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Gulag Glimmers: Fewer Florida Ex-Felons Re-Offending after Prison, Freeing Beds

February 5, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The percentage of inmates who commit another crime within three years of release has dropped from 33 percent for those freed as of 2003 to 27.6 percent for those freed as of 2008, reducing the total number of inmates admitted.

Medicare Advantage Works As Long As You’re Healthy, But Boots Off Neediest Patients

February 4, 2013 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

People leaving medicare Advantage for traditional Medicare are have higher levels of significant health problems, fueling concerns that the private plans cater to more profitable, healthy beneficiaries but don’t provide the most attractive care for the very ill.

School Security’s Buy-A-Cop Delusions

February 3, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 45 Comments

The Flagler County School board this week will debate adoption of a new security plan that includes adding armed cops in elementary schools. The approach would be costly, ineffective, and more emotional than intelligent. Smarter approaches–and far greater priorities–abound.

For Children’s Advocates, Scott’s “Florida Families First” Budget Blurs Reactions

February 2, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Backers of early childhood education and an expansion of Medicaid were disappointed, educators were guardedly happy about raises, and others applauded more money for prevention services to keep youths out of the juvenile justice system, plus $145,360 for juvenile health and mental health.

Week In Review: The Return of Candidate Rick Scott and Other Surprises

February 2, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Rick Scott, the little-known, populist, former tea party politician emerged this week as a sweet-talking alternative to the Rick Scott who got elected in 2010 promising to be stingy and mean, to “Get to Work” at slashing the size of government.

Florida Taxpayers Asked to Subsidize Pro Soccer on Top of NFL, NBA and Other Sports

February 1, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Up to two Major League Soccer franchises would be eligible for subsidies given to other pro sports teams in Florida under a bill filed in the Legislature, a nod to Orlando’s bid to bring an MLS team to the area.

U.S. Economy Adds 600,000 Jobs in 3 Months, But Unemployment Edges Up to 7.9%

February 1, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

The nation’s economy added 157,000 jobs in January, and revisions to November and December figures added 127,000 jobs to previous calculations, for a total of 600,000 new jobs in the last three months. Still, the unemployment rate went up a fraction, to 7.9 percent: job growth hasn’t been robust enough to go beyond the natural growth in the workforce.

Eyeing Re-Election, Scott Ends Austerity: $4 Billion Extra Spending in $74.2 Billion Budget

January 31, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Gov. Rick Scott’s $74.2 billion budget proposal unveiled Thursday is the largest in the state’s history and includes a $4 billion spending increase that targets constituencies Scott hopes to win back as he seeks re-election in 2014, among them teachers, environmentalists and what state workers will remain on the payroll.

The Problem With Florida’s Medicaid Program Isn’t Cost. It’s Too Many Working Poor.

January 31, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Florida has too many working poor whose employers don’t provide health insurance. Rather than complaining about the costs of coverage, we should try to increase the earnings of our people, argues Rick Outzen.

Beyond Doctor’s Orders: When Health and Fitness Are Not Always a Matter of Choice

January 30, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

The discipline it takes aside, getting healthy can be costly, writes Milissa Holland, in many more ways than one: healthy food is more expensive, exercise isn’t always as easy as deciding to do it, and even health insurance plans for the poor are becoming intractable. An invitation to discuss a central issue in most people’s lives.

Gov. Scott Floats $1.2 Billion Boost to Education, Including $480 Million for Teachers

January 30, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Scott’s $2,500-a-year raise for Florida teachers, costing $480 million, would be included in the $1.2 billion increase for K-12 education, which would add to last year’s $1 billion increase, yet the total, if approved, would still be off the all-time high for per-student education funding.

Economic Growth Contracts By 0.1 Percent In Worst Showing Since 2009, With Asterisks

January 30, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

It is a sharp and unexpected decline from the previous quarter’s 3.1 percent growth rate, but may be due top one-time shocks, including a 22 percent decline in military spending and Hurricane Sandy. Several indicators, including personal spending and saving and residential investment, are encouraging.

