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Floridians Are Hurtling Towards Economic Disaster

October 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

florida distressed

Florida is the second most distressed state in the union in terms of its residents’ debt obligations. The state saw a 23% increase in the share of people with distressed bank accounts between 2024 and 2025, the data show. In addition, Florida holds the sixth-highest overall share of people with accounts in distress, at 7.3%. In human terms, this financial distress looks like a sharp increase in bankruptcy filings; residents with accounts in forbearance or deferred payments; America’s lowest average credit scores; and higher prices for groceries, rent, mortgages, gasoline, and health care.

Trump Endorses Randy Fine, Sharply Steepening Hill Climb for Gambaro and Furry

October 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

President Donald Trump is giving his “Complete and Total Endorsement” to U.S. Rep. Randy Fine. Challenger Charles Gambaro, currently a Palm Coast City Council member who had a role in the final months of the first Trump administration, recently expressed confidence that Trump would endorse him over the former state lawmaker, but clearly that’s not coming to pass. Will Furry, the Flagler County school board member, is also among the numerous candidates running against Fine. 

Palm Coast Council’s Ty Miller Appointed to Transportation Planning Board’s Executive Committee

October 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Palm Coast City Council member Ty Miller. (© FlaglerLive)

Following a nomination by Flagler Beach City Commissioner Rick Belhumeur, Palm Coast Council Member Ty Miller was appointed by unanimous vote of the Volusia-Flagler Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) board to serve on the TPO’s Executive Committee. In addition to this leadership role, Miller also serves as a TPO Board Member, with Vice Mayor Theresa Pontieri serving as an alternate on the Board.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, October 25, 2025

October 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

US headed in wrong direction by John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

Palm Coast Founders’ Day, the Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, Peps Art Walk, Rick Belhumeur’s birthday, Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town,’ at Limelight Theatre, ‘The 39 Steps,’ at the Daytona Playhouse.

Homeward Bound Program Helps Promote Commercial Truck Driving Training at FTC

October 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Flagler Technical College's collaboration with the Sheriff's Office is of long date.

Now in its fifth year, the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office (FCSO) Homeward Bound program at the Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility is helping Flagler Technical College (FTC) put a “face” on workforce training in Flagler County.

What would Mark Twain Think of Donald Trump?

October 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Twain was an opinionated, prolific commentator on the personalities and political issues of his day. Terry Ballard/flickr, CC BY

Mark Twain would have found Trump the showman – the pre-2016 version – a fascinating figure. He would have been appalled, however, by much about Trump the president. Imagining how Twain would view Trump is timely because when some have tried to look to history for an equivalent political moment, they’ll sometimes point to two decades – the 1880s and the 1900s – that happened to also be important in Twain’s life and career.

Florida Judge Rules Concealed Weapons Ban for Under-21 Unconstitutional

October 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Concealed or not, they're not bannable. (© FlaglerLive)

Siding with a 19-year-old man who was spotted with a gun in his waistband, a Broward County circuit judge Friday ruled that a state law barring people under age 21 from carrying concealed weapons violates Second Amendment rights.

Tired of County’s Internal Conflicts and ‘Politics,’ Flagler Beach Is Ready to Raise Its Property Tax for Beach Protection

October 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

flagler beach management

Flagler Beach Is ready to raise its property tax and dedicate the new revenue to beach protection in the city as a blunt message to the county: We’re doing our part. Now do yours. The move is not in defiance of the county so much as a challenge to it to get its management plan in order and to stop using Flagler Beach as a scapegoat to veil its own internal conflicts.

Only Two Residents Unaffiliated with Charter Review Show Up at Latest Community Workshop

October 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Moderator Georgette Dumont didn't have much to work with at Thursday evening's second community workshop on the ongoing charter review. (© FlaglerLive)

Only two residents unaffiliated with the charter-review process showed up at Thursday evening’s community workshop designed to solicit ideas and input from residents about the ongoing rewrite of the Palm Coast City Charter. It was the second of four such scheduled workshops. Another is scheduled for tonight at 6 at the Palm Coast Community Center. The first, on Sept. 29 at the Southern Recreation Center, drew barely a dozen people, though they were engaged and proposed several changes. Not so on Thursday.

