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Probation Revoked, Jamie Nejame Gets a Year in Jail for Violating Order After Shooting at Neighbors’ House

June 28, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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Jamie Nejame, 73, a former candidate for office in Flagler Beach multiple times, was sentenced this morning to a year in jail for brazenly violating his probation just weeks after he was sentenced to probation on remarkably lenient terms, despite firing at least four shots at his neighbors’ house, where children were present.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, June 28, 2022

June 28, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Biden Economy Bike by Dick Wright, PoliticalCartoons.com

The Palm Coast Council talks budget, Kids Summer Performer Series at the public library, National Columnists’ Day, why Thomas Friedman is unbearable.

Attorney General and NRA Use New Decision to Challenge Under-21 Gun Restrictions

June 27, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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As they battle over a 2018 Florida law that raised the minimum age from 18 to 21 to buy rifles and other long guns, attorneys for the state and the National Rifle Association are trying to use a new U.S. Supreme Court ruling to bolster their arguments.

Octavia E. Butler, Sci-Fi Pioneer, and Her New Vision for Humanity

June 27, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Octavia E. Butler poses in a Seattle bookstore in 2004. The celebrated science fiction author died in 2006. AP Photo/Joshua Trujillo

Octavia Butler was the first science fiction writer to be awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant. A pioneering writer in a genre long dominated by white men, her work explored power structures, shifting definitions of humanity and alternative societies.

Flagler County Seeks Volunteers for Meals on Wheels and Supplemental Food Programs

June 27, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Flagler County Senior Services is looking for a few good men and women volunteers to assist with the Bread of the Mighty Food Bank’s Commodity Supplemental Food Program and Meals on Wheels.

Gerald McCaskell, 51, a Repeat Felon, Accused of Stabbing A Man in a Street Fight in South Bunnell

June 27, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Gerald McCaskell in his latest mug shot at the Flagler County jail, and in his state prison shot. He has spent nearly half his adult life in prison or jail.

Gerald McCaskell of Bunnell, who has spent 14 years of the last 32 years in prison, was back at the Flagler County jail Saturday, on $100,000 bond, following an accusation that he stabbed and gravely injured a 54-year-old Palm Coast man with a serrated blade during a street fight that evening.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, June 27, 2022

June 27, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Keeping up with the Thomas' by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com

Connor Segledi trial for alleged elderly abuse, the Bunnell City Commission considers a video-surveillance system on city streets, the national debt in 1956, “good guys with a gun.”

Supreme Court Brandishes Second Amendment Rights to New Heights

June 26, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

A U.S. Supreme Court decision released on Jun 23, 2022, loosens state restrictions on carrying concealed firearms.

For most of the history of the court, Second Amendment rights have been seen as distinct, more dangerous and thus more open to regulation. Now, the majority of justices has invoked a major change, with implications for many rights and regulations in American society.

My Son Leaves

June 26, 2022 | Pierre Tristam | 32 Comments

My children in front of Jacques Louis David's "Death of Socrates" ("La Mort de Socrate,"1787), at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. The painting has played a central role in their upbringing. (© FlaglerLive)

Today’s the day. We’re taking our son to UCF. There will be bleakness. This day has been hurtling toward us since he was born. It was once a distant meteor, invisible to the naked heart. But impact is today at 3:30 p.m.

Republicans, DeSantis Among Them, Appear Willing to Lynch Democracy

June 26, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

An image that has haunted the U.S. House committee investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. (Screenshot, CNN)

The House hearings on the violent near-coup at the Capitol is the most exciting television since “Game of Thrones,” though with less sex and fewer beheadings. Since eight years of decent progress on social justice under Obama, it’s becoming clear something has gone very wrong with Republican brain-wiring.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, June 26, 2022

June 26, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Lotsa Rights by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com

KidZ Jamboree at Holland Park, Grace Community Food Pantry, Fritz Kreisler, David Foster Wallace on the great literary phallocrats.

