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Closing Flagler’s Alternative School: When The Classmate Next to Your Child Is a Felon

May 19, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 61 Comments

The Flagler County school, district may close Everest alternative school (formerly Pathways) if the June 7 referendum for a modest property tax increase fails. Jo Ann Nahirny, a teacher at Matanzas High School, describes the disruptions of managing a classroom with felons and sex offenders in seats alongside other students.

President Barack Aux Scandals

May 17, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 41 Comments

The Benghazi story is a bogus scandal. IRS targeting of conservative groups and the Justice Department’s hacking of reporters’ phones is not. The Obama presidency is getting derailed, and that’s without going down the path of even more serious scandals Washington and the electorate are accepting as business as usual.

Flagler’s School Tax Referendum: An Opposing View

May 15, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 39 Comments

Adding to a growing debate over the June 7 Flagler County School Board tax referendum, Brad West argues against the levy, saying the district taxes constituents enough as it is, while the “cup-of-coffee-per-month” argument is a more expensive proposition than the board claims.

Andy Dance: Why I Will Vote “Yes” On the School Tax Referendum

May 14, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 37 Comments

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“I will vote for the half mill, and I ask those that are on the fence or are leaning “no” to reconsider,” writes Andy Dance, the Flagler County School Board chairman, who has himself reconsidered his earlier opposition to the full .50-mill tax referendum. He explains why.

Mother’s Day Confidential: News of My Mom’s Death Was Slightly Premature

May 12, 2013 | Pierre Tristam | 26 Comments

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Receiving a condolence note about my mother sent in error by the hospice company caring for her should have been disturbing. It was merely disappointing–for not being true.

Pink Ladies in a Mud Run, On the Other Side of Flagler’s Beaches

May 10, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Mud runs in Flagler County–such as Saturday’s FL.ROC Mud Run on Cemetery Road in Bunnell–are a mostly unknown sub-specialty of Flagler County special events. Casey Ryan takes you into the mud on her October run, as she prepares for Saturday’s.

Altered States: Now Lefty Hollywood Is Protesting Gun Control in Gotham

May 5, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Movie-makers opposing New York’s recently passed gun-control laws are upset that they may have to use props instead of real firearms in films, a a blatant admission from people we call “creative,” , argues Steve Robinson, that without endless, massive gunfire there are no stories to be told, no issues to explore, no human experiences to illuminate.

Flagler Beach’s Opposition to Fire Department Consolidation Costing Taxpayers $200K a Year

May 4, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 32 Comments

Consolidating the Flagler Beach Fire Department with the county’s would save $200,000 and vastly improve fire and rescue services in the city, argues Rick Belhumeur, yet the Flagler Beach City Commission has consistently scuttled debate on the issue while pretending to invite residents to offer cost-saving ideas.

Other People’s Money: How Flagler County Is Closing on a Raw Deal at Taxpayers’ Expense

May 3, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 52 Comments

The proposed $1.23 million county acquisition of the old Memorial Hospital property in Bunnell reveals, especially in its fine print, its secrecy until now and gun-to-the-head May 6 deadline for commissioners to sign off on it, hurried deal-making that profits the sellers while exposing taxpayers to huge uncertainty and costs.

From Jackie Robinson to Jason Collins: Still Telling It On the Mountain

April 29, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

It will be Jason Collins’s misfortune to be labeled the “gay Jackie Robinson.” Like Robinson, he may have to endure a painful personal burden. But, argues Steve Robinson, history is less likely to view him as a pioneer than ask instead: “what took so long?”

Ahead of National Police Week, A Sheriff Remembers That Knock at the Door

April 26, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Commemorating National Police Week in May, Flagler County Sheriff Jim Manfre remembers his first memory of law enforcement, when he was 7 years old and a police officer knocked at the family home’s door to report his father’s accident with a drunk driver.

