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TR, as FPC Principal Tom Russell Was Known to Most, Is Celebrated as Learner, Leader, Tweeter and Jovial, Heroic Dad

December 18, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Tom Russell in a photo shown at this evening's memorial, with a grandchild.

James Tom Russell, who died on Dec. 9 after leading Flagler Palm Coast High School for just a year and a half after a long career in leadership of Volusia County schools, was celebrated at a memorial at Jackie Robinson Stadium Friday evening with broad-ranging affection and admiration.

DeSantis Passes Over Rendzio and Names Kenny Janesk Judge in 7th Judicial Circuit, Which Includes Flagler

December 18, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Kenny Janesk has been the assistant state attorney's managing partner at the Putnam County office. (Jennifer Dunton)

Janesk has been a prosecutor in the Seventh Circuit State Attorney’s Office since 2011, working as the managing attorney of the Putnam County office. The appointment fills the position vacated by Circuit Judge Patti A. Christensen, who stepped down at the end of September.

Flagler’s Unemployment Rate Ticks Back Up, Florida’s Stalls as Covid’s Effects Take Economic Toll

December 18, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Flagler and Florida's economies have stalled since late summer. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County’s unemployment rate in November rose slightly to 5.9 percent, from a revised 5.5 percent in October, as Florida’s rate remained unchanged at 6.4 percent, signaling a deepening stall of economic activity since summer’s end as the coronavirus continues to take a human and economic toll in the state: seasonal hiring has not materialized as it has in less diseased years.

Agriculture Commissioner Raises Alarms Over EPA Shifting Federal Wetlands Regulations to Florida

December 18, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

A marsh surrounding the edge of a golf course in Franklintown, Florida. (Florida Memory)

Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, the only statewide elected Democrat, and some environmental groups criticized the decision, saying it will reduce protections for wetlands. They also pointed to the announcement’s timing as Republican President Donald Trump is slated to leave office next month.

On Eve of Tom Russell Memorial, School Board’s McDonald Downplays Covid Deaths and Calls for ‘Backing Off This Fear’ of Virus

December 17, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

Janet McDonald has on several occasions used her school board seat to disseminate false, misleading or inaccurate information about Covid-19. She did so again on Tuesday. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County School Board member Janet McDonald falsely claimed at a workshop that overall deaths are down this year, that masks are harmful, testing unreliable, and that the district should focus on “wellness” rather than additionally “ramp-up” safety measures. She did so days from the memorial for Tom Russell, the FPC principal who died of complications from Covid.

Flagler Schools Will Replace Most Covid-Positive Alert Letters With Web-Based Dashboard Updated Daily

December 17, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Covid testing at the Flagler Health Department in Bunnell. (© FlaglerLive)

A new dashboard tracking positive Covid cases throughout the school district will go live Jan. 4. Parents and others have grown increasingly jaded with the Flagler school district’s drizzle of notification letters whenever positive Covid cases are confirmed.

‘Each Day Matters’: Covid Vaccinations Start at Nursing Homes in Florida

December 16, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Florida received 179,400 doses of the Pfizer vaccine this week. About 100,000 were sent to five Florida hospitals, and tens of thousands of doses went to CVS and Walgreens, which signed agreements with the federal government to vaccinate residents and staff members at long-term care facilities.

Flagler Beach Commissioners Narrow Manager Applicants to 5, Aiming for February Appointment

December 16, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Ken Parker, left, is the retired Port Orange City Manager. He's been helping the Flagler Beach City Commission filter through its list of applicants for managers. (© FlaglerLive via YouTube)

The Flagler Beach City Commission on Tuesday evening shuffled and narrowed its list of prospective city managers from seven to five. The commission is on pace to hire a new manager, replacing the late Larry Newsom, by February. 

