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A Presidential Order Manipulates U.S. History Through the Smithsonian

April 2, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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Of course, history is contested. There will always be a variety of views about what should be included and excluded from America’s story. But most recent debates center on how much attention should be given to the history of the nation’s accomplishments over its darker chapters. The Smithsonian, as a national institution that receives most of its funds from the federal government, has sometimes found itself in the crosshairs.

Florida House Committee Approves Sales Tax Cut to 5.25% But Eliminates Tax ‘Holidays’

April 2, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

House Ways & Means Chairman Wyman Duggan, R-Jacksonville, is helping lead efforts to cut the state's sales-tax rate. Colin Hackley/File

For the first time in 16 years, the state wouldn’t offer sales-tax “holidays” under a House proposal that calls for an overall cut in sales taxes. The House Ways & Means Committee on Wednesday unanimously approved a $5.43 billion package dominated by House Speaker Daniel Perez’ proposal to lower the state’s sales-tax rate from 6 percent to 5.25 percent.

Trump Targets China, U.S. Allies and Others with Sweeping and Steep New Tariffs

April 2, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

Not an economist. (White House)

The president unveiled a baseline 10% levy on all international imports, plus what he described as additional “kind” and “discounted” tariff rates that will increase but not match the rates other countries apply to American imports. The levies, effective at midnight, will hit U.S. industries from agriculture to manufacturing to fashion. U.S. tariffs will reach 34% on imports from China, 46% on products from Vietnam and 20% on European Union imports, including beer and wine.

Palm Coast Council Seeks Analysis to Move Proposed Fuel Farm Off U.S. 1 as Opposition Builds Fast

April 2, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

Residents of Sawmill Creek, the new subdivision just north of a proposed 12.6-million gallon fuel depot, are among those voicing opposition to the project at that location. (© FlaglerLive)

The proposed 12.6 million-gallon gas and diesel depot on U.S. 1 has quickly gone from an economic development triumph, as Palm Coast and county officials described it last week, to a political liability fueled by public opposition spreading at the speed of a wildfire. On Tuesday, the Palm Coast City Council agreed to seek an analysis to determine whether there’s an alternative location better suited to the depot, a planned $75 million facility to be built by a start-up, Belvedere Terminals, with no track record in the industry. 

Interviews of 10 Candidates for Appointment to Palm Coast Council Give a Choice Between Experience and Ideals

April 2, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

A more popular place than you'd think. (© FlaglerLive)

A defining line sharpened as the interviews progressed. It was drawn between candidates who spoke the pragmatism of public-service experience on one side, and candidates who spoke of ideals and private-sector careers they hope to translate into public service. This council has limited time to make a limited appointment with specific aims ahead, in a term limited to less than two years, and for a position whose learning curve typically takes two years fully to scale.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, April 2, 2025

April 2, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Tariffs equal protectionism by Taylor Jones, Hoover Digest

Barring marine LePen from running in the 2027 presidential election endangers French democracy, the Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board, the Flagler Beach Parks Ad Hoc Committee meets, Voltaire on French fanaticism.

Presidential Term Limits Are There for a Reason

April 1, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

No president other than Franklin D. Roosevelt has held office for more than two terms.

No one is supposed to serve more than two full terms as president, according to the 22nd Amendment. The only way someone can serve more than two terms is if they served less than two years in a previous term in which they weren’t elected president. It is worth understanding why the two-term tradition was considered so important that it was turned into constitutional law the first time it was violated.

It’s Randy Fine After All as Election Day Surge Helps Trump Pick Defeat Josh Weil and Democratic Hopes

April 1, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 43 Comments

Randy Fine was explicit throughout the campaign: he was running for Trump, whose cutout, a bit blanched, stood at a Republican tent at the public library today in Palm Coast, with a sign that summarized the Fine campaign. (© FlaglerLive)

Powered by an Election Day surge that helped erase early-voting advantages the Josh Weil campaign had built up, Randy Fine, the Melbourne Republican, Florida Senate member and Donald Trump pick, won the special election for the 6th Congressional District this evening–not handily at all, but he won it all the same, to his patron’s (and his own) relief. 

Flagler Beach Quietly Signs On to Agreement with ICE, Deputizing Local Cops for Immigration Enforcement

April 1, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

The Flagler Beach Police Department is joining a program enabling federal immigration authorities to depuitze local police in certain immigration-enforcement duties. (© FlaglerLive)

Without discussion or mention of the agreement, the Flagler Beach City Commission last Thursday signed an agreement with U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement, or ICE, to deputize some of its police officers to enforce federal immigration laws.

