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Florida Tax-Free Days: The Fine Print

July 26, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The tax-free holiday in all its details: what’s tax-free, what’s not, according to Florida’s tax revenue department.

Coming Soon: A Rickshaw Service for Flagler Beach

July 23, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

It’s zero emission. It’s available in many big cities. And it’ll be offered in Flagler Beach in August.

Move Over, Delbrugge: How Janet Valentine Shifted the School Board on a Tax Levy

July 22, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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New School Superintendent Janet Valentine quietly showed her political and parliamentary skills when she turned the board from opposing to approving a school tax referendum.

Florida Leads States’ Failures in Reporting Problem Caregivers

July 20, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Florida leads the nation in ignoring federal database reporting of health professionals who have been disciplined on the job, undermining background and safety checks on frontline caregivers.

Food Safety Inspections End At Florida Hospitals, Child Cares and Nursing Homes

July 18, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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A new law designed to diminish duplication of services ends them instead, as food-preparation for children, the sick and the elderly will go mostly uninspected from now on.

Dan Warren, Conqueror of St. Augustine at Its Bleakest, Still Heroic After All These Years

July 15, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Dan Warren, who took on and broke the KKK’s grip on St. Augustine in the pivotal summer of 1964, was in Flagler Beach for an evening of conscience-rousing Thursday.

Your Water Management District Tax Next Year: $42 (On Average, Anyway)

July 13, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The tentative $247.4 million budget is 21 percent, or $65.8 million, less than the current fiscal year’s amended budget. Half the budget is made up of your property taxes.

State’s Largest Districts Find “Significant Anomalies” in FCAT Results and Demand Halt to Grading

July 12, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

In the latest FCAT testing scandal this year, superintendents want FCAT tests investigated before high-stakes school grades are released.

Spy-and-Snap Red-Light Cameras Will Enrich Private Company At Palm Coast’s Expense

July 12, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

The traffic cameras generated $1.7 million for Palm Coast since 2008. Most of that money will now go to a private company and to Tallahassee, while the cameras keep snapping.

Florida Beaches Stay Open Despite Tar Balls and Sicknesses

July 12, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Despite EPA warnings that some Florida beaches may be unsafe, people are taking to them–and getting sick.

Double-Dip: US Economy Loses 125,000 Jobs Even as Unemployment Rate Drops to 9.5%

July 2, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

With census jobs vanishing, so is job creation as the US economy in June appeared headed for a double-dip recession.

Prescription Pill-Popping By Far a Leading Killer as Florida’s Drug Deaths Spike 20%

July 1, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

Oxycodone, the addictive prescription pain-killer also known as OxyContin, directly caused more deaths in Florida in 2009 than cocaine, heroin and morphine combined.

Pressing for Raises, Teachers’ Union Holding District Hostage Over Class-Size Compromise

June 28, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

The union would approve a district plan to comply with class-size requirements in exchange for $2.4 million in raises.

Flagler Get Your Gun: Supremes Rule 5-4 That 2nd Amendment Extends to States and Locals

June 28, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The ruling is more likely to confuse rather than clarify how state and local gun regulations may be written into law.

Drill This: Hundreds in Flagler, Thousands Across Globe’s Sands Link Against Oil

June 26, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The moment was as symbolic as it was literal: a human chain in Flagler Beach against off-shore oil drilling and for alternatives to fossil fuels.

Hit the Beaches: Solidarity Against Oil As Hands Across the Sands Gets Set for Noon

June 26, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Colleen Conklin, the school board member, is organizing the event–handing out slips and whistles, synchronizing the human link–along with Carmen Arasknick.

FCAT Scores, A Month Late, to Be Released After Untold Damage to Schools

June 25, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The Department of Education and testing company Pearson are still playing word games over the cause and extent of the delay, which ruined district and student planning for fall.

Flagler Has 30 Days Left to respond to 5 Proposed Manatee-Protection Speed Zones

June 23, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Flagler’s committee is at the half-way point of responding the state’s proposed speed zones in the Intracoastal.

100,000 Barrels Per Day? The Internal Document that Contradicts BP’s Claims on Oil Flow

June 22, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The 100,000-barrels-per-day scenario contrasts sharply with BP’s public pronouncements of a much smaller spill rate.

