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Corporate Tax Cut Out, Privatizing Prisons and 3% Public Pension Contributions In

May 1, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

As the Legislature’s 2011 session veers uncertainly toward its final days, lawmakers struck deals Saturday on privatizing prisons and compromising over public employees’ pension contributions, but no deal yet on health care and education cuts.

Flagler Firefighters Battle 9 Small Brush Fires Scattered Across the County

April 30, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The fires range from an acre to 20 acres, and were all triggered by lightning strikes during the storm on Thursday. None of the fires has threatened residential properties. There’s been no injuries.

“The Me Nobody Knows” at Flagler Playhouse: Vivid, Raw and Joyful Ghetto Truths

April 30, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

“The Me Nobody Knows,” at the Flagler Playhouse for the next three weekends (April 29-May 15), is an original and affecting 1970 musical drawn from the true stories of adolescents in New York City’s slums.

Auction On: Carver Foundation Leads Gym’s Rebirth As Revels Steers Ideas and Dollars

April 29, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Carver Gym is back, brighter and shinier. But its future depends on sustained public support. An auction, immediately and electronically accessible to the public, is one of the ways the newly formed George Washington Carver Foundation hopes to tap into that support.

Cop Shot, 1 Suspect Wounded, 1 Killed in Drug Task Force Sting Across Flagler County Line

April 29, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The three-county drug task force, including deputies from the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office, came under fire Thursday afternoon during a sting operation in the Lake Como Area of Pomona Park. Video included.

Birthers, Royals and Crocks

April 29, 2011 | Pierre Tristam | 50 Comments

Between Barack Obama’s birth certificate and William Windsor’s wedding to his girlfriend Kate, lust for make-believe idiocies at the expense of reality explains why problem-solving isn’t much of a priority these days.

Jacksonville Symphony Pops “Americana Under the Stars” at Palm Coast Concert

April 28, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Featuring a slew of favorites from Gershwin to Berlin (Irving, that is) to Strauss, the Jacksonville Symphony’s annual pilgrimage to Flagler is the Palm Coast Arts Foundation’s signature event and fund-raiser.

Road Rage Incident on Palm Coast Parkway Lands an Oklahoman at the Flagler County Jail

April 28, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Edward Smith, who had two 16-year-old girls in his car, allegedly waved a 9mm Hi-Point rifle at occupants of another car during a verbal smackdown on Palm Coast Parkway Wednesday afternoon.

Florida Legislature Redrawing Abortion Rules, Targeting Women, Physicians and US Law

April 28, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The House approved a slew of bills that would force women to submit to ultrasounds before an abortion, broaden parental notification when minors are seeking an abortion, and require physicians to own abortion clinics, among other bills.

School Buses Blowing Through a Stop Sign at FPC: Scrutiny Follows Parent’s Alert

April 27, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

An 11th grader on a motorcycle had a close encounter with a bus that pulled out of an FPC driveway where, a video shows, buses frequently don’t respect a stop sign. The transportation department is responding with monitoring and warnings drivers.

School Districts Will Have to Vastly Expand Virtual Education; Charters to Click In

April 27, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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At least one virtual class would be mandatory for graduation, kindergarten students could take online courses, and charter schools could offer full or part-time classes in what’s almost certain to become law.

Violent Crime Falls Steeply in Flagler; Florida’s Crime Rate at 40-Year Low, Following US Trend

April 26, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The overall 2010 crime rate is down 4.2 percent in Flagler County and 6.7 percent in Florida as the slower economy and a static population add to a national trend of declining crime. Several reasons are contributing to the decline.

Palm Coast’s Latest Invitation to Landowners: Come Build a Business Park With Us

April 26, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

If you sketch it, maybe they'll build it: Palm Coast's business park vision.

Palm Coast’s business park partnership program would entail spending significant taxpayer resources to develop construction-ready sites in partnership with private property owners, as bait for future commercial activity.

