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State Regulators Reject Counter-Proposal by Customer Representative to Limit FPL Rate Increases

September 15, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

fpl power lines

As they consider a proposed settlement that would increase Florida Power & Light’s base electric rates, state regulators will not take up a “counter proposal” offered by opponents. FPL wants base-rate increases of $945 million in 2026 and $766 million in 2027. The counter proposal would have resulted in increases of $867 million in 2026 and $403 million in 2027.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, September 15, 2025

September 15, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Michael De Adder's cartoons cannot be reprinted in Canada

Canadian Michael De Adder’s take on American outrage, the East Flagler Mosquito Control District Board meets, the County Commission meets, traveling the rest rooms of I-4 in “free Florida,” Tom Hanks goes maga, changing place names.

As the Colorado River Dies, A New Battle Over Water Rights

September 14, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Lake Mead, impounded by Hoover Dam, contains far less water than it used to.

The seven Colorado Basin states have been grappling with how to deal with declining Colorado River supplies for a quarter century, revising usage guidelines and taking additional measures as drought has persisted and reservoir levels have continued to decline. The current guidelines will expire in late 2026, and talks on new guidelines have been stalled because the states can’t agree on how to avoid a future crisis.

In Florida, We Want Guns in Our Streets, Not Rainbows

September 14, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

State Sen. Carlos Guillermo Smith stands near the crosswalk outside the Pulse memorial site in Orlando on Aug. 23, 2025. State workers had removed Gay Pride colors at the site, but activists used chalk to restore the colors. The state later repaved the site. (Via Smith’s X feed)

No doubt Gov. Ron DeSantis expects Floridians to be grateful for saving us from yet another woke attack on decency, probity, and speeding motorists. Meaning colorful crosswalks. Just as he has fought to expel books by Black and gay authors from our schools, the governor has ordered FDOT to paint over the flowers, the sunbursts, the fish, the musical notes, and the rainbows — especially the rainbows. At least a dozen schools in Tampa will see their “Crosswalks to Classrooms” school crossings destroyed, including one painted to look like a shelf of books. Florida’s government is particularly scared of books.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, September 14, 2025

September 14, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Etched Cartridge by Dale Cummings, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com

Musicians of all ages can bring instruments and chairs and join in the jam session at Gamble Rogers State Recreation Area, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, why your personal parcels from abroad are not reaching your door anymore.

How to Avoid Seeing Disturbing Content on Social Media

September 13, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Richlin Ryan's 'The Scream.' Click on the image for larger view. (© FlaglerLive)

Social media platforms are designed to maximize engagement, not protect your peace of mind. The major platforms have also reduced their content moderation efforts over the past year or so. That means upsetting content can reach you even when you never chose to watch it. You do not have to watch every piece of content that crosses your screen, however. Protecting your own mental state is not avoidance or denial. It’s a way of safeguarding the bandwidth you need to stay engaged, compassionate and effective.

14th of the Year: DeSantis Signs Death Warrant for Samuel Smithers, 72, Who Murdered 2 Women in 1996

September 13, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Samuel Smithers.

In what could be Florida’s 14th execution this year, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a death warrant for a man convicted of murdering two women in 1996 in Hillsborough County and dumping them in a pond. Samuel Smithers, 72, is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection Oct. 14 at Florida State Prison for the murders of Denise Roach and Christy Cowan at a secluded property where he worked as a caretaker.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, September 13, 2025

September 13, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

In Case Of Emergency, Break Law by Ratt, PoliticalCartoons.com

Peps Art Walk near  Beachfront Grille in Flagler Beach, American Association of University Women meeting, Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, the connection between Seal Team 6’s killing of innocent Koreans and a Jules Verne pearl diver.

America’s 250 Years of Political Violence: It’s Very Much Who We Are

September 12, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Punishment by tar and feather of Thomas Ditson, who purchased a gun from a British soldier in Boston in March 1775.

The day after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while speaking at Utah Valley University, commentators repeated a familiar refrain: “This isn’t who we are as Americans.” But it is. American politics has long personalized its violence. the U.S. was founded upon – and has long been sustained by – this very form of political violence.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, September 12, 2025

September 12, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Florida ends kids vaccine mandates by John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

John Darkow and a few other voices on on Florida’s anti-vaccine reversion, the Florida Ethics Commission meets and presumably resolves the Lauren Ramirez questions, the Friday Blue Forum meets.

