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Shutdown Geezers: The Medicare
Generation’s Immoral War on Obamacare

October 4, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 56 Comments

Opponents of Obamacare think that by doubling down on hurting Americans through a shut-down, they might stun them into submission. They must be stupider than they let on. The Affordable Care Act has its issues. Lacking for moral high ground isn’t among them.

What The Live Grenade Looked Like On Palm Coast Parkway Crosswalk

October 4, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

FlaglerLive obtained an image of the grenade discovered on a Palm Coast Parkway crosswalk Tuesday evening, as the image was relayed to the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Bomb Squad through a robotic camera. The grenade was destroyed that evening.

Flagler County Buys 276 Minutes on Electronic Billboard Near Times Square, for $15,000

October 4, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

The 10-second spot will run once an hour, 18 times a day, through Jan. 2, on a billboard on 42nd Street, four and a half blocks south of Times Square, and is paid for half by the county’s tourism bed tax and half by the general fund, through the economic development department.

Runs, Flags and Shirts: Pink Armies Invading Flagler County for Breast Cancer Awareness

October 4, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Highlights of this month’s Pink Army events in Palm Coast and Flagler include a 5K run or walk on Oct. 13, pink flag-raising ceremonies, and allowances, on Oct. 13, for school district students who participated in the run to wear their pink shirts instead of the required uniform.

Flagler Beach Police “Captain”: Last Three Candidates Make Their Pitch to the Community

October 3, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 30 Comments

Steve Clair, Matthew Doughney and Joe Sisti appeared in a semi-formal setting before some 35 people, including the whole membership of the Flagler Beach City Commission, who gathered at city hall to hear the candidates for police captain and mingle with them.

Matanzas High School’s Surging SAT Scores Brighten Otherwise Dimmer District Results

October 3, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

In a tribute to the school’s SAT prep classes, Matanzas’ reading average of 502 on the SAT test exceeded state and national averages, and the school exceeded state averages on math and writing, but district-wide 2013 SAT and ACT scores remain below state and national averages, dragged down especially by math scores.

For 3 Gallons of Gas: Suspect Chased and Arrested After Theft from Cline Construction

October 3, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

John Mancuso, 50, of Palm Coast faces a burglary and felony fleeing and eluding charges after allegedly stealing three gallons of gas in a 30-gallon fuel drum from Cline Construction’s fuel depot on Utility Drive, off of Old Kings Road, Wednesday evening.

FPL Customers in Flagler Will Again Pay Nuke Surcharge for Plants at Least 10 Years Off

October 2, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

A residential customer who uses 1,000 kilowatt hours of electricity a month will pay about $5.5 extra a year, but the cost is part of a broader controversy over a law that allows utility companies to charge customers for power-plant construction that hasn’t even begun yet, and may never be completed.

Shutdown Hits Home: Castillo de San Marcos and Ft. Matanzas Among Parks Off Limits

October 2, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Starting Tuesday, the National Park Service closed all 401 national parks, including Castillo de San Marcos and Fort Matanzas National Monuments in St. Augustine, affecting the local tourism economy. Potential foreign visitors’ visas are facing processing delays.

Bomb Squad Removes Live Grenade Found at Belle Terre and Palm Coast Parkway Intersection

October 1, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 33 Comments

Authorities confirmed that the object found at the intersection of Palm Coast Parkway and Belle Terre around 6 p.m. Tuesday was a live grenade, an Mk 2 that the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office’s bomb squad secured and took to a different location to detonate. There were no injuries.

Flagler School District Lauds “Culture of Innovation” in State of Education Address

October 1, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Tuesday evening’s State of Education Address highlighted what the district survived through the last few years of contraction, where it is today, what challenges it is facing in the next few years, and how it intends to tangle with those challenges.

State’s Claim of $40 Million “Potential” Fraud in Early Learning Programs Proves Groundless

October 1, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

A December 2011 report by the state Office of the Auditor General projected that parents with children in school-readiness programs could have used as much as $40 million worth of public-assistance benefits for which they weren’t eligible over a three-year period–a claim that proved wildly inaccurate, but needlessly panicked lawmakers.

As Health Act Rolls Out, a Small Demonstration With a Big Message: “We ♥ Obamacare”

October 1, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

Just 15 people turned up for the Flagler Democratic Club’s pro-Obamacare demonstration at the county health department at noon Tuesday, marking the first day of the new law’s central provisions of insurance for almost all, but “we’re big in our hearts, and we’re big in meaning and in understanding,” the gathering’s organizer said.