Flagler Beach Ends Debate on Annexation with Final Approval of Measure Scrapping 5% Rule

April 1, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The Veranda Bay development was the trigger for Flagler Beachh to repeal its annexation rule requiring a referendum if the annexation was to be greater than 5 percent of the city's geographic size. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler Beach City Commission approved on a 4-1 vote and on final reading the repeal of a decades-old rule that required the city to hold a referendum any time it would annex more than 5 percent of its geographic area in a given year. The repeal was precipitated last year by the city’s interest in annexing Veranda Bay, the huge development along John Anderson Highway that would more than double the city’s population when built out.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, April 1, 2025

April 1, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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It’s Election Day: choose your next Congressman in this special election to replace the secrets-spewing Mike Waltz, the Palm Coast City Council and the planning boards in Bunnell and Flagler Beach meet, ICE raids, Democratic sheep.

Florida Agency Wants Emergency Management to House Migrants Awaiting Deportation

March 31, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Larry Keefe, director of the State Board of Immigration Enforcement, delivers remarks during a press conference at the Florida Capitol on Feb. 19, 2025. (Jackie Llanos)

The executive director of the new State Board of Immigration Enforcement is pushing for the Florida Division of Emergency Management to house and transport immigrants awaiting deportation.

Marine Le Pen’s Familiar Victim Narrative

March 31, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Marine LePen (Facebook)

Marine Le Pen, figurehead of France’s Rassemblement National (RN), one of the most established far-right parties in Europe, has been found guilty of embezzling funds from the European parliament. Le Pen is highly unlikely to be able to stand as a candidate in the next presidential election in 2027.

Democrat Josh Weil Riles GOP Panic Over Special Election: ‘We Are Going to Have Our Own Surge’

March 31, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 27 Comments

Josh Weil speaking to a Flagler County resident and voter this afternoon at his headquarters at City Market Place. (© FlaglerLive)

Democrat Josh Weil, the Orlando teacher, and the GOP’s Sen. Randy Fine of Melbourne, are running so close in the special election for Waltz’s 6th Congressional District seat–which includes all of Flagler County–that even if Weil doesn’t win Tuesday, the race is sending seismic waves through a magaland.

Owners Demolish Old Dixie Hotel a Few Weeks from Deadline, Ending Years of Litigation

March 31, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

It's actually happening: the demolition of the Old Dixie motel today. (Jane Gentile-Youd)

The Old Dixie motel is coming down. What used to be the Country Hearth Inn, what rapidly became an eyesore after it closed in 2008, then a battleground between Flagler County government and two sets of owners, was being demolished today, making one legal case moot and all but ending the second. The attorney for the property owners says something will be built there, but it’s not yet clear what.

Three Palm Coast Council Members Return from Tallahassee With Some Hope for City’s Utility Needs

March 31, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Palm Coast wants one or two more of these "equalization tanks" to help diminish stormwater surges at its Waste Water Treatment Plant 1 in the Woodlands. A recent utility rate increase and a legislative appropriation will help. (© FlaglerLive)

Three of the Palm Coast City Council’s four members–Theresa Pontieri, Charles Gambaro and Ty Miller–returned from a lobbying trip to Tallahassee last week with some potential successes to help pay for the city’s utility-infrastructure needs despite legislative appropriations far more constrained than they’d been the previous two years.

Deltona Homicide Suspect Ends Chase at Hammock Dunes Bridge with Self-Inflicted Gunshot

March 31, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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What started with the report of a shooting-death of a woman in Deltona early this morning ended after a police chase before dawn at the foot of the Hammock Dunes Bridge with a man apparently shooting himself after he crashed through the toll bridge’s arm and veered off the road.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, March 31, 2025

March 31, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Signal Small Group Chat by Taylor Jones, Politicalcartoons.com

Cello Studio Recital presented by the Stetson School of Music, Sara Novak and Principal Kristin Bozeman of Matanzas High School and Assistant Superintendent Dr. Angela O’Brien earn a milestone, Omar el Akkad on becoming American.

That Time Change Affects Your Body and Mind Longer Than You Realize

March 30, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Your biological internal clock is controlled in a small region of the brain called the hypothalamus. It regulates hormone release, body temperature and metabolism. So if your circadian rhythm is out of kilter, those things will be disrupted too.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, March 30, 2025

March 30, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Canadian attack plans by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com

‘Violet’ at City Repertory Theatre, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Karen Russell’s “Prospectors” and the Florida writer’s love of weird.