83% of Palestinians Killed in Gaza Have Been Civilians

September 11, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Assuming they make it past the next Israeli bullet. (Wikimedia Commons)

Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database, reported recently by the Guardian, indicate that 83% of the Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza as of May have been civilians. Israel’s own military data also now shows that Israeli officials have both overstated the number of militants they say have been killed and, by implication, the ratio of civilian to militant deaths.

Paul Renner Banks on ‘Looming Civil War’ Between DeSantis Supporters and Trump Loyalists to Win

September 11, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

House Speaker Paul Renner, whose district includes all of Flagler County, at Flagler Tiger Bay today. (© FlaglerLive)

Paul Renner expects to win the GOP nomination by taking advantage of a deepening rift between DeSantis supporters and Trump loyalists ahead of the 2026 gubernatorial race and legislative session. Renner believes he may have the “unifying” message conservative voters are looking for.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, September 11, 2025

September 11, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

Four Departments of the Apocalypse by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com

9/11 Tribute Climb at Hammock Beach Resort, Flagler County government tax and budget hearing, Evenings at Whitney Lecture Series return tonight, the Flagler Beach City Commission meets, Model Yacht Club Races in Central Park, replaying the Gulf of Tonkin hoax in Venezuela.

Canadians, Like Others, Are Snubbing Travel to The U.S. This Summer

September 10, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The Canadian-US border. (Wikimedia Commons)

Global attitudes towards the United States as a tourism destination are plunging. Travel pressures, exchange rate shifts and increasing economic uncertainty have all damaged the reputation of the American travel sector. Canadian travellers are increasingly turning to domestic destinations instead of heading south. In July, Canada recorded its seventh consecutive month of declining travel by Canadians to the U.S..

Appeals Court Ruling Against Transgender Deputy May Buttress Florida’s Restrictions on Pronouns Use

September 10, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

A sharply divided 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday against a transgender Georgia sheriff's deputy. 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Florida’s defense of a 2023 law restricting pronouns that transgender teachers can use to identify themselves could be aided by an appeals-court ruling Tuesday in a Georgia case. A transgender Houston County, Ga., sheriff’s deputy filed that lawsuit after she was denied coverage under a county health-insurance policy for surgery related to gender dysphoria. The sharply divided appeals court ruled against the Georgia deputy, Anna Lange. Judge Nancy Abudu, in a dissenting opinion, pointed to potentially far-reaching effects of the majority ruling, calling it discrimination against transgender people.”

“The majority opinion effectively sanctions employment discrimination against transgender people,” Abudu’s dissent said.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, September 10, 2025

September 10, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Trump Birthday Card To Epstein by Peter Kuper, PoliticalCartoons.com

Peter Kuper on Trump’s optical allusions, River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization’s bike and pedestrian committee meets, Weekly Chess Club for Teens at the library, remembering Charles Aznavour.

Netanyahu’s ‘Cowardly’ Attack on Qatar and His Rage for Decapitation

September 9, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu is not interested in negotiations. (Wikimedia Commons)

Israel launched an unprecedented airstrike on the Qatari capital of Doha on September 9, the first time it has directly attacked a Gulf state. The Qatari government said it “strongly condemns the cowardly Israeli attack”, which it described as “a blatant violation of international law”. The Netanyahu government has now decided that its regional objectives will be pursued through “decapitation”.

Ft. Lauderdale Joins Miami in Challenging Transportation Department’s Erasing of Street Art and Memorials

September 9, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

What used to be the rainbow=colored crosswalk near Pulse nightclub at West Esther Street and East Orange Avenue

Days after the city of Miami Beach filed a similar case, Fort Lauderdale has challenged the legality of directives by the Florida Department of Transportation to remove art and markings on streets. Fort Lauderdale filed its challenge Monday at the state Division of Administrative Hearings, arguing that the department did not go through a legally required rule-making process. Such directives went to local governments across the state and have drawn heavy attention, in part, because they required removing LGBTQ-themed rainbow crosswalks.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, September 9, 2025

September 9, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Trump at Tiananmen Square - 2025 by Christo Komarnitski, Bulgaria

The Palm Coast City Council meets in an evening workshop, the Community Traffic Safety Team meets, so does the Flagler County Planning Board, a Bulgarian view of the tariffs, on the mythology of progress.

