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On the Sad Prospect of CFO Jeff Atwater, Rare Government Royalty, Leaving Tallahassee

February 21, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Jeff Atwater, left, and his representative in the Flagler region, Patrick Juliano. (Patrick Juliano)

It’s going to feel strange without Jeff Atwater’s steady hand and keen mind in the Florida Capitol, writes Nancy Smith of a the state’s Chief Financial Officer, who is resigning to take a post at Florida Atlantic University.

Council Endorses Raising Flagler’s Tourism Tax to 5% to Pay For Beach Repairs

February 20, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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The tourist sales surtax tax is applied to hotels, motels and short-term rentals, and would increase beach-restoration revenue to $2.25 million over the next three years.

Man Faces Felony Child Abuse Charge in Assault of Girl, 14, After Accosting Children at Bus Stop

February 20, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

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A man who children say had been accosting them at their Palm Coast bus stop was later charged with child abuse after slapping a 14-year-old girl on the butt. An investigation revealed other concerns.

As Gov. Scott Touts Latest Increase in Tourists, Visit Florida Critics Still Pounce on Spending

February 20, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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Visit Florida received $78 million from lawmakers for the current fiscal year that ends June 30. The Sunshine State attracted 112.8 million tourists in 2016. He credited the 5.86 percent increase from the prior year.

Sanctuary Cities Brace For Trump Order Targeting Undocumented Immigrants for Deportation

February 19, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 33 Comments

Erendira Rendon, national projects director with The Resurrection Project in Chicago, goes over the influx of questions from local residents with Guadalupe Raymundo, who represents undocumented immigrants in their deportation appeals. The Project has been briefing fearful immigrants ahead of Donald Trump's order cracking down on sanctuary cities. (Tanla Karas, IRIN)

Many cities, counties and college campuses nationwide are pledging to limit cooperation with immigration enforcers in the face of President Trump’s pledge to quickly deport 2 to 3 million undocumented immigrants.

Congress Signals Opposition to Assisted Suicide; Proponents Fear State Laws in Jeopardy

February 19, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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A congressional committee voted to overturn an assisted-suicide measure in Washington, D.C., last week, signalling more willingness in Congress to possibly reverse more liberal state laws.

Protesters, True Patriots

February 17, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 42 Comments

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Freedom for the thought we agree with is as cheap as a Facebook click on the like button. Freedom for the thought that we hate is what separate Americans from thuggery.

Spencer Sarmento Back in Jail on Aggravated Assault Charge Stemming from Gun Argument

February 17, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

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Spencer Sarmento, the Mondex resident arrested 14 months ago for firing an assault weapon in the Mondex, was arrested again this morning after a confrontation in which his girlfriend refused to give him a gun.

1st Amendment Trumps 2nd: Court Says Doctors Have Right To Ask About Guns at Home

February 17, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

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Major portions of a controversial Florida law restricting physicians and other health-care providers from asking patients about guns is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled.

Survey Gives You Chance To Tell Flagler School Board What You Want In Next Superintendent

February 16, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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As part of its search to replace Superintendent Jacob Oliva, the board is making an electronic survey available to residents, including school employees and students, and seeking as much participation as possible.

Florida House Moves to End Participation In Federal Refugee Resettlement Program

February 16, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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The bill sponsor acknowledged there is no evidence terrorists have used the refugee program to enter Florida and that the withdrawal wouldn’t halt the federal government from locating refugees in the state.

For Palm Coast Man, Repeated Arrests Over Guns and Alcohol, Then a Death at the Hospital

February 16, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Thedore Vanbeveren on two occasions at the Flagler County jail.

Theodore Vanbeveren, 61, had been at Florida Hospital Flagler for detox and had been cleared to be returned to the jail. Instead he had a heart attack and died, according to a sheriff’s report.

Lawmakers File Bill to Limits Testing Time in Schools and Speed Up Turnaround on Scores

February 15, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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The proposal would require the state’s language arts and math tests to be administered in the last three weeks of a school year, with the exception of the 3rd-grade reading exam.

