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Supervisors of Election Push Back Against Proposed DeSantis Rule On Determining Voter Intent

June 1, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

A Flagler County Canvassing Board meeting during the November 2018 election cycle. (© FlaglerLive)

Florida supervisors of elections are pushing back on a rule proposed by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration to update standards for determining voters’ intent on ballots, saying the proposal includes “inconsistencies” that could lead to problems for county canvassing boards.

Lured by State’s $3,000 ‘Civics’ Bonus, Thousands of Florida Teachers Train in Christian Nationalist Tenets

May 31, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis with some of the 4,500 Florida teachers who last year completed the Civics Seal of Excellence endorsement course and receive a $3,000 bonus, according to a release issued by the governor's office.

Training materials produced by the Florida Department of Education direct middle and high school teachers to indoctrinate students in the tenets of Christian nationalism, a right-wing effort to merge Christian and American identities. Thousands of Florida teachers, lured by cash stipends, have attended trainings featuring these materials.  

Among Florida Politicians, Trump Verdict Draws Predictable Outrage from GOP, Praise from Democrats

May 30, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 67 Comments

How his hometown paper covered it.

Florida Republicans on Thursday quickly attacked the conviction of former President Donald Trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records, while Democrats said the verdict showed nobody is above the law. A 12-member jury returned the verdict more than a month after the criminal hush-money trial began in New York and after just one day of deliberations. Trump is the first former president to be convicted of a crime after leaving office.

Florida High School Athletic Association Replaces Word ‘Gender’ With ‘Sex’ in Snub at Anti-Discrimination Guidelines

May 29, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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The State Board of Education on Wednesday approved changes in the Florida High School Athletic Association’s bylaws that include replacing mentions of the word “gender” with the word “sex,” amid a larger dispute between federal and state officials. The changes came as Florida and other Republican-led states are challenging a Biden administration rule that would help carry out Title IX, a decades-old law that bars discrimination in education programs based on sex.

Florida’s Attorney General Calls Starbucks’ Diverse Hiring ‘Illegal’

May 26, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Florida’s Attorney General took to a national radio show hosted by Gov. Ron DeSantis–he was sitting in for Sean Hannity–to charge that Starbucks’s pledge to hire people of color in 30 to 40 percent of its positions violates the law.

Governor Ron Wants to Pay High School Athletes. But Not At Your School.

May 24, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Caesar Campana in his coaching days, furing a Flagler Palm Coast High School-Matanzas High School match in 2010. (© FlaglerLive)

Former Flagler Palm Coast High School Head Football Coach Caesar Campana takes on a proposal by the Florida High School Athletic Association to allow student-athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness under what is commonly known as an NIL policy. But while the policy has a place in college sports, it will further divide high school sports between the haves and the have-nots, particularly favoring private schools and leaving public schools behind.

Federal Appeals Court Will Decide Whether Florida Ban on Strippers Younger Than 21 Is Constitutional

May 20, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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A panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear arguments June 6 in Jacksonville about whether a city ordinance barring dancers under 21 in adult establishments violates First Amendment rights.

Florida City Calls for Protection of Civilians in Gaza and Israel. DeSantis Calls It “Fraud.”

May 18, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Israel's war on Gaza has resulted in the death of some 35,000 Palestinians so far. (B'Tselem)

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday blasted a resolution passed by a local government last week in Miami-Dade County — the most populous county in Florida — that calls for supporting peace and security for “all innocent civilians in Israel, Gaza and Occupied Palestinian Territories.” Gov. DeSantis called it a “fraud.”

DeSantis Signs Bills Adding Judges and Revising “Live Local Act”

May 16, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday signed 11 bills, including a measure that will increase the number of circuit-court and county judges and a bill that will revise a major housing law, known as the “Live Local Act,” that passed in 2023.

Judge Rules Unconstitutional Part of Florida Law Forbidding Non-Citizens from Gathering Petitions

May 16, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

It's much harder to find petition-gatherers. (Erin M McCuskey)

A federal judge Wednesday issued a final decision blocking part of a 2023 Florida elections law that placed new restrictions on voter-registration groups, including preventing non-U.S. citizens from “collecting or handling” registration applications.

Bacardi Jackson , New Florida ACLU Leader, Points to ‘Urgency of Now’ at ‘Deeply Disturbing’ Juncture

May 14, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Bacardi Jackson by "The Embrace," the Hank Willis Thomas sculpture on Boston Common in Boston. (Instagram)

Bacardi Jackson, a veteran litigator seeped in civil-rights advocacy, took the leadership of of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida on Monday amid a growing number of challenges to laws passed by the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature and signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis. Jackson views her new position as an opening to spur action at a critical juncture in the history of the state and the nation.