Duke Energy Wants Florida to Prepare for Power-Hungry Data Centers

September 8, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

A data center in Michigan. (Wikimedia Commons)

With artificial intelligence and other technology driving massive increases in demand for electricity, Duke Energy Florida on Friday filed a proposal aimed at preparing for the possibility of data centers being built in the state. The proposal, filed at the Florida Public Service Commission, came as the issue is also part of a broad Florida Power & Light rate case.

Why FEMA Is Essential in Disasters

September 8, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

fema essential

To better understand FEMA’s value, let’s take a look back at how the nation responded to disasters before the agency existed–it wasn’t pretty– and what history reveals about when FEMA was most effective.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, September 8, 2025

September 8, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

clay jones on trump's health

Clay Jones on the octogenarian president’s strange and shaky health, The Bunnell City Commission meets, the Library Board of Trustees meets, the great historian William H. McNeill’s optimism.

Florida’s DOGE Should Investigate the Money Wasted on ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

September 7, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

A judge said the state agency building “Alligator Alcatraz’ failed to present any evidence of the required environmental studies prior to construction. Building it cost the taxpayers millions and it’s being shut down after just two months. (Photo via Florida Division of Emergency Management X account)

Gov. Ron DeSantis decided to blow millions in taxpayer money on a tent-and-fence camp in the middle of a major nature preserve. Believe it or not, he did it without doing one single thing to check its impact on our endangered panthers, our clean water, or our recovering Everglades. Instead, he just rushed to build it as fast as possible, spending $218 million. He had to truck in everything the staff and inmates needed, from portable toilets that repeatedly overflowed to blinding lights that ruined one of the few dark-sky places left in our state.

How Targeted US Hit on Caribbean Boat Was a Blatant Violation of International Law

September 7, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

The moment before an alleged drug boat was hit in a targeted U.S. strike. @realDonaldTrump/Truth Social

The U.S. government is justifying its lethal destruction of a boat suspected of transporting illegal drugs in the Caribbean as an attack on “narco-terrorists.” To an expert on international law, that line of argument goes nowhere. Even if, as the U.S. claims, the 11 people killed in the Sept. 2, 2025, U.S. Naval strike were members of the Tren de Aragua gang, it would make no difference under the laws that govern the use of force by state actors. Unlawful killing is unlawful regardless of who does it, why, or the reaction to it. And in regard to the U.S. strike on the alleged Venezuelan drug boat, the deaths were unlawful.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, September 7, 2025

September 7, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

School vouchers go to private school students by John Cole, Tennessee | Lookout, TennesseeLookout.com

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, when the Southern Baptist Convention told women to submit to their husbands the day before the Wisconsin Supreme Court opened the floodgates to school vouchers and called it safe for secularism.

Canada Leading UK and France in Boycott of American Goods Over Trump Tariffs

September 6, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

United against American goods. (© FlaglerLive)

Statistics Canada reports that Canadian trips to the U.S. are down by 28.7 per cent from last year. Left-wing and right-wing people are participating in the boycott of American products. There are no ideological differences in participation in Canada and France. However, in the U.K., those on the right are more likely to boycott American products, services and travel than those on the left.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, September 6, 2025

September 6, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Fact Checker by Harley Schwadron, CagleCartoons.com

It’s Casino Night at the Flagler Woman’s Club, the Flagler Beach All Stars hold their monthly beach clean-up, where medieval scribes and today’s fact-averse ideologues join hands, fact-checking Ronald Reagan.

How AI Is About to Change Military Command Structures

September 5, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

This U.S. Army command post, seen from a drone, is loaded with modern technology but uses a centuries-old structure.

Despite two centuries of evolution, the structure of a modern military staff would be recognizable to Napoleon. At the same time, military organizations have struggled to incorporate new technologies as they adapt to new domains – air, space and information – in modern war. AI agents – autonomous, goal-oriented software powered by large language models – can automate routine staff tasks, compress decision timelines and enable smaller, more resilient command posts. They can shrink the staff while also making it more effective.

Court Backs Florida DCF Ban on Religious Ideologies in Domestic Abuser Intervention Programs

September 5, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

When it's court-ordered, it has to be secular. (© FlaglerLive)

A federal appeals court Thursday backed the Florida Department of Children and Families in a First Amendment dispute about a state regulation barring “faith-based ideology” in a program that people convicted of domestic violence are required to attend.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, September 5, 2025

September 5, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Federal Troops to Keep Us Free From Democracy

First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, First Friday in Flagler Beach, Free Family Art Night, Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens, Flannery O’Connor’s “Geranium” and “Judgement Day.”