‘A Revolutionary Ruling – and Not Just for Abortion’: A Supreme Court Scholar Explains the Impact

June 25, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Anti-abortion protestors celebrate the overturning of Roe v. Wade outside the US Supreme Court on June 24.

What does this ruling mean? Why is there now no right to abortion, when Roe recognized it? Is a fetus now a person? What effect will the ruling have on other issues?

Flagler Leadership Academy’s 3rd Class Graduates 16 from Eight Local Governments

June 25, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Sixteen students – representing the Flagler County Board of County Commissioners, the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office, the Flagler County Tax Collector’s Office, Flagler County Supervisor of Elections, and Flagler Schools, as well as the cities of Bunnell, Flagler Beach, and Palm Coast – were presented diplomas for completing this leadership development program.

DeSantis Vetoes Travis Hutson Bill That Would Have Allowed Business to Sue Cities and Counties

June 25, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Sen. Travis Hutson is sponsoring a bill that's caused worry among local governments. (NSF)

While the veto of the business measure (SB 620) drew praise from local-government and environmental groups, DeSantis left open the door for lawmakers to consider similar, but more targeted, legislation in the future.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, June 25, 2022

June 25, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Bad Guy with a Gun by Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News.

Flagler Beach farmers’ market, Grace Community Food Pantry, The leper colony of Carville, La., Joan Didion plays it as it lays.

An American Tragedy: The Roe Regression

June 24, 2022 | Pierre Tristam | 66 Comments

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In right-to-life theology, the woman’s right is non-existent. She’s a vessel. Pro-life? It might help us to look beneath our legal and social burquas once in a while. It’s not pretty, and it sure as hell isn’t nearly as moral or pro-life as you think. 

Summer High: 5 Books on the Joys and Challenges of LGBTQ Teen and Young Adult Life

June 24, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The past decade has seen a flurry of young adult fiction written from a queer perspective.

In recognition of LGBT Pride Month, Jonathan Alexander – an English professor with a scholarly interest in the interplay between sexuality and literature, and the children’s and young adult fiction section editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books, presents his “must-reads” for this summer.

ELO Meets FYO as Band’s Strange Magic Electrifies Flagler Auditorium With Flagler Youth Orchestra Saturday

June 24, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The ELO Experience features, among others, Reggie Fecteau as Jeff Lynne, lead vocals and guitar. (Flagler Auditorium)

The tribute band Ticket to the Moon, which formed in 2019 and took its name from an ELO song title, performs in a Saturday concert at Flagler Auditorium, bringing the band’s music to life with the aid of four teens — a string quartet from the Flagler Youth Orchestra.

Flagler Beach Misses Deadline on $739,000 Tourism Grant. It had 18 Months to Apply. And an Extension.

June 24, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 35 Comments

Flagler Beach has been looking to rebuild its boardwalk and is planning to rebuild its pier. It had a crack at more than $700,000 in a local tourism grant. It missed the deadline--and an extension. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler Beach City Commission learned Thursday evening that the city missed out on up to $739,000 in grant funds from the Flagler County Tourist Development Council–a grant that had been available since January 2021. The city was afforded an extension. It missed that deadline too.

Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade; Florida Ban on Abortions After 15 Weeks Starts July 1

June 24, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

Detail from the original cover of Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" (1985).

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that established abortion as a constitutional right. In Florida, abortions after 15 weeks of gestation will be illegal starting on July 1.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, June 24, 2022

June 24, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Supreme Court's Gun decision by Kevin Siers, The Charlotte Observer, NC

Florida on Fire, at the public library, the Summer BreakSpot, Free Meals for Kids and Teens, Monday through Friday, Ruth Westheimer is still kicking, Joan Didion on morality.

Biden Thinks a Federal Gas Tax ‘Holiday’ Will Help. Not Likely.

June 23, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Several states have temporarily waived their state gasoline taxes to reduce the burden on consumers. Does it help? Not substantially, other than to let politicians who feel a need to show voters they are doing something appear as if they are.