Publix’s Profitable Accommodation With Poverty: Not a Penny More for Tomato Pickers

April 23, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers has been trying for years to get Publix to join the Fair Food Coalition, in which suppliers and purchasers agree to pay the workers a penny more per pound of tomatoes picked. Publix won’t even meet with the workers.

Gun Worship’s Perversion: Just Don’t Call 10,000 Murders a Year “Terrorism”

April 21, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 83 Comments

Between the Boston bombing and the Senate’s rejection of gun-control legislation, the moral is that “terrorism” is unacceptable violence, but the 30 daily murders by gun is quite acceptable. So gun-worship’s perversions live on.

Road Rage Genesis: Law Banning Texting a Long-Overdue Correction

April 18, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

In Florida in 2012, according to the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, there were 256,443 traffic crashes and of those 4,841 were caused by a driver using some form of electronic device.

Break Up the Banks: It’s Not a Fringe Idea Anymore

April 16, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Moments of consensus between left and right don’t come frequently in Washington, and we should heed them when they occur. Right now, that means breaking up the banks, argues Amy Dean.

Death in the Afternoon

April 13, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

It was that the death rattle. You’ve heard it. We’ve all heard it if we live south of the Mason-Dixon Line. This one broke the silence of a perfect Palm Coast afternoon. But an investigation proved to be a succession of decapitated assumptions.

Dear Sheriff Manfre: Why Are Deputies So Quick to Shoot Animals–and Leave Them?

April 11, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 43 Comments

A sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a raccoon found to be sickly in Palm Coast’s R-Section this morning, leaving it in a lot, triggering a letter of concern from a resident to Sheriff Manfre about a routine practice among local law enforcement in the disposition of ailing animals.

“Illegal Immigrants” No More:
The Associated Press Ends the Slur

April 11, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 31 Comments

Calling them “illegal immigrants” offends immigrants and American values. “Illegal” is a loaded term that has polluted the immigration debate for too long. It isn’t a question of mere political correctness. It’s about accuracy, fairness, and respect, argues Raul Reyes.

Invitation to an Execution

April 10, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Larry Eugene Mann was executed at Starke state prison Wednesday evening at 6 p.m. by lethal injection. I traveled to Starke with a Catholic Church group to witness the vigils–pro and con–outside the prison grounds.

Feedback Failures: When Flashing a Grade Devalues Students and Teachers

April 9, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

JoAnn Nahirny views giving feedback to students as one of the most valuable and important things she does as a teacher. Too bad FCAT graders don’t do likewise. Nor does the teacher evaluation process.

Should Teachers Be Able to Spy on Students’ Study Habits?

April 9, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

An electronic-textbook company called CourseSmart lets teachers track whether and how their students are reading assigned textbooks, allowing them to tack on “engagement index” scores to the students’ performance. It’s the latest form of intrusion in private habits driven more by marketing and gimmickry than good intentions.

Facebook Effect: For Workers On or Off the Job, Individual Rights Are Dead

April 7, 2013 | Pierre Tristam | 20 Comments

Employers’ presumptions on workers’ behavior on and off the job have more in common with the inquisition or police states than with the bill of rights. Transgressors are routinely humiliated, silenced, censured or fired over speech or behavior companies should have no right to police.

Listen Up Kids: Forget What Your Parents Say. You Should Be Playing Video Games

April 7, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Alessandra Robinson, a first-place winner among Wadsworth Elementary fifth graders for this speech in this year’s Tropicana competition, argues that video games promote family time, exercise, creativity, problem solving, and better reflexes, and should therefore be encouraged for all.

Don’t Cram Your Heterosexuality Down My Throat

March 31, 2013 | Pierre Tristam | 40 Comments

Several years ago around Christmas I was standing at a Walmart checkout counter with my son when a stranger behind me felt compelled to make me his homophobia’s bosom buddy. “What’s wrong with that?” I told him. “My son is gay.” My son was 2 at the time.