250 to 300-Acre Fire, Largest Since 2011, Burning Uncontained in Old Haw Creek Area

February 15, 2017 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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County and state fire crews began battling the fire just before 3 p.m. The fire was still several miles from the nearest homes to the east but had grown rapidly.

Superwash Express Brings 40 Jobs to Heart of Palm Coast and Lava of Choices For Car Care

February 15, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

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Superwash on Cypress Point Parkway held its grand opening last week, creating 40 new jobs, about 25 of them full-time, in a car town that seems to take to carwashes with zeal.

Palm Coast, Flagler Beach and Bunnell Officials May Face Stronger Financial Disclosure Requirements

February 15, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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Financial disclosure forms filed by elected city officials are cursory compared to the detailed forms filed by county and other officials. That may soon change as the Legislature considers extending the stricter requirements.

Palm Coast Community Center’s Walls Crash As Shovels Ordain Much Bigger Successor Building

February 14, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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Work crews put destruction on display at the old Palm Coast Community Center today, just after the city council marked the $7.8 million rebuilding and tripling of the site with a groundbreaking ceremony.

Flagler Beach Pier To Be Repaired and Opened By May 1, But More Concrete Plans in Its Future

February 14, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

The Flagler Beach Pier lost 160 feet of its eastern end during Hurricane Matthew. It is scheduled to be repaired, but not restored to its original size, by May 1. (© FlaglerLive)

The $918,000 contract will stabilize the Flagler Beach pier but will not restore the 160 feet it lost during Hurricane Matthew. That’ll be the long-term fix, which may entail pouring concrete.

Man Responsible for McDonald’s Armed Robbery on SR100 in Palm Coast Sought in 2nd Incident

February 14, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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Investigators believe the man who robbed the McDonald’s in Palm Coast on State Road 100 Saturday, wielding a silver blade, is the same man who robbed a CVS pharmacy in St. Augustine the next night.

In Flagler Beach, Scott Attacks Renner Over Tourism and Economic Development Programs

February 13, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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Gov. Rick Scott was in campaign mode in a visit to Flagler Beach Monday as he criticized Flagler’s Rep. Paul Renner, a fellow-Republican, for introducing a bill that would eliminate Enterprise Florida and Visit Florida.

Europa Owner’s House Demolished in Evening Fire in Palm Coast’s C-Section

February 13, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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Marcella and Ambroz Ferrena, who own New Europa, the restaurant and lounge at European Village, were in their Palm Coast home by the canals late Sunday afternoon when they smelled smoke. It was a small fire in the garage that rapidly spread through the roof.

Renner Is Right: Kill Enterprise Florida and Visit Florida, Twin Kleptos of Public Troth

February 12, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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Enterprise Florida and Visit Florida are two tax-supported state agencies that act more like slush funds, wasting money behind secretive veils and returns on investment that have never lived up to the promise.

Travel Ban Sham By The Numbers: Trump Is Inventing Refugees’ Threat to National Security

February 12, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

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Contrary to President Trump’s factually misleading claims, a rational evaluation of his travel ban indicates its measures would have virtually no effect on improving U.S. national security.

Transportation Secretary Pledges Possible Traffic Light or Other Fixes at Dangerous US 1 Intersection

February 10, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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The Florida Department of Transportation is considering a traffic light, speed limit reduction, rumble strips or even a roundabout at the intersection of US1 and Old Dixie Highway.

Woody’s Joe Rizzo Named Director of Flagler Education Foundation, Replacing Williams

February 10, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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Joe Rizzo, a Flagler native and part-owner of several local restaurants, will diminish his role there to take up the full-time job at the foundation, on whose board he’s served for eight years, one of them as president.

Judge Rules No Discrimination In Bakers’ Refusal to Call Gays “Abomination” on a Cake

February 10, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

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A customer had accused an Orlando bakery of religious discrimination when the owners refused to make a cake with the words “Homosexuality is an abomination unto the Lord.”