Nathaniel Shimmel, 25, Sentenced to 50 Years in Stabbing Death of His Mother, Michele, at Their Palm Coast Home

December 16, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Nathaniel Rider Shimmel getting finger-printed this morning after being sentenced to 50 years in prison in the stabbing death of his mother, Michele, three years ago. (© FlaglerLive)

Shimmel had faced the possibility of life in prison. His 50-year sentence will be followed by lifetime probation. Between time served and early release, he may be eligible to leave prison in 2060, when he will be 64. The family of the victim agreed to the plea deal to bring closure to the homicide case of longest date on the court’s docket.

At Groundbreaking on $23 Million Sheriff’s Operations Center, County Hopes ‘Difficult’ Years of Errors Are Over

December 16, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

Ready shovels today on the site of what will become the Sheriff's Operations Center in Bunnell, south of the Government Services Building complex. (© FlaglerLive)

Sheriff’s, county, Bunnell and Flagler Beach officials broke ground today on a 51,000-square foot, $23 million Sheriff’s Operations Center on the future Commerce Parkway in Bunnell, possibly ending eight years of costly errors and misjudgments and what will be a four-year exile for the sheriff’s agency from a place of its own.

Trevor Tucker, in Remarkable Shift, Provides 3-2 Majority to Add ‘Gender Identity’ to Long-Sought School Protections

December 15, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

Flagler County School Board Chairman Trevor Tucker. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County School Board this evening reversed its April vote and added “gender identity” to its anti-discrimination policy, ending a year-long and at times controversial and embittered debate over the identity and rights of LGBTQ students.

Palm Coast Council Awards Jacksonville University $2.5 Million to Open Town Center Campus, But Without Unanimity

December 15, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Jacksonville University President Tim Cost addressing the Palm Coast City Council this morning.

While the Palm Coast City Council’s majority supported the subsidy with enthusiasm, Council members Ed Danko and Victor Barbosa opposed awarding some or all of the money to the University of Jacksonville for different reasons, a split that did not exist when the council welcomed the University of North Florida with a $1.5 million subsidy.

18 Years Later, Flagler Finally Recognizes Firefighter John Keppler Jr.’s Line-of-Duty Death With a Memorial

December 15, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

A family photo of John Keppler and his sons, also firefighters, at a state memorial honoring Keppler's line-of-duty death in 2002. (Keppler family)

An 18-year effort to get Flagler County to recognize former county firefighter John R. Keppler Jr.’s line-of-duty death in 2002 finally ended Monday evening with the county commission’s decision to rename the fire rescue training facility on Justice Lane after Keppler. But he will still not get benefits owed those who fall in the line of duty.

Cell Tower Proposal at Palm Harbor Golf Club Delayed After Intense Opposition and Questions of Location

December 15, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

A group opposed to locating a 150-foot cell tower on the Palm Harbor Golf Club grounds produced a map showing the tower "moving" from an original location near the Green Lion restaurant to a different location.

The decision to table the proposal until January 19 followed almost an hour of tense, at times embittered public comment and interactions with Mayor Milissa Holland, including the threat of a lawsuit, as opponents claimed the city or its contractor had illegally moved the proposed location.

County Scraps Rent-Free Space for Senior Meals in Flagler Beach to Pay $3,000 a Month, With $1,200 Yearly Increases

December 14, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

Senior services no more at Wickline in Flagler Beach. (© FlaglerLive)

County commissioners Monday evening were set to approve a plan that would move the senior meals program from the Wickline Center in Flagler Beach to Church on the Rock in Bunnell and pay the church $3,000 a month in rent the first year, rising by $100 a month per year over the potential 15-year life of the lease, ending a 38-year, rent-free relationship.

Federal Felon and 2 Teens Arrested in Armed Home Invasion-Robbery on Palm Coast’s Prospect Lane

December 14, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

Korie Jones, 16, one of the four alleged assailants in the home-invasion robbery, as he was located by a search dog and deputies early the morning of Dec. 13 in brush. (© FlaglerLive via YouTube)

Carlos Dupree, 34, a felon on probation, Korey Jones, 16, and Darius Watts, 15, were arrested early Sunday following an alleged armed home-invasion robbery at a house on Prospect Lane in Palm Coast where seven victims sustained injuries and were robbed at gunpoint.

