiano's 'Down and Around,' the chosen poster for the 3rd Annual Canaveral Seashore Plein Air Paint Out in new Smyrna Beach. The paint out is scheduled for Oct. 21 through the 27th.

Throughout the six-day Canaveral Seashore Plein Air Paint Out, as artists work from dawn to dusk, visitors can enjoy the seashore and to be a part of the art, talking to artists as they paint unique works of art at the many picturesque locations.

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