At His Memorial, Sheriff’s K9 Kyro ‘Nubs’ Is Remembered for His Fierce Loyalty and Love of Challenges

October 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Sheriff Rick Staly addressing the congregants at First Baptiost Church in Bunnell this morning, during the memorial for K9 Kyro. (© FlaglerLive)

First Baptist Church of Bunnell was the site of two funerals for law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty in 2021. Today, the church was against the site of a memorial for a fallen officer. For the first time in Flagler County’s history, it was for a K9, a police dog, the first to lose his life in the line of duty: K9 Kyro, nicknamed “nubs” for the tail that had to be amputated from his tendency to be overexcited, died from an undetected heart ailment on Oct. 14. 

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, October 24, 2025

October 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Trump’s America by Pat Bagley, PoliticalCartoons.com

The Florida Ethics Commission meets, Sheriff Staly discusses open carry on Free For All Fridays, Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock, Wikipedia’s unsung heroes.

Bear Warriors United File Injunction to Halt Bear Hunt

October 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

A bear at rest. (FWC)

Arguing that Florida’s decision to hold a bear hunt in December is not based on “sound” science and research, the group Bear Warriors United, a conservation group, asked a judge for an emergency temporary injunction to halt the hunt.

The Disgraceful History of Erasing Black Cemeteries

October 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

The Masonic Cemetery in Palm Coast. (© FlaglerLive)

Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground, the largest burial ground for enslaved and free people of color in the United States, has witnessed deliberate acts of violence. As the historian Ryan K. Smith writes, Shockoe “was not, as some would say, abandoned – it was actively destroyed.” In recent years, similar threats to Black cemeteries and questions about preservation have been reported at the Whitney Plantation in Louisiana, the Morningstar Tabernacle No. 88 in Maryland and a rediscovered graveyard in Florida, among many others.

Critical After February Crash, Daniel Waterman, 22, Died on Oct. 8. His Pregnant Girlfriend Is Accused of Causing the Crash.

October 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Daniel Waterman. He was critically injured as a passenger in his girlfriend's car on I-95 in Palm Coast last Feb. 9. He never recovered. He died on Oct. 8. (Waterman family)

Last Super Bowl Sunday, the day Leigha Mumby, 24, discovered she was pregnant by her boyfriend, Daniel M. Waterman, 22, Mumby drove her Honda into a tree on I-95 in Palm Coast, seriously injuring herself and critically injuring Waterman, who was hospitalized since and who died on Oct. 8. Mumby was charged with a second-degree felony when an FHP investigation determined she had intentionally caused the crash. The charge may be aggravated, now that Waterman has died. His family is seeking custody of the child.

DeSantis Ridicules Spate of House Proposals to Cut Property Taxes as ‘Political Game’

October 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

An image of Gov. Ron DeSantis outside the Capitol dining room in Tallahassee. (© FlaglerLive)

Florida House members have proposed seven constitutional amendments for the 2026 ballot that would slash the state’s property tax. Gov. DeSantis dismissed them all, saying that “placing more than one property tax measure on the ballot represents an attempt to kill anything on property taxes,” and describing it as “a political game, not a serious attempt to get it done for the people.”

County Completes $1.88 Million Buy of Marlow Property on Intracoastal for Linear Park Extension

October 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The future extension of Linear Park at the foot of the Hammock Dunes Bridge, on the west side of the Intracoastal, will benefit from existing amenities, including parking. (© FlaglerLive)

County Attorney Michael Rodriguez on Monday said the county just closed on the purchase of a 5.2-acre parcel on the Intracoastal Waterway for perpetual preservation under the county’s Environmentally Sensitive Lands program, and as an extension of Palm Coast’s popular linear Park.  

Flagler Fire Rescue Deputy Chief Percy Sayles Named as County Administrator Petito’s Deputy in Place of Salinas

October 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Percy Sayles. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Administrator Heidi Peito has named Deputy Fire Chief Percy Sayles deputy county administrator, replacing Jorge Salinas, who died in a car crash on Oct. 4.  Petito informed county commissioners of her decision in individual meetings on Monday, and announced the decision publicly this morning in a release. Flagler County Fire Rescue Chief Michael Tucker appointed Sayles his deputy in December 2021.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, October 23, 2025

October 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Ceasefire Violations Gaza War Gun Cork by Emad Hajjaj, Alaraby Aljadeed newspaper , London

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets this evening, Model Yacht Club Races in Central Park, Trump protests are three times as voluminous as in his first term, Peter Paul and Mary blow in the wind.