Hospitals Scramble to Prioritize Which Workers Are First for Scarce Covid Vaccine

December 14, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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An advisory committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended that top priority go to long-term care facilities and front-line health care workers, but the early allocation was always expected to fall far short of the need and require selective screening even among critical hospital workers.

Why Was Flagler’s County Administrator Allowed to Illegally Start a Public Meeting With a Christian Prayer?

December 12, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 82 Comments

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A county commissioner read out a long and explicitly Christian prayer prepared by County Administrator Jerry Cameron at Monday’s commission meeting, breaking decades of precedent without prior legal review, public discussion or commissioners’ prior knowledge.

Grand Jury Rips Florida’s Mental Health System, Citing ‘Deficiencies in Funding, Leadership and Services’

December 11, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Add to the list: a shoddy mental health system. The slide was shown at a suicide-prevention town hall in palm Coast last year. (© FlaglerLive)

The statewide grand jury studying school safety said in the report that it is “clear to us that inadequately addressed mental health issues have the peculiar potential to spiral out over time into criminal acts and violent behavior resulting in serious injury and loss of life.”

Fred Griffith, Flagler Beach’s City Engineer, Abruptly Announces Retirement ‘Under Duress’ After Reprimand

December 11, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

Fred Griffith, Flagler Beach’s city engineer since 2017, said he was retiring “under duress” after getting a written reprimand, following a complaint by City Commissioner Rick Belhumeur that Griffith had directed “contempt” at him. Griffith was not known to have easy public relations.

As Covid Deaths Reach 46 in Flagler, Local Officials Detail Vaccination Plans and Refute Anti-Vaxxers’ Disinformation

December 11, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Flagler's weekly positive-coronavirus case load through last Saturday. In the five days since, 99 cases have been confirmed, with two days of reporting left. (© FlaglerLive)

Dr. Stephen Bickel and Bob Snyder of the Flagler Health Department outlined the logistics of vaccinating all residents and refuted disinformation about the dangers of vaccines, describing how individuals may feel after getting vaccinated and what the chances are of having adverse reactions.

Jacksonville University Plans Major Campus Expansion in Palm Coast in City’s 2nd Higher-Ed Partnership

December 11, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Jacksonville University opened its campus in 1934. It is planning its first-ever expansion in Palm Coast by next fall. (Facebook)

Jacksonville University and Palm Coast announced a joint partnership that will open a JU campus in town–the university’s first-ever expansion beyond Jacksonville in its 86-year history–and enroll 150 to 200 full-time students within 24 months. The focus will be health-care education, and more specifically, nursing.

Flagler Beach Commission Unanimously Clears a Step Toward Flagler Beach Hotel Construction in Center of Town

December 10, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

The Flagler Beach Hotel around 1950. (Florida Memory)

The vote was unanimous. The discussion–what there was of it–took all of eight minutes. There was no discussion among commissioners, no controversy, and aside from one public voice opposed, no dissent, clearing yet another hurdle for the planned hotel.

Advisers Recommend Checkered Shortlist of 7 for Flagler Beach City Manager, Out of Motley Field of 57 Applicants

December 10, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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An advisory group of retired city managers has recommended a short-list of seven candidates for Flagler Beach city manager, but city commissioners are free to decide for themselves who they will choose to interview when they discuss the pool of 57 candidates Thursday evening. The candidate will replace the late Larry Newsom.

Tom Russell, Flagler Palm Coast High School Principal, Dies of Covid Complications, Leaving ‘Legacy of Kindness and Decency’

December 9, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 32 Comments

James Tom Russell, Flagler Palm Coast High School’s principal since 2019 and a former superintendent in Volusia County, where he built a 30-year career in education, died today of complications from covid-19. Russell had been diagnosed with Covid-19 on Nov. 16 and more recently was hospitalized.

