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President Trump: I’m One of the Workers You Lied To

September 24, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

Workers rally outside the Schneider Electric plant in Peru, Indiana. (Our Revolution)

Trump’s broken promises have become a broken record destroying our communities, even in Midwestern counties that gave him the vast majority of votes in 2016.

To Make Vaping Safer, Legalize Pot

September 22, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

While the Trump administration’s pending bans on flavored e-cigarettes will no doubt influence the legal nicotine marketplace, they will have virtually no impact on the counterfeit cannabis vaping products associated with the recent outbreak of serious lung illnesses.

Sheriff Mike Chitwood Smears Our Judges

September 20, 2019 | Pierre Tristam | 61 Comments

Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood. (© FlaglerLive)

Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood’s call on Chief Judge Zambrano to “overturn” another judge’s ruling on a convicted sex offender’s bond shows contempt for and misunderstanding of the very laws Chitwood was sworn to uphold. He sets a noxious tone.

Global Climate Strike on Friday: Kids Are Demanding Action, But Will Adults Act?

September 19, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

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Led by 16-year-old Swedish student and climate activist Greta Thunberg, the Global Climate Strike, calls on world leaders to take decisive climate change action ahead of the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York on September 23.

The Rich Should Be Taxed Differently Than You and Me

September 17, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

A 10 percent surtax on incomes over $2 million should be levied on wages and salaries and investment income gained from wealth, including capital gains and dividends.

A Gun Registry In Florida Is a Bad Idea. Just Ask Canada.

September 16, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 37 Comments

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A panel of Florida economists weighed the burden of a proposed constitutional amendment that aims to ban assault weapons but grandfather in guns already circulating, as long as their owners register them with the state. Bad idea, says Nancy Smith.

Intensive 50-Home Beachwalk Development in the Hammock Would Set a Dangerous Precedent

September 16, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

There would not be much of a jungle feel to Jungle Hut Road by the time a developer is done building 50 homes alongside it, argues a Hammock resident and opponent of the project.

The developer is proposing to build 50 homes crammed into a parcel along Jungle Hut Road of fewer than 13 acres, under the guise of a planned unit development. County commissioners Monday evening have a chance to stop the plan.

Welcome to a Redesigned FlaglerLive Ahead of Our 10th Birthday: Here’s What To Expect

September 16, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

Redesigns are gimmicky, disorienting, and just plain irritating, but sometimes they’re necessary. Almost 10 years after FlaglerLive launched, it was time to bring the place up to code, but the essentials won’t change: The focus is still first and last on quality, serious news reporting, with as little attention as possible to the technical gimmickry necessary to get it to you.

From Social Security to Medicare to Great Public Works: America’s Socialism in Action

September 12, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

The GOP hopes the S-word will scare you, but great public works projects underpinned by socialist funding principles transformed this country for the better, as did socialist programs like Social Security and Medicare.

What America Could Learn From Canada

September 8, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Better health care, longer lives, a better standard of living, more overall well-being: Canada is becoming a model for what Americans aspired to but keep seeing eroded in their own lives.

Here’s What You Can Do With Yourself, Dorian

August 31, 2019 | Pierre Tristam | 14 Comments

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Hurricane Dorian’s fortunate shift away from the Florida peninsula must have at least something to do with the collective obscenities Floridians worn out from three years of hurricanes cussed its way, creating their own defiant weather system.

See Something, Say Something? 3 Flagler School Board Members Say Not If It’s Cancer.

August 25, 2019 | Pierre Tristam | 28 Comments

Opposition to the Flagler Health Department’s proposal to offer the HPV vaccine in schools is driven by three board members echoing the rhetoric of vaccine denialism though various irrational pretexts.

Stop Criminalizing Children in the Name of School Security

August 18, 2019 | Pierre Tristam | 30 Comments

The rash of zero-tolerance felony arrests of children that the Flagler school district experienced last year unjustly makes examples of adolescents in the name of a security establishment focusing on the wrong threats across the state.

Of Course Guns Have Nothing To Do With It

August 11, 2019 | Pierre Tristam | 73 Comments

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Mountains of evidence link America’s mass killings to the massive amount of guns in circulation, but let’s go ahead and pretend that guns have nothing to do with it, nor the absence of sensible gun control.

For Parents’ Peace of Mind, It’s Time for Video and Audio Monitoring of Flagler’s Special Education Classrooms

August 8, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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An incident at Belle Terre Elementary School last school-year illustrates the need for more objective, independent oversight of what goes on in special education classrooms, where students may not have a voice of their own.

I’d Like to Stop Writing About Innocents Killed by Guns

August 5, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 57 Comments

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So far, as hard as we try, every time it happens again we apparently have not stood up in sufficient numbers or shouted loud enough to make the massacres stop. What does it take? The story keeps repeating.

What “Abolish ICE” Really Means

August 4, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

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All evidence suggests that immigrants are far from the national security threat the Trump administration claims they are. Regardless of status, they’re more law-abiding than native-born citizens.