School Board Adopts Hasty Plan to Hire Next Superintendent in Broad Search By May 2

February 10, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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The Flagler School Board Friday approved a want-ad and using the Florida School Board Association to lead the search, marginalizing what influence a local advisory committee may have and replicating the speedy process adopted three years ago.

Safety Study on Deadly White Eagle Lounge Intersection Was Issued 7 Weeks Ago: No Traffic Light or Speed Limit Recommendations

February 9, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

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Some 207 crashes have been recorded in three years at or near US1 and Old Dixie Highway, but a state transportation department safety study issued in December recommended only cosmetic changes.

Flagler Beach Is Proposing Draconian Restrictions and Prohibitions on Drones

February 9, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 46 Comments

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Flagler Beach would even further than an Orlando ordinance that just passed, banning drones over public buildings, parks, assemblies and other places absent permission from the city.

Against Counsel: House Panel Backs Term Limits for Supreme Court and Appeals Judges

February 9, 2017 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Lawmakers choose to overlook the balance of powers. (© FlaglerLive) term limits judiciary

The proposal would revamp a decades-old system in which Supreme Court justices and appeals-court judges do not face term limits — though they are required to go before voters every six years for merit-retention.

When There Almost Was a Bowling Green Massacre — By a White Supremacist

February 8, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

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The case of Richard Schmidt in Bowling Green, Ohio, deserves an important place in any debate about what is real and what is fake, what gets reported on by the news media and what doesn’t.

Local Governments Nursing Headaches Over Legalized Pot as Health Department Holds Hearing Across Florida

February 8, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Palm Coast, Flagler Beach, Bunnell and County government joined two dozen counties and four dozen cities in enacting moratoriums temporarily banning medical marijuana dispensaries.

Recurring Offender Richard Westervelt Again Arrested After Chase in Mondex

February 8, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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Richard Westervelt has 11 bookings at the Flagler County jail since 2010, on charges that include battery on a law enforcement officer, aggravated assault, fleeing and eluding, illegally firing weapons and resisting arrest.

Palm Coast’s Jim Landon Gets 4% Pay Hike, Raising Total Compensation to $226,700

February 7, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 41 Comments

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The Palm Coast City Council unanimously endorsed the $6,700 pay raise but limited annual automatic increases to 1 percent through 2021, and set aside concerns over Landon’s very generous severance package.

Flagler County May Be Out $2 Million as FEMA and State Deny Hurricane Reimbursements

February 7, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

Just two weeks ago Gov. Scott and his director of emergency management were in Flagler, touting emergency spending for the county's beaches. But Scott and Bryan Koon, the emergency management director, have changed course on a different pot of money--reimbursement matches for storm spending, leaving the county to pick up the tab. Scott is looking over his shoulder at County Administrator Craig Coffey. (© FlaglerLive)

FEMA denied $1.1 million in Flagler claims for debris pick-up, the state is not providing a match the county expected, and the county has yet to hear on millions more in claims to FEMA.

Never Gone, Barbara Revels Reemerges in Appointment to Economic Advisory Board She Launched

February 7, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Barbara Revels, seen here at the inaugural meeting of the Flagler County Economic Opportunity Advisory Council in November 2011, will be taking up a seat on the council again following her appointment by the County Commission on Monday. (© FlaglerLive)

The County Commission appointed Ex-County Commissioner Barbara Revels to the Economic Opportunity Advisory Board on a 4-1 vote, with her opponent, Dave Sullivan, casting a vote for Jason DeLorenzo.

Five People Killed, 3 Hurt in 3-Vehicle Crash at White Eagle’s US1 Intersection With Old Dixie; Deadliest Crash in 6 Years

February 7, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 54 Comments

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Five people were killed in a three-vehicle crash late this morning (Feb. 5) at the notoriously dangerous intersection of Old Dixie Highway and U.S. 1, by the White Eagle lounge, in Korona.

Proposal to Require Unanimity from Florida Juries in Death Penalty Cases Advances

February 6, 2017 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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But efforts to broaden the legislation to address other issues involved in a series of court rulings that prompted this year’s measure appear, at least for now, to be doomed.