$21 Million Sheriff’s Building Would Be Financed With 15-Year CenterState Bank Loan at 1.83% Interest

December 9, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

County Administrator Jerry Cameron, left, gave County Commissioner Dave Sullivan inaccurate or confused information on Monday when asked about the financing of the proposed Sheriff's Operations Center. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County commissioners on Monday will consider approving a $20 million loan from a commercial bank to finance the proposed Sheriff’s Operations Center in Bunnell, significantly adding to the county’s current debt load of $142 million and annual debt servicing of more than $11 million.

Talk of Stimulus: Cancel All Student Debt

December 8, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 27 Comments

The Federal Reserve board room at the Marriner S. Eccles building. (Federal Reserve)

Research by the Federal Reserve and the Levy Economics Institute shows that debt cancellation would boost the national economy. Freed up from these financial burdens, former debt holders would have more buying power just when we and they need it most.

Appeals Court Tosses GOP Challenge to Mask Mandate in Leon, But Doesn’t Address Constitutional Issues

December 8, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Throughout the pandemic, Gov. Ron DeSantis has declined to issue a statewide mask mandate. He also issued an executive order in September that suspended collection of fines and penalties related to violations of mask requirements, but that did not prevent local governments from continuing to have the requirements.

Fifth New Cell Tower in 2 Years, at Palm Harbor Golf Club, Draws Less Than Beaming Reception

December 8, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

The year-and-a-half-old cell-tower monopole on Palm Coast Parkway, near Heroes Park. A similar pole is planned for a parcel on the city's Palm Harbor Golf Club.

A new, 150-foot monopole off of 20 Palm Harbor Drive, on the grounds of the city’s golf club, drew a little bit of resistance from a council member and a few residents, though the Palm Coast City Council appears ready to approve construction later this month.

State Police Raid Home of Rebekah Jones, Ex-Florida Health Department Whistleblower on Covid Stats

December 7, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

FDLE agents, guns drawn, at Rebekah Jones's home this morning, according to a video clip she posted on her Twitter feed.

Rebekah Jones was fired earlier this year after complaining that Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration was manipulating Covid-19 data to make the virus appear less prevalent as the governor pushed to reopen Florida’s economy.

$21 Million Flagler Sheriff’s Operations Center Unveiled, But Questions About Financing Remain Unanswered

December 7, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

The Flagler County Commission approved a $21 million, 51,000 square-foot Sheriff’s Operations Center. But questions remain unanswered about the project’s financing, which was not presented to the commission today, and its ultimate cost, which would reach nearly $23 million when financing it over 15 years is included. 

Pistols, a Hearse and Trucks Playing Chicken: Why Some Voters Felt Harassed and Intimidated at the Polls

December 6, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Across the country, people complained about threats, aggressive electioneering and racist language both at early voting locations and on Election Day. We’ve corroborated some of those accounts.

Enough with ‘Patently False and Fabricated Conspiracy Theories’ on 2020 Vote, a GOP Elections Supervisor Says

December 4, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

Brian Corley, a Republican, has been Pasco County's elections supervisor since 2007. (Pasco Supervisor's Office via YouTube)

Pasco County Elections Supervisor Brian Corley, a Republican, condemns continuing attacks on the integrity of the presidential election– the most secure, transparent election in history, he says, now undermined by “destructive rhetoric” that is “prioritizing politics at the expense of our country’s founding principles.”

43rd Flagler Resident Dies of Covid; Local Covid Hospitalizations at 15; Fire Chief Out Sick, County Refuses to Say Who’s In Charge

December 4, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

The number of Covid-related hospitalizations is reaching highs last seen in summer. (© FlaglerLive)

Some 47 Palm Coast city government employees are currently out either directly or indirectly affected by Covid, but the county is refusing to disclose numbers, or say who’s leading the fire department, whose interim chief, Joe King, has been out with a covid diagnosis.

