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Who Will Rescue Our Tender Youth from Deviant Professors and their Noisome Notions?

September 5, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Pugh Hall at UF hosts the Bob Graham Center, among other programs. (Spohpatuf via Wikimedia Commons)

Give it up, wokester profs: Ron DeSantis will no longer tolerate your anti-American spin on our history, your critical race theorizing, your LGBTQ weirdo agenda, and your communist indoctrination of our kids in Florida’s great state universities.

AdventHealth Career Expo Sept. 7-8 Includes 116 Job Openings at AdventHealth Palm Coast

September 5, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

AdventHealth hired a plane to advertise its career expo over the sands of Flagler Beach on Saturday. (© FlaglerLive)

AdventHealth’s hospitals in the greater Daytona Beach area, including AdventHealth Palm Coast, are hosting a career expo for job seekers at the Daytona International Speedway Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 7 and 8 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Florida National Guard Could Be Used to Fill In at Short-Staffed State Prisons

September 4, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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As the state continues to struggle with a shortage of correctional officers, a legislative panel next week will consider a plan that would activate Florida National Guard members to help at prisons, according to a document published Friday.

Artemis Moon Shot, Twice Delayed This Week, May Have to Wait Until October

September 4, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Artemis on the launch pad earlier this week, just before the first of two abortive attempts at launch. (NASA)

NASA now intends to roll the 322-foot rocket back to the VAB and to reset all systems. NASA requirements and launch window schedules suggests it will take at least 25 days to schedule the rocket for another launch.

Americans Think They Know A Lot About Politics. They’re Wrong. And It’s Hurting Democracy.

September 3, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Overconfidence about their political knowledge is common among Americans. FXQuadro/iStock/Getty Images Plus

Political overconfidence can make people more defensive of factually wrong beliefs about politics. It also causes Americans to underestimate the political skill of their peers. And those who believe themselves to be political experts often dismiss the guidance of real experts.

What in Jesus’s Name? Saving the Savior from Christian Nationalism.

September 3, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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In their zeal to stoke the fires of a culture war, conservatives have drafted Jesus into their army, with some proudly espousing Christian nationalism, which combines two character traits: religious zealotry and fascism. Meanwhile charlatan theologians give the politicians religious cover enough so that they can be assured that Jesus would vote Republican.

Cities, Including Flagler Beach, Looking Into Banning Smoking and Vaping on Beaches

September 3, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

A new law allows cities and counties to ban smoking and vaping on beaches they control. (© FlaglerLive)

Several communities in coming weeks and months could move forward under a new state law that allows cities and counties to ban smoking cigarettes and vaping at locally controlled beaches and parks.

Spared Life in Prison for Cooperating, Princess Williams Is Sentenced to 20 Years in Attempted Murder

September 2, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Princess Williams immediately after her sentencing this morning before Circuit Judge Terence Perkins at the Flagler County courthouse in Bunnell. (© FlaglerLive)

Princess Williams was 20 when she conspired with three others, all of them about her age, in an armed robbery four years ago that resulted in the shooting and disabling of 19-year-old Carl Saint-Felix. Her sentence today closes the book on the cases, with all four conspirators now in prison. Williams got the heaviest sentence.

70% of Flagler County Students Fail Civic Literacy Test, 63% Fail Across Florida in Exam’s 1st Year

September 2, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

The Army base at Fort Hood, Texas, where Lt. Jack Robinson, who became known as Jackie Robinson, the trail-blazing baseball superstar, was stationed in 1944.

Just 30 percent of Flagler County students know the purpose of a constitution, understand the separation of powers, the concept of the rule of law, the reasons colonists rebelled against Britain, the Supreme Court ruling that ratified Jim Crow or what FDR meant by a New Deal. Students in a U.S. government course are required to take the new exam that covers everything from landmark Supreme Court cases to influential documents in American history to basic principles about how government functions.

‘We Have Too Much Stuff’: Palm Coast Board Approves Key Steps for 3 More Self-Storage Facilities

September 1, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

Renderings of different perspectives of the Kings Crossing self-storage facility, to be built on acreage between Old Kings Road North and I-95, north of Palm Coast Parkway.

