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With Social Media Surveillance, Flagler School District Is Breaching Community Trust

April 22, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 31 Comments

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With its contract with Social Sentinel, a social media snooping company, the Flagler school district is going into the secretive surveillance business for a much heavier cost than advertised.

105 Missiles Fired at Syria Is 10 Times The Number of Syrian Refugees We’ve Taken In All Year

April 18, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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“This is about humanity,” President Trump said of attacking Syria. A look at his response to other regional catastrophes shows his claim doesn’t begin to add up.

It’s Up to Grown-Ups To Stop Bullying, Not Kids

April 17, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Käthe Kollwitz' 'Die Klage' (Lament), 1938. (Hen-Magonza)

Speaking of her own experience with bullying, the author holds the adults who watched and did nothing far more responsible than those who perpetrated it.

Flagler School Board Wants To Snoop on Students’ Social Media, And Maybe Yours. Wrong Move.

April 16, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 52 Comments

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The School Board is set to contract with Social Sentinel, a company that will troll social media accounts across Flagler for $18,500 and issue “alerts” to select officials. It’s an inappropriate move down a slippery slope.

Trump’s Census Whitewash

April 1, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

The featured image under 'Immigration' at the White House website has nothing to do with what made America great--its immigrants--but with the heavily armed policing of the border.

The Trump administration’s decision to include a question on the census about citizenship is intended to under-count immigrants and skew numbers to favor whiter voting districts.

Nurses Are Calling #TimesUp on Domestic Abuse, And on Those Who Doubt Victims

March 23, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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Emergency room encounters reveal the work that remains to be done to curb intimate partner violence. Too often, helpers abandon victims if they return to their abuser after attempting to leave.

Are Drug Addicts Less Valuable Than Students? Florida Says Yes, Wrongly.

March 18, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Geoff Livingston, who took the picture above, wrote: 'This is my friend Gretchen. She just lost her 26 year old son to the U.S. opioid epidemic, and is in mourning. '

Politically there may be a big difference between students’ safety and drug addicts. Ethically, there is none, and financially, addicts are being lethally short-changed.

White Supremacist Teacher Dayanna Volitich Mustn’t Be Returned to the Classroom

March 14, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

Dayanna Volitich

Try to imagine you’re a non-white student in Volitich’s social studies class. What do you do with this new information about your teacher’s “white superiority”?

Democrats, ‘Party of Intellectuals,’ Have a Second-Amendment Blind Spot

February 28, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

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Americans possesses an unalienable and inherent right of self-defense, a lawfully armed citizenry is a free citizenry, and no government has merited the total trust of its people.

Thoughts and Prayers, As Pointless as Outrage

February 16, 2018 | Pierre Tristam | 65 Comments

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The ultimate, most pointless outrage is at lawmakers and gun freaks, one and the same, who stand in pools of blood as they tell us our gun epidemic has nothing to do with it.

No Love for Working Families This Valentine’s Day

February 13, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

Paul Ryan tries to stick to the script. (Tony Alter)

A secretary gets an extra $1.50 a week from the GOP tax bill. The Koch brothers get an extra $27 million (minus a $500,000 thank-you note that went to Paul Ryan’s re-election committee).

Military Inferiority Complex:
Dear Leader Wants A Parade

February 9, 2018 | Pierre Tristam | 56 Comments

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The military doesn’t need parades. It needs to come home. Worshipping it in time of endlessly losing wars only locks and loads more cannon fodder.

Campus ‘Free Speech’ Bill Is A Litigation Nightmare in the Making

February 8, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

What would Louis Brandeis say? (Brandeis University)

The inappropriately named “Campus Free Expression Act,” approved Tuesday by a 7-4 vote of the Florida Senate Education Committee, would offer students about as much freedom as a prison yard.

Urging Opposition, Flagler Beach’s Jane Mealy Says Vacation-Rental Proposals Could Change City’s Look

February 7, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

Flagler Beach City Commissioner Jane Mealy currently chairs the commission. (© FlaglerLive)

In an open plea to residents circulated by letter, Flagler Beach Commission Chair Jane Mealy warns of vacation-rental proposals that could change the make-up of the city, eliminating distinctions between residential and commercial zones.

What Trump Wants on Immigration Is Ethnic Cleansing

February 6, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

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Trump’s offering a fig leaf of legal status for a relatively small slice of the undocumented population in return for a drastic cut of all immigration to the U.S.

To Keep America Great, Legalize All Undocumented Immigrants

January 28, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 59 Comments

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We have a choice: Keep our economy vibrant and enviable or demolish it by expelling and demonizing undocumented immigrants, as short-sighted nations have done in the false name of “purity” over the years.

Address Florida’s Deadly Rail Crossings Now, During 2018 Session

January 23, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

There were 105 deaths in six years on more than 350 miles of Florida East Coast Railway tracks, which run through Bunnell, above. (© FlaglerLive)

Between 2011 and 2017, there were a total of 105 deaths on more than 350 miles of Florida East Coast Railway tracks, which also run through Bunnell. A rail safety bill needs legislative support.