Sheriff Fires Roster for “Job Abandonment,” Capping 14 Months of Turmoil for Deputy

October 1, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 27 Comments

Roster, who joined the Sheriff’s Office in 2001, rose to the rank of Sergeant and was the agency’s 2010 officer of the year, was the subject of an internal affairs investigation triggered by men in his own squad last year, who claimed he was collecting thousands of dollars for time he wasn’t actually working.

Facebook Advances to 15- and 16-Year-Old Girls and Rendezvous Lead to 30-Year-Old’s Arrest

September 30, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Michael Lee King is a 30-year-old resident of 1521 Hickory Street in Bunnell, exchanged suggestive text messages with girls and scheduled a meeting at PetSmart in palm Coast, where he was arrested by Flagler County Sheriff’s deputies on Monday.

In Wake of 9th Death in Florida, Flagler Health Department Cautions Against Seawater Bacteria

September 30, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Vibrio vulnificus is a cholera-like bacteria that lurks in warm Intracoastal waters and infects people through raw shellfish or oysters or through open lesions, and causes death 50 percent of the time. Henry Konietzky, 59, is the latest victim to die from exposure to the bacteria as he crabbed in Ormond Beach’s section of the Intracoastal this weekend.

Elections Supervisor Accepts Compromise on Use of Community Center for Early Voting

September 30, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

The Palm Coast City Council was willing to make broad concessions to Elections Supervisor Kimberle Weeks, including either cancelling or moving one of its meetings so she could have the use of the larger Community Center room for Election Day voting, but the council stopped short of granting her that room for all 26 days she was requesting.

“That’s One Lucky Young Lady”: 23-Year-Old Survives as Truck Flips Into Waterlogged Ditch

September 30, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

23-year-old Carlene Murphy survived what could have been a grisly accident at 10:15 Monday morning on SR100, west of Bunnell, as her pick-up overturned and ended up in a waterlogged ditch.

Flagler Democrats Will Demonstrate For Obamacare in Front of Health Department Tuesday

September 30, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

The noon demonstration by the Flagler County Democratic Club marks the first day of Obamacare’s insurance exchanges, and protests Florida’s sustained opposition, and various obstacles, to the law, including the prohibition against use of local health departments to make it easier for the uninsured to get coverage.

When Southern Heritage Is a Lost Cause

September 29, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

As surely as their chosen symbols profess a sentimental attachment to an era of racist brutality, Confederate nostalgists insist that what they really pine for is the Old South of country roads, shady front porches and long, lazy afternoons at the fishing hole. Steve Robinson doesn’t buy it.

A Republican Abandons Rick Scott: Paula Dockery and Florida’s Fraying GOP

September 28, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Democrats now look like a party united compared to the Republicans, Cary McMullen argues, as Paula Docker, one of Florida’s increasingly endangered moderate Republicans, announces her desertion of Gov. Rick Scott’s campaign for re-election.

Nostalgia Sprinkle: Flagler Beach Bans Mobile Vendors Except for Ice Cream Trucks

September 27, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

Thursday evening, the Flagler Beach City Commission swirled Solomon with nostalgia in a 4-1 vote to ban all mobile vending in the city, except for ice cream trucks, a victory for Sandy Kenny’s operation.

A Man Is Accused of Dragging and Running Over His Girlfriend Off Palm Coast Parkway

September 27, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

When Flagler County Sheriff’s deputy Frank Gamarra arrived at the Palm Coast Parkway scene at 8 p.m. Thursday, Toni Bater, a 50-year-old Palm Coast resident, was lying on the ground with severe injuries to her legs, arms and head and bruising to her right eye. She was in the parking lot of West Point Plaza, […]

An Old House’s Fate Divides Bunnell as History, Character and Property Rights Clash

September 26, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

An old house hooked to a demolition order and the property it sits on at 401 East Moody Boulevard are suddenly at the center of a clash between a city commission and residents looking to preserve—if not define—the city’s character along its main east-west road on one hand, and the property rights of its residents on the other. That battle may be determined by how the issues surrounding the house and the property are resolved.