Stray F Word and 14 Seconds of TikTok End Flagler Teacher Abbey Cooke’s Storied 13-Year Career

June 23, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 119 Comments

A tearful Abbey Cooke addressing the Flagler County School Board Tuesday evening, before the board voted to fire her. (© FlaglerLive via Flagler schools video)

The 3-1 vote to fire Abbey Cooke, for a dozen year a highly rated teacher and 2017 Teacher of the Year at Belle Terre Elementary, sent a chilling message to those who would challenge the board, or those who land on any board member’s hostile radar: the slightest misstep can and will be used against them.

Again Ticketed for Speeding, Flagler Commission Chairman Joe Mullins Again Begs for Favor

June 23, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 109 Comments

Joe Mullins at a Flagler County Commission workshop in 2019, holding his wrist two days after he was in a crash on State Road A1A. He was not at fault, according to a Florida Highway Patrol report. (© FlaglerLive)

The ticket is not remarkable. What’s more notable about Joe Mullins is his pattern of seeking to get out of penalties, and of reaching out to public officials to do so or invoking their names either to get out of a ticket or in attempts to get out of being adjudicated and getting points on his license, with a promise that he’d never do it again. Then he does it again.

Fentanyl Seizures Up 275 Percent, with 12 Overdose Deaths in Flagler, Sheriff Tells Fox Audience

June 23, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Sheriff Rick Staly during his appearance on Fox and Friends First early Wednesday morning. (Fox screen capture)

Sheriff Rick Staly told a pre-dawn national television audience early Wednesday morning that Flagler County has had 12 deaths from drug overdoses so far this year, and that seizures of fentanyl, by volume, are up 275 percent so far this year.

U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Limits on Concealed Carry Laws, Expands Gun Rights

June 23, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

New York's concealed carry law will need to resemble that of Florida's. (© FlaglerLive)

The court ruled that New York’s concealed carry law violates the 14th Amendment of the Constitution — a major decision that expands the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. The opinion came at the same time Congress is considering new gun control legislation following two deadly mass shootings.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, June 23, 2022

June 23, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

GOP Crushing Rights by Monte Wolverton, Battle Ground, WA

Pride Night at Daytona Tortugas, Schoolhouse Rock Live, a City Repertory Theatre production, The Palm Coast Beautification Committee hears a history of Palm Coast, Anna Akhmatova, Bob Fosse’s birthday.

Understanding the Heat Dome: Why America Is Baking

June 22, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The first day of summer 2022 brought soaring temperatures across a large part of the United States. National Weather Service

A heat dome occurs when a persistent region of high pressure traps heat over an area. The heat dome can stretch over several states and linger for days to weeks, leaving the people, crops and animals below to suffer through stagnant, hot air that can feel like an oven.

Ex-Governor Candidate Andrew Gillum Arrested on Wire Fraud, Lying and Conspiracy Charges

June 22, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

Andrew Gillum during a campaign stop in Palm Coast in September 2018. (© FlaglerLive)

A 21-count indictment, delivered by a grand jury this year and unsealed Wednesday, accused Gillum and a longtime adviser, Sharon Lettman-Hicks, of illegally soliciting and obtaining money from various entities “through false and fraudulent promises and representations that the funds would be used for a legitimate purpose.”

DSC Gets $10,000 Bank of America Grant for 1,200 At-Risk Students’ Meals

June 22, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Daytona State College will use a $10,000 grant from Bank of America to provide more than 1,200 meals to low-income and under-represented students who might not otherwise have access to healthy food during the school day.

On Palm Drive Near the Future Gardens Development, Flagler Beach Awakens to Stormwater Responsibility

June 22, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Flagler Beach City Commissioner Ken Bryan points to the wetlands behind his property on Palm Drive, and the eroded berm system, in the foreground, that is now breached in several places. (© FlaglerLive)

Residents along Palm Drive in Flagler Beach have worried about flooding from the very large future development of The Gardens, now Veranda Bay, nearby, but a city commissioner found that the city has neglected to maintain the stormwater system, which itself would go a long way to mitigating waterflow issues in the future.