The Palm Coast Planning Board last week approved in three successive unanimous votes different regulatory steps advancing the development of three self-storage facilities–on Old Kings Road North, on Old Kings Road south, and on Matanzas Woods Parkway near U.S. 1. In contrast with considerations of such items before local boards in recent months, the approvals, which point to a continuing bullish trend in self-storage businesses in the area, drew neither opposition nor any appearances from the public.

Leroy Sampson Jr, Repeat Offender on Probation, Arrested After 2-Hour Stand-Off With Deputies

September 1, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Leroy Sampson in his most recent state prison photo, left, and in his latest Flagler County jail booking photo.

Leroy Sampson Jr. was wanted on five warrants involving aggravated assault with a weapon and a repeat felony battery charge, among others, when detectives readied to pick him up in Palm Coast’s Town center, only for Sampson to barricade himself in an apartment he did not live in, for which he got an additional felony burglary charge. He surrendered after two hours.

Flagler Schools’ Budget Is Millions Short from 10 Years Ago as District Is Forced to Shift Tax Dollars to Private Schools

August 31, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Unlike any other local government, the Flagler County school district's tax rate has dwindled since 1995, cutting into local budgetary needs. Unlike any other local government, the school board does not get to set its own tax rate. It's set by legislators in Tallahassee. The district is opeating with fewer dollars this year than it had 10 years ago as a result. (© FlaglerLive)

Historically lower taxes it has no control over, a state funding formula that cheats it of 5 cents of every dollar it sends the state, and a state-required $6 million transfer to pay for private education vouchers have again left the Flagler County school district scrambling to balance its budget. But it’s been an annual erosion of local dollars, entirely at the expense of public education.

Palm Coast Will Spend $6.2 Million to Buy 69 Vehicles and Heavy Equipment Items, Including 3 Fire Trucks

August 31, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 37 Comments

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In one of the largest such expenditures in the city’s history at one time, the Palm Coast City Council on Tuesday gave its approval for spending $6.2 million to buy 69 vehicles and pieces of heavy equipment for various departments, including three fire trucks.

Less Than Half of Flagler’s 10th Graders Pass English, Worst in 11 Years; FPC Down 9 Points, to 45%

August 31, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

Tenth grade passing rates of level 3 or better in reading since 2011. The assessment has changed over that time span, but the scoring method has not. (© FlaglerLive)

On the heels of a year and a half of a dysfunctional school board riven by ideological battles, only 49 percent of Flagler County’s 10th graders last school year were reading English at grade level, the lowest proportion in over a decade and a decline from 53 percent in 2021. Flagler’s 10th grade reading scores have declined every year since 2018.

Between Garfield and Reagan, Palm Coast OK’s 15% Tax Increase, Claiming It for Good of Future Residents

August 30, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 73 Comments

Bill Reischmann, the city's lpong-0time attorney, may have thought he'd seen everything in a city that keeps disabusing him. Today, after invoking the name of Ronald Reagan, Palm Coast Mayor propped up Garfield, the cynical and lazy character, to make a point about preservation of Palm Coast's quality of life. The city issued the image to media, along with Alfin's complete speech.

A 4-1 majority of the city council agreed to raise property taxes 15 percent for next year’s budget despite the highest year-over-year tax revenue increase in 16 years and the strongest growth in a decade and a half, all while claiming that the tax increase was necessary in order to lower taxes for a future generation. Mayor David Alfin bookended his argument with the peculiar evocation of Ronald Reagan and Garfield, the lazy and fat cartoon character, not the assassinated 20th president.

Federal Judge Urged to Halt Law Muzzling Instruction on Gender and Sexual Orientation

August 29, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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The 26-page motion contends that the law, passed this year by the Republican-controlled Legislature and signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, “was enacted with the purpose to discriminate and has the effect of discriminating against LGBTQ+ students and those with LGBTQ+ family members.”