The Lose-Lose of Trump’s Proposal to Cut 3 Million People Off Food Stamps

August 2, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

The Trump administration’s move to cut low-income people who are eligible for food stamps and school lunch off of those programs isn’t just immoral, it’s short-sighted, argues Jill Richardson.  

Immigration, the Democrats’ 2020 Waterloo

July 29, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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In this Democratic Party, argues Nancy Smith, moderates have been purged, conservative Democrats are nonexistent, and the party’s leaders seem intent on turning it into a party of hard socialism as quickly as possible.

Coming Out in Rural America

July 26, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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“I came out to my parents via email the same week I figured it out myself because it’s no big deal in our family. Others aren’t as lucky; some people’s families still disown them.”

Go Back Where You Came From

July 23, 2019 | Pierre Tristam | 39 Comments

Home, in the P Section. (© FlaglerLive)

No American can tell another to go back where he or she came from, at least not with a straight face: We’re all carpetbaggers in America going back to the original ones who crossed over the Bering Strait.

The Scam Behind McDonald’s ‘McTeacher’s Nights’

July 16, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

The fast food giant pioneered methods of attracting school children to its stores — from Happy Meals to marketing schemes like McTeacher’s Nights, an exploitative fund-raiser that takes advantage of teachers for very little in return.

The Broader Attack Behind Trump’s ‘Go Back’ Where They Came From Slur

July 15, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 30 Comments

The president is making repeated suggestions to American members of Congress to 'go back' to th countries they came from. (White House)

It would be a mistake to reduce President Trump’s tweets against four members of Congress to their racism. Rather, argues Jeffrey C. Isaac, they also articulated a broader reactionary agenda that goes beyond racism and that targets the left in general.

Florida’s New Poll Tax Will Cost the State $365 Million a Year

July 10, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

A report by the Institute for Policy Studies cites new research illustrating the cost of felony disenfranchisement in Florida, where recidivism is higher and therefore more costly to taxpayers than in states where it’s lower.

Benefits of a $15 Minimum Wage: The Non-Partisan Evidence

July 9, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

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The report from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office finds that a $15 minimum wage would increase the wages of millions of low wage workers, increase the average incomes of low and lower-middle-income families, reduce poverty, shift money from corporate profits to the wages of low-wage workers, and reduce inequality.

Our Immigrant Prisons Are An Atrocity

July 7, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

Undocumented migrants immediately after being seized by the U.S. Bordfer Patrol on June 15 near Los Ebanos, Texas. (Border Patrol)

As reports surface about immigrant children sleeping on concrete floors and people being forced to drink water from toilets, one fact has become unmistakably clear: It’s well past time to demand an end to Trump’s cruel and inhumane treatment of immigrants.

Bomb Iran? Pass.

June 30, 2019 | Pierre Tristam | 15 Comments

President Trump called off the attack on Iran--this time. (White House)

Saudi Arabia is dragging the United States toward war with Iran against all American interests when the true threat to the Middle East continues to be Saudi Arabia–and American blindness to that alliance’s consequences.

The Gardens Project Off John Anderson Highway: The View From the Developers’ Perspective

June 28, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 40 Comments

SunBelt Land Management bought nearly 3,000 acres straddling John Anderson Highway some 13 months ago, for $11.5 million, where the Garden Development is planned. The project had previously been marketed by Bobby Ginn/Lubert-Adler as The Gardens at Hammock Beach.

The Gardens is an 825-acre, 3,966-unit mixed-use development proposed off John Anderson Highway by SunBelt Land Management as a successor to a Ginn proposal a decade ago. Ken Belshe, a member of the development group, describes the scope and intent of the project.

Bunnell’s Mean Streak

June 24, 2019 | Pierre Tristam | 37 Comments

Bunnell is acting like it's 1913 again. (© FlaglerLive)

The city that calls itself the crossroads of Flagler County is losing its bearings, its heart, and sometimes its mind–over the homeless, over panhandlers, over the sheriff’s office. It is becoming petty. It is becoming mean and resentful, and discriminatory.

State By State, the War on Pot Is Ending

June 20, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

Dozens of new state laws are expanding legal cannabis use — and expunging the records of users caught up in the system. This unprecedented wave of legislative activity at the state level is yet further evidence that public consensus on cannabis legalization has undergone a seismic shift.

Denying Voting Rights to Felons Should Be Beneath Us

June 17, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

Blowhardism in action: House Rep. James Grant, who led the fight for restrictions on Amendment 4. (Florida Channel)

Who gets to vote should be driven by citizenship, the spirit of the United States Constitution and all America stands for, not by blowhardism and dirty tricks, argues Nancy Smith.

Good News: Straight People Don’t Need a Pride Parade

June 11, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Organizers of the “straight pride parade” in Boston this summer have ties to numerous far-right groups. Here are conditions that would make such a parade easier to embrace.

The Crisis Formerly Known as Climate Change: Wrong Re-Branding

June 10, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

Warming crisis. (Gael Varoquaux)

The Guardian announced it was re-branding climate change, encouraging its writers and contributors to use more urgent terms like “climate crisis.” Here’s why this is very wrong.