America, Oprah is Not Your Savior

January 22, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

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This country has a history of looking to black women to save Americans from themselves — while not recognizing or respecting their efforts.

Why Is Judge Craig Looking to Crucify Maria Howell?

January 18, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

Circuit Judge Dennis Craig, shortly after Maria Howell left the court during a pre-trial in October at the Flagler County courthouse. (© FlaglerLive)

Twice prosecutors and the defense agreed to a deal in the molestation case involving Maria Howell. Twice Judge Craig rejected the deal. The case is now headed for trial.

Reporting on Public Figures’ Extra-Curricular Sex

January 13, 2018 | Pierre Tristam | 35 Comments

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Married or not, public figures’ affairs are nobody’s business as long as the acts are legal, consensual, off the clock and virally contained. But there are exceptions.

Gov. Rick Scott’s State of the State: Full Text

January 9, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Gov. Rick Scott at a previous State of the State address.

Gov. Rick Scott’s State of the State address, his last, as prepared for delivery today at the Florida Capitol, before a joint session of the House and Senate.

Thank You for Record 7.6 Million Visits to FlaglerLive in 2017: A Review of a Disordered Year

January 1, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

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FlaglerLive Editor Pierre Tristam reviews a year of record murders, record fatalities, disappointments in Palm Coast, but a sheriff’s great year, and new readership records for the site.

Not To Worry, Estate Planners: Help For Struggling Millionaires Is On The Way

December 28, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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The estate tax was just slashed to exempt millionaire families up to $22 million, a doubling of the previous exemption, which had covered 99.8 percent of taxpayers.

As Seas Rise Over South Florida: When’s the Last Time I’ll Go Home for Christmas?

December 23, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 31 Comments

Above the Florida Keys after Hurricane Irma. (Arkansas National Guard)

By the author’s count, she’ll get 13 more holidays before the sea threatens to swallow her family’s home in South Florida, where the risk of a storm surge within four feet of high tide lines has doubled.

3 Reasons The Trump Tax Plan Is a Disgrace

December 17, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 32 Comments

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Robert Reich’s three-step guide on the rubbish of the Trump-Republican tax plan for when you confront your Republican Uncle Bob during the holidays.

Alabama Saves The Day. But Not Much Else.

December 13, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 31 Comments

My home's in Alabama: the back of the tour bus long used by Alabama, the country band. (© FlaglerLive)

If what it takes for Democrats to win is a Republican pedophiliac predator and compulsive lawbreaker, their victory in Alabama Tuesday helps the GOP more than it does Democrats.

“We Don’t Serve Gays”

December 9, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 56 Comments

Charlie Craig and David Mullins wedding cake

Invoking Christian belief to deny service to a gay couple is not a First Amendment right, nor is it a matter of artistic expression. It’s good old discrimination under a new mask.

Notes From Underground

December 4, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Children of Jalalabad, the province where Nangarhar Women's Prison is located. (Department of Defense)

In Afghanistan, there may be up to 1,000 children in prison with a parent–not because they committed a crime, but because Afghan law permits their imprisonment with a criminal parent until the children turn 18.

Scott’s Arab-Baiting Over Jerusalem

December 3, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

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Continuing to prepare for his Senate run, Gov. Rick Scott’s Jerusalem ploy is demeaning Palestinians in the occupied lands to appeal to Jews in South Florida. He learned the trick at Trump’s knee.

The Trump Tax Scam

November 30, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 35 Comments

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The deeper costs of the $1.5 trillion tax plan are so large and so obvious that the failure of Republican leaders to disclose them is, for all practical purposes, a lie.

Florida’s Cold Shoulder to Trump

November 26, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

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The first holiday weekend Donald Trump brought his presidency home to Mar-A-Lago was a true come-to-Jesus lesson in business loss and lifestyle chaos for locals.

Fantasyland and the Liberal Delusion

October 29, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

It's not make-believe. (David Meyer)

Liberals’s hopes that the likes of Jeff Flake or Bob Corker in any way speak for today’s vanilla-white GOP is a refusal to concede that the Age of Trump is here to stay.

A U.S. Soldier Died in Niger. What on Earth Are We Doing There?

October 25, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Twilight in Niger. (Michael Panse)

If you were surprised to learn the U.S. has nearly a thousand troops in Niger, you’re not alone. But we’ve deployed troops to literally most of the planet, and our leading lawmakers don;t know it.

Washington, Jefferson, Madison: There’s No Defending Founders Who Practiced Slavery

October 23, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Founding shackles. (National Museum of American History)

It is still common, if not a norm, to hear founders’ ownership of slaves excused as part of the prevailing practices of their times rather than a contradiction with founders’ ideals.

Short-Term Rentals in Flagler County: The View From Home Owners’ Associations

October 22, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

A short-term rental house on the barrier island in Flagler County. (© FlaglerLive)

Paul C. Pershes, president of the 1,100-home Ocean Hammock Property Owners Association, addresses members of a key senate committee that will be hearing proposed regulations of short-term rentals.