Flagler Sheriff’s Cpl. Rob Myers, Who’d Been Drinking and Driving, Demoted Following Heated Stop

August 29, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

The Sheriff's Rob Myers told an internal investigator that he'd had four to five beers at St. Patrick's Day festivities at European Village over an eight-hour period before being pulled over by a deputy, shortly after leaving the village. He said he was not impaired. The deputy who stopped him disagrees. (© Jon Hardison for FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Sheriff’s Cpl. Rob Myers, a nine-year veteran of the agency, was demoted to deputy and placed on 18 months’ internal probation following an internal investigation that found he had been drinking and driving and drove alarmingly close to a deputy who was conducting an unrelated traffic stop. He was only given a warning at the traffic stop, and had a ride arranged for him to get him home.

Fundraiser Gets Handyman and Everywhere Cyclist Frank Diaz, 79, New Bike 2 Weeks After Crash

August 29, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Francisco Diaz, who turns 80 next month, is back on a brand new bike after his porevious bike was totaled in a crash with a car on State Road 100, when Sheriff Rick Staly, right, responded, and helped organize a fund-raiser to get Diaz back on his wheels. (© FlaglerLive)

Two weeks ago Francisco “Frank” Diaz was thrown off his bike, injured and hospitalized after an SR100 crash with a car that totaled the bike. Sheriff Rick Staly had responded to the call at the time, and was instrumental in a fundraiser by The Bike Man non-profit that raised $2,300, paid for a brand new bike and left some money over for Diaz to pay his medical bills and a $166 traffic ticket.

4 Years Later, Suspected Armed Robber of Kay Jewelers Near Target Is Booked at Flagler Jail

August 29, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The man believed to be Tyrone Walker reaching into a display case after drilling a hole in the glass with a hammer, during a robbery four years ago at the store in the Target shopping center in Palm Coast. Walker was booked at the Flagler County jail for that robbery on Saturday.

After spending the last four years incarcerated in Georgia, Tyrone Walker, now 29, was booked at the Flagler County jail on a first-degree felony robbery with a weapon charge dating back from 2018, when he is accused of robbing Kay Jewelers in Palm Coast’s Target shopping center. An accomplice remains at large.

In America, Cancer Patients Endure Crushing Debt on Top of Disease

August 28, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

A radiation beamer at UF Shands hospital in Gainesville. (© FlaglerLive)

Medical breakthroughs mean cancer is less likely to kill, but survival can come at an extraordinary cost as patients drain savings, declare bankruptcy, or lose their homes, an investigation finds.

Flagler Voters’ Message to Poison Peddlers

August 26, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 90 Comments

From left, Janet McDonald, Jill Woolbright, Ed Danko, Joe Mullins, Will Furry and Christy Chong. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler voters made damn sure that white nationalists, bigots and liars like Joe Mullins, Jill Woolbright and Janet McDonald had a short and embarrassing shelf life. If Flagler is solidly conservative, it remains sanely, moderately so for now, even for a one-party county with just three Democrats among 33 elected officials on six government boards.

In Re-Trial, Kwentel Moultrie Is Found Guilty of Raping a 16-Year-Old Girl and Faces Up to 30 Years

August 26, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Kwentel Moultrie with his attorney, Assistant Public Defender Regina Nunnally, moments before the verdict was read. (© FlaglerLive)

The trial of Kwentel Moultrie, 23, had hinged on whether he’d had consensual sex or raped a 16-year-old girl who’d invited him in when he was 20 at a P-Section house in Palm Coast. An April jury couldn’t reach a verdict. A jury today found him guilty at the end of a five-day trial, but it may have erred on its interpretation of law.

Palm Coast’s Jonathan Rockholt Arrested on 3 Federal Charges in Jan. 6 Attack on Congress

August 25, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 64 Comments

Jonathan Rockholt in a Flagler County jail mugshot from a drunk driving arrest in 2017.

Jonathan Rockholt, a 38-year-old Palm Coast resident who described himself as a member of the Three Percenters militia, was arrested on three federal charges in connection with the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, where he confronted and attempted to overcome police.

Brooke Lorenzen, 20, Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison for DUI Crash Causing Death of Mario Bizier, 56

August 25, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

Brooke Lorenzen, 20, getting fingerprinted after her sentencing hearing late this morning before Circuit Judge Terence Perkins at the Flagler County Courthouse. (© FlaglerLive)

Truck driver Mario Bizier’s family and friends forgave Broke Lorenzen for causing Bizier’s death on I-95 in 2020 in an emotional sentencing hearing this morning. Lorenzen was also sentenced to 12 years on probation, will no longer have the right to drive, and will have to give 100 hours of presentations to youths about the dangers of drunk driving.

