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Florida & Beyond, and All Opinions

Florida Legislature’s Spending Misleadingly Labeled as Pork

May 26, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Florida legislature's pork spending 2010

Most of the spending called “pork” (or “turkeys” by Florida TaxWatch is of immediate and necessary benefit to senior health, care for the poor and transportation.

Loner Palm Coast Drips Desal to Fraction of Original Plan; Water Costs Would Rise Sharply

May 26, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The city is reducing its desal ambitions to a sixth the original size, but 1,000 gallons would cost five to six times more than current water.

What You Should Know Before You Buy Your Usher, Rihanna and Bieber Tickets in Daytona

May 26, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Manuel Bornia, head of Daytona’s International Festival, has a growing trail of exaggerations, self-promotion, and outright inventions to his credit–on other people’s dime.

From Times Square to Jacksonville:
When Terrorism Is a Double-Standard

May 23, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 9 Comments

When the target of terrorism is recognizably American, it’s a national crisis. When the target of terrorism is a mosque in Jacksonville, nobody cares. Why is that?

Why Tea Parties Are More Bunkers than Bunker Hill

May 22, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The tea party’s booting out of Utah Sen. Robert Bennett from his state’s GOP primary, despite Bennett’s extreme conservative credentials, is emblematic of a movement in the grip of its own delusions.

Monique Forte, Rising Star at Stetson’s
Business School, Dies at 43

May 22, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Monique Forte had just been awarded Stetson’s 2010 McEniry Award for Excellence in Teaching, and skydived with her graduating students. She was 43.

Flagler Unemployment Lowest in a Year, Remains State’s Highest; Florida’s Dips for First Time Since 2006

May 21, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Led by federal census jobs and tourism jobs, Florida’s employment rolls showed their best gains in four years. Flagler’s decline is due in part to population loss. The complete April unemployment report.

Lay-Offs at Palm Coast Data; Parent Co. Posts Loss and Signs $20 Million Line of Credit

May 19, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 45 Comments

Palm Coast Data’s parent company, Amrep Corp., posted a $2.76 million loss for the first nine fiscal months of 2010.

Florida Medicaid Audit Reveals Shockingly Poor Oversight

May 18, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Lax state oversight of Medicaid is fueling runaway costs in the health program covering 2.7 million poor and elderly Floridians.

Obama, Biden, Kagan: Where Their Pocket Money Comes From

May 18, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Obama and Michelle

Where does Obama’s, Biden’s and Elena Kagan’s money come from? Look for yourself: complete financial disclosure forms.

Florida’s Abortion Follies:
When Lawmakers Are Sexual Predators

May 16, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 9 Comments

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Florida’s latest anti-abortion legislation shows that sexual predators aren’t just the monsters who assault and rape. They can also be men who control women and girls by subordinating them their moral assumptions, which usually have immoral results.

A Musical Journey in the Key of Kindness

May 16, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Caren Umbarger, who replaces Jonathan May as the new artistic director of the Flagler Youth Orchestra, relates her musical origins and philosophy.

Flagler Beach Manager Search:
Carpetbaggers Need Not Apply

May 16, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Art Woosley, a Flagler Beach activist, argues that the next city manager should be a local resident with heart and interests in line with the city’s.

Smetana’s Fatherland: “The Moldau”

May 16, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

For your Sunday fix: “The Moldau” evokes the power of nature and nationalism as if flows through Smetana’s Czech fatherland.

Photo Gallery: Bunnell’s 2nd Annual Potato Festival

May 15, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The day was full of sunshine and spuds and blessedly free of puns. A rich gallery of the day’s faces, dunks and winners.

Flagler Beach Dumps Desalination Group

May 14, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The Flagler Beach City Commission cited costs and its own ready water supply as reasons to drop out of the Coquina desalination consortium.

Photo Gallery: Sheriff’s Memorial Ceremony

May 13, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

What the ceremony looked like: the wreath-laying, symbols and solemnity, taps and bag pipes.

Bunnell’s Audrey Montine Barber McKnight, 1917-2010

May 12, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

A letter from Sisco Deen, curator of the Flagler County Historical Society, on the death on May 11 of Bunnell pionneer Audrey Montine Barber McKnight.

$75 Billion Mortgage Modification Program Is $74.76 Billion Behind

May 12, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The Obama administration committed to spend up to $75 billion on its foreclosure-prevention program. More than a year later, only about $242 million had actually been paid out.

Florida’s Small-Business Health Insurance Exchange a 2-Year Bust

May 11, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Two years after GOP lawmakers launched it as a way to deregulate the health-care market for small businesses, Florida Health Choices still offers no coverage and faces an uncertain future.

Rap Sheet Six Years Long Books
Flagler County Lay-Over

May 11, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Matthew William Freeman faces charges of kidnapping, roberry and aggravated assault from a March 3 incident near Bunnell.

Socialism, Capitalism, and Other Fallen Stock

May 9, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 4 Comments

Diego Rivera's Man at the Crossroads

We can rail about socialism’s evil and worship capitalism all we like. It won’t get us out of the hole we spent the last 30 years digging. History and Adam Smith are better guides.

Florida Regulators Stop Admissions to Troubled Youth Facility

May 9, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Officials cut off admissions to Manatee Palms Youth Services, a 60-bed facility that serves 6 to 17 year olds when the facility failed to address violations.

Boners for Business

May 8, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

The Pat Rice era began at the $218-a-year News-Journal in late April. That’ll buy you a whole lot of Twinkies.