Flagler OARS Hosts Peer-Based Recovery Support Training

October 22, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

OARS distributes Narcan free of charge. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler OARS (Open Arms Recovery Services) will host a comprehensive two-day training focused on supervision of peer-based recovery support services Feb. 11-12, 2026, at SMA Healthcare in Bunnell.

The Great Louvre Heist and Security Challenges to Museums Everywhere

October 22, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

They could not take IM Pei's treasure. (© FlaglerLive)

On Sunday October 19, criminals managed to steal eight pieces of extremely valuable jewelry from the Louvre Museum’s Gallery of Apollo, in Paris. The robbery highlights long-standing issues for criminology in the field of cultural heritage, as museum security has to address traditional and emerging threats as well as a range of symbolic visions and criminal dynamics. From a security point of view, there are five key ideas that can help us understand what the flaws were in the Louvre, as well as how, and why, criminals target museums.

DeSantis Signs 17th Death Warrant of the Year, More than 6 States Combined, Including Texas

October 22, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Richard Barry Randolph.

In what could be Florida’s 17th execution this year, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday signed a death warrant for Richard Barry Randolph, convicted of raping and murdering Putnam County convenience-store manager Minnie Ruth McCollum in 1988. The 17 death warrants are more than the number of executions in six states combined, including Texas, which has the second-most executions so far this year, with five, and Alabama, third-most with four.

Flagler Commission Was Ready to No-Bid Sell Parkland for a Parking Lot. Then the County Attorney Intervened.

October 22, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

The land and trees to the left of the road, as well as the road, are part of the county's Espanola Park. St. Paul Baptist Church--the red-brick building--wants to but the tree-shaded land to the left, level it, and build a parking lot there. The county was ready to accommodate it. Without a bid. (© FlaglerLive)

A church in Espanola wants to buy a sliver of county parkland, rezone it, and convert it to a parking lot. The Flagler County Commission was prepared to do that without a bid, without hearings, and no public notices beyond cursive ones embedded in commission meeting agendas.  The County Commission shrugged off the proposal’s implications as it almost certainly would not had a similar proposal involved , say, the popular Wadsworth Park in Flagler Beach or Princess Place Preserve. But Espanola is a poor, neglected area of the county with a significant Black population and a typically invisible political constituency. 

With Grave Concerns About Traffic, Palm Coast Approves Shopping Rezoning That’ll Add 1,000s of Cars to SR100

October 22, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 44 Comments

Traffic on State Road 100 in Palm Coast, just west of the BJ's Wholesale shopping center, with the future Flagler Landing shopping center property to the left, where all the trees are. That development, likely to add a Walmart as the next big box store, is expected to bring upwards of 3,000 more daily car trips to the corridor. (© FlaglerLive)

With grave concerns about its traffic impacts on already-congested State Road 100, the Palm Coast City Council on Tuesday approved on first reading the rezoning to commercial uses of a 39-acre parcel just west of the BJ’s Wholesale shopping center. The rezoning is ahead of the development of that tract into a companion shopping center called Flagler Landing, with a “170,000 square foot big-box discount superstore,” in the description of the developer’s attorney–that is, very likely Walmart–and a half dozen satellite businesses. 

Ending Property Taxes Is Tempting. It’s Also Practically Foolish.

October 22, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

eliminating property taxes

Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Republicans have been promoting the idea of doing away with property taxes for homeowners, or at least severely lowering them. That poses problems. The sales tax — would have to be raised to replace the revenue. That’s regressive: the sales tax bears no relation to your ability to pay. There’s also a logical flaw in the professed GOP belief that you never truly own your home if you have to pay taxes on it. It’s not a penalty. You’re paying to maintain cops on the beat, libraries for everybody, to fix potholes.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, October 22, 2025

October 22, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Cutting Government While Builiding an Arch by Monte Wolverton, Battle Ground

Kermit Booth, the former Palm Coast resident and Volusia schools employee, is in court (he faces two capital charges of sexually abusing a girl), Weekly Chess Club for Teens at the public library, Aristophane’s Acharnians.

The Real Reason Conservatives Are Furious About Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Gig

October 21, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Bad Bunny recently decided to avoid performing on the U.S. mainland, citing fears that some of his fans could be targeted and deported by ICE.