Palm Coast Seeks Proposals to Replace Green Lion Cafe at Palm Harbor, Rent and Utilities at $3,000 a Month

August 25, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

The interior of the Green Lion Restaurant at Palm Harbor Golf Club in one of the images the city is including in its request for proposal.

After its falling out with the Green Lion Cafe earlier this summer, Palm Coast government this week formally launched its next step in possibly replacing the popular restaurant at Palm Harbor Golf Club with a new company.

County Resists Sheriff’s Request for Additional $700,000 in Surprise 3-2 Vote, Heralding Shift

August 24, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

The red and the green--firefighters and cops--filled the county commission's chamber at a meeting this afternoon. (© FlaglerLive)

With Joe Mullins’s surprise vote providing the majority, the Flagler County Commission this afternoon resisted Sheriff Rick Staly’s request for an additional $700,000, opting instead to hope for “savings” during the coming year, either on the sheriff’s side or on the county’s side of the ledger, that could fill that gap.

6th Grade Switch to Middle School Suddenly Makes 10 Year Old Ineligible for Bus Ride, Forcing 2-Mile Walk

August 24, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

When the Flagler County School Board switched 6th graders to middle school starting this month, it meant the same 6th graders who would have previously been eligible for bus rides to school no longer are, creating a dilemma–and a safety concern–for the parent of a 10-year-old child in Palm Coast’s B-Section.

Mullins Doesn’t ‘Run the County’ Anymore as Pennington Crushes Him; Hunt Beats Woolbright, Chong Beats Tucker, Hansen Wins, VandeBunte and Furry in Runoff

August 23, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 125 Comments

Leann Pennington this afternoon at the Flagler County Public Library, about three hours before polls closed. (© FlaglerLive)

It was not a good night for Flagler County’s radical, white nationalist Republicans: Joe Mullins, Jill Woolbright and Janet McDonald will no longer be elected officials in the county come November as each was beaten in his her her election bid tonight. But long-time school board member Trevor Tucker also lost to newcomer Christy Chong.

Same Scripts, Same Looming Absence of Chief Witness in Kwentel Moultrie’s Rape Trial Redux

August 23, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Kwentel Moultrie in court today as one of his defense attorneys, Assistant Public Defender Regina Nunnally, spoke to him. (© FlaglerLive)

A mistrial was declared in April on Kwentel Moultrie’s trial on a charge of raping a 16-year-old girl in a P Section house in 2019, when he was 20. He was back in court today for a re-trial, with the defense and the prosecution reprising their almost identical arguments from April: rape versus consensual sex.

Flagler County’s Sordid Primary Ends Today With Last Day of In-Person Voting

August 23, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Where a few candidates sent Flagler's 2022 primary election. (Fotologic)

Today is Election Day, or the final day of voting in what, thanks to a handful of candidates, has been one of the more sordid primaries in Flagler County history. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Unlike during early voting, you are required to vote at your assigned precinct.

Pete Young Resigns the Bunnell Commission Seat to Which He Was Appointed 2 Weeks Ago

August 22, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Pete Young tendering his resignation before he even had a chance to take his commission seat this evening. (© FlaglerLive)

Two weeks after the Bunnell City Commission appointed Pete Young, a former FHP investigator, to serve until next March in the seat vacated by Bob Barnes, Young resigned without serving a day. He’d discovered that his retirement rules kept him from serving.

Federal Ruling Clears Way for Lawsuit Against School Officer Who Attacked Student

August 22, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

A still from video surveillance showing former Officer Mario Badia attacking a middle school student in Osceola County in 2015.

A panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a district judge’s ruling that former Officer Mario Badia was entitled to immunity from allegations of excessive force and battery. The panel upheld immunity for Badia on a claim of false arrest.

Dune Reconstruction Project Is Set for Next June Even as 1 Property Owner Holds Out

August 22, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

The entirely eroded beach at a South 13th Street crossover in Flagler Beach last week. It's part of the segment of beach that a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project would rebuild. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Attorney Al Hadeed and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Project Manager Jason Harrah told the Flagler Beach City Commission Thursday evening that the now two-decade-old plan to rebuild 2.6 miles of beach south of the pier is set to begin in June.