AI Slop: As Cheap and Sleazy as It Sounds

September 4, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

This AI-generated image spread far and wide in the wake of Hurricane Helene in 2024. AI-generated image circulated on social media

AI slop is low- to mid-quality content – video, images, audio, text or a mix – created with AI tools, often with little regard for accuracy. It’s fast, easy and inexpensive to make this content. AI slop producers typically place it on social media to exploit the economics of attention on the internet, displacing higher-quality material that could be more helpful. AI slop has been increasing over the past few years. As the term “slop” indicates, that’s generally not good for people using the internet.

Guns and Ammo Will be Tax-Free in Florida Until the End of the Year

September 4, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

The ban on felons owning or possessing guns prevails. (© FlaglerLive)

Starting Monday and running through the end of the year, Florida will provide a sales-tax exemption on a variety of hunting equipment, the first time a state tax “holiday” includes guns and ammunition. The tax holiday starting Monday also will allow people to avoid paying sales taxes on camping and fishing equipment through the end of the year. It was part of a broad tax package (HB 7031) that lawmakers passed in June.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, September 4, 2025

September 4, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

flag burning clay jones

Clay Jones on flag-burning, Joao Fernandes, the 50-year-old Palm Coast resident a jury convicted of hit-and-run on Belle Terre Parkway in July, is sentenced, Palm Coast’s Residential Drainage Advisory Committee meets, when writers back censorship.

Understanding China’s New Military Power

September 3, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The missiles have gotten bigger and China's might mightier since a 2015 military parade. (Wikimedia Commons)

With the conflicts in Ukraine, south Asia, and the Middle East showing the limitations of more established European and Russian hardware, there are growing opportunities for Chinese weapons technology. It’s also likely that Chinese military systems will find customers among countries that are not on Donald Trump’s list of favoured nations, such as Iran. Should Iran be able to equip itself with Chinese systems, it will be better placed to go head-to-head with Israel.

What the Hell? An Indecorous DeSantis Calls Renner’s Governor Run ‘Ill-Advised’

September 3, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

DeSantis, who may have had his wife in his 2026 sights, is not saluting Renner's decision to run for governor. (© FlaglerLive)

Ron DeSantis does not want former Florida House Speaker Paul Renner to succeed him as governor, he told a packed crowd Wednesday. His blunt take on the 48-year-old’s candidacy stood in contrast to Renner’s campaign launch earlier Wednesday, when the former House Speaker lauded himself as a top GOP figure who played a key role in advancing DeSantis’s agenda.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, September 3, 2025

September 3, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Police State Badge by Bill Day, FloridaPolitics.com

The Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board meets, the Flagler County Republican Club, the Weekly Chess Club for Teens at the public library, chatting with James Garner, America’s undistinguished years before the Founders.

Sanctuary Cities Were Result of American-Backed Atrocities in Central America

September 2, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

sanctuary cities

Today’s sanctuary practices, and the federal targeting of sanctuary cities, are largely the result of the way sanctuary took shape across the U.S. in the 1980s when churches, city officials and activists assisted migrants fleeing the violent conditions created by U.S. proxy wars in Central America. To a large extent, this was the result of the Reagan administration’s refusal to acknowledge the extent of human rights violations perpetrated by U.S.-supported regimes in Central America.

Bail Grift: Instead of Returning Bond Money, Florida Seizes It to Pay Off Fines and Fees

September 2, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

florida bail money

Is Florida running a bail grift? That’s how one Judge described the state’s decades-old policy of keeping bail money from third parties and using it to pay off defendants’ outstanding fines and fees. At least one member of an 11th Circuit Court of Appeals panel that considered the issue this month appears to agree with that assessment. So do several current and former lawmakers who have tried to end the practice.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, September 2, 2025

September 2, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Minneapolis Shootings and Congress by Dave Granlund, PoliticalCartoons.com

The Palm Coast City Council and both Bunnell’s and Flagler Beach’s planning boards meet, a warning about silly season in the Florida House, visiting with the Ministry of Silly Walks, a few incomprehensible lines from Richard Powers.

Is a Palestinian State Even Possible Anymore?