Job Creation Soars by 290,000,
Unemployment at 9.9%

May 7, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Job creation improved by the largest margin in four years in May, solidifying gains of 559,000 jobs in the past three months.

Heather Beaven’s WTF Campaign

May 6, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 5 Comments

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Democrat Beaven’s congressional campaign against John Mica so far is shoddy, vague, and lacking transparency.

Two Children Die in Dental Chair. Why?

May 5, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Dental chair children anesthesia

Does parents’ desire to spare their children the anxiety of dental care lead them into taking unnecessary risks?

Stetson University’s Heather Grove a 2010 Udall Scholar

May 5, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Stetson University's Heather Grove

This is the third time in 10 years that a Stetson student has won a prestigious Udall scholarship, named after Morris Udall.

We Need Drilling. Just Not Where You Think.

May 2, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 4 Comments

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The BP rig disaster will spill more oil in the Gulf of Mexico than the Exxon Valdez did in Prince William Sound. Time to cap the follies of cheering for more offshore oil-drilling in Florida.

The Uses of Poetry

April 30, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Reading poetry, Dave Riegel argues in his latest column, has a practical value in the board room, on the campaign trail, in advertising, and anywhere popular art is consumed.

The Liberation of Charlie Crist

April 29, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Charlie Crist, never foreign to transgression, transgressed what’s left of the Republican Party, which has no room for moderates.

FPC’s Problem Solvers Make History

April 28, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Flagler Palm Coast High School will send three teams, a national organization record, to the international problem solving competition this summer.

Neo-Nazis in Public Facilities? School Board Workshop on Building Use

April 27, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Subsequent to the Flagler Tea Party using Palm Coast High School for meetings, the school board today debated revisions to its policy on community use of its buildings. Follow the discussion as it happened.

Of People’s Parks and Parked Reporters

April 26, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

When Catholic priests boff young boys, turf wars and fire engines, the editorial page brings out Ed Meese from his crypt, and the local page discovers “scenic” Palm Coast.

US To Florida: Health Care Opt-Out Is Not an Option

April 26, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Hours after the Legislature voted on party lines to “opt out” of the new federal health law, the Obama administration said that will not be permitted.

Arizona Boots Up Brown Immigrants’ Guantanamo

April 25, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 21 Comments

The virus that led to Arizona’s anti-immigration law has crossed Arizona’s borders into the rest of America. Its carrier is as white as a bed sheet and by far the greater threat to America’s character than anything that ever crossed the Rio Grande.

The Rosa Parks Arrest Report, 1955

April 24, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Rosa Parks Arrest Report, Montgomery, 1955

Image copy of the Rosa Parks arrest report, Montgomery police, Alabama, December 1, 1955.

Nashville Surrenders to Grab Your Crotch Country

April 23, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

T. Paige Dalporto, a West Virginia songwriter, pains his way through the Academy of Country Music Awards and mourns his old country gone pop.

Legislature’s Roadkill: Raiding Trust Funds

April 20, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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The Florida Legislature has balanced the budget by taking money from the transportation trust fund. It’s a short-sighted solution with dire consequences, argues Mark Wilson, president of the Florida Chamber of Commerce.

How Ginn Corp. Stuck Flagler Taxpayers With a $2 Million White Elephant

April 19, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Once seen as a magic bullet, Ginn Development Corp. had Flagler County build it a $2 million palace at the county airport. Then Ginn defaulted. Taxpayers are now taking a bullet between the eyes.

Students Fail. Cut Teachers’ Pay. Seriously?

April 19, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The thinking behind Senate Bill 6 is rooted in the idea that teachers cause students’ success or failure. That’s wrong, argues Dave Riegel, a high school principal.

Rockwell Meets Rubio: A Tea Party Photo Gallery

April 15, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Norman Rockwell reckognized a compelling subject when he saw one. Chances are he’d have recognized an equally worthy subject in the Tea Party movement, whatever its stripes.

Crist Vetoes Senate Bill 6

April 15, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Teachers are celebrating, but by vetoing SB6, Charlie Crist sent a message to Marco Rubio that the race for US Senate will be played out in the general election.

Blasting SB6: Teacher Rally Photo Gallery

April 14, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

If Gov. Crist had been in Palm Coast the afternoon of April 14, he’d have witnessed enthusiastic, dedicated anger at SB6 from a big segment of the county’s teachers.

Hank Williams Wins a Pulitzer

April 13, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

“When a hillbilly sings a crazy song,” Hank Wiliams once said, “he feels crazy. When he sings, “I Laid My Mother Away,” he sees her a-laying right there in the coffin.”

Polk Sheriff Subjects Teen Girls to Rape Exam–After Dates

April 13, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd arrested two 18-year-old boys for fondling their 14- and 15-year old dates, and subjected the girls to a rape exam.

Health Reform’s Bigger Windfalls for Florida

April 12, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

while there are still many unknowns about how the new federal health-care laws will be implemented, Florida stands to do very well financially and socially.

Stolz to Crist: I Am Tired of Teachers

April 11, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Peter Stolz, a former teacher from Palm Coast, urges Gov. Charlie Crist to sign Senate Bill 6 into law.

James Baldwin: A Talk to Teachers

April 11, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

James Baldwin’s “A Talk to Teachers” from 1963 is an apt counterpoint to Florida lawmakers’ attempt, in 2010, to demolish public school teachers and replace the profession with Darwinian hostility.

Art in the Park 2010: A Photo Gallery

April 10, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

A look at the winners and other participants in the Flagler County Art League’s showcase event.

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