Latest Lawsuit Against Obamacare Could End Free Preventive Healthcare for 150 Million Americans

August 21, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

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More than 150 million Americans now have access to scores of preventive health measures at no cost, sparing many from illness and catching diseases early for others. They no longer will, if the latest GOP-backed effort to undo Obamacare is successful.

The Passion of The Woolbright

August 19, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 81 Comments

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Enraptured in the language of white Christian nationalists, Jill Woolbright, the Flagler County School Board member, has turned her campaign for re-election into a crusade against her own, to eradicate “evil spirits” and clean house at the district of people who don’t look or pray like her, or share her pathological sexual obsessions. Academics can wait.

10,000 Square Foot Splash Pad’s Surface at Holland Park Will be Torn Up In Search for Source of Flaws

August 19, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 38 Comments

The beleaguered splash pad at Holland Park will have its surface torn up as investigation of its flaws continues. (© FlaglerLive)

Palm Coast is attempting to reverse-engineer the problem that led to the $5.1 million splash park’s fatal malfunction, forcing it to shut down a year ago after being opened only in late spring of 2021, and for a few weeks of that summer. 

ThemToo: ‘Men Painting Women’ Treads Political Minefield at Art League of Daytona Beach

August 19, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

“Iris” by Leonardo Montoya

The curator of the exhibit, opening at the Art League of Daytona Beach Saturday with works from Palm Coast artist Weldon Ryan and four others, is aware that “Men Painting Women” may be seen by some as politically incorrect these days. But the exhibition stems from both sublime art history and simple serendipity among his circle of friends.

Federal Judge Blocks Parts of DeSantis Anti-‘Woke’ Law Muzzling Race-Sensitivity Training at Work

August 18, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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The employment-related part of the law lists eight race-related concepts and says that a required training program or other activity that “espouses, promotes, advances, inculcates, or compels such individual (an employee) to believe any of the following concepts constitutes discrimination based on race, color, sex, or national origin.”

DeSantis Touts Arrests of 0.000001% of Voters for Fraud in 2020

August 18, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

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The general election drew 11.145 million voters, the primary drew 3.896 million, for a combined total of 15.041 million votes cast. The 17 arrests means that Florida had an astoundingly low rate of fraud of precisely 0.000001%.

Flagler Beach Commission Gives City Manager William Whitson A Mediocre Evaluation, and a Few Pointers

August 18, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Flagler Beach City Manager William Whitson with his one true champion on the commission, Jane Mealy, last February, just before Whitson's tenure ran into a series of difficulties. (© FlaglerLive)

As an evaluation for the chief executive of a local government, that of City Manager William Whitson, his first since his arrival here in May 2021, is not a triumph. It evokes words like middling, mediocre, passable, decent, tolerable. In the exact words of the evaluations themselves, they average out to the low end of “Meets the Job Standards.”

False Active Shooter Alarm Triggers Massive Response at Matanzas High School

August 18, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

A Flagler County Sheriff's deputy, long gun drawn, running toward the campus this morning, at the beginning of the emergency. (© FlaglerLive)

Matanzas High School went into lockdown, deputies swarmed toward the school, as did rescues, shortly after 11 this morning when a signal intended to alarm the school to the presence of an active shooter or assailant went off.

School Board’s Massaro and Conklin Denounce Woolbright ‘s ‘Disgusting and Despicable’ Zealotry

August 17, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 31 Comments

"I am a lifelong Republican," Cheryl Massaro said, "but I'm a moderate." (© FlaglerLive)

At the end of Tuesday’s Flagler County School Board meeting, Cheryl Massaro and Colleen Conklin, without naming her, sharply denounced fellow-Board member Jill Woolbright characterizing them and district staffers as “evil” in one of three campaign speeches she delivered at churches last weekend.

Arming School Staffers on Flagler’s Campuses Raises Questions of Cost, Training and Numbers

August 17, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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The Flagler County School Board is considering whether to add armed civilians, possibly school staffers, on school campuses, but a workshop on the issue raised almost as many questions as it answered, with numerous issues still undecided–if the board were to go that way. That, too, is uncertain for now.

