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Florida House Passes Bill That Would Require Initiatives to Improve Fathers’ Parental Skills

February 16, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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The bill would require that grants be geared toward helping fathers in “finding employment, managing child support obligations, transitioning from a period of incarceration, accessing health care, understanding child development and enhancing parenting skills.”

When Presidents Lie. And Why.

February 16, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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Presidents who lie to save their own public image or career are unlikely to be forgiven. However, those who appear to lie in the service of the public are often celebrated.

2 Dead Cats, a Malnourished Dog Result in 2 Felony Animal Cruelty Charges for 32-Year-Old Woman

February 16, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Michelle L/ Church turned up during the investigation into allegations of animal cruelty and neglect at her RV in the Royal Palms RV Park in Bunnell, above, formerly known as Thunder Gulch. (© FlaglerLive)

Michelle Lynn Church, 32, faces two charges of animal cruelty involving a death and a misdemeanor abandonment charge after the animals were found in her RV at the Royal Palms RV Park in Bunnell, formerly known as Thunder Gulch.

Metronet Adds Flagler Beach and Bunnell to Gig Cities as Broadband Wiring of All Neighborhoods Starts in Spring

February 16, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

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Metronet, the broadband company that announced it would make ultra high-speed service of 1 gig available across Palm Coast available by 2023, has now sealed similar agreements with Bunnell and Flagler Beach. Those agreements were secured with a lot less fanfare, if any, than the one with Palm Coast, which the city announced in mid-December.

Reimagining Martin Luther King Jr.’s Last Night Before Assassination in CRT’s ‘The Mountaintop,’ Warts and All

February 16, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

City Repertory Theatre’s production of “The Mountaintop” stars Brent Jordan as Martin Luther King Jr., and Phillipa Rose as Camae. The play imagines MLK’s last night before his assassination. (Mike Kitaif)

“The Mountaintop,” Katori Hall’s 2009 play staged by Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre starting Thursday, imagines imagines King during his last night on earth, as a pretty motel maid named Camae visits him to deliver room service and finds the civil rights icon in a very un-glorious state: Smokin’. Cussin’. Drinkin’. Flirting. Stinky feet.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, February 16, 2022

February 16, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Carrying a torch for Canada by Kevin Siers, The Charlotte Observer

The Palm Coast Planning Board hears a site plan application for a 36-acre self-storage facility off Old Kings Road North, a school board committee hosts a “listening session” about the district’s dress code, John Cleese on extremism, Herbert Hoover on poverty’s eradication.

Sarah Palin’s Appeal of Libel Loss Could Set up Supreme Court Test of Decades-Old Press Freedom Rule

February 15, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Sarah Palin speaks to the media. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Before the 1964 Sullivan standard Sara Palin’s appeal could potentially overturn, the libel landscape in the U.S. consisted of a patchwork of state laws that made it easy for political figures to selectively persecute newspapers and public speakers who espoused opposing or unpopular views.

Proposed Florida Law Would Crack Down on Social Media ‘Pop Up’ Events

February 15, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Florida cracks down on spontaneity. (Marvin Meyer on Unsplash)

Authorities would be able to impound vehicles for days and double fines on noncriminal traffic infractions to crack down on large unsanctioned events put together through social media, under a measure heading to the Senate floor.

Florida’s New Elections Restrictions Are Driving Local Supervisors from Office

February 15, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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Some of the officials who supervise Florida elections are considering retiring under the threat of $25,000 fines if they make mistakes, according to testimony produced Tuesday in the federal trial over the GOP-dominated Legislature’s new voting restrictions.

Palm Coast Approves ‘Shocking and Staggering’ Garbage Rate Increase as Mayor Warns Waste Pro

February 15, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 37 Comments

Not necessarily: five years ago Palm Coast required Waste Pro to have an all-natural gas fleet. In the one-year contract extension the city approved today, the city agreed to let the company drive trucks powered by whatever fuel it chose, including diesel, despite Waste Pro now commanding a 47 percent rate hike from customers. (© FlaglerLive)

The Palm Coast City Council this afternoon voted 4-1 to approve the one-year contract extension with Waste Pro with a 47 percent rate increase and several cut-backs on services and fines. The mayor warned the company that the rate will not be an acceptable starting point for Waste Pro’s expected bid for a five- or seven-year contract later this year.