Commissioners Uneasy With Flagler’s Bail-Out of Agriculture Museum and New 400-Acre Park

February 6, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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Flagler County government would pay off an $185,000 museum mortgage and grant it $25,000 a year while acquiring more than 400 acres of the museum’s land, calling it an “extension” of Princess Place Preserve.

County Breaks Ground on 5,500-ft Runway at Airport to Accommodate Larger Corporate Jets

February 6, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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The $12.1 million project will be carried out over the next 350 days at Flagler County Executive Airport. It will also create new space at the north end of the airport for more building construction.

Palm Coast Man Accused of Murdering a Man in Daytona Before Fleeing to P-Section

February 6, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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Dominic Neeley Jr., 21, was arrested at his home at 41 Peppercorn Lane in Palm Coast in early evening Sunday after a chase triggered by an alleged murder of a man and the shooting of a woman in Daytona Beach within the same hour.

Health Savings Accounts Gain GOP Favor as Obamacare Sub; Gimmickry May Hurt Most

February 6, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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Expanding the use of such accounts, greatly favored by Wall Street, is part of almost every GOP replacement plan under consideration on Capitol Hill. But less well off people and the sick would not likely benefit.

Don’t Play Into Trump’s Hands on the Muslim Ban

February 3, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 44 Comments

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Dina El-Rifai, a Muslim woman, writes of being terrified, heartbroken, and outraged by Donald Trump’s “Muslim ban.” But, she notes, The Obama administration’s wars were often justified through the demonization and dehumanization of Muslims.

Prosecution Puts Kim Weeks’s Lawyers on Defensive After Arguing She Must Testify

February 3, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Kimberle Weeks and her lawyers, Kendell Ali, center, and Dean Bartzokis, to the right, were none too happy at the end of a hearing today when the prosecution questioned whether Weeks had standing to challenge a search warrant's validity. To the left of Weeks, walking away, is County Attorney Al Hadeed, toward whom Weeks has historically reserved particular animosity. (© FlaglerLive)

The prosecution today questioned whether Kimberle Weeks had standing to challenge the validity of the search warrant that uncovered all the evidence against her. Her defense was shaken up by the ploy.

Kim Weeks’s Lawyers Seek to End Case Against Ex-Supervisor In Double-Barreled Attack

February 3, 2017 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Lawyers for ex-Supervisor of Elections Kimberle Weeks spent much of today arguing before a judge two motions that would, if successful, end the nearly two-year-old felony case. Weeks is accused of making illegal recordings.

Behind Woman’s Suicide in Flagler Beach, Despair and a Last Evening With Caring Strangers

February 2, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Looking north from the Flagler Beach Bridge. (© FlaglerLive)

Janis Washburn, the 68-year-old Palm Coast resident found dead in the Intracoastal last week, had spent the last three hours of her life with a group of strangers who took her in to cheer her up. She had long spoken of suicide.

Tax Collector’s New Branch Office in Flagler Beach Compelled By Rising Traffic–and Guns

February 2, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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The new tax collector’s branch at the Food Lion shopping center in Flagler Beach will be the exclusive location for the boom in concealed weapons permitting, and possibly a commercial seed for the long-moribund Flagler Square.

Divided School Board Blocks Internal Hire of Next Superintendent, Opting for Fast Search

February 1, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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In a 3-2 split, Flagler School Board members opted against cutting short the search for Superintendent Jacob Oliva with an immediate, internal hire despite the risks of an expedited, broader search to fill the position by June 1.

Cops’ Dash-Cam Video Evidence Gets Big Boost in 5-2 Ruling By Florida Supreme Court

February 1, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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“We cannot expect officers to retain information as if he or she were a computer,” the court ruled, granting power to judges to review video evidence when available.

Tased and Detained, Felon 10 Times Over Escapes from Cop’s Car Before Chase and Arrest

February 1, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

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George Garland Wood, 31, of Bunnell, led cops on a chase after he was tased and after he managed to escape from a patrol car. He faces a half dozen charges, all but one felonies.

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