Green New Deal Me In

June 8, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

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The Green New Deal may have a hoaky name but at least it’s a beginning, an attempt to push back against a republic of insects and grass, inviting debate in the face of indefensible Republican inaction.

Let Prison Inmates Vote

June 4, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

In the era of mass incarceration, forbidding inmate voting, disenfranchising them after release, and counting them as residents where they’re imprisoned are all components of prison gerrymandering.

A Trust-Worthy Inspection of Captain’s Building at Bing’s Is Essential Before Any Decision

May 31, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 27 Comments

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The Hammock Community Association is urging the County Commission to delay any decision on Captain’s BBQ at Bing’s pending a reliable inspection of the restaurant building. The association is willing to pay up to $4,000 for the inspection.

Trump Against the First Amendment

May 30, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

When Wikileaks had a sense of humor. (John Penley)

Julian Assange and Wikileaks are giving Trump a chance to challenge First Amendment freedoms of the press and get a radical ruling from his new buddies on the Supreme Court.

Judge Perkins on Flagler County’s Drug Court: Celebrating Lives Reclaimed and Empowered

May 30, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Circuit Judge Terence Perkins speaking at Flagler County's drug court graduation in March, when four participants graduated. (c FlaglerLive)

More than 88 percent of Flagler County Drug Court graduates do not reoffend. Since drug court began locally, 175 participants have made it through its rigorous demands, writes Judge Perkins.

Laws Restricting Abortion Betray a Judgment: Women’s Sexuality Is Not Equal to Men’s

May 29, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

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Men regulating women’s bodies through restrictive abortion laws is the tip of an iceberg in which women’s sexuality is stigmatized, de-legitimized, silenced, controlled, and misunderstood, even by women themselves.

Voices from the Grave:
So Proudly We Fail

May 27, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Detail from the Korean War Memorial in Washington, D.C. (© FlaglerLive)

In “So Proudly We Fail,” James Agee looked at war films to explain the “unutterable dislocation” between soldiers and civilians, what he described–in 1943–as a destructive “chasm” that veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan describe with equal anger today even as the nation goes through the motions of marking its Veteran and Memorial days.

End This Hidden Risk to Military Families

May 23, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

The Feres Doctrine shields military medical providers from malpractice suits by troops — and their dependents. Military recruiters never tell the families that it applies to them, too.

The Most Dangerous Time For Women’s Rights in Decades

May 21, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

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More than 250 bills restricting abortions have been filed in 41 states this year. At least a third have successfully passed 20-week abortion bans, based on the unfounded assertion that a fetus can feel pain 20 weeks after fertilization. 

Tom Bexley: There Really Is No More Room For Sheriff’s Operations in the Courthouse

May 13, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Flagler County Clerk of Court Tom Bexley in the IT department at the courthouse last week. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Clerk of Court Tom Bexley, weighing in on the space issues with sheriff’s operations at the courthouse, says clerk operations would be fragmented and jeopardized if further accommodations were made.

Bethune Cookman University 2019 Consecration: “I Leave You Love”

May 10, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Bethune Cookman University 2019 graduates. (BCU)

Hubert Grimes, Bethune-Cookman University’s interim president, delivered his last message as interim to the Class of 2019 at a consecration ceremony, urging students to “overcome the lies and negativity that were unleashed over the past eighteen months about your school.”

You Don’t Get To Discriminate Just Because You’re Religious

May 8, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

A fair housing protest in 1964 Seattle. (Wikemedia Commons)

A bill in Texas would allow professionals of all kinds — doctors, pharmacists, electricians — to deny services to LGBTQ customers on religious grounds, a consequence of a recurring misinterpretation of law.

All I Want For Mother’s Day Is Equality For My Transgender Child

May 6, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

She wasn’t allowed to use the girls’ bathroom. She had shoes thrown at her head when she wore leggings and lacy tops. She endured public school teachers making the sign of the cross and running off when she walked between classes.

The Real Threat To Free Speech On Campus

May 2, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Conservatives complain when student protest hate speech, while progressive professors are the ones losing their jobs for speaking out as people of color and other marginalized demographics are demonized.

Time is Running Out to Save Right Whales

April 28, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Entanglement in fishing gear—in particular, the ropes that attach to lobster traps—threatens the survival of the endangered North Atlantic right whale. (NOAA)

The North Atlantic right whale is the most endangered whale in U.S. Atlantic waters, and entanglement in crab and lobster roping gear remains the biggest threat to the species’ survival.

Abolish the Electoral College

April 21, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 30 Comments

Abolishing the Electoral College would level the playing field. It would ensure that people, not parties or mechanisms, determine who leads the country. Is that so bad? If you’re a Republican, yes.

Seawalls and the Tyranny of Small Decisions

April 11, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

The drill building the seawall on the north side of Flagler Beach last week. (© FlaglerLive)

The seawall-construction project in Flagler Beach is problematic. Building living shorelines rather than concrete walls, is going to give us the best chance at ensuring a healthy beach for generations to come.

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