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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.

City Thuggery: Florida Supreme Court Should Ban Red-Light Spy-and-Snap Traffic Cameras

December 30, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 40 Comments

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Florida’s new law legalizing red-light cameras ensures that state coffers are on the take. But it does not address the fundamental problems with spy-and-snap cameras. There are innumerable reasons to ban them. There’s only one reason to keep them, and it’s a slimy one: money.

Amend the Second Amendment

December 26, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 63 Comments

If we want to transform American society for generations to come, tinkering with our existing patchwork quilt of federal, state, and municipal laws dealing with firearms is a waste of time. The only transformational vehicle for meaningful action, writes Angel Castillo, is to change the Constitution.

When Flagler’s Firefighters Are A Lot More Than First Responders

December 23, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

When the author’s father died at an assisted living facility in Palm Coast two years ago, paramedics had to be called in to take care of his aunt’s panic attack. What followed illustrates our first responders’ routine and largely unheralded heroism.

Time to Get Serious About
Mental Health in Florida

December 21, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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Florida ranks near dead last nationally in the level of expenditures for front-end community-based mental health services. Let’s not be penny wise and pound foolish when so many precious lives are at risk, argues Paula Dockery.

The Soft-Core Terrorism
Of Florida’s Gun Worship

December 16, 2012 | Pierre Tristam | 63 Comments

Florida’s gun-worship is part of a lethal, juvenile romance for guns and a national disease that doesn’t hesitate to lock and load the words “gun” and “hobby” in the same chamber while vilifying those who’d imply a connection with the consequences.

Title IX Lets Girls Be Both Quarterback and Homecoming Queen

December 13, 2012 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Erin DiMeglio made history as the first female in Florida to play quarterback in a varsity high school game, and was elected South Plantation High’s homecoming queen. That wouldn’t have happened without Title IX, the landmark legislation assuring females the same opportunities as boys at both the high school and college levels.

How Legal Weed Might Wash in Florida

December 11, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Full marijuana legalization is coming, eventually. But if you’re planning to go into the marijuana business, Bill Cotterell argues, you might want to ask Joe Camel what happens a few years down the road.

Civil Citations for Non-Violent Offenses Can Reduce Jail Needs, Court Costs, and Undue Arrests

December 10, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Even with no criminal intent, we can easily be caught breaking a law. Until now, law enforcement officers in Florida have had only two choices in these circumstances: let you go or arrest you. Civil citations are the smarter alternative, argues Mark Flynn, CEO of the Florida Smart Justice Alliance.

Bullish on 2013: Palm Coast and Flagler Housing Markets in Full Recovery

December 7, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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Have we returned to a normal market? No yet, writes Toby Tobin, but in a bullish analysis of Palm Coast’s and Flagler County’s current housing markets, he expects momentum to build into 2013, with all segments of the market are rising.

Tumor Gone, Staples Removed, Humor and Grit Intact: A Teacher Returns to Matanzas

December 6, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

On medical leave for cancer treatment since September, Jo Ann Nahirny describes in harrowing and moving detail her final medical hurdles and clearances before deciding to return to her classroom almost a month early, on Dec. 10.

Morning Sickness: From Kate Middleton To a Dead Woman on I-95

December 6, 2012 | Pierre Tristam | 30 Comments

Between a nameless, homeless woman killed on I-95 Wednesday evening and Kate Middleton’s pregnancy, only one of those two items is news. Our media’s pornographic interest in royal exhibitionism ensures that it’s the wrong one every time.

Lone Star Reds: The Secessionist Tempest From Texas

December 4, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

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Once again, there’s a tempest brewing in the national tea pot. We’re talking secession. Well, some of us are, writes Jim Hightower. Actually, very few are — and some of them aren’t too tightly wrapped.

Mazel Not: Israel and the United States, Married on the Wrong Side of History

December 2, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 46 Comments

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Israel likes to claim that Palestinians deny Israel’s right to exist. the reality is the opposite. Israel has spent the last six decades denying Palestinians’ right to exist in fact, going as far as denying them their history and identity. The UN vote for Palestinian statehood begins to right the injustice.

For African-American Voter Turnout, a New Normal

December 2, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Ever since the process toward full citizenship of African Americans began with the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, politicians and others have been trying to stop us from exercising the hard fought, hard won right to vote, writes Leslie Watson Malachie. It’s not working anymore.

Donald Trump’s Disciples: Obama’s Victory Still Birthing Dispute in a Tallahassee court

November 30, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

In a largely forgotten court case being litigated in Tallahassee, lawyers are still arguing about whether President Barack Obama was qualified to run for president in the first place.

Jeb Bush Redux: Defeated and Deflated, Republicans Look for Viability in 2016

November 27, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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Early Republican favorites for 2016 include Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, Paul Ryan and Jon Huntsman, but the most formidable — and electable — candidate for the Republican Party right now is former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, argues Steven Kurlander.

Mocking the Pledge of Allegiance

November 25, 2012 | Pierre Tristam | 24 Comments

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A reporter is fired after only reluctantly mentioning that a city councilman refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance in the latest example of ignorance replacing the very values the Pledge stands for, values that apply especially for those who choose to sit it out.

The Conservative Case Against Compromise

November 24, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

A Democrat and one a conservative say Republicans in Congress need to compromise so the government can “get things done,” and that it is better to do something than nothing. No. It is not, argues Lloyd Brown.

Palm Coast City Council’s Bill Lewis: Two Minutes, Six Errors, Countless Sneers

November 21, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

Bill Lewis was appointed to the Palm Coast City Council in 2008. He has yet to win a competitive election. (© FlaglerLive)

When Palm Coast City Councilman Bill Lewis took to the floor of a council meeting to correct a fact in a FlaglerLive column, which had already been corrected, he committed more than six errors of his own, including about his own personal history. Lewis’s errors bear correcting as publicly as he committed them.

Election Post-Mortem

November 20, 2012 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Democracy, or Rule of the People, is still the name of the ridiculously idealistic vision of organizing all of the infinite variations of the delightful human tadpole into a semblance of a community that functions nearly as well as a coterie of Prairie Dogs. We aren’t there yet, but we’re working on it.

The Palm Coast City Council’s Arrogance Problem

November 18, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 43 Comments

The secret, undemocratic way the Palm Coast City Council went about picking its latest unelected member is the latest disturbing example of a council’s contempt for the public, and of the maneuverings of a manager with a Donald Trump complex.

Do Prisoners Have a Constitutional Right to Dental Floss?

November 16, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

In Florida, five inmates have separately sued Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw in federal court, claiming deprivation of federally protected civil rights through the denial of dental floss. The sheriff is denying it to them. Angel Castillo argues the sheriff is wrong.

Corporal Punishment: When a Religious Exemption Becomes a License to Brutalize

November 14, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

A harrowing recent series in the Tampa Bay Times detailed how for 30 years a handful of homes for troubled youth have used a misguided exemption in Florida law to get away with all manner of abuses by using religion as a shield.

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