From “Girls” to Steubenville, It’s Time To Ditch America’s “Rape Culture” for Good

March 29, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

If we’re going to stop having more Steubenvilles, people have to start responding to the current tragedies with more than just passivity, victim-blaming, and claims like, “I’m tired of hearing about rape,” argues Alana Baum.

FAU Stomps on Academic Freedom Over Jesus Controversy as Scott Fans Fanaticism

March 28, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Florida Atlantic University Professor Deandre Poole’s assignment involving the word “Jesus” on the floor drew in a politically motivated protest from Gov. Rick Scott while the university gave in to his demand that the lesson not be taught anymore.

Florida Speaker Weatherford’s Homeschool Blinders to the Poor and Uninsured

March 25, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Rather than worship his homeschooling past, what Will Weatherford needs to be wondering is what Florida will be like if its 4 million uninsured citizens continue to go without health coverage, argues Rhonda Swan.

Banning Internet Cafes While Gambling on Guns

March 24, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

Florida is quick on the trigger to ban Internet cafes, which have never killed anyone, but is doing nothing to rein in the state’s worship of guns, while 191 people have been killed by firearms in this state alone since the Newtown massacre.

One Nation, Without a Clue

March 21, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

If our generations had been around in the 1930s, we’d still be in the Great Depression with prominent lawmakers telling each other we need a smaller government, argues Donald Kaul.

Parent Trigger Bill: A Trojan Horse of Corporate Charter Schools

March 20, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The so-called parent-trigger bill does not empower parents. Rather, it empowers out-of-state corporate interests and their lobbyists to siphon Florida tax dollars away from our already underfunded public school system, argues Paula Dockery.

Sarah Palin in Lakeland: Locking and Loading Assault Weapons With Jesus

March 18, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Sarah Palin urged her faithfuls to “cling to your god, your guns, your Constitution,” a seamless ideology that would have Jesus waving the American flag with one hand and clicking off the safety of his assault rifle with the other, writes Cary McMullen.

Florida’s Two-Faced Feedback to Teachers: Do as We Say, Not As We Fail to Do

March 17, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

The Florida Department of Education expects its teachers to give immediate and detailed feedback to students on all work, yet the state will take three months to produce FCAT results, and it will do so without one iota of feedback other than a grade. Jo Ann Nahirny explores the hypocrisy.

Missing Memorials to Two Lost Wars

March 17, 2013 | Pierre Tristam | 25 Comments

This week marks the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war, but as Iraq and Afghanistan have been lost, the focus of memorials has shifted from wars to the cult of the soldiers, while victims of war are as always passed over in silence.

Drawing the Line on Big Beer

March 16, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

AB InBev is truly a beverage behemoth, owning 200 beer brands, including Budweiser, Becks, Stella, Michelob, and St. Pauli Girl. It wants to take over Mexico’s Grupo Modelo, which owns the Corona brands and others. Consolidation is raising prices and narrowing consumer choice.

Florida Ethics Commissioner to Legislature: Close Loopholes in Reform Bill

March 14, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Ethics Commissioner Matt Carlucci says an ethics reform bill adds teeth to previously weak enforcement, but would also open a loophole that would give politicians greater immunity from prosecution while increasing the costs of ethics cases.

Beyond Sheriff Joe’s Tactics: Looking at Prison Reform in Florida With Fresh Eyes

March 14, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Analyzing Florida’s prisons and jails is a revelation of unsustainable incarceration rates and prison-building, argues Milissa Holland, who explores more logical alternatives to end the vicious cycle of punishment and recidivism.

Argentina’s Jorge Mario Bergoglio is Francis I, Church’s First Non-European Pope, Post-Columbus

March 13, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

76-year-old Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires is the first-ever South American pope, the first non-European pope in a millennium, and the first-ever pope to name himself Francis (Francis I), after St. Francis, patron saint of the poor.