Victor Barbosa Decides to Run for City Council Again, Abandoning County Commission Race Until 2026

February 15, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

Palm Coast City Council member Victor Barbosa, right, at today's council meeting. Ed Danko, who was hoping to see Barbosa's seat turned over to Danko ally Alan Lowe, is to the left. (© FlaglerLive)

In a nearly six-hour meeting rich in surprises and reversals, add Palm Coast City Council member Victor Barbosa’s decision to drop out of his run for the Flagler County Commission and seek to keep his seat on the council instead.

Denise Bevan Is Appointed City Manager in Unanimous Vote, Aborting Palm Coast Council’s Search

February 15, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Palm Coast City Manager Denise Bevan. (© FlaglerLive)

The Palm Coast City Council appointed Denise Bevan permanent city manager in a unanimous vote, ending her eight-month role as interim and aborting a a search Mayor David Alfin called disappointing.

Palm Coast Council Sharply Reverses Course on Green Lion After Crush of Unanimity Against Severing Lease

February 15, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

The Palm Coast City Council chamber was at capacity this morning as hundreds of residents and supporters of the Green Lion restaurant at Palm Harbor Golf Club turned up to protest the city council's severing of the lease after five years. Sitting in the first row, to the left of the masked woman, are Carolyn Marlow, Tony Marlow, and Linda Provencher, the former Flagler Beach mayor who worked for the Marlows for 20 years. They also own the Golden Lion restaurant in Flagler Beach. (© FlaglerLive)

Faced with a rare, unanimous backlash against its arbitrary decision to end the city’s lease with the Green Lion restaurant at Palm Harbor Golf Club last week, the Palm Coast City Council executed a 179-degree turn Tuesday morning, dropping its order to sever the lease and opting instead to reopen negotiations with the restaurant, toward a five-year extension of the current lease.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, February 15, 2022

February 15, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Putin and Ukraine by Martin Sutovec, Slovakia

The Palm Coast City Council will hear from the Green Lion restaurant’s owners and supporters, the Flagler County School Board hears another update on library books and Susan Anthony is not happy with Florida.

Canada Should Be Preparing for the End of American Democracy

February 14, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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As Canada’s closest neighbor fractures at the seams and slides toward dangerous forms of authoritarianism, we should be deeply worried. The worst-case scenario in the U.S. — blood in the streets — isn’t necessarily the most likely, but we ought to resist the tendency to assign too low a probability to events that could have serious, catastrophic consequences.

Elite Airways Adds St. Augustine-Portland, Maine, Non-Stop Beginning March 26

February 14, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Coming to an airport near you. (Elite Airways)

The new service starts March 26 and will operate on Saturdays traveling southbound and Sundays going northbound.Tickets are $199 each way for Portland/St. Augustine.

Flagler County Tries to Buy More Time in Dunes Easement Dispute in Face of Army Corps’ Eroding Patience

February 14, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

A segment of the dunes to be rebuilt by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project, at the south end of Flagler Beach. (© FlaglerLive)

Faced with an ultimatum from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Flagler County government has outlined a timeline to the federal agency that it hopes will buy it more time before the Corps redirects $17 million earmarked for dune reconstruction in Flagler Beach.

33-Year-Old Father Faces Felony Child Abuse Charge for Throwing and Bruising Boy, 9

February 14, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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A week after a 33-year-old Palm Coast parent was arrested on a felony charge of abusing his high school son over the boy’s sexual orientation, another 33-year-old Palm Coast father with a history of violence was arrested on a similar charge after allegedly attacking his 9-year-old son over a purchase he made on an iPad. 

Tom Gargiulo, Palm Coast’s ‘Unwavering, Steadfast Champion’ of the Arts for 25 Years, Dies at 83

February 14, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Tom Gargiulo and Arlene Volpe. (Greg Volpe)

Tom Gargiulo, co-founder of the Gargiulo Arts Foundations and the Flagler County Artist of the Year award, prolific artist and patron to innumerable shows and artists, and the conceptual energy and fund-raiser behind Palm Coast’s Sculpture Garden in Town Center, died after complications from surgery Sunday in Palm Coast.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, February 14, 2022

February 14, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The End Is Near Art Opening by Peter Kuper, PoliticalCartoons.com

The Bunnell City Commission hears a strategic plan for its police department, Mamie Smith’s “This Thing Called Love,” the end is near, democracy’s sorry state, Peter Taylor’s “Demons.”