State of the Ax: from Flagler to Tallahassee To D.C., Arts Funding Is Under Siege

April 25, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

A digital photograph by Denys Valson, an 11th grader at Palm Coast High School and a student of Mrs. Biggs's. The photograph was part of the student art show at the Flagler County Art League's Spring Festival. (© FlaglerLive)

The NEA’s federal arts dollars are on the defensive. Florida cut back its arts funding to almost nothing. Palm Coast, Bunnell and Flagler Beach are just as stingy. The county and school district alone still support art and culture.

New Home Sales Rebound From Record Low, But Sales Still 22% Lower Than Last Year

April 25, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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March new home sales post an 11 percent increase over February, but February had posted a record low, and March’s 300,000 sales volume is still 22 percent below sales in March 2010.

Growth-Management 2.0: Local Government Whims Sprawl Over State Oversight

April 25, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Republicans have complained for years that growth management rules slow growth in the state. A glut of empty homes suggests otherwise. Local governments will be empowered to take advantage of far more lax growth rules.

Bail Bondsmen Would Cash In at Taxpayers’ Expense As Pre-Trial Release Is Scaled Back

April 23, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

A bill written to boost bail bondsmen’s business would force inmates to post bond to get out of jail rather than rely on county-run pre-trial release programs. Taxpayers are likely to pay the price as fewer inmates can afford bond and jail populations soar.

Superintendent in Flight: Janet Valentine Gets Bird’s Eye View of Her Domain

April 22, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

School Superintendent Janet Valentine took a one-hour flight around the county with Jack Howell, director of Flagler’s Teens-in-Flight program. Howell wanted to thank Valentine for her support.

Criminal Backgrounds of Health Providers: Florida’s Licensing System Is All Cavities

April 22, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Dentists, doctors and pharmacists can still practice in Florida even after committing crimes, while the Department of Health passes over criminal backgrounds in a lax and self-reported licensing procedure.

Armed Robbery at Flagler Beach’s CVS on SR100; Oxycontin-Filching Suspects Caught

April 21, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

At least two suspects entered the CVS just after 5 p.m., one of them brandishing a gun. They were caught at Old Dixie Highway and I-95. No one was injured. Oxycontin appears again to be the motive.

Preliminary Report Suggests Walker May Have Lost Consciousness Before Air Show Crash

April 21, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Flagler County's Fire Flight and firefighters battled the blaze at the Flagler County Airport after the Yak's crash last March. (© FlaglerLive)

The National Transportation Safety Board’s preliminary report of the March 26 crash at Wings Over Flagler reveals that to Bill Walker was unresponsive when a fellow-pilot radioed him immediately before the crash.

News-Journal Inexplicably Spikes Follow-Up Story on Drowning of 3-Year-Old Girl

April 21, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

The story, spiked Wednesday evening after being approved for the next day’s paper, cited police saying that the girl’s 5-year-old brother had told his mother he’d drowned his sister–information that other media reported Wednesday evening.

TDC Approves $30,000 for Dual July 4th Fireworks Under Unifying Americana Theme

April 20, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

With Palm Coast fireworks on July 3rd and Flagler Beach fireworks on the 4th, the tourist council is hoping Flagler County will be a destination for racing fans worn out by July 1 and 2 races in Daytona Beach.

Wadsworth’s Eco Swag Fair Thursday: Saving the Planet 900 Students at a Time

April 20, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Wadsworth Elementary school is inviting the community to its students’ first environmental community outreach Thursday, from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m., with music, food, games and presentations mixing awareness and kindness.

Bunnell Police Miscues Helping To Lessen Case Against Ex-Cops John and Lisa Murray

April 20, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Lisa Murray faces one less count of official misconduct, but while a grand theft charge against John Murray was dropped, a charge of official misconduct was added. The cases, for now, are proceeding to trial.

Property Tax Reform: 50% Exemptions, Breaks for Investors, Losses for Local Governments

April 20, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Supporters of the overhaul say it’ll fill up empty homes. Critics say it’ll also slash local government revenue and further shift the tax burden to current residents, exacerbating inequities.