When Canadian Snowbirds Don’t Flock to Florida, Costs Are More Than Financial

March 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 62 Comments

A Canadian flag flies as people walk along the boardwalk in Hollywood, Fla.

Every winter, hundreds of thousands of older Canadians spend the winter in the United States. But in recent weeks, we’ve seen many Canadian snowbirds shifting their attention to other matters. First, stories started to emerge from those who said they would no longer participate in this seasonal migration because of political events in the U.S. Another related concern was the weakened Canadian dollar. This trend has prompted some to consider selling their winter properties in the U.S.

Palm Coast Songwriters Festival Set for April 30

March 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Michael Ray is among the performers at the 2025 Palm Coast Soongwriters Festival starting April 30. (DCS)

Palm Coast and the Flagler Beaches, the City of Palm Coast and the Flagler County Cultural Council are teaming up to kick off the 2025 Palm Coast Songwriters Festival – and celebrate the grand reopening of Daytona State College’s Flagler/Palm Coast Campus Amphitheater – with a special charity show on Wednesday, April 30.

Company Will Build Massive Fuel Depot and Distribution Plant at Rail Spur Off Peavy Grade in Palm Coast

March 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 68 Comments

The Florida East Coast rail line where Peavy Grade dead-ends, and where a spur will be built into a 78-acre fuel depot and distribution facility. (© FlaglerLive)

Belvedere Terminals, a start-up company developing a new gas and diesel distribution network by rail, will build a fuel depot and distribution plant on a 78-acre site on Palm Coast’s Peavy Grade, next to the city’s Water Treatment Plant 3 off U.S. 1. The company intends to start operations in late 2026 at a plant with half dozen fuel tanks with a total capacity of 300,000 barrels of gasoline and diesel storage, or 12.6 million gallons–the equivalent of 17 water towers like Palm Coast’s off I-95.

Flagler Beach’s Randy Jaye Releases ‘Florida Flashpoints,’ His 5th Book, on Florida History

March 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

The cover of Randy Jaye's "Florida Flashpoints," just published. It is Jaye's fifth book. (Arcadia Publishing)

Flagler Beach author and historian Randy Jaye released his fifth book on March 18: Florida Flashpoints: Extraordinary Moments From Spanish Colony to the Space Age. The book highlights Florida’s long, interesting and sometimes turbulent history with what the author consider to be 36 of the state’s most important historic moments.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, March 29, 2025

March 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Trump Denies Classified Houthi Texts by Rick McKee, CagleCartoons.com

Peps Art Walk, Phenomenal Women’s Event at AACS, Richard Slotkin turns Star Wars upside down, Curtis Yarvin welcomes the end of American democracy, Christopher Lasch bemoans American narcissism.

Ukraine’s Minerals Explained

March 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

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Ukraine is often recognised for its vast agricultural lands and industrial heritage, but beneath its surface lies one of the world’s most remarkable geological formations, the “Ukrainian Shield”. These geological processes created favourable geological conditions for forming several mineral deposits including lithium, graphite, manganese, titanium and rare earth elements. All these are now critical for modern industries and the global green energy transition.

Florida Unemployment Rate Rises to 3.6%, Flagler’s to 4.6% as State Revises Labor Force Numbers Upward

March 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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The Florida Department of Commerce on Friday said the unemployment rate increased from 3.5 percent in January to 3.6 percent in February. Florida had a 3.4 percent jobless rate in December. The unemployment rate in Flagler County jumped to 4.6 percent after the Department of Commerce revised figures substantially–adding several thousand people to Flagler County’s labor force.

Our Silent Genocide of Transgender People

March 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 39 Comments

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The United States in general and Florida in particular are enacting laws that literally erase the existence of an entire class of human beings. Trump signed an order declaring that transgender people don’t exist. Florida is about to adopt a law that would let government employees dehumanize their transgender colleagues by refusing to refer to them by their preferred pronouns. It is a new kind of genocide: bloodless, to be sure, but no less obliterating.

Palm Coast Launches Quarterly Tours of Water and Wastewater Plants

March 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

It doesn't come cheao: one of Palm Coast's newer water plants. (© FlaglerLive)

Following the success of the inaugural tour on March 12, 2025, the City of Palm Coast has decided to offer residents quarterly tours of its water and wastewater treatment facilities. Residents who attended the initial tour praised the event, expressing how informative and insightful it was. They noted they gained a deeper understanding of the treatment processes.