The Black Death Was Not as Widespread or Catastrophic as Long Thought

February 13, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

urying Black Death Victims in Tournai, Belgium. Gilles Li Muisis, Annales, Bibliothèque Royal de Belgique

In popular imagination, the Black Death is the most devastating pandemic to have ever hit Europe. A new study of 1,634 samples of fossil pollen from 261 lakes and wetlands in 19 European countries suggests the pandemic’s toll was not as universal as currently claimed, nor was it always catastrophic.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, February 13, 2022

February 13, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Guns USA by Dave Granlund, PoliticalCartoons.com

The cold weather shelter opens tonight as temperatures go back into the 30s, “Calendar Girls” at the Daytona Playhouse, Teddy Roosevelt’s dead Indians, the firebombing of Dresden, one of the great war crimes of World War II.

Patriotism, Dissent, ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ and the NFL

February 12, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Whitney Houston sings the national anthem on January 27, 1991, at Super Bowl XXV during the Persian Gulf War. (Michael Zagaris/Getty Images)

Playing the national anthem at every game became a flashpoint in the 1960s. Today, the NFL’s promise to play the anthem at every game cuts both ways. For Super Bowl LVI, three songs performed by four Black American female vocalists will offer a musical suite of unity in the face of division.

What I learned From Watching More than 500 Jan. 6 Videos

February 12, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 40 Comments

A pro-Trump mob breaks through police barriers at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (Screenshot from a video published by ProPublica). Courtesy of Colorado Newsline.

The Jan. 6 insurrection was brutal, and no amount of spin and obfuscation will alter that truth. Hundreds of videos prove that violence did not just occur sporadically as an extreme expression of the crowd’s displeasure but rather dominated the mob’s collective energy. The full weight of the crime that occurred on Jan. 6 is hard for Americans to measure because it is hard to imagine it could have occurred in America.

Deputies seize 42 Pounds of Pot and $23,000 in Cash at L-Section Home in Palm Coast

February 12, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Drugs and cash seized. (FCSO)

An alleged drug dealer is out on $55,000 bond this morning after the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office (FCSO) Special Investigations Unit (SIU) seized 42 pounds of marijuana, more than $23,000 cash and other drug paraphernalia in a Friday morning bust in Palm Coast.

The Insurgent History Calendar: February 13

February 12, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The firebombing of undefended Dresden in 1945, one of the great war crimes of World War II, and Kurt Vonnegut’s memories.

Life After the Covid Pandemic

February 12, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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There will not be a single moment when social life suddenly goes back to normal. Instead, gradually, over time, most people will view Covid-19 as a background risk and abandon the trappings of pandemic caution. There are major caveats to when the pandemic will wane, and trust in public health agencies has declined significantly.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, February 12, 2022

February 12, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Climate change by David Fitzsimmons, The Arizona Star, Tucson

American Association of University Women hears about “The Contextualization of Confederate Iconography,” Daytona Playhouse stages “Calendar Girls.” the Jacksonville Symphony is all brass and organ, big days for Abraham Lincoln and Bill Clinton.

Trump and the Vaporization of Presidential Records

February 11, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 30 Comments

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Boxes of documents and other items that should have been handed over to the National Archives were found at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence. Among the records reportedly incomplete or missing from Trump’s tenure in the White House are phone logs from Jan. 6, 2021.

Flagler Beach Reduces Its Lifeguard Zone By Two Towers, and Asks County for More Money

February 11, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Flagler Beach lifeguards executing an actual rescue of a swimmer in distress, caught in a rip current, in an image captured by a woman who'd bought her camera that day and was experimenting with it at the Funky Pelican, the restaurant at the Flagler Beach pier. (Flagler Beach)

Reducing Flagler Beach’s lifeguard-protected zone by four blocks will save about $25,000 a year, but the city is still seeking more than the $84,500 it is getting from the county to run the $240,000 lifeguard program.