The spectacle of a Spanish-speaking rapper performing during the most-watched sporting event on American TV is a direct rebuke of the Trump administration’s efforts to paper over the country’s diversity. Beyond that, there’s his gender-bending wardrobe. He has slammed the Trump administration’s anti-immigration policies. He has declined to tour on the U.S. mainland, fearing that some of his fans could be targeted and deported by ICE. And his explicit lyrics – most of which are in Spanish – would make even the most ardent free speech warrior cringe.

Judge Rejects Wife-Murderer’s Claim that Stand Your Ground Would Have Exonerated Him

October 21, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Keith Johansen at his murder trial in October 2021. (© FlaglerLive)

No Stand Your Ground defense would have been valid, no ineffective representation was provided, no appeal for a new trial was granted. That’s the summary of a 24-page order a judge filed in Keith Johansen’s claim that he was poorly represented at his murder trial four years ago and should get a new one. Johansen is the 43-year-old former Palm Coast resident serving a life sentence for killing his wife Brandi Celenza at their F-Section home in 2018, after nights of demeaning her, humiliating her and threatening her, at times with a gun.

Court Increases Legal Fees Owed ‘Conversion Therapists’ to Nearly $900,000

October 21, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Palm Beach County and Boca Raton governments are required to pay about $885,000 in attorney fees and other legal costs after a battle about bans on the controversial practice known as “conversion therapy,” a federal appeals court ruled Monday.

You May Soon Park Your Commercial Vehicle in Residential Driveways as Palm Coast Votes to Relax Restrictions

October 21, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 35 Comments

Former Palm Coast City Council member Victor Barbosa's "Man Cave" car, previously barred from parking in residential driveways, will soon be as free to park in those driveways as it once did at City Hall. (© FlaglerLive)

For the first time since the founding of the city a quarter century ago, commercial vehicles are on the verge of being allowed to park in Palm Coast’s residential driveways for more than a lunch hour, or to make service calls. A divided Palm Coast City Council voted 3-2 to approve on first reading the change to what had been one of the more vexing restrictions for trades workers and for the council, which has wrestled with the restriction on several occasions since 2010, always stopping short of altering it–until now.

County Votes 5-0 to Rename Operations Center Sheriff Rick Staly Law Enforcement Center

October 21, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

The Sheriff's Operations Center in BUnnell. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County Commission on Monday approved renaming the two-year-old Sheriff’s Operations Center off Commerce Parkway after Sheriff Rick Staly. The complex, officially at 61 Sheriff E.W. Johnston Drive, will be known as the Sheriff Rick Staly Law Enforcement Center. Chief Mark Strobridge initiated the proposal in recognition of Staly marking 50 years in law enforcement–a celebration is schedule for Nov. 4–and Commissioner Leann Pennington fronted the renaming at the commission two weeks ago. Commissioners voted 5-0. 

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, October 21, 2025

October 21, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

CIA covert OPS in Venezuela by Dave Granlund, PoliticalCartoons.com

The Palm Coast City Council meets at 9 a.m., Food Truck Tuesdays in Palm Coast’s Central Park, Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry morning hours, the reliably revolting Randy Fine on Saturday’s protests.

The Pentagon’s Unprecedented War on Press Freedom

October 20, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The Pentagon doesn't get the irony of wrapping itself in the flag. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Throughout modern American history, reporters who cover the Pentagon have played an invaluable role shining a light on military actions when the government has not been forthright with the public. Free press advocates warn that recent changes in a Pentagon policy threaten journalists’ ability to cover the Department of Defense. That’s because it could curb their rights to report information not authorized by the government for release. That’s a big step toward outright censorship.

Teacher and Counselor Detail Sexual Abuse Stepfather Is Alleged to Have Inflicted on Girl Since She Was 9

October 20, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Kristopher Henriqson in court today. His attorney, Spencer O'Neal, is to the right.

Ahead of 47-year-old Palm Coast resident Kristopher Henriqson’s December trial, a teacher and a counselor at a local middle school testified in a court hearing today to the details of the abuse and rapes a 6th grader said she endured at Henriqson’s hand. A judge ruled the teacher’s and counselor’s testimonies admissible, as will be a forensic interview of the child, now 12, with with a member of the Child Protection Team.

Flagler Cares Offers One-Stop Help Night on Range of Social, Medical and Legal Services

October 20, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Help Night is at Flagler County Village at City Marketplace in Palm Coast. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler Cares will host its next quarterly Help Night on Wednesday, October 29 from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Flagler County Village Community Room, 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite B304, Palm Coast. Help Night, organized by Flagler Cares in partnership with several community organizations, is a one-stop help event designed to connect residents with essential services and resources.