Family of Six Loses House to Fire in Palm Coast’s L-Section, 21 Year Old Injured Trying to Save Pets

March 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

The fire at the Longfellow house is believed to have been triggered by an electrical issue in the pool area. (PCFD)

A family of six, including four children, lost their home to a middle-of-the-night fire on Longfellow Drive in Palm Coast early this morning, and a 21-year-old woman was taken to Halifax hospital with serious injuries.

Stephanie Raimundo, 48, Sentenced to 16 Years in Prison for Death of Calvin Stull as Mother Grieves

March 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Stephanie Raimundo. (© FlaglerLive)

Stephanie Raimundo, the 48-year-old Palm Coast woman facing a combined 150 years in prison on 11 felony charges, including manslaughter in the drug-overdose death of 21-year-old Calvin Stull in January 2023, was sentenced to 16 years in prison. Stull’s mother addressed the court and Raimundo.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, March 28, 2025

March 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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‘Violet’ at City Repertory Theatre, Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock, the curious retention pond in front of Flagler Beach’s coming Margaritaville Hotel.

Freedom of Expression, the Extreme Right’s New Totem

March 27, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

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Won with great difficulty by citizens against the powers of the State and the Church in the 18th century, freedom of expression is now brandished like a totem by the bosses of social networks and by the extreme right.

2-Hour Parking Limit Downtown Flagler Beach? ‘Great Idea,’ Planning Board Says, Urging City to Act

March 27, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 32 Comments

Construction of the Margaritaville hotel has intensified parking problems downtown Flagler Beah. The hotel's opening is not likely to improve matters. City businesses are proposing a solution. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler Beach Planning Board embraced an idea proposed by downtown business owners to impose two-hour parking limits in a small area downtown that is typically overrun by people parking for hours at a time, sometimes all day, preventing the sort of turnover traffic that helps businesses thrive. The board is forwarding the proposal to the City Commission and urging it to consider it.

Derrius Bauer, in a Shift, Agrees to Plea and 15 Years Instead of Life in Prison for Circle K Murder

March 27, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Derrius Bauer getting fingerprinted after his sentencing this morning. (© FlaglerLive)

Two days after he declined yet again to risk life in prison if convicted at trial, Derrius Bauer, 30, this morning signed a plea agreement and was sentenced to 15 years, a term that between time already served and gain time ahead, may have him out of prison when he’s 38. For the court, prosecutors and the Flagler County Sheriff’s detectives who cracked the case, the plea ends the longest and most expensive investigation in the Sheriff’s Office’s history.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, March 27, 2025

March 27, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Trump Courts March Madness by Rick McKee, CagleCartoons.com

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, the Marineland Town Commission meets, Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, the eternal adolescence of Air Force One.

The Heritage Foundation’s Long War Against the Education Department

March 26, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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The Heritage Foundation first called for limiting the federal role in education in 1981. That’s when it issued its first Mandate for Leadership, a book offering conservative policy recommendations. It renewed the call in its Project 2025, a conservative political initiative to revamp the federal government.

Florida House Speaker Calls for Cutting Sales Tax from 6 to 5.25%, Gutting Revenue by $5 Billion

March 26, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

House Speaker Daniel Perez, R-Miami, called Wednesday for a sales-tax cut. Colin Hackley/File

House Speaker Daniel Perez said Wednesday he wants to lower the state’s sales-tax rate, trimming revenue by almost $5 billion a year. Perez, R-Miami, told House members he has directed Ways & Means Chairman Wyman Duggan, R-Jacksonville, to produce a bill next week that would lower the rate from 6 percent to 5.25 percent.

Flagler County Sheriff SRD Nicholas Champion Takes National Association’s Top Honor

March 26, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Nicholas Champion. (FCSO)

The National Sheriffs’ Association has selected Flagler County Sheriff Office Master Deputy and School Resource Deputy Nicholas Champion as the 2025 Law Enforcement Explorer Post Advisor of the Year.

30 Years in Prison for Tyrese Patterson in Killing of Noah Smith In Last of Lives Lost Over ‘Stupid, Senseless Act’

March 26, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Tyrese Patterson, right, with his attorney, Tim Pribisco, this afternoon. (© FlaglerLive)

Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols’s 30-year prison sentence for Tyrese Patterson closes the book on four cases that sent four young men to prison for long terms, one of them for life, over what the judge described as the “stupid, senseless” behavior that led to the killing of 16-year-old Noah Smith in a shootout in Bunnell in January 2022.