Your Garbage Rates Are Going Up 47% in June, Services Cut Sooner, as Bid Flub Forces Waste Pro Contract Extension

February 11, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 60 Comments

Weighing Waste Pro's value to Palm Coast, the city does not come out ahead in a contract extension through June 2023. (© FlaglerLive)

Waste Pro garbage rates for Palm Coast residents and businesses will go up nearly $10 a month starting June 1, some services will be reduced, and fines levied on Waste Pro when it fails on the job will be cut in half according to a one-year extension of the city’s contract with the hauler, required because a bidding process for a new contract went awry last year.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, February 11, 2022

February 11, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Flagler Technical College Director Renee Stauffacher and Sheriff Rick Staly talk about giving convicted criminals a second chance on the job, Meowy Hour at Sea Casas Boutique and Uncork’d, Lincoln on xenophobia.

How Joe Rogan Became Podcasting’s Goliath

February 10, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Joe Rogan’s ability to attract young male listeners is particularly powerful in today’s fractured media environment. Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC via Getty Image

Joe Rogan is not just a purveyor of right-wing ideologies. He is also someone who has built an empire by introducing these ideas – and a wide range of others – to listeners from across the political spectrum. His truly unique skill is drawing in from that spectrum a massive, young, largely male audience that advertisers highly covet.

Calling it ‘An Embarrassment to the City,’ Flagler Beach Manager Issues 30-Day Ultimatum to Golf Operation

February 10, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Flagler Beach City Manager William Whitson, left, and City Attorney Drew Smith at tonight's Flagler Beach City Commission meeting. (Flagler Beach video)

Flagler Beach City Manager sent a harsh letter to Flagler Golf Management, the company running the city-owned golf course at the south end of town, giving it 30 days to “cure” a long list of problems, including compliance with a requested audit of the company’s books. It’s the latest showdown in a seven-year history of showdowns.

Supreme Court Rejects DeSantis Request on Cutting Up Congressional District Held by Black Democrat

February 10, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday denied a request by Gov. Ron DeSantis for an advisory opinion about his proposal to revamp a sprawling North Florida congressional district that has been held by a Black Democrat.

In Sharp Retreat from County’s and Builders’ Barrage, School Board Adopts Much Smaller Impact Fee Increase

February 10, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

In inflation-adjusted dollars, the impact fee rate for single family homes the Flagler school board approved Wednesday–$5,450–is not an increase, but merely an adjustment in keeping with inflation. In constant dollars it is the same rate set in 2004. It was a major concession to home builders and the county commission.

Flagler School Bus Driver Carrying 40 Students Arrested on Drunk Driving and 15 Felony Child Neglect Charges

February 10, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 44 Comments

Mark McNeill has been driving buses for the Flagler County school district since 2017.

Flagler County school bus driver Mark McNeill, 60, who was involved in a bus crash on Monday, was arrested in a separate incident Wednesday on a drunk driving charge while driving the same bus and carrying some 35 students from Buddy Taylor Middle School.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, February 10, 2022

February 10, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Race Hang Ups by Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune.

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets and will ban balloon releases, people who believe in Covid conspiracies, all the news that’s fit to print’s history, a little Virgil as time goes by.

Palm Coast Turns Nasty Against Green Lion Café Lease After 5 Successful Years and Turnaround at Palm Harbor Golf

February 9, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 109 Comments

The Green Lion Cafe's view on the Palm Harbor golf course is now in jeopardy as the Palm Coast City Council declared itself disenchanted with the restaurant's lease or even a proposed, sharp increase, though Green Lion has helped turn the golf course around in the past five years. (Facebook/Green Lion)

The Palm Coast City Council’s distempers have not been unusual, but council members’ attacks on the Green Lion Cafe’s proposed lease renewal at the city-owned Palm Harbor golf club was especially mean-spirited despite a proposed rent increase of over 300 percent over the next five years, and the restaurant’s key role in turning the golf club around since 2017.

The Jan. 6 Attack on the Capitol Was Not ‘Legitimate Political Discourse’

February 9, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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When Trump urged the Ellipse crowd to march to the Capitol and “fight like hell,” his words transformed an occasion of legitimate political discourse into an anti-democratic violent insurrection. The result was real physical violence.” Several people died and many were injured.