Seven Florida Plastic Surgeons Challenge ‘Brazilian Butt Lift’ Restrictions

June 22, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Henri Rousseau, "The Dream" (1910).

Seven plastic surgeons are asking an appeals court to block a new state emergency rule that placed additional restrictions on procedures known as “Brazilian butt lifts.”

Florida Park Drive Will Be Closed to Thru Traffic for at Least 4 Months for Major Utility Work

June 22, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

The road most traveled: the intersection of Faraday and Florida Park Drive will shut down for at least four months. (Google)

Starting Monday, June 27, Florida Park Drive will be closed to thru traffic for at least four months to accommodate a major utility reconstruction project. Local access will still be possible. But accessing either Holland Park or most of the neighborhoods along Florida Park Drive from Palm Coast Parkway will not be possible without a wide detour.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, June 22, 2022

June 22, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

High Gas Prices Distract from January 6 Hearings by R.J. Matson, CQ Roll Call

Schoolhouse Rock Live, a City Repertory Theatre production, presents two shows at the Flagler Auditorium, when Joe Louis knocked out James Braddock, sellout culture.

Endorsements Aren’t As Influential as You Think

June 21, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Ohio GOP Senate candidate J.D. Vance won his primary after Trump endorsed him. (AP Photo/Joe Maiorana)

So far, 94 percent of Trump’s favored candidates have won their Republican primaries. But most of the candidates Trump has chosen to endorse were already on track to win their respective races.

Volusia/Flagler YMCA HYDRO4 Swim Team Places 18th in U.S.

June 21, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The HYDRO4 team cheering prior to the 9th Annual JAX50 Sprint Dual Challenge in Ponte Vedra in April.

The Volusia Flagler Family YMCA’s HYDRO4 Swim Team has been recognized as a 2022 American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA) Top 100 Age Group Team. The team placed 18th in the USA.

DeSantis Tells Boys State Participants Not to Indulge in ‘Phony Controversies’

June 21, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis addresses the Boys State convention on June 21, 2022. (Screenshot/DeSantis Facebook)

Gov. Ron DeSantis let delegates to Florida’s Boys State convention in on what he sees as the secret of his success in office: He determined from the first to fully understand the extent and limits of his powers to enact his agenda, he said, and to take no notice of public opinion polls.

Predator Arrested at Sheriff’s Construction Site; 20 Year Old on Probation for Attempted Murder Also Arrested

June 21, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

The Sheriff's Operations Center construction site in late April. (© FlaglerLive)

59-year-old Terry Lee Jackson, an unregistered sexual predator, was working for a subcontractor at the construction site of the new Sheriff’s Operations Center. 20-year-old Korarise Daishon Hill was on probation for an attempted murder conviction when he was 15.

A Green Lion Deal Dims as Positions Harden in Acrimony, Accusations and a Deadline

June 21, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 39 Comments

Chris and Tony Marlow, second and third from right, in a largely empty chamber this morning at the Palm Coast City Council meeting. The meeting did not go their way. (© FlaglerLive)

Green Lion owner Tony Marlow called Palm Coast City officials “crooks” as a council segment on a proposed lease resulted in a take-it-or-leave it offer from the city, and a 10-day deadline, or else the city will terminate the lease and seek a new vendor for the space.

2 New Cell Towers, Including on Club House Drive, Clear Palm Coast Council Hurdle, But It’s Not Over

June 21, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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The Palm Coast City Council today in a pair of unanimous if somewhat guarded votes approved two lease agreements with Diamond Communications to build 150-foot cell towers at the eastern edge of Royal Palms Parkway and in the heart of Club House Drive in Palm Coast.