Census Jobs Help Lower Unemployment; Flagler at 15.1%, Florida at 11.7%

June 18, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

As in the rest of the nation, census employment is lowering the unemployment rate. But will it last?

Citing School Board Flux, Conklin Opts Out of Taking on Thrasher Or Others Until 2012

June 14, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Her eyes set on higher office in 2012, School Board member Colleen Conklin said she came close to running against John Thrasher but will let a Duval Democrat take him on.

How the Oil Slick Is Fouling Florida’s Government Budgets–And What To Do About It

June 12, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The oil spill is Florida’s 9/11. People won’t die. A way of life will. The Florida Legislature should be in crisis mode, not in recess, anticipating what to do next.

Catch FlaglerLive on CNN

June 12, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 6 Comments

I’ll be on CNN Newsroom with Fredricka Whitfield during the 3 p.m. hour discussing the oil spill’s impact on local governments, and particular local school districts.

Crist, Rediscovering His Inner Moderate, Vetoes Anti-Abortion Bill

June 11, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The veto continues Crist’s rejection of GOP hard lines against teacher unions and in favor of unregulated business.

Fury and Fallacies Hook Red Snapper Fishing Ban

June 10, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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The indefinite extension of the ban on commercial or recreational fishing for red snapper off Florida’s coast will hurt boaters. But so would overfishing and crashing fish populations.

Mica: Bunnell Still Has “Fighting Chance” for a Train Station; Data and State’s Will Are Key

June 9, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

In an interview with FlaglerLive, John Mica outlines what Bunnell has going for and against it as it angles for a train station.

Marineland Mobilizes Against BP Oil Spill — and Beyond

June 6, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Florida has no contingency plan if dolphins, turtles and manatees begin showing up coated in oil. Marineland’s Jim Jacoby wants to fix a blind spot in planning dating back to two Jeb Bush vetoes in 2000 and 2001.

Hanging With Manatees

June 3, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 4 Comments

It’s not just seeing manatees upclose alone that moves you. It’s seeing their injuries, and their utter helplessness.

Feds, Not Florida, Will Pay for Medicaid’s 1 Million New Beneficiaries

June 2, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Attorney General Bill McCollum’s claim that health reform forces Florida to shell out too much money for Medicaid is demonstrably false.

Ten Things You Should Know About the $70.4 Billion Budget Crist Is About To Sign

May 28, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Undermining Bright Futures, imposing ultrasounds on pregnant women, studying school funding, favoring bikers, and more curiosities from the state budget.

Florida Legislature’s Spending Misleadingly Labeled as Pork

May 26, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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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.

How Flagler County Is Preparing for the BP Oil Slick–If It Hits (And What You Need to Know)

May 21, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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Flagler County’s emergency response to the oil slick hitting Flagler Beaches is similar to hurricane preparation. It’s happening now.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Desalination’s Future Brackish as Costs Soar for Palm Coast

May 12, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Hopes for a desalination plant are down to whether Palm Coast can bear the burden of mounting costs mostly by itself as other governments drop out of the colossally expensive consortium.

$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.

Palm Coast Hops on Bunnell Train Station Bandwagon

May 11, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Palm Coast was absent from the May 1 Amtrak attention-grabber in Bunnell, but the city council is making amends with a resolution of support.

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.

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.

In Blow to Palm Coast, St. Johns Latest to Retreat from Desalination

May 5, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

With St. Johns’ role and money minimized, Palm Coast taxpayers must assume a far larger share of the $1.2 billion project.

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?

How a Boating Guru Turned Manatee Advocate

May 4, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Ed Caroe applied for a manatee-protection rules committee as a boating advocate. At the last minute, he switched to manatee advocate. Here’s how.

10 Named to Flagler’s Manatee Rules Panel

May 3, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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A county-appointed rules committee has 60 days to recommend whether manatee speed zones are needed in Flagler’s waterways.

Florida Law on How New Manatee Protection Rules May Be Adopted

May 3, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Complete language of Florida Statute § 379.2431(2)(f) which sets out the steps the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission and county governments must follow when adopting rules regulating “speed and operation of motorboats for purposes of manatee protection.”

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.

Obama-Leno: No Correspondence

May 2, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 1 Comment

How even Barack Obama is funnier than Jay Leno. Then again, it’s no contest. Tales from the Correspondents dinner.

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