City Approves Development of Medical Campus that Would Extend Palm Coast Parkway Across U.S. 1

December 4, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Back when Palm Coast Parkway was in its infancy, when the west side of what is today the parkway was still called (Flagler County Historical Society)

The 89-acre development may include a hospital, medical offices, laboratories, primary care center, urgent care center, a wellness center, outpatient surgery center, educational facilities, other medical-related uses, and ancillary retail and restaurant uses, according to the development agreement.

Palm Coast Councilmen Behave, But Public Segments Turn Twilight Zones of Conspiracies and Fabrications

December 3, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

The luckiest man in Palm Coast: Bob Cuff, stepping down from the City Council two weeks ago at the end of his four-year tenure, with a few final words of farewell for Mayor Milissa Holland. He opted not to run again. (© FlaglerLive)

Numerous members of the public’s chip-on-the-shoulder grievances against the Palm Coast City Council suggest that the noxious and often fallacy-filled and slanderous rhetoric may not have ended with the election, but merely morphed into a new form, using the council as platform, and council members as punching bags.

Covid Justice: Florida Court Rules Zoom Hearings Don’t Violate Defendants’ Constitutional Rights

December 2, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Flagler County Circuit Judge Terence Perkins holding a set of hearings by zoom recently: he presided from his courtroom, defendants were connected by video from the jail, lawyers and others by Zoom. (© FlaglerLive)

In a legal test of remote court proceedings during the Covid-19 pandemic, an appeals court Wednesday rejected arguments that using Zoom technology in a probation-violation hearing would violate a defendant’s constitutional rights.

Felon Who Had AdventHealth Palm Coast On Lock-Down Over Threats to Kill Is Sentenced to Probation

December 2, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Kelsey Anderson in his recent Flagler County jail booking photo, left, and his state prison photo.

Kelsey Joe Anderson, the 38-year-old Bunnell felon who had AdventHealth Palm Coast on lockdown 14 months ago after he threatened his wife, who worked there, that he was driving over there to kill her co-workers, was found guilty of a second-degree felony and will serve a year under house arrest and three years on probation, but no jail or prison time.

Flagler’s Cold-Weather Homeless Shelter, In New Home, Opens for 15 Guests With a Few Dollars’ Help from Local Governments

December 2, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

At the Sheltering Tree's new cold-weather shelter at Church on the Rock, beds are arranged for the homeless with distance and some privacy. (© Martin Collins for FlaglerLive)

Flagler County’s only cold-weather shelter for the homeless moved from its old location after 12 years to Church on the Rock on U.S. 1, where it operated for the first time this year, on Monday and Tuesday nights, with security, privacy from formerly resentful neighbors, and elbow room to spare.

Unemployment Payments Are Weeks Late in Florida and in Nearly Every State

December 2, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

When Palm Coast organized its food drop in May, Florida was filling only 44 percent of unemployment benefit applications within three weeks, a rate half the required federal standard. In October, it was 57.7 percent, still 30 percent short of the federal standard. (© FlaglerLive)

A federal standard requires 87% of unemployment claims to be met within three weeks of filing. Florida wasn’t ,meeting the standard even before the pandemic, and since spring, saw the standard fall as low as 22 percent. Florida’s dismal record prompted a lawsuit.

Flagler Beach Hotel Replacing Farmers’ Market Gets Key Board’s Approval, With No Public Opposition

December 1, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 47 Comments

A rendering of the proposed Flagler Beach hotel at the center of town.

The Flagler Beach Planning Board Tuesday evening voted 7-0 to recommend the plan for a 97-room hotel and town houses adjacent to Veterans Park on land used for a farmers’ market for 30 years. There was. surprisingly, no public opposition. The proposal moves on to the City Commission on Dec. 10.

Flagler Sees Highest 2-Week Tally Yet as Covid Hits School, County and City Leaders and Passes 1 Million Mark in State

December 1, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Cases have reached their highest levels of the pandemic in Flagler in the last two weeks. (© FlaglerLive)

Leaders in Palm Coast, the Flagler County Fire Department and the district’s largest school are battling Covid-19 in a two-week stretch that’s also seen the highest number of infections in schools, where the plan is to continue the option of remote learning past Christmas.