SWAT Team Deployed Again–For Minor Drug Arrest on Palm Coast’s Pine Grove Drive

September 26, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 33 Comments

Two young children and a middle-aged woman were detained while, for the second time in four days, the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday deployed its SWAT team to serve a warrant on a suspect later charged with possession of marijuana, cocaine, and prescription pills without a prescription.

Florida Prisoners Will Wash Dishes and Sew Their Own Clothes in Bid to Save Money

September 26, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Florida’s prisons have a $45.5 million deficit despite shuttering 10 prisons in recent years, so department head Mike Crews is finding new ways to save money, including refusing to replace broken dishwashers and making inmates do the work instead.

Reviving Sore Issue, Flagler Beach Readies to Ban Ice Cream Trucks Outright

September 25, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 33 Comments

The Flagler Beach City Commission Thursday will take up a proposed ordinance that prohibits mobile vendors, including ice cream trucks, outright, reviving an issue the commission has attempted to deal with twice in the last 19 months, only to shrink in the face of substantial opposition.

Eighteen Months In, Palm Coast Observer Retrenches Back to Once a Week

September 25, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

After scoring a series of successes in the Daytona Beach News-Journal’s backyard and launching an ambitious effort to go head-to-head with the twice-weekly News-Tribune a little over a year and a half ago, the Palm Coast Observer is doing what most newspapers have had to do to survive: it’s cutting back.

Gov. Scott Defends Exiting Common Core Testing In Face of Criticism and Fact-Checks

September 25, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Scott did not say specifically how he thought tests developed through a state-led initiative could be an instrument of federal intrusion, or cite an example of federal intrusion, as he defended his order to move Florida away from the Common Core testing consortium.

Should Jacksonville’s Nathan Bedford Forrest High Be Named for KKK’s Grand Wizard?

September 24, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Never apologize for what? Secession? Slavery? How about white supremacy and the KKK? The fight to rename Jacksonville’s Nathan Bedford Forrest High School raises the question, argues Julie Delegal.

Prescription-Pill and Alcohol Deaths in Flagler Far Outpace Those From Illegal Drugs

September 24, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

The annual medical examiners’ report for Florida, including Flagler’s numbers, put in sharp perspective common misconceptions and exaggerations—by media, police and lawmakers—about the nature and extent of the drug problem, highlighting the relatively minor part played by illegal drugs such as cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine, and the virtually nonexistent part played by marijuana or synthetic pot.

Legislature Considering Tougher Crackdowns on Sexual Predators in Wake of New Findings

September 24, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

DCF has been recommending fewer and fewer sex offenders for confinement, with the number falling from a high of 228 in 2000 — two years after the law went into effect — to a low of 19 in 2012.

Bunnell Commission Votes 3-2 to Hire Larry Williams as Its Next Manager

September 23, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

The City Commission late Monday evening voted 3-2 to hire Lawrence J. Williams as its next city manager. It was the culmination of six months of change and turmoil in Bunnell government, ending the tenure of Armando Martinez.

In Political Balancing Act, Scott Pulls Out of Testing Group But Preserves Common Core

September 23, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

By withdrawing from just the testing partnership, Scott’s decision Monday was more of a political balancing act than either a radical departure from Florida’s Common Core policy adopted in 2010 or a repudiation of the tougher standards that have been rolling out in schools through FCAT 2.0 for the past three years, in preparation for Common Core.

Sticker Shock Part Deux: Bunnell Commission Hit With $35,000 Legal Bill for August

September 23, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

The attorney, Lonnie Groot, has resigned effective Oct. 1, in part because of the criticism leveled at him after he issued the first bill, for $24,000. The city had budgeted $60,000 for the entire year, and will have to find the balance of the money in its reserves.

Death Toll From Preventable Hospital Mistakes Ranges Between 210,000 and 440,000

September 23, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

A new study finds that preventable hospital mistakes that lead to patients’ death are far higher than previous estimates, making medical errors the third-leading cause of death in America, behind heart disease, which is the first, and cancer, which is second.

Sheriff Busts Meth Lab in Palm Coast’s R-Section, Arresting Same Suspect Twice in 24 Hours

September 22, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

Micahel Marsh, 30, was arrested in the Friday bust at 6 Raeitan Way, where he lived with Amber Troha, 19, and others. After bonding out, Marsh was re-arrested the next day, along with Troha and Virdell Myers, 28, on charges of possessing prescription drugs without a prescription, among other charges.

