Manatees overwinter in Florida springs, power plant discharges and other warm-water sites, relying on water that is warmer than 68 degrees Fahrenheit. As spring brings warmer temperatures, manatees gradually disperse from their winter habitats and are more likely to be in rivers, canals and nearshore waters.
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60-Day Rabies Alert Issued for Parts of Palm Coast After Cat Tests Positive
The Florida Department of Health in Flagler County is issuing a rabies alert for parts of the county. This is in response to a cat that tested positive on March 15. So far this year, as of Wednesday, the Department of Health lists 1,565 cases of possible rabies exposure in Florida, including 136 cases in Broward County, 125 in Miami Dade and three in Flagler. Twenty-three people have died of rabies in the country since 2009.
Sally Hunt Is Right: Security Isn’t What It Should Be in Flagler’s Biggest Public Building
Flagler County School Board member Sally Hunt is right when she deems certain public meetings less than secure. The county and the school board need to to take their own and the public’s safety more seriously in the Government Services Building–the county seat–not with harebrained ideas like locking public meetings’ doors, but with reasonable, inexpensive and unintrusive measures such as metal detectors that are becoming standard in public buildings.
Opponents Seeking to Redefine Constitutional Language on ‘Persons’ to Keep Abortion Rights Proposal Off Ballot
With the Florida Supreme Court deciding whether an abortion-rights constitutional amendment should go on the November ballot, Attorney General Ashley Moody’s office and abortion opponents are urging justices to consider another part of the state Constitution that they say could apply to “unborn children.” Moody’s office Monday raised the possibility of filing an additional brief about what is described as the “natural persons” provision of the state Constitution.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, March 21, 2024
Blessedly, one of the shortest Briefings in memory, with happy birthday wishes to Alvin Jackson, Story Time for Preschoolers at the Flagler Beach library, and a little advice from Gloria Gaynor and John McEnroe.
How Christians Misused the Bible to Justify Slavery
How had religions supposedly dedicated to propagating the word of a compassionate and loving God become so intricately involved in slavery’s “appalling evil”? The answer is rooted in a grotesque misuse of the very words of the Bible. Of the many ways that Christians have invoked the Bible to justify their actions, none has exceeded in cruelty and willful ignorance their appropriation of the “Curse of Ham” to justify slavery.
A Hunter In Bunnell Is Mistaken For a Wild Turkey and Shot In Front of His Young Sons
Frank Coleman Whiddon, a 37-year-old Pierson resident, was turkey-hunting with his two sons–one of whom was celebrating his 12th birthday– right at sunup Sunday morning in the woods near Bunnell when he was himself mistaken for a turkey by another hunter and shot.
Sheriff, Palm Coast and County Examine How to Share Burden of Adding 3 Dozen Deputies Over Next 3 Years
The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office has a current deficit of 37 road deputies, according to an analysis produced for the Sheriff’s Office, Palm Coast and the county. The analysis is intended to yield an objective, permanent method of paying for law enforcement based on calls for service. The analysis was the centerpiece of a joint meeting today of the two governments and the Sheriff’s Office as they devise ways to share the burden of law enforcement funding.
Out of Her Control: Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin Explains Why He Fired City Manager Denise Bevan
In a 40-minute interview Tuesday afternoon, Alfin explained what led him to make his motion, threading a needle between lavish praise for Bevan in one sentence and sharp criticism of city management in the next, while explicitly conceding that Bevan may have been the victim of political circumstances. Bevan, in sum, paid a paid a price for election-year political currents she was not in control of.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Joint Workshop on 5-Year Public Safety Plan, the Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board meets, an evidentiary hearing in the case of George Proulx, who argues his four-year prison sentence for molesting girls was too harsh, “Drug Thugs and Rambo Guns.”