When Doctor-Assisted Suicide Is the Humane Option

January 29, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

In oncologists’ offices and Alzheimer’s nursing homes, illness is not “a portrait in blacks and whites, but unending shades of gray, involving the most profound of personal, moral, and religious questions.” Including when may it be right to help end a life.

With Gimmicky Interpretations, Gov. Scott Says 23 Colleges Meet $10K Challenge

January 29, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Shedding light on the gimmickry, one college said it had met Scott’s challenge – as far as students are concerned. The cost of a degree at the school is about $13,700, but is less than $10,000 only when financial aid is taken into account.

“Don’t Miss the Signs”: In Florida, Campaign and Means to Report Child Abuse Broaden

January 28, 2013 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Last year, the Florida Legislature passed the nation’s most protective child abuse reporting law. The state’s abuse hotline will accept reports of abuse committed by people other than parents and primary caregivers, such as a coach, teacher or neighbor.

What an Ode to Farting, Drug-Dealing’s Benefits and the FCAT Have in Common

January 27, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

A Matanzas High School student who wrote a humorous essay on the health benefits of drug-dealing was threatened with a referral, though his teacher gave him a near-top grade: Jo Ann Nahirny explains how FCAT rewards dull, stupid and bad writing at the expense of creativity.

Union-Busting’s Tasteless Florida Flavors

January 27, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

Labor union membership has been in precipitous decline since 1980, along with with a decline in job security, workers’ wages and benefits, and Americans’ standard of living. It’s not a coincidence, though the vilification of labor unions continues.

Transparency 101: Rick Scott’s Pay Raise Ploy

January 26, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Florida’s “education” governor wants to give teachers a $2,500 across-the-board raise. Translation: He wants to get re-elected in 2014. He’s not popular. So he’s trying to win votes by any means necessary, argues Rhonda Swan.

Bad News for Counties: Juvenile Detention Costs Would More Heavily Burden Locals

January 25, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Florida’s Juvenile Justice Department, in a case involving 14 local governments and the Florida Association of Counties, filed an order rejecting arguments that its interpretation of the law has improperly shifted extra costs to counties.

Coke’s Obesity Campaign: Get Real

January 24, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

For the first time, Coke is using its slick commercials to address obesity. But the company’s new ads, which are brimming with misleading statements, just put lipstick on this pig, argues Jill Richardson.

FRS RIP: Public Employees Hired After 2013 Would Be Shifted to 401(k)-Like Plan

January 24, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

A Florida House committee unveiled a proposal Thursday that would shift all future state employees to a defined contribution, 401(k)-style retirement plan that would gradually spell the end of the Florida Retirement System.

Blaming the Gun-Violence Epidemic On Mental Illness Doesn’t Begin to Resolve It

January 23, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

With a startling personal revelation of her own, Milissa Holland argues in her latest column that if mental illness is to be a focus of gun control, it must be much better defined–and far more de-stigmatized. Otherwise, it’s a shield behind which politicians will do nothing.

Tax on Guns and Ammo Would Pay for Florida’s “Safe Schools Trust Fund”

January 23, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

Tax collected on the sale of ammunition and guns would go into a “Safe Schools Trust Fund,” to pay for additional guidance services and school safety measures under legislation filed in the House.

An Epidemic of American Anger In Search of Stoicism

January 22, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

From Angry Birds to the Angry Whopper, road rage and mass murderers, we’re in an age of anger that appears driven by frustrated expectations and imagined grievances.

Obama II

January 21, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Far from a dud, as these second inaugurals tend to be, Obama’s today was bracing in its realism, and hopeful, ironically, for having finally shed the imagery of hope for hope’s sake, replacing it with an agenda for equality, little heard of since the days of the New Deal and the Great Society.