Gubernatorial Crist-al Clearing: There Will Be No Sink-Scott Rematch

September 22, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Ending months of speculation, former Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink said Friday she will not run for governor against incumbent Republican Rick Scott in 2014, further fueling “will he or won’t he” chatter about Democrat Charlie Crist.

The Trouble With American Exceptionalism

September 21, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Do we have moral authority as a nation, asks Cary McMullen. Do we have the humility Obama spoke of, namely that we are acting not in self-interest but in the interest of justice? Are we exceptional not just in our history but in our standing among nations as an exemplar of righteous ideals?

Rapid Response Limits Fire as Lawnmower Sets Garage Ablaze on Palm Coast’s Woodward Lane

September 21, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The Palm Coast Fire Department’s rapid response–about eight minutes between the call to 911 and the time water was on the flames–helped limit the fire damage to a house at 36 Woodward Lane, where a lawnmower is believed to have started a blaze that demolished the garage.

Saturday Theater: Four Candidates Make Their Case for City Manager Before Bunnell City Commission

September 21, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

The Bunnell City Commission was interviewing four candidates for city manager Saturday afternoon and into early evening, devoting an hour to each. An analytical summary of each interview is included.

FDLE Lays Down Florida Capitol Garrison Rule to Avoid Repeat of Summer Protests

September 21, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Under the proposal by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, members of the public would be expected to leave the Capitol building by 5 p.m. each weekday or within 30 minutes of the end of public meetings. Capitol police could arrest for trespassing anyone who didn’t leave when they were told.

Ex-Flagler Tax Collector’s Son C. John Pellicer, 31, Killed in Midnight Wreck on CR2006

September 20, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 27 Comments

Claude John Pellicer, 31, the son of former Flagler County Tax Collector Suzette Pellicer, was killed late Thursday night on County Road 2006 in Flagler, not far from his home when he lost control of the pick-up truck he was driving.

Dispute Over Possibly Improper Rate Hikes Pits FPL’s 1% Against 99% of Customers

September 20, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

The state Supreme Court took up a challenge Thursday to hundreds of millions of dollars in rate increases approved last year for Florida Power & Light ij an agreement one Justice said reflected the wishes of 1 percent of commercial users against the wishes of 99 percent of FPL’s remaining customers.

Despite Slight Fall in Unemployment Rate, Flagler and Florida Lose Jobs in August

September 20, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Florida’s unemployment rate fell a fraction, to 7 percent, in August, and fell to 10.1 percent in Flagler County, but Florida actually lost a net 4,700 jobs in the past month, and Flagler lost a net 181 jobs as the workforce shrank significantly.

Glory Glory Hallelujah: Another Mass Shooting, and the NRA Marches On

September 19, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

To propose reasonable, sane gun laws amid the gun lobby’s arsenal of lies, distortions and demagoguery has become pointless, argues Steve Robinson, as the nation picks up the wreckage of Aaron Alexis and the Navy Yard shooting.

Sen. Dorothy Hukill Proposes Cutting Sales Tax on Commercial Rental Property to 5%

September 19, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Senate Finance and Tax Chairwoman Dorothy Hukill of Port Orange’s proposal could cut $250 million a year from state revenue. Business leaders want the tax, currently at 6%, eliminated altogether as Gov. Rick Scott travels the state on a tax-cutting tour.

Accused of Abusing a 4-Year-Old Boy With a Belt in April, He’s Arrested Only Wednesday

September 19, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Luis Betancourt-Rodriguez was charged with child abuse after allegedly hitting a 4-year-old with a belt buckle in April, and with aggravated battery after allegedly striking a man in the face and causing him to almost lose his vision in one eye, but Betancourt-Rodriguez was not arrested until a traffic stop on Wednesday that revealed two arrest warrants.

As a Cat Lay Dying, He Drove Drunk to a Vet, But Court Finds Him Guilty of DUI Anyway

September 19, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

The cat Christopher Brooks was taking to a vet died at roadside as he was being given field sobriety tests, despite its owners’ please to the cop. But his DUI conviction was upheld by a Hillsborough County appeal court that declared that special circumstances don;t apply to cats as they would to human beings.

Homes Sales and Inventory Decline a Bit in Flagler as Interest Rates Continue to Rise

September 19, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

After July’s buoyant home-sale figures in Flagler County, which hit a post-recession high of 243 closed sales for the month, August’s numbers are somewhat less bubbly, but the trend remains solidly positive even as interest rates creep up.

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