Cops Charge Woman Over Inflated Weenie

October 20, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Fairhope police officers arrest a woman dressed in a penis costume in Fairhope, Alabama, on Oct. 18, 2025, during a local “No Kings” protest. Police said Jeana Renea Gamble, 61, was charged with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct, both misdemeanors. Video of the arrest led to widespread criticism of the officers for their actions. (Screenshot via BlueSky)

Jeana Renea Gamble, 61, was charged with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct for wearing an inflatable penis costume at a No Kings demonstration. Video of the arrest posted to Bluesky showed three officers holding her to the ground amid criticism from spectators. The video went viral over the weekend and led to widespread criticism of the officers. 

Jermaine Williams Loses Two Dozen Motions Contesting His Death-Penalty Trial for Killing of Wife Yolonda

October 20, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Jermaine Williams Sr, 53, is to be tried early next year for the stabbing death of his wife Yolonda Williams in the couple’s driveway in Bunnell 14 months ago. The defense team today argued 26 motions, lost 25, many of them arguing the constitutionality of the death penalty or death penalty trial procedures such as victim impact statements, or even whether Williams should wear restraints at his trial. Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols said the challenges were to settled law.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, October 20, 2025

October 20, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Ivanka and Jared real estate by Dave Granlund, PoliticalCartoons.com

The Palm Coast Charter Review Committee meets at 6 p.m., the Flagler County Commission meet at 5, Jermaine Williams, facing the death penalty for the stabbing to death of his wife, is in court, old age.

Beyond Protest: 10 Effective Ways to Make Change

October 19, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

A protester on No Kings Day in palm Coast on Oct. 18. (© FlaglerLive)

What happens now? That may well be the question being asked by “No Kings” protesters, who marched, rallied and danced all over the nation on Saturday, Oct. 18. practices used globally to fight democratic backsliding or topple autocracies can be instructive. In a nutshell: Nonviolent resistance is based on noncooperation with autocratic actions. It has proven more effective in toppling autocracies than violent, armed struggle. But it requires more than street demonstrations.

Two ‘Vertiports’–Airborne Uber–Under Construction in Orlando and Tampa

October 19, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The Florida Department of Transportation testing facility known as Suntrax in Auburndale, near Lakeland in Polk County. (FDOT)

Two vertiports to fly people around are being constructed at the FDOT SunTrax testing facility in Central Florida. This airborne Uber concept came after DeSantis discussed vertiports during meetings part of his international trade mission to the Paris Air Show this Summer. Drivers know Interstate 4 can be a particularly nightmarish trek from Orlando to Tampa, which could benefit if the vertiports take off.

Millions Protest Trump Authoritarianism: A Roundup from Around the Country

October 19, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Hundreds marched across the Arlington Memorial Bridge to the No Kings day rally in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)

Millions of Americans packed streets, parks and town squares across the United States Saturday for No Kings day, according to the organizers of the massive day of demonstrations protesting President Donald Trump’s administration — from his deployment of troops to cities to his targeting of political opponents. They showed up at more than 2,600 events for the second organized No Kings day in America’s largest cities like Atlanta, New York City and Chicago, to smaller metro areas and towns including Greensburg, Pennsylvania; Bismarck, North Dakota; Palm Coast, Florida; and Hammond, Louisiana.

Miami’s Bonfire to Trump’s Vanities

October 19, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

The Miami skyline will have a new, Trump-sized addition. (© FlaglerLive)

Florida is home of the Waste Pro Garbage Truck Museum, the Bike-Riding Parrots of Sarasota Jungle Gardens and Big Betsy, Islamorada’s 30-foot high spiny lobster, but none of it will compare to the the Trump Presidential Library Hotel and Massage Parlor soon to be built in Miami on land Miami Dade College secretly voted to give to the state. The state will, in turn, give it to the Trump Presidential Library Foundation, which means the place will be controlled by the Trump family.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, October 19, 2025

October 19, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

No Kings Day protests, by Randall Enos, Easton, Conn.

City Repertory Theatre Retrospective Concert, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, the Charlie Kirk effect in Europe, John Oliver on Bari Weiss.

Why do Teens No Longer Answer the Phone?