School District’s Half-Penny Sales Surtax Renewal, for Tech and Safety, Will Be on the November Ballot

June 21, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Andy Dance was a school board member 10 years ago, when he successfully shepherded the renewal of the district's half-cent sales surtax to voter approval. Dance is now cheering on the renewal as a county commissioner. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County Commission Monday evening approved on a 4-0 vote placing a referendum on the Nov. 8 ballot to renew for the third time the school district’s half-penny sales surtax. The vote was not a surprise, though it reflects a shift from Commissioner Joe Mullins, who earlier this month was signaling opposition to the tax.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, June 21, 2022

June 21, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Weather Disasters by Kevin Siers, The Charlotte Observer, NC

The Palm Coast City Council considers cell towers, the School Board discusses communications and the half-penny sales tax renewal, Mary McCarthy, Mike Wallace Interviews Reinhold Niebuhr.

Wiccan Celebrations and the Permanence of Change

June 20, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

For Wiccans, celebration of summer solstice is a spiritual practice. (Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Summer solstice, a time when the northern hemisphere will experience the maximum hours of sunlight, takes place on June 21 – and will be celebrated by followers of Wicca, a form of contemporary Paganism, with a holiday known as Litha.

Lease Negotiations Between Green Lion Café and Palm Coast Crumble Again on Eve of Council Decision

June 20, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

The Green Lion Cafe at Palm Harbor has been thriving for the past five years. It wants to stay there. The city wants it to stay there. But getting to a new lease agreement has been slower than a turtle's pace. (© FlaglerLive)

A year into the negotiations, relations between the Palm Coast city administration and the Green Lion Cafe at the city-owned Palm Harbor Golf Club have again broken down over several additional changes on the even of a scheduled City Council vote on a proposed five-year agreement with the popular restaurant.

Pay Attention, Class: CRT’s ‘Schoolhouse Rock!’ Is In Session at Flagler Auditorium

June 20, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Teacher Jan, played by Junine Johnson, gets help preparing for her first day of class from schoolhouse rocker Michael Sheehan in the City Repertory Theatre production of “Schoolhouse Rock Live! Jr.” (Mike Kitaif)

“Schoolhouse Rock Live!” will be presented by City Repertory Theatre at 7 p.m. Wednesday June 22 and Thursday June 23 at Flagler Auditorium in Palm Coast. Proceeds will benefit both City Rep and the nonprofit auditorium. The play tells the story of the teacher Jan, who is nervous as her first day of school teaching is approaching. But her nerves are calmed when she turns on “Schoolhouse Rock!” and the characters come to life to help her prepare her lessons.

Gas Prices Fall Back Below $4.80 in Palm Coast as Oil Prices Continue to Drop

June 20, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

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Prices remain high: $4.79 a gallon along guzzlers’ alley in Palm Coast–State Road 100’s Wawa, Shell, 7-11, Circle K and two RaceTracs, with Mobil the usual exception at 6 cents higher–and $4.85-a-gallon gas or higher at stations along Palm Coast Parkway. It still costs around $72 to $75 to fill up the average gas tank. 

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, June 20, 2022

June 20, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Biden Too Old by Rick McKee, CagleCartoons.com

The Flagler County Commission meets at 5 p.m. and will discuss the school board’s plan to renew its half-penny sales surtax, Miami under water, Vincent Canby on “Jaws.”

100 Million People in America Are Saddled With Health Care Debt

June 19, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Then the debt. (Arseny Togulev on Unsplash)

In the past five years, more than half of U.S. adults report they’ve gone into debt because of medical or dental bills. A quarter of adults with health care debt owe more than $5,000. And about 1 in 5 with any amount of debt said they don’t expect to ever pay it off.

Privacy Isn’t In the Constitution. But It’s Everywhere in Constitutional Law.

June 19, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Who’s allowed to watch what you do and say? (Shannon Fagan/The Image Bank via Getty Images)

For half a century, the Supreme Court has recognized privacy as an outgrowth of protections for individual liberty. This implied right is the source of many of the nation’s most cherished, contentious and commonly used rights – including the right to have an abortion.

Ron DeSantis Weaponizes School Board Races with Ideological Survey

June 19, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

Ron DeSantis is again weaponizing local school boards. (© FlaglerLive)

Among the questions for survey respondents: Whether they support “workforce education,” the Governor’s “increases in teacher compensation,” or the concept of students being “locked out of school or subject to forced masking.”

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