The Thanks and Reverence We Owe Undocumented Immigrants

January 20, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 63 Comments

We’ve admitted that these immigrants aren’t going away. Let’s admit our co-dependence, let’s restore their dignity, and America’s, and admit that illegal immigration is as American as apple pie, if not as American as empanadas.

57 Republicans Who Voted for Bush’s Katrina Aid Voted Against Obama’s Sandy Aid

January 20, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

When Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, Congress passed two relief bills almost unanimously. But when it comes to Hurricane Sandy,179 Republicans and one Democrat opposed aid. Signal differences are the occupant in the White House and the states getting help.

After Abuse at Girls’ Lock-Up, Promises of More Oversight from Florida’s Juvenile Justice

January 19, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

In the wake of allegations of abuse by staffers at a girls’ lockup in Milton, the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice is tightening its oversight of private residential facilities – adding interviews with youths and a partnership with the non-profit Annie E. Casey Foundation to its monitoring procedures.

In a Calculated Shift, Gov. Scott Wants Early Voting Days Decided by Local Supervisors

January 18, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Gov. Rick Scott two years ago signed a law restricting early voting days to eight. His shift back to allow up to 14 days would give local supervisors more choice, but could also be an unfunded mandate: if supervisors don’t have the money to expand voting days, they’ll take the political blame for not doing so.

Let’s Holster Incendiary Rhetoric and Get Flagler Started on Meaningful Gun Talk

January 18, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 34 Comments

Flagler County must have an honest, open dialogue about the place of guns in our community, Milissa Holland argues, but to do so the extremists on both sides must be willing to calm down and let reason facilitate the dialogue.

Public Schools Are No Place for Bible-Thumping–Or Any Other Thumping

January 17, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

The World Changers of Florida, Inc. is giving Bibles to students at several dozen high Florida schools. It’s wrong. Students of all faiths and traditions attend public schools and they deserve to be respected. We interfere with an already stressful time by making some of them feel like outsiders.

Trayvon Martin’s Mother Calls for Repeal Of Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law

January 17, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin, said the Stand Your Ground law protected her son’s killer, George Zimmerman, who pursued Martin before a violent confrontation when Zimmerman shot the 17-year-old boy.

Bill Filed to Repeal Florida Prohibition On Doctors Asking Patients About Guns

January 16, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Sen. Oscar Braynon, D-Miami Gardens, filed the measure (SB 314) to repeal the 2011 “Firearm Owners’ Privacy Act,” which isn’t currently being enforced because a federal judge threw it out in July. The state, however, is appealing that ruling.

How the Word ‘Retarded’ Hurts The Developmentally Disabled

January 15, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

Americans with developmental disabilities still remain second-class citizens in the eyes of the law and our fellow human beings. There is no greater symbolic gesture of the ridicule they endure than the accepted use of the word “retarded” in day-to-day speech.

Senate Committee Approves Drone Ban in Florida Skies, With Some Police Exceptions

January 15, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

The ban on unmanned drones used by police in Florida would include exceptions for use with a search warrant or in certain cases, as when a child in danger. The measure (SB 92) was approved unanimously Tuesday by the Senate Criminal Justice Committee.

State Health Agency Corrects Inflated Costs of Obamacare Scott Had Used to Oppose Reform

January 14, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Florida’s costs could be as low as $3 billion over 10 years — a huge drop from the nearly $26 billion figure that AHCA produced in a report last month. Even with the changes, it appears that the Scott administration believes that the state’s final tab over 10 years would be higher.

Arming Teachers Isn’t Enough: A Proposal of Modest Caliber

January 13, 2013 | Pierre Tristam | 30 Comments

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The NRA’s Wayne LaPierre is proposing having an armed guard in every school. That’s insane, because it’s not enough: teachers, principals, librarians, counselors, bus drivers should all be armed, and of course children, too, should be armed.

