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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.

Ending American Agriculture’s Unhealthy Journey Toward the $4.99 Bag of Potato Chips

February 13, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

We can’t begin to reduce our surging healthcare costs in this country without addressing affordability and accessibility to healthier foods, by not educating the users of the system on personal responsibility and choices, and by moving toward more locally grown food, argues Milissa Holland.

Gov. Scott, a Big-Spending Liberal? Not So Fast.

February 12, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

As everyone anticipated, the attack on Gov. Rick Scott by liberals has begun. No surprise there, as he is the next conservative in the cross-hairs. But at times it borders on the absurd, argues Lloyd Brown.

John Fischer’s Hate Speech

February 10, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 86 Comments

In twice calling for a return of school prayer in the last three weeks, Flagler County School Board member John Fischer did so not from good will but out of angry resentment for “special interests” and “political correctness” that he claims are standing in the way of “our rights.” He is offensively wrong, and the school board should resist his call to prayer.

The Missing Link in Ever-Rising Health Care Costs: Personal Responsibility

February 7, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Car insurance costs go down when drivers drive responsibly for a few years. A similar approach to health care could help bring costs down, but first, Milissa Holland argues, people must take responsibility for their own health and lifesrtyles–and the way they seek out medical help: the ER is usually not the answer.

School Security’s Buy-A-Cop Delusions

February 3, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 45 Comments

The Flagler County School board this week will debate adoption of a new security plan that includes adding armed cops in elementary schools. The approach would be costly, ineffective, and more emotional than intelligent. Smarter approaches–and far greater priorities–abound.

The Problem With Florida’s Medicaid Program Isn’t Cost. It’s Too Many Working Poor.

January 31, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Florida has too many working poor whose employers don’t provide health insurance. Rather than complaining about the costs of coverage, we should try to increase the earnings of our people, argues Rick Outzen.

Beyond Doctor’s Orders: When Health and Fitness Are Not Always a Matter of Choice

January 30, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

The discipline it takes aside, getting healthy can be costly, writes Milissa Holland, in many more ways than one: healthy food is more expensive, exercise isn’t always as easy as deciding to do it, and even health insurance plans for the poor are becoming intractable. An invitation to discuss a central issue in most people’s lives.

When Doctor-Assisted Suicide Is the Humane Option

January 29, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

In oncologists’ offices and Alzheimer’s nursing homes, illness is not “a portrait in blacks and whites, but unending shades of gray, involving the most profound of personal, moral, and religious questions.” Including when may it be right to help end a life.

What an Ode to Farting, Drug-Dealing’s Benefits and the FCAT Have in Common

January 27, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

A Matanzas High School student who wrote a humorous essay on the health benefits of drug-dealing was threatened with a referral, though his teacher gave him a near-top grade: Jo Ann Nahirny explains how FCAT rewards dull, stupid and bad writing at the expense of creativity.

Union-Busting’s Tasteless Florida Flavors

January 27, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

Labor union membership has been in precipitous decline since 1980, along with with a decline in job security, workers’ wages and benefits, and Americans’ standard of living. It’s not a coincidence, though the vilification of labor unions continues.

Transparency 101: Rick Scott’s Pay Raise Ploy

January 26, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Florida’s “education” governor wants to give teachers a $2,500 across-the-board raise. Translation: He wants to get re-elected in 2014. He’s not popular. So he’s trying to win votes by any means necessary, argues Rhonda Swan.

Coke’s Obesity Campaign: Get Real

January 24, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

For the first time, Coke is using its slick commercials to address obesity. But the company’s new ads, which are brimming with misleading statements, just put lipstick on this pig, argues Jill Richardson.

Blaming the Gun-Violence Epidemic On Mental Illness Doesn’t Begin to Resolve It

January 23, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

With a startling personal revelation of her own, Milissa Holland argues in her latest column that if mental illness is to be a focus of gun control, it must be much better defined–and far more de-stigmatized. Otherwise, it’s a shield behind which politicians will do nothing.