In Kristen Hadeed’s “Permission To Screw Up,” A Cheerful, Nimble Corrective To Millennial Stereotypes

October 22, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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FPC Graduate Kristen Hadeed’s first book traces the stumbles of her 10-year journey as CEO of Student Maid, a cleaning company in Gainesville, with wit and counter-intuitive insights: a review.

An Aryan Ass Vomits At UF

October 19, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

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Protesting honors the flag, so does taking a knee during the anthem, but so does letting an idiotic white bigot have his 90 minutes on a stage at UF. Freedom of thought can take it.

Stop Playing The National Anthem At Sports Events

October 11, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 40 Comments

There's a place and time. This isn;t it. (© FlaglerLive)

The anthem is being used to make statements that reflect anger and divisiveness instead of pride, but primarily so because it’s being performed where it shouldn’t be, argues Nancy Smith.

Why Lakeside By The Sea Residents See a Pair of Proposed Developments Turning Their Properties Into “Little Lakes”

October 9, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Lakeside By the Sea, after Hurricane Matthew. Lakeside residents worry that a pair of planned developments could worsen flooding in the future. (Contributed)

A developer plans to build 185 homes at the north and south ends of Lakeside By The Sea, the subdivision in the Matanzas Shores area at the northern end of Flagler County, on the barrier island.

Pride In “Our Country”? Count Me Out.

October 8, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 167 Comments

Until the next massacre. A vigil in Philadelphia for the victims of the Las Vegas mass shooting. (Governor's office.)

There’s no contending with a president who speaks of his pride in this country in serial tweets even as his every other pronouncement is a cleave, a slur, a boast, a lie or a disgrace.

Palm Coast Charturbation

October 4, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

Marylin Crotty, in the foreground, 'facilitating' last week's charter-review workshop at Matanzas High School, which was attended by 13 people (city staff and council members not included). Members of the city council sat to the side: Heidi Shipley, Nick Klufas, Bob Cuff and Steven Nobile. (c FlaglerLive)

Breaking its own charter, the Palm Coast council is pretending to be conducting a review of that charter, but the process is a farce and an insult to residents’ intelligence.

Corporations Rejecting Racism Is a Low Bar When Many Still Profit Off It

September 26, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Not quite in Palm Coast and the Flagler Beaches' marketing plan. (Smitty)

White supremacy can also wear a business suit on Wall Street. Of the top five Wall Street firms, the highest level decision makers are 86 percent white. That’s no coincidence.

FPL Lies

September 15, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 112 Comments

What you did not see in Flagler this year: FPL's staging area at the Flagler County Airport last year, after Hurricane Matthew, when FPL's operation transformed a large section of airport grounds into a small city for line workers. There was no such staging ground in Flagler this time. (c FlaglerLive)

FPL’s response to Hurricane Irma in Flagler has been disgraceful and secretive, both at the expense of local emergency responses and at the expense of residents.

In Flagler Beach, Palm Coast and County, More Contempt For Medical Pot

August 31, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 41 Comments

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Elected officials in Palm Coast, Flagler County and Flagler Beach are still peddling false or misleading assumptions as they draw up more restrictive medical pot dispensary zoning.

The Brutality Behind Trump’s Arpaio Pardon

August 30, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

A protester of Joe Arpaio's wars. (Caravan 4 Peace)

The president called Joe Arpaio, a man who chronically violated people’s constitutional rights, a “patriot.” What does that make his victims?

Confederate Monuments’ Phony History

August 19, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 39 Comments

Carved on Stone Mountain, Ga., the horsemen of the Confederacy: Robert E. Lee, Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson and Jefferson Davis. See a detail of the carving below. (Wikimedia Commons)

The irony of the debate over removal of Confederate monuments is that it supposes a removal of history when the monuments themselves were intended to re-write it.

Mitt Romney: “There May Commence An Unraveling of Our National Fabric”

August 18, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Mitt Romney in 2012. (Facebook)

In forceful terms, the former GOP p[residential nominee calls on Donald Trump to apologize and denounce white supremacists and other racists without equivocation or equivalencies.

Kim Jong-Trump

August 11, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 35 Comments

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There is no pre-emptive military option against North Korea. None. No matter how much Korea “provokes.” There is only containment, and shutting up Donald Trump.

Trump Will Win In 2020

August 4, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 93 Comments

The clue to Trump's victories: Richard Nixon in 1968. (Ollie Atkins)

There’s nothing original in Donald Trump’s presidency when seen through Nixon-colored glasses, considering the similarities–and the invaluable help both got from Democrats to get elected.

Gov. Scott’s Emily Hysterics

August 1, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

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Even Tropical Storm/Depression Emily cried foul at Gov. Scott’s, sleazy, opportunistic hyping of what was no more than an overheated summer storm: look at how fast she high-tailed it out of the state.

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