October 18, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Teenagers have phones glued to their hands… but often don’t answer when you call. (Wikimedia Commons)

Teenagers can seem to have their phones glued to their hands – yet they won’t answer them when they ring. This scenario, which is all too familiar to many parents, can seem absurd and frustrating, or even alarming to some. Yet it also speaks volumes about the way 13-to-18-year-olds now connect (or fail to connect) with others. If smartphones are ever-present in the daily lives of adolescents, this does not mean they are using their devices in the same way adults do.

Food Stamps May Run Out in 2 Weeks if Shutdown Persists

October 18, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

There's plenty of food, but not the Snap benefits to pay it. (Wikimedia Commons) food stamps

As the federal government shutdown extends to day 17, and with congressional leaders nowhere near negotiating, state officials are beginning to raise concerns of potential cuts to nutrition assistance benefits that feed millions if the government isn’t reopened. 

At ‘No Kings’ Protests in Palm Coast and Flagler Beach, Cheer, Energy and Defiance in Throngs, But Effects Elusive

October 18, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 60 Comments

A small segment of today;'s protest near the Target shopping center that filled the block from Belle Terre Parkway to Landing Boulevard. (© FlaglerLive)

What there was more than anything at today’s trio of “No Kings” demonstrations in Palm Coast and Flagler Beach, where many hundreds gathered and protested as millions did across the country, was cheer and charm as much as challenge and conviction, making you wonder where all that energy was as Trump’s opponents floundered in gloomy defeat a mere 11 months ago. It made you wonder where all that energy is even now, especially now, as his political opposition continues to grope for relevance. 

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, October 18, 2025

October 18, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

White House Press Corp by Bob Englehart, PoliticalCartoons.com

No Kings Rallies in Palm Coast and Flagler Beach, City Repertory Theatre Retrospective Concert, Motown & Mo’s Production — Rocking Around the Clock at the Fitz, FPC’s photographers, Georgia O’Keeffe.

Studying Philosophy makes You a Better Thinker

October 17, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Voltaire in his chair.

Philosophy majors rank higher than all other majors on verbal and logical reasoning, according to a new study. They also tend to display more intellectual virtues such as curiosity and open-mindedness. Philosophers have long claimed that studying philosophy sharpens one’s mind. What sets philosophy apart from other fields is that it is not so much a body of knowledge as an activity – a form of inquiry. Doing philosophy involves trying to answer fundamental questions about humanity and the world we live in and subjecting proposed answers to critical scrutiny.

Let Us Now Bow to the Quackery of Conversion Therapy

October 17, 2025 | Pierre Tristam | 8 Comments

A case of bloodletting, which for over a thousand years was falsely believed to be curative of numerous ills. The print is byan unknown artist.

Conversion therapy is the non-medical and debunked theory that if you hector gays, lesbians and trans long enough, they’ll convert back to heterosexuality. The approach is premised on self-loathing. It’s abusive. It has nothing to do with science. It has everything to do with a perverted interpretation of Christianity’s vilification of anything non-heterodox. yet after hearing the case this week, the U.S. Supreme Court, continuing its upending of First Amendment interpretations, appears inclined to open the door to conversion therapy to those under 18 as a legitimate professional practice.

From Jacques Brel to Charlie Brown, City Repertory Theatre Presents Retrospective Concert

October 17, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Laniece Rose (Fagundes) performing in City Repertory Theatre’s “Holiday Cabaret” in November 2023. Photo by Mike Kitaif

City Repertory Theatre is reprising plays from throughout its 14 seasons with the first of three concerts featuring songs from the musicals CRT has staged over the last 14 years, with performers Laniece Rose (Fagundes), Benjamin Beck and Denise Elisha.

Space X’s Destructive Plans for its Starship-Super Heavy Rockets in Florida

October 17, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Canaveral National Seashore offers the longest stretch of undeveloped Atlantic beach in Florida. Space X wants to close it for at least two months a year and maybe more. (via National Park Service)

Space X, the aerospace company owned by Elon Musk, wants to make big changes at Cape Canaveral, boosting the number of rockets it annual launches and lands there to 44, as well as boosting the size of the rocket involved. “Starship-Super Heavy” is “the world’s most powerful launch vehicle ever developed,” according to the Space X website. Floridians are concerned about increased pollution, rampant water waste, a huge loss of public access, lots more sonic booms and — not to be rude — the tendency of Space X rockets to blow up. There have been four explosions so far this year.

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