Sunshine Week: Improving State Legislatures’ Transparency

March 12, 2013 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Think about the American Legislative Exchange Council’s secret lobbying in favor of “Stand Your Ground” legislation to at least 15 states. Lobbyists were backed by corporate special interests – a fact the public was left in the dark about. Additionally, there was little way to easily track how this law was passed in Florida. That’s just one example of the kind of copycat legislation peddled to state legislatures.

Israel’s Apartheid Bus Lines

March 7, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Israel’s transportation ministry gave in to Israeli colonists’ demands that they not have to ride buses with Palestinians, and started two segregated bus lines for Palestinians only.

Sequestering Florida’s Children And Their Schools

March 4, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

The across-the-board federal budget cuts, known as sequestration, will slow our economic recovery and cost upwards of a million jobs nationally. But here in Florida, the sequestration knife cuts especially deep, particularly in the already underfunded field of public education, writes Katie Hansen.

Give the Post Office a Break

March 3, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

If the Postal Service were run like Congress, postal workers would only show up on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays — except when they were on vacation, which would be a lot, argues Donald Kaul.

In Search of Civility in Our Political Life

February 28, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

How have we reached a point when anger, obstructionism, bipartisanship and manufactured crises have replaced diplomacy, cooperation, negotiation and problem solving? Paula Dockery asks and answers.

Repeat Folly: Florida Prepares to Boom Again By Busting Local Environmental Authority

February 27, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Bills in the Florida Legislature would take away Flagler’s and other counties’ authority to ensure that development doesn’t sprawl without required infrastructure, and would virtually demolish environmental land acquisition programs. Milissa Holland argues that such bills make a mockery of local control.

In Rubio’s Republican Party, Appeals To Victimhood Are Getting Old

February 25, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Republicans over the last decade or so have become a party that tethered their Election Day successes to an appeal to the lesser angels in people, on convincing voters they need to fear forces trying to take things away from them, that they need to look out for Number One, argues Dan Gelber.

From Guernica to Who Gives a Damn: Modern Warfare’s Droning Savagery

February 22, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

There was a time when people could actually be shocked by the slaughter of civilians during a war. No more. We kid ourselves that our warfare is moral and clean and good and that it’s the other guys who commit the war crimes. Don’t believe it, argues Donald Kaul.

Online Booking Companies’ Tax Evasion Fleeces Flagler Tourism and Florida Dues

February 20, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Online booking companies like Expedia and Hotels.com are short-changing Flagler and Florida of millions of dollars in sales and bed taxes, and unfairly competing with local hotels, argues Milissa Holland, yet the Legislature is looking to give those companies more tax breaks. It’s not the way to go.

Rubio’s Rebuttal: A GOP Disaster Reminiscent of Romney, With Hispanic Hues

February 20, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

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The performance by Florida’s junior senator following President Barack Obama’s State of the Union was an epic failure, argues Rhonda Swan. If Marco Rubio is the savior of the Republican Party, members of the GOP should start looking for their lifeboats.

Short Skirts, and How Fatherhood Is Changing My Politics

February 18, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Since having a baby, Peter Schorsch finds himself agreeing more with Rick Santorum and less with Beyoncé, whose short-skirt performance at the Super Bowl left his tongue hanging, but not out of desire. He has a daughter to think about.

Zero Dark Thirty’s Tortured, Losing Premise

February 17, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Zero Dark Thirty is a movie the CIA wants you to see. Torture is illegal under U.S. and international law and it is utterly immoral. It doesn’t “work,” but that’s beside the point to the movie-makers, argues Chris Toensing. The result is disturbing for all the wrong reasons.

This Is London: Of Returning to England After 34 Years of Happy Exile

February 16, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Making a return trip to England to celebrate a brother’s 50th birthday, after a 34-year absence, is occasion for reflection about the meaning of time, an unlikely vacation and the most seductive sounds of a train announcer anywhere in the world.

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