Putt-Putt Golf at Belle Terre Elementary: 9-Hole Course Meets School Board Bogeys

April 19, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 27 Comments

Playground equipment at Belle Terre Elementary has been deteriorating, and causing a few injuries. But replacing some of it with putt-putt golf raised financial and “buy-in” issues from school board members.

More Losers Than Winners as HMOs Skim Off Florida’s $20 Billion Medicaid Overhaul

April 19, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Managed-car plans will take over almost all of Florida’s 2.8 million Medicaid patients. The overhaul does nothing to change the status of 3.8 million uninsured Floridians.

District and Teachers’ Union Seal Crucial Agreement on Vast Cuts and Shorter Days

April 18, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

More than tree and a half hours into their latest bargaining session, the union and the Flagler County school district were almost ready to agree to cuts that would eliminate 40 teachers, shorten school days and save $3.5 million next year.

It’s Not Enough to Say No to a Seawall in Flagler Beach: An Action Plan Past Opposition

April 18, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

It isn;t just about opposing a seawall. Flagler Beach needs a plan to protect A1A. (© FlaglerLive)

Sherry Epley, a resident of Flagler Beach, lays out a six-point action plan on how to build and sustain opposition to a seawall while developing a viable alternative that saves the beach and State Road A1A.

“Education Savings Accounts” Would Shift Public Money to Private and Home Schools

April 18, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

A vast expansion of school vouchers, Education Savings Account would shift 40 percent of per-student funding to children attending private school, to college savings accounts or to home-school spending, among other diversions from public-education budgets.

How Slashing Water Management Districts’ Budget 25% Endangers Our Way of Life

April 16, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Allan Milledge, a former water management district chairman, asks: Do you want to jeopardize protection of our rivers, lakes, springs, and wetlands and the protection of our water supply to save an average less than $20 dollars per household per year?

Charter Schools To Be Allowed To Go Virtual As Florida Expands Online Public Education

April 16, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

A proposed law would let charter schools open full-time K-12 “virtual” charter schools, all students would be required to take at least one online class, and school districts would have to offer full or part-time virtual programs.

Stereotype This: “Lazy Mexicans” And Other Insolvent Myths of American Superiority

April 15, 2011 | Pierre Tristam | 25 Comments

As it turns out Mexicans are not only harder workers than Americans. They are the hardest workers in the industrialized world, while smugness, selfishness and the pursuit of inequality are becoming American brands.

Cops and Robbers Chase Through A1A in Flagler at 90 mph Before Crash in St. Johns

April 15, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

The high-speed chase, triggered by a former Palm Coast resident, wound through Old Kings Road, Palm Coast Parkway, the Hammock Dunes toll bridge, the Hammock along A1A and Marineland before the eluding truck overturned in St. Johns County.

At 14.5%, Flagler Unemployment Drops to Lowest Level in 2 Years, Florida’s at 11.1%

April 15, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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The unemployment rate locally and statewide appears to be trending downward consistently and finally following the national trend, which has been improving for most of the past year.

Water Wars, Side B: Why a Subdivision With 10% of Bunnell’s Residents Is Suing the City

April 14, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Bunnell has been reading Palm Terrace Mobile Home park’s water meters and servicing its sewer station for 27 years. The city wants to stop doing so to save money, billing the park in one lump sum. The park owner says the city is breaching a 27-year-old annexation agreement.

BP Oil Spill Aftermath: “Spillionaire” Profiteers of Mismanagement’s Gulf Spoils

April 14, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

How the BP oil spill has made profiteers rich from BP’s $16 billion in clean-up spending while hiding the results of the cleanup, because BP, not the federal government, is in charge.

William Gregory Sentenced to Death for 2007 Double-Murder in Flagler Beach

April 14, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

William Gregory, moments after hearing his death sentence, is processed by a bailiff. (FlaglerLive)

William Gregory murdered ex-girlfriend Skyler Meekins, 17, and Daniel Dyer, 22, by shooting them in the head with a 12-gauge shotgun as they slept together in August 2007. “You have forfeited your right to live at all,” the judge told him.