Obama’s Inauguration Sells Out

January 13, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

President Barack Obama, reversing his own honorable precedent for his first inaugural, has chosen this time to have corporations pay for his second round of big shindigs. This multimillion-dollar infusion of corporate cash is a crass intrusion by favor-seeking private interests into what ought to be a purely public occasion.

Proposing a Constitutional Amendment To Limit Proposed Constitutional Amendments

January 12, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

In the wake of an election in which voters had to wade through 11 constitutional amendment proposals put forth by legislators and complained of long voting lines, a Democratic state senator wants to limit how many ballot questions lawmakers can pose to three.

John Thrasher, Travis Hutson, Plus One: Airing Out Flagler’s Legislative Delegation

January 11, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

The inaugural guests on Milissa Holland Live Friday on WNZF will be Holland’s ex-opponent Rep. Travis Hutson, and Sen. John Thrasher, as Holland hosts an informall follow-up to December’s at-times contentious legislative delegation meeting on short-term rentals and other issues of local concern.

Bill to Repeal “Stand Your Ground” Is Filed In Florida, But May Be Dead on Arrival

January 10, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Rep. Alan Williams, D-Tallahassee, filed the measure on Wednesday, but it would have to get past Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala, who co-sponsored the self-defense law in 2005, though Baxley has often said that the law was never intended to protect those who pursue their victims.

Accused Chilean Murderer Pedro Pablo Barrientos Buys a Home in Deltona

January 10, 2013 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Barrientos was recently accused by an investigating judge in Chile of the murder in September of 1973 of the internationally popular theater  director, teacher and folk/protest singer Victor Jara, then 40 years old.

Spying on Grandma: Health Companies Sell Surveillance as a Benefit and a Saving

January 10, 2013 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Health care is joining a national trend toward greater surveillance of everyday life. Whether this costly technology will ultimately prove clinically or economically effective remains uncertain. So, too, is whether a benign health care purpose can help overcome the unsettling “Big Brother” overtones.

Florida’s Election System Disgrace: Too Few Precincts or Too Long Ballots?

January 9, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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The ballot was long in part because the Legislature exempted itself from a 75-word limit on ballot summaries that applies to interest groups that put forth proposed amendments. And in some cases, the entire text of the amendment was listed.

In Latest Obstacle to Jobless Benefits, Florida Moves to Computer-Only System

January 8, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Between Aug. 1 and Oct. 31, nearly 140,000 Floridians were denied benefits, more than double the rate of the same period a year earlier as eligibility requirements have been tightened and obstacles to get unemployment have multiplied.

One-Fifth of Florida’s Nursing Homes Are On the State’s Watch List for Violations

January 7, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Twelve of the homes have been on the the state Agency for Health Care Administration’s watch list for more than 100 days. The best way to pick a home for a loved one is to simply visit it, or to check a nursing home inspection database (link included).

Showing Cops the Middle Finger

January 6, 2013 | Pierre Tristam | 26 Comments

When John Swartz was arrested for flipping off a cop, he sued, and appears headed for a win–as he should: rude expression is not a crime, and the obscenity is far surpassed by that of cops exercising arbitrary authority over bruised egos.

Put God Back in Public Schools?

January 5, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 30 Comments

If we’re going to put God back in schools, which God are we talking about? Adam Hamilton, founding pastor of a United Methodist Church, calmly argues against the notion that God has ever left the public schools, and need not be forced back in.

Bill Filed in Florida to Repeal Red-Light Cameras as State Report Points to Fewer Crashes

January 5, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

A South Florida lawmaker filed legislation Friday to repeal the law allowing the use of red light cameras, following a report earlier this week that says intersections where they’re used have seen drops in crashes in most places.

Economy Unimpressively Adds 155,000 Jobs in Holiday Month as Unemployment Rises to 7.8%

January 4, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The American economy cannot shake its anemia, adding 155,000 jobs in December–not quite good enough to keep up with normal growth in the labor force, as unemployment edged back up to 7.8 percent.

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