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Florida & Beyond, and All Opinions

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

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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.

Florida House: Medicaid “Reform” for All?

April 6, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

House leaders late Monday released a proposal that would require almost all beneficiaries statewide to enroll in managed-care plans — including seniors who need long-term care.

US Economy Adds 162,000 Jobs, 1st Increase Since 2007

April 2, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

U.S. employers added 162,000 jobs in March, the first time the economy adds a significant number of jobs since November 2007, when it added 94,000. The March unemployment rate was unchanged, at 9.7 percent, with some 15 million people unemployed (compared with 13.3 million unemployed a year ago). The situation remains grim for the long-term […]

Taking Back America–from Tea Party Phonies

February 8, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 3 Comments

tea party phonies

If Thomas Jefferson had heard Sarah Palin or Marco Rubio, he’d have had to ask how such a smart country would put up with such an obvious phonies and loons.

What If Tim Tebow Had Been Aborted?

January 31, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | Leave a Comment

By linking abortion with a life fully lived, Tebow is pretending to tell us something about the mysteries of life’s origins that nobody knows — not Tebow, not Pope Benedict, not Stephen Hawking, not my pet ferret, if I had one.

Rubio’s Health Care “Model” Isn’t Functioning

January 29, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Marco Rubio says the nation should adopt his Florida Health Choices, claiming its market approach is “happening right now.” He’s wrong. Florida Health Choices has yet to insure anyone.

Weimar Germany’s Shadow Creep on Main Street

January 28, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Philip A. Farruggio argues that the United States is forgetting the lessons of 1930s Germany–and Sinclair Lewis’ prophetic warnings–at its own risk.

He Had His Moments, But…

January 28, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | Leave a Comment

There’s too much reaching for the old magic–which is just the problem: this lunge for “magic,” this desire to make the impossible real, when it should be the other way around.

Haiti Earthquake Photo Gallery

January 15, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

A 30-image photo gallery of the devastation following the 7.0 earthquake that demolished Haiti’s Port au Prince the afternoon of Jan. 12.

Americans Owe More to Haiti Than They Know

January 15, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | Leave a Comment

Well beyond earthquake relief, an American commitment to independence and democracy in Haiti would not be a favor, a gift or an indulgence. It would be the down payment of an incalculable debt long overdue.

Is This Harry Reid Cartoon Offensive?

January 15, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 2 Comments

The Omaha World Herald’s sanctimony over a skin-tone cartoon is more offensive than Harry Reid’s misjudgment.

Prohibition’s Binge of Sanctimony

January 4, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | Leave a Comment

Carlsberg bottle and prohibition

On the history and stupidity of Prohibition, the 13-year binge of sanctimony that a minority of eugenics fans and anti-German racists imposed on the majority.

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