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At Root of Palm Coast’s Affordable Housing Crisis: We Got Our Own. Screw the Rest. 

September 21, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 34 Comments

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We have a housing crisis in Palm Coast. Too few houses, too few apartments, discriminatory zoning and homesteading laws that make the problem worse. We who live in our sprawling, property-tax-sheltered single-family houses not only see these laws as entitlements. We want the door to more development closed behind us. We got our own. Screw the rest. So just when we need it most, affordable housing is becoming a dirty word.

Even A Great Superintendent Can’t Fix a Clueless School Board

September 8, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 34 Comments

Clueless, the sequel. (© FlaglerLive)

If you think the appointment of LaShakia Moore as superintendent will make a difference, think again. Moore’s biggest job will be to run interference to save what’s left of this district from the Huns, because the problem was never with the administration or the ranks. It’s with the majority of a board that doesn’t know its role, doesn’t know its limits, and doesn’t know education from flip-flops. 

Flagler Schools Have a ‘Subgroup’ Problem. It’s Not Blacks. It’s Not Even Students.

August 25, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 37 Comments

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It is now so routine to reduce individual students to cogs among subgroups enslaved to the expectations of standardized testing that our educators have lost sight of their purpose. The state’s transformation of education into a dehumanizing machinery is to blame. So is the Flagler County School Board’s emphasis on running the district as a business, and now branding its superintendent a “CEO.” The individuality and dignity of students is lost to a damaging bottom-line mentality.

In Palm Coast Sheep, Not Chicken, May Safely Graze

August 11, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 48 Comments

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The Palm Coast City Council’s rejection of a pilot program that would have allowed chickens in a handful of backyards is disappointing. But the council since its earliest days has tended to run the city more as a homeowners association bound to conformity and the somnolence of residents out to pasture rather than as a vibrant city welcoming of differences, innovation, young and working people.

Florida’s Magical Negro History Standards

July 21, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 49 Comments

"America," by Edward William Clay (1841), shows an idealized portrayal of American slavery and the conditions of blacks under this system in 1841

We now have the Magical Negro elevated to an entire curriculum. It’s Florida’s African American History standards. The standards are an excellent illustration of what American history looks like through white eyes, and how whites are the best thing that ever happened to Black people, who apparently should worship the Middle Passage down the chains of their ancestry. 

Yes, There Is a Free Lunch

July 14, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

The paradox of generosity in a society cruel toward its poorer half. (© FlaglerLive)

Step back a moment and take stock of the paradox. On one hand a community can and should take pride in its willingness to rally for those in need. On the other hand, there should not be such things as food drives–not in a country that presumes itself wealthy and civilized. There should not be food insecurity, period. Basic nutrition is a human right, as ought to be universal food assistance where necessary and free school meals whether necessary or not. 

Un-Achieving Brown v. Board of Education

June 29, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 47 Comments

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It took 69 years, but today the U.S. Supreme Court took its revenge on Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark case that cracked the door a smidge to desegregating schools. It did so in a vengeful, cynical decision re-inventing color-blindness in an America where only whites wear the blinders.

On EVs, Palm Coast and Flagler County Choose Backwardness

June 24, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 99 Comments

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Flagler County, this self-deluded mecca of economic development, is not only an electric vehicle charging station desert. It is actually hostile to electric vehicles. It is sending a loud and shrill message to tourists and forward-looking businesses and the residents they’d bring along: we like to fossilize. Progress is elsewhere.

Flagler School Board Cocks Its Next Folly: Arming Employees

June 17, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 56 Comments

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Next Tuesday, the Flagler County School Board will vote on whether to arm some school employees. The board will vote yes, on zero evidence and without asking any of the right questions, because as is becoming routine with this board, when it is offered a chance between right and wrong, it chooses wrong.

Why Will Furry Is Demolishing the Flagler Youth Orchestra

June 6, 2023 | Pierre Tristam | 55 Comments

Flagler County School Board member Will Furry’s posturing about the Flagler Youth Orchestra has nothing to do with the FYO, of which he knows nothing and has no interest. It has to do with FYO’s director’s last name–Tristam–and Furry’s willingness to sacrifice a star district program over his vindictiveness for FlaglerLive.

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