Ben Webster’s Danny Boy

January 23, 2013 | Pierre Tristam | 3 Comments

Ben Webster played with Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Cab Calloway, Benny Carter, and was overshadowed by the likes of Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, but only in his lifetime.

An Epidemic of American Anger In Search of Stoicism

January 22, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

From Angry Birds to the Angry Whopper, road rage and mass murderers, we’re in an age of anger that appears driven by frustrated expectations and imagined grievances.

Obama II

January 21, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Far from a dud, as these second inaugurals tend to be, Obama’s today was bracing in its realism, and hopeful, ironically, for having finally shed the imagery of hope for hope’s sake, replacing it with an agenda for equality, little heard of since the days of the New Deal and the Great Society.

The Thanks and Reverence We Owe Undocumented Immigrants

January 20, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 63 Comments

We’ve admitted that these immigrants aren’t going away. Let’s admit our co-dependence, let’s restore their dignity, and America’s, and admit that illegal immigration is as American as apple pie, if not as American as empanadas.

Let’s Holster Incendiary Rhetoric and Get Flagler Started on Meaningful Gun Talk

January 18, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 34 Comments

Flagler County must have an honest, open dialogue about the place of guns in our community, Milissa Holland argues, but to do so the extremists on both sides must be willing to calm down and let reason facilitate the dialogue.

How the Word ‘Retarded’ Hurts The Developmentally Disabled

January 15, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

Americans with developmental disabilities still remain second-class citizens in the eyes of the law and our fellow human beings. There is no greater symbolic gesture of the ridicule they endure than the accepted use of the word “retarded” in day-to-day speech.

Arming Teachers Isn’t Enough: A Proposal of Modest Caliber

January 13, 2013 | Pierre Tristam | 30 Comments

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The NRA’s Wayne LaPierre is proposing having an armed guard in every school. That’s insane, because it’s not enough: teachers, principals, librarians, counselors, bus drivers should all be armed, and of course children, too, should be armed.

Obama’s Inauguration Sells Out

January 13, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

President Barack Obama, reversing his own honorable precedent for his first inaugural, has chosen this time to have corporations pay for his second round of big shindigs. This multimillion-dollar infusion of corporate cash is a crass intrusion by favor-seeking private interests into what ought to be a purely public occasion.

John Thrasher, Travis Hutson, Plus One: Airing Out Flagler’s Legislative Delegation

January 11, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

The inaugural guests on Milissa Holland Live Friday on WNZF will be Holland’s ex-opponent Rep. Travis Hutson, and Sen. John Thrasher, as Holland hosts an informall follow-up to December’s at-times contentious legislative delegation meeting on short-term rentals and other issues of local concern.

Accused Chilean Murderer Pedro Pablo Barrientos Buys a Home in Deltona

January 10, 2013 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Barrientos was recently accused by an investigating judge in Chile of the murder in September of 1973 of the internationally popular theater  director, teacher and folk/protest singer Victor Jara, then 40 years old.

Showing Cops the Middle Finger

January 6, 2013 | Pierre Tristam | 26 Comments

When John Swartz was arrested for flipping off a cop, he sued, and appears headed for a win–as he should: rude expression is not a crime, and the obscenity is far surpassed by that of cops exercising arbitrary authority over bruised egos.

Put God Back in Public Schools?

January 5, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 30 Comments

If we’re going to put God back in schools, which God are we talking about? Adam Hamilton, founding pastor of a United Methodist Church, calmly argues against the notion that God has ever left the public schools, and need not be forced back in.

From Poughkeepsie to WNZF: The Evolution Of a Campaigner for Flagler County

January 2, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

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In her debut column for FlaglerLive, Milissa Holland traces the journey that brought her from New York to Palm Coast and her father’s influence, in life and death, on a career still defined–as it will be in writings and on her radio talk show–by her passion for Flagler County.

Losing “Protection”
In Florida’s Environmental Agency

December 31, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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Some of the state’s strongest protectors of our natural resources were recently expelled from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). Fifty-eight of the most knowledgeable and long-serving employees were let go in order to fulfill the governor’s promise/threat of less regulation.

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