Now Called ‘Radiant,’ 1,200-Home Ex-Eagle Lakes Development Fails to Clear Planning Board Just Yet

February 9, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

The conceptual look of a 1,900-square-foot home on a 40-foot-wide lot at the proposed Eagle Lakes development, which would total some 1,200 homes, including homes on 50 and 60-foot lots. (Kolter)

The development’s name has been changed to Radiance rather than Eagle Lakes, but local residents’ objections to the proposed development’s smaller lots, its density, its variance with the ampler homes and lots proposed for the area a decade and a half ago remain the same, and caused the Flagler County Planning Board to table the proposal for a month.

Shut Up, Floridians: Sweeping Bill Would Criminalize Protests Near Politicians’ Homes, Parks, Sidewalks

February 9, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Protests like th Black Lives Matter protest at Veterans Park in Flagler Beach in June 2020 would be criminalized, if a bill in the Florida Legislature becomes law. (© FlaglerLive)

Protesters would be banned from picketing in front of the governor’s house, that of politicians or any residences. The prohibition would apply not only to private property but would extend to public parks, sidewalks and rights-of-way.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, February 9, 2022

February 9, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Legitimate Discourse by Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune,

Gunnar Galambos pleads out in court, Circuit Judge Perkins is in pre-trials, including that of Brennan Hill, the Microtel shootist, the cold-weather shelter opens again, recalling “Homosexuality and Citizenship in Florida,” the 1964 legislative report.

Whoopi Goldberg’s Holocaust Muddle

February 8, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

On “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” Whoopi Goldberg said, “I don’t want to make a fake apology.” Youtube

Whoopi Goldberg, co-host of ABC’s “The View,” set off a firestorm when she insisted on Jan. 31, 2022 that the Holocaust was “not about race.” Hands outstretched, she went on to describe the genocide as a conflict between “two white groups of people.” Her apology tour raised more questions about her views on race, antisemitism and the Holocaust.

‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill Advances in Legislature as Speakers Are Told Not to Say Too Much

February 8, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

J. Marie Bailey speaking at a Senate Education committee meeting against SB 1834, known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Feb. 8 2022. Credit: Screenshot/ Florida Channel

The bill allows parents to sue school districts if they are not privy to situations related to their children or if their students are encouraged to have discussions on sexual orientation and gender identity. Opponents fear the bill would bring a chilling affect to Florida classrooms regarding LGBTQ students, putting them at risk of bullying. Almost all who addressed a Senate committee today were opposed to the bill.

‘Normal Life’ Likely a Month Away in Flagler as Omicron Surge and Covid Risks Recede

February 8, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Flagler' s cases since January 2021. Click on the graph for larger view. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler Health Department Medical Director Dr. Stephen Bickel expects a measure of normalcy to return to Flagler County in about a month as the covid pandemic’s latest surge tapers off. Hospitalizations have persisted even as new cases have fallen off, but hospitalizations always lag new cases by a few weeks.

Flagler County Fire Rescue Receives 400 Doses of Narcan from Florida Department of Health for Fifth Year

February 8, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Flagler County Fire Rescue has an additional 400 doses of Narcan to administer, if needed, on each rescue truck thanks to the Florida Department of Health.

How Republicans Take Biden Relief Bill Money and Run, After Unanimously Opposing It

February 8, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis

The Biden administration’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan package was opposed by every Republican in Congress and criticized by Republican governors, most of whom are now grabbing the money.

Palm Coast Boy’s Father Brutalizes His Son for Wearing Make-Up; 2 Felony Counts, But No Hate Crime Charge

February 8, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

Lomack J. Bennett in his latest photograph from numerous bookings at the Flagler County jail, left, and in his Florida state prison photograph, where he served a term that ended in 2017.

Lomack J. Bennett, 33, was allegedly angered by his high school son wearing make-up and proceeded to slap him repeatedly, choke him, throw him to the ground and bust his lip, according to the boy’s account. He faces a child abuse “without great bodily harm” charge and a battery charge, but no hate crime charge.

Vacation Rental Bills Would Eliminate Flagler’s Ability to Regulate Occupancy or Conduct Inspections

February 8, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

A Flagler Beach vacation rental advertised on the site of Flagler County's tourism bureau.

Nearly identical Florida House and Senate bills that would all but eliminate Flagler County government’s authority to regulate vacation rentals are making their way through committees. The Senate bill started as more friendly to local regulations, and one committee approved it unanimously. But amendments have since pared that local regulatory power.

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