Bunnell Approves Grand Reserve’s Last 141 of 847 Houses, with a Pointed Caution From Its Staff

March 26, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

At Grand Reserve, the big subdivision at the northeast edge of Bunnell, new houses neiughboring lots under construction are the norm and will be for several years before build-out. Bunnell government this week approved platting the development's final phase. (© FlaglerLive)

The Bunnell City Commission approved the final phase of Grand Reserve, the 847-home subdivision that will increase the city’s population by more than half and is already changing the city’s politics. The sixth phase consists of 141 houses on 100 acres. The city’s planning director cautioned the commission to review future developments more carefully than when Grand Reserve was originally approved.

Trump Names Derek Barrs to Transportation Department Post; He Will Leave Flagler School Board

March 26, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Derek Barrs this morning in Flagler Beach. (© FlaglerLive)

Less than five months after Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed him to a Flagler County School Board seat, where his presence helped restore a level of stability that had been lacking for two years, Derek Barrs will almost certainly leave the board for an appointment as administrator to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, March 26, 2025

March 26, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

From Clay Jones: voice of america

Clay Jones on the Voice of America, Tyrese Patterson sentencing, Weekly Chess Club for Teens at the public library, in praise of Hooters, refuge against conversion therapy.

Bezos’s Washington Post About Face

March 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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Journalists report news to inform the public, while editors and opinion writers analyze and explain news, putting facts into a larger context to aid understanding. Jeff Bezos is throwing that model of journalism out. Opinion and analysis in the Post will limit itself to one particular apparently libertarian viewpoint: what Bezos calls personal liberties and free markets.

Florida Senate Committee Approves Ignoring Preferred Pronouns in State and Local Government

March 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

An overflow crowd jammed into a Senate committee room in the Capitol on March 18, 2025, when the “Freedom of Conscience in the Workplace Act” was first slated to be heard (Photo by Mitch Perry/Florida Phoenix)

A measure (SB 440) prohibits requiring any employee to refer to another person using that person’s preferred pronouns if such pronouns don’t correspond to that person’s sex at birth. Job applications in public workplaces may only ask an applicant whether they are male or female and may not provide a nonbinary option.

Holocaust Memorial Is Dedicated in Tallahassee

March 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Rep. Hillary Cassel poses in front of the Holocaust memorial outside the Capitol on March 25, 2025. (Photo by Jay Waagmeester/Florida Phoenix)

Floridians visiting the Capitol can now see the names and faces of Holocaust survivors who moved to Florida featured on a memorial unveiled Tuesday. 

22-Year-Old J.T. Horovsky Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison and 10 on Probation for Molesting Child

March 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Joseph Horovsky losing his freedom for the next five years immediately after Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols sentenced him, with Assistant State Attorney Melissa Clark, who prosecuted the case, looking on. (© FlaglerLive)

When he was arrested last September, Joseph Thomas Horovsky, who turned 22 last week, faced life in prison if convicted on two charges of molesting a family member younger than 12 for several years. He pleaded last month, and this afternoon, walking into court a free man one last time, he was sentenced to five years in prison, followed by 10 years on probation. He will be designated a sex offender for life.

‘I’m Done,’ Judge Tells Derrius Bauer in Final Attempt to Win Plea; He’d Rather Risk Life in Prison

March 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols in a final attempt to convince Derius Bauer to take a 15-year plea deal to avopid life in prison if convicted at trial on a murder charge. (© FlaglerLive)

Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols attempted again to convince Derrius Bauer, 30, to take a plea deal that would have him out of prison in eight and a half years rather than risk life in prison if convicted on a murder charge, as was his friend Marcus Chamblin last year in the same courtroom. Bauer was adamant against a plea. Trial will be set for late summer or early fall.

Is Mike Waltz Out of His Depth? Ex-Flagler Congressman May Have Violated Espionage Act with Leak

March 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 56 Comments

Then-U.S. Rep. Mike Waltz talking beach renourishment with Flagler County Administrator Heidi Petito last August on the Flagler Beach pier. (© FlaglerLive)

Mike Waltz, the former congressman representing Flagler County and the 6th Congressional District, whom Donald Trump tapped as his national security adviser, is at the center of the gravest scandal facing an administration embroiled in controversies since its first day, 64 days ago. Waltz may have violated provisions of the Espionage Act that control national defense information.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, March 25, 2025

March 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Trump's Embrace of Putin and Authoritarianism by Peter Kuper, PoliticalCartoons.com

The Flagler County School Board meets at 1 p.m. in an information workshop and again at 6 p.m., Budgeting by Values, where people are the happiest (and the least happy).

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