Brendan Depa pleads, Pumpkin Patch at Trinity Presbyterian, The Halloween Hall of Terror at Palm Coast Fire Station 21, mis-reporting Gaza, Neil Postman and amusing ourselves to death.
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‘In God We Trust’ Tests Limits of Religion in Public Schools
Louisiana passed a law in August 2023 requiring public schools to post “In God We Trust” in every classroom – from elementary school to college. Even under recent Supreme Court precedents, the Louisiana law may violate the establishment clause of the First Amendment, which prohibits the government from promoting religion.
DeSantis’s Censorship University System Is Causing a Brain Drain
DeSantis is obsessed with remaking education according to his authoritarian tendencies, doing his damnedest to wreck K-12 with his army of book-banning harpies in “Moms for Liberty” and his Scared Karens legislation, and forbidding honest discussion of slavery and racism so as to never make white kids feel “discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress.”
How a School Superintendent in Maine Addressed the War in Gaza with Students and the Community
Jim Tager, a former superintendent of schools in Flagler, describes himself “privileged and inadequate to fully grasp the experiences of people in the Middle East,” but seeing his district through its prism of diversity and tolerance, he urges students and colleagues to form the kind of friendships across boundaries that enrich local and global communities.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, October 29, 2023
Nat Adderley Jr Performs for NEFJA, Tommy Tant Memorial Surf Classic winds down, Remembering Heroes Fall Festival, “Menopause, the Musical 2″ at the Auditorium, the ongoing atrocities in gaza and how “It Is Forbidden to Even Empathize With Innocent Gazans.”
Israel’s Gaza Campaign Risks Replicating U.S. in Iraq
The conflict will likely resemble heavy urban fighting similar to other battles over the past 20 years elsewhere in the Middle East against Iraqi militants and the Islamic State group – and very different from the more limited engagements Israel has attempted in Gaza up until now.
Politicians Love To Cite Crime Data. It’s Often Wrong.
When Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis announced his presidential campaign in May, he proudly told the nation that Florida’s crime rate in 2021 had reached a 50-year low. But really, DeSantis couldn’t say for sure. That’s because fewer than 1 in 10 law enforcement agencies in his state had reported their crime statistics to the FBI.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, October 27, 2023
Palm Coast Founders’ Day Food Truck Festival, Witches of Flagler Beach Bike Ride, John Eliot Gardiner’s Bach, Tides of Hope benefit for breast cancer research, Tommy Tant Memorial Surf Classic, Sheriff’s trunk-or-treat, Pianist Paolo André Gualdi at Stetson.
Solar Power Is Expected to Dominate Electricity Production By 2050
The authors’ projections suggest that the average cost of generating electricity through solar energy will decrease substantially, by 60% from 2020 to 2050, even when factoring in the growing demand for energy storage. Should these forecasts prove accurate, solar energy combined with storage is expected to become the cheapest option for generating electricity in nearly all regions worldwide by 2030.
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Riding Brightline: The Great, the Brash and the Ugly
Earlier this month FlaglerLive Editor Pierre Tristam and his son took a 24-hour round-trip from Orlando to Miami aboard Brightline’s new high-speed line, discovering what may be–what ought to be–the future of rail travel in Florida with all its pleasures, possibilities and limitations. Here’s the story of the trip and a review of the travel experience.