September 1, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

A segment of the so-called separation barrier in the West Bank. (Wkimedia Commons)

Australia will recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly meeting in September, joining the United Kingdom, Canada and France in taking the historic step. The Israeli government has ruled out a two-state solution and reacted with fury to the moves by the four G20 members to recognise Palestine. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the decision “shameful”. Practically speaking, the formation of a future Palestinian state consisting of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem will be difficult to achieve.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, September 1, 2025

September 1, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Modern Back to School Fashion by Bruce Plante, PoliticalCartoons.com

It’s Labor Day. All government offices, courts, schools and some shops are closed. Workers Over Billionaires Demonstration at Palm Coast Parkway Overpass. When sanctuary cities had nothing to do with migrants and everything to do with oracles and games.

‘It’s A Complicated Time to Be a White Southerner’

August 31, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

A scene in the Mondex. (© FlaglerLive)

There is not much research on how white people think about what it means to be white. Meanwhile, popular and scholarly treatments of white Southerners as overwhelmingly conservative and racially regressive abound. Some white Southerners fit those tropes. Many others do not. Overall, white Southerners across the political spectrum actively grappling with their white racial status.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, August 31, 2025

August 31, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Trump's Expanding Military Overreach by Peter Kuper, PoliticalCartoons.com

Overdose Awareness Day Walk Over Flagler Beach Bridge starting at Wadsworth Park, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Chandler Fritz on the demolition of public education.

Republicans Split Over Flag-Burning

August 30, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

flag burning executive order

Those who hold constitutional principles in high regard are increasingly concerned about a president demonstrating his desire for expansive power. And, the US Supreme Court has clearly ruled on more than one occasion that the act, however distasteful, is constitutionally permitted. Antonin Scalia, the late Supreme Court justice and noted constitutional textualist, famously stated that “if it were up to me, I would put in jail every sandal-wearing, scruffy-bearded weirdo who burns the American flag”. But, he added: “I am not king.”

Constance Lillian (MacIntyre) March, 1933-2025

August 30, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Constance Lillian (MacIntyre) March

Born in Adams, Massachusetts, August 25, 1933, Constance Lillian (MacIntyre) March passed away on her 92nd Birthday, August 25, 2025, in Palm Coast, Florida, after a long battle with several health challenges.

Complying with Judge’s Order to Dismantle It, ICE Stops Sending Human Beings to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

August 30, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Those were the days: Kevin Guthrie chumming it up with the Trumps by an "Alligator Alcatraz" cage. (Wikimedia Commons)

Federal officials are complying with a judge’s order and have stopped sending immigrants to a detention center in the Everglades, less than two months after Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration launched the facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” in support of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, August 30, 2025

August 30, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

clay jones cracker barrell

Clay Jones on Cracker Barrel’s new logo, the Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, Flannery O’Connor’s uncomfortable fixations, a few words on bad taste, Grace Community Food Pantry.

Netflix’s ‘Mo’: To be Palestinian and Mexican in Today’s America

August 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Comedy can be a useful tool to help tackle challenging topics. In Netflix’s ‘Mo,’ characters deal with immigration, war, poverty and memories of Palestine. (Netflix)

Mohammed Amer’s “Mo” provokes laughter and stirs deep emotions, including despair, loneliness and helplessness, as the episodes explore life in America for people on the margins. Mo is a semi-autobiographical depiction of Amer’s life. He’s a Palestinian who grew up in Houston, Texas, immigrating to that city when he was nine years old by way of Kuwait. The comedy-drama format allows Mo to address difficult and divisive issues, such as immigration in America and the Israel-Gaza war, in non-threatening ways.

DeSantis Signs 13th Death Warrant of the Year, for Victor Jones, Murderer of 2 in 1990

August 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Victor Jones

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a death warrant for a man convicted in the 1990 murders of a couple in Miami-Dade County, as the state continues a record-setting year for executions. Victor Tony Jones, 64, is scheduled to be executed Sept. 30 and could become the 13th inmate put to death by lethal injection this year in Florida. The Jones death warrant came after Curtis Windom was executed Thursday evening at Florida State Prison in the 1992 murders of three people in Orange County.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, August 29, 2025

August 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Aligator Alcatraz by Bill Day, FloridaPolitics.com

The Friday Blue Forum, when coroner made a hero of a dead burglar, Harold Brodkey on the power of reading, and a few lines from Brodkey’s sorrows.

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