Goodwill Opens Larger Palm Coast Store, Expecting $35,000 in Business Per Week

August 17, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

The very first shoppers, followed by a few dozen more crowding in, as Goodwill opened its store on Palm Coast Parkway this morning, following a ribbon-cutting. (© FlaglerLive)

Goodwill’s 16,000 square foot store on Palm Coast Parkway is about 5,000 square feet larger than the previous location. It employs 28 people, is expected to cater to 280 to 300 customers a day and generate $35,000 in sales per week.

School Board’s Jill Woolbright Says She’s in ‘Satanic Warfare’ Against ‘Evil Spirits’ at School District

August 16, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 88 Comments

School Board member Jill Woolbright, flanked by New Way Church Pastor Richard Summerl;in and his wife Kimberly Summerlin during a prayer-endorsement after Woolbright campaigned for seven minutes before the congregation during a service over the weekend.

Flagler County School Board incumbent Jill Woolbright, who is in a non-partisan race against Sally Hunt to be decided in the Aug. 23 election, says God placed her on the school board, that she is involved in “satanic warfare,” and that, in a reference to others on the school board and at the district office, she has “felt the evil spirits around me.”

Sheriff and County Administrator Duel Over Policing Budget Before Commissioners Nod Staly’s Way

August 16, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly and County Administrator Heidi Petito dueled in front of a standing-room-only meeting room Monday night over the sheriff’s claim that the county was underfunding him, and the county’s counter that it has increased the sheriff’s budget by 48 percent since 2018, not including spending on facilities like the new Sheriff’s Operations center. But in the end, Petito’s bosses showed readiness to go Staly’s way.

Exorbitant Costs to Save Beaches, and Doing Nothing is Not an Option, Flagler Commissioners Are Told

August 15, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

A beach carved out: the area just north of the Flagler Beach pier on Sunday, after it had lost even more sand over the past week. (© FlaglerLive)

The county commission this morning heard the results of the $250,000 beach management study it commissioned last year, and was left with two certainties: doing nothing is not an option. Starting to do something is unaffordable for now, even with six options presented by Olsen Associates, the Tampa-based consultants the county hired for the study.

Sheriff Plans Show of Force, and Threatens Appeal to Governor, Over Budget Stalemate With County

August 15, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

Sheriff Rick Staly will tell Flagler County commissioners this evening that his agency is losing deputies to neighboring agencies because the pay is not competitive enough. Staly is seeking to have a deputy's starting pay equal that of firefighters, at around $51,000 a year. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly and the Police Benevolent Association, the union representing deputies, are organizing a show of force that would pack the county commission’s chambers this evening in hopes of swaying commissioners to give the sheriff more than the additional $4.45 million they are so far providing for next year’s budget.

Mothers Behind Book-Banning Campaign Claim Their First Amendment Rights Are Being Violated

August 14, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

Students, teachers and parents protested an effort, partially successful, by Flagler County School Board member Jill Woolbright last fall to ban "All Boys Aren't Blue" and three other titles from school libraries. "All Boys" was removed. The other three were restored. (© FlaglerLive)

The self-dubbed Mama Bears filed a federal lawsuit alleging that by not being allowed to read sexually explicit material aloud at school board meetings, they themselves are being censored.

1st Early Voting Day Begins With Harmony and a Cross-Party Prayer. Then Joe Mullins Shows Up.

August 13, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 63 Comments

Commissioner Greg Hansen, to the right, near the Republican Club's tent, where Linda Hansen--sitting, speaking with candidate Denise Calderwood--had the altercation with Joe Mullins this morning, as Mullins sought to have his campaign literature under the tent. The Democrat's tent is between the Republican Club's and that of Alan Lowe. The tents were set up on the east side of the Flagler County Public Library for the first day of early voting today. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Sheriff’s deputies were called to the public library early voting site this morning after Commissioner Joe Mullins got into a heated verbal altercation with Linda Hansen, wife of Commissioner Greg Hansen, who has himself been the target of Mullins’s insults. It was the latest burst from a mass of dark clouds that have increasingly cloaked Mullins week after week as he attempts to win re-election.

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