County and City Fire Departments Merge Methods and Training in Hint of Consolidation

April 13, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

The Flagler County and Palm Coast Fire Departments will share a medical director. Both agencies are holding regular joint exercises and learning shared procedures with the Bunnell and Flagler Beach departments. Consolidation next?

Conklin Is Fired From State-Backed Job After Talk of Suing the State Over Education Funding

April 13, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 53 Comments

Colleen Conklin has been a Flagler County SSchool Board member since 2000, and had been the chief operating officer of the Florida Endowment Foundation since mid-2007. (©

Colleen Conklin has been an outspoken advocate for education as a Flagler County School Board member for 10 years–and as the COO of a largely state-funded education foundation for the last four. One job cost her the other.

From Robert Penn Warren to Stanley Drescher: Flagler Beach Names Its First Poet Laureate

April 13, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Poetry as manifesto: Stanley Drescher. (© FlaglerLive)

Stanley Drescher, a son of New York’s Lower East Side, has lived in Flagler Beach less than two years. He’s already left his mark on the city’s water tower, wielding his poetry like a crusader’s mightiest weapon.

Flagler Beach’s Steve Settle Will Again Attempt to Appoint Bruce Campbell Manager

April 12, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Bruce Campbell, in the foreground, is still the executive-in-waiting as the Flagler Beach City Commission ponders his fate. Drew Smith, the city's attorney, is sitting next to Campbell. On the dais, from left: Marshall Shupe, Steve Settle, John Feind, Jane Mealy, Kim Craney, and Mayor Alice Baker. (© FlaglerLive)

Settle has three votes to make Bruce Campbell’s appointment permanent as Flagler Beach city manager. He needs four when he makes his proposal Thursday. Commissioners Jane Mealy and John Feind are mum.

Popping Again: Drug Database and Pill-Mill Regulations Return From the Dead

April 12, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Taken for dead only weeks ago, a revised bill that would preserve many pill-mill regulations, ban doctors from dispensing some pills and require permitting process for pharmacies cleared a Florida House committee Tuesday.

Driver Takes Truck on Bunnell’s Dirt-Bike Course, Flips Into a Pond, Triggers Rescue

April 12, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The 60ish driver was riding his truck illegally on the Bunnell’s Pax Trax Motocross course. Two men–Jeff Armstrong, a former fireman, and Jake Flumerfelt–rescued him as water filled his truck and he sat there, awake but not moving.

Palm Coast Maps Out Gentler, Kinder Impact Fees on Developers, But Questions Arise

April 12, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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The one-time impact fees developers pay when they build something would be lower for residential construction. Builders would get discounts for paying up front, or get to pay them on an installment plan.

Dust Up Those Squeals, Venus: Frankie Avalon At the Flagler Auditorium Tonight

April 12, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Frankie Avalon, now 70, is making the Flagler Auditorium one of just 12 stops on his 2011 tour. He’ll be singing the hits that made him famous in pre-Beatles days, along with songs from his 30 movies that kept him famous.

Bunnell Commissioners Crain-Brady and Rogers Are Sworn In, Flynt Exits After 8 Years

April 11, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Unlike last year, when the mayor and two commissioners were re-elected after facing no opposition, Jenny Crain-Brady and John Rogers were the survivors of a five-way race last month.

76-Year-Old Man On a Scooter Killed in Crash With Waste Pro Truck South of Bunnell

April 11, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The man was traveling north on U.S. 1 in Korona, just south of the Old Dixie Highway intersection, when a maintenance pick-up truck pulled out of the service station and struck him.

Flagler Beach Against DOT’s Seawall: County Joins City’s Opposition, With Conditions

April 11, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Flagler County doesn’t want a seawall in Flagler Beach either, but the county doesn’t want to lose $6 million in highway funding–earmarked for SR A1A’s protection–that it hopes to shift either toward a study or toward an alternative to the seawall.

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