12-Room Motel and 3-Unit Development, Including 2 Vacation Rentals, Advance in Flagler Beach

December 1, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

A rendering of the proposed 12-room motel on State Road A1A, at South 13th Street, in Flagler Beach.

While three tourism-focused proposed developments in Flagler Beach point to a bullish economic future that would help balance the city’s tax base, the spate of high-visibility proposals may also be contributing to a mixture of public unease and antagonism to so much palpable change, much of it in iconic areas.

97-Room Hotel and 10 Town Homes Would Replace Flagler Beach Farmer’s Market Parcel in Heart of the City

November 30, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 117 Comments

The Flagler Beach Farmers' Market in its heyday, in 2015. A 97-room hotel is proposed for the site along State Road 100, returning the 1.3-acre parcel to its former uses. (© FlaglerLive)

A South Florida architect and resort developer is proposing to build a 97-room resort and 10 walk-up town houses for short-term renters in Flagler Beach on the rectangular vacant acreage in the heart of city best known for its weekend farmers’ market, which has not been active in the past year. The resort, 35 feet tall at its height, would vastly change the complexion and skyline of downtown, though it would also be a return to form of sorts.

Florida (and Flagler) Can Thank ‘Luck’ as Most Active Hurricane Season on Record Ends Monday

November 29, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The more sterious storms stayed away from Flagler County and its fragile shoreline this year. (© FlaglerLive)

In a season that overlapped the coronavirus pandemic, most storms spun away from Florida, sparing communities double-barreled crises of responding to a major storm while contending with restrictions and safety concerns imposed by the coronavirus.

The Pendulum Was Swinging Toward Reopening Schools. Then Came the Surge.

November 28, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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The national Covid-19 surge that is overwhelming hospitals in some states has stalled any further movement toward opening classrooms. Scores of schools are closing in hard-hit states, and major cities are shelving plans to reopen schools for the first time.

Supreme Court Refuses to Reinstate Death Sentences in Decision That Could Affect 2 Flagler Inmates

November 27, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

David Snelgrove, whose mental capacities had been at the center of his arguments against a death sentence for the double murder he committed in Palm Coast decades ago, at his penalty-phase re-trial in January. A jury failed to reach unanimity for a death recommendation, and his sentence was commuted to life in prison. (© FlaglerLive)

The decisions could apply to about 100 inmates, possibly including David Snelgrove of Palm Coast, who was removed from death row in January after his lawyer successfully argued for life without parole, and Cornelius Baker, whose hope for a new penalty-phase trial is still pending.

Trump’s Suicide Bomber Act

November 25, 2020 | Pierre Tristam | 59 Comments

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Liberals would be fools to think the election was a turning point. The next four years will be as much a trial of democracy as the last four, just more diffuse, the cancer cells of Trumpism poisoning states and localities, as we’ve already seen locally in the last couple of years. Not the America we know? If you’ve been paying attention since 1980, it’s exactly the America we know.

Audrey II Puts Bite in City Rep’s “Little Shop of Horrors,” Opening Outdoors on Thanksgiving Weekend

November 25, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Alexander Loucks comes under the spell of the bloodthirsty plant Audrey II in the City Repertory Theatre production of “Little Shop of Horrors.” (© FlaglerLive)

“Little Shop of Horrors” is City Repertory Theatre’s most expensive production in 10 years, and is intended in part to give theater-goers a break from pandemic fatigue even as the show easily invites allegorical leaps to the present-day.

Two School Districts Had Different Mask Policies. Only One Had a Teacher on a Ventilator.

November 25, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

As Covid-19 cases skyrocket, political leaders have struggled to balance concerns about individual freedom and harm to the economy with the imperative of curbing the virus’s spread. (Alliance for Excellent Education)

Eleven states let school districts decide whether students and staff must wear masks. One Georgia middle school where masks were optional–only about half of the children wore them–became the center of an outbreak.

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