DeSantis Office Dismissed from Open Records Case Over Travels, But Lawsuit Against FDLE Continues

May 11, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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A Leon County circuit judge has dismissed Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office from a lawsuit filed by the Washington Post over access to DeSantis’ travel records. Judge J. Lee Marsh this week issued a nine-page ruling that said DeSantis’ office is not the “custodian” of disputed records held by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. The ruling did not dismiss the case against the law-enforcement agency.

Florida Opposes Federal Rule to Limit Power Plants’ Greenhouse Emissions

May 10, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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Florida and two dozen other states Thursday filed a legal challenge to a new U.S. Environmental Protection rule aimed at reducing carbon emissions from power plants. The states filed a petition at the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia that alleged the EPA overstepped its legal authority.

DeSantis Lawyer Argues Governor’s ‘Executive Privilege’ Places Him Above Public Record Law

May 7, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

The DeSantis administration argues that some of the governor's records may be blurred from public view. (© FlaglerLive)

In a case that could have far-reaching implications for the state’s public-records laws, an appeals court heard arguments Tuesday in a challenge to a judge’s ruling that “executive privilege” shields Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration from releasing records. During Tuesday’s arguments before a three-judge panel of the Tallahassee-based 1st District Court of Appeal, the plaintiff’s attorney said that the constitutional right to public records does not include an exemption for the governor’s records.

Florida Law Restricting Property Ownership By Nationals of 7 Countries Draws 2nd Discrimination Lawsuit

May 6, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

A Florida law forbidding certain property ownership by nationals of seven countries harkens back to the days of housing discrimination. (Florida Memory)

Almost exactly a year after Florida lawmakers and Gov. Ron DeSantis approved a measure to restrict property ownership by people from China and six other countries, housing and real-estate groups Monday filed a federal lawsuit alleging it is discriminatory. The lawsuit, filed in Miami, contends that the law violates the federal Fair Housing Act and part of the Florida Constitution.

The Fear and Loathing Behind GOP’s Christian White Nationalism

May 5, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Joseph Mallord William Turner's "The Deluge" (1805)

MAGA adherents to Aryan tough-guy Jesus see America becoming less white and less Christian, so they’re freaking out, flailing around, breaking things — such as your right to control your own body, your right to read what you want, identify however you want, and love who you want.

Unquiet Silence: Inside a Jacksonville Abortion Clinic After Ban Kicks In

May 4, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

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On Monday, almost 60 people came to A Woman’s Choice, a clinic in Jacksonville that offers abortion services. Half did so for their abortions, and half for the preliminary consults. A third were from somewhere other than Florida. The vast majority were past six weeks of pregnancy. By Wednesday morning, it was all over. Outside, half a dozen abortion opponents chanted prayers. Inside the clinic was quieter. The six-week ban had kicked in.

DeSantis Signs Bill Censoring Teacher Training Programs, Saying It Will Prohibit Their ‘Indoctrination’

May 3, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

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Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday signed bills that include seeking to prevent “indoctrination” in teacher-training programs and beginning to allow credit unions to hold state money. The teacher-training bill (HB 1291) was one of the most-controversial education issues of this year’s legislative session, which ended March 8. It seeks to prevent “identity politics” from being included in teacher-preparation programs at colleges and universities.

Florida Joins GOP Lawsuit to Kill Federal Protections for Transgender Students

May 1, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

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Republican State Attorney General Ashley Moody has enlisted Florida in multi-state litigation challenging new Biden administration regulations protecting transgender people from discrimination in schools, colleges, and universities.

Arrests and Threats of Expulsions of Students Protesting Gaza War Increase at Florida University Campuses

April 30, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

An image posted on social media by Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society.

Arrests of protesters on Florida university campuses increased this week, after tensions ratcheted up at the University of Florida and the University of South Florida during demonstrations about the war between Israel and Hamas. The arrests Monday of a dozen people at the two Florida universities came as pro-Palestinian campus protests draw attention across the country. The ACLU of Florida denounced the threats of expulsions, calling protest a fundamental right.

With Zero Evidence, Florida Surgeon General Says Mask Wearers ‘Just Like to Hide Their Faces’

April 26, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

Florida’s Surgeon General is continuing to evangelize against mask wearing like it’s 2022. His latest theory? People wearing protective coverings over their faces simply don’t want to be seen, said the state’s Chief Health Officer and doctor of medicine at the University of Florida.

Five Questions for Kevin Guthrie, Florida’s Emergency Management Director

April 19, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Kevin Guthrie. (© FlaglerLive)

As director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management since April 2021, Kevin Guthrie–who was Flagler County’s emergency management director between 2013 and 2016–has run point on disasters from Category 4 hurricanes to a deadly condominium-building collapse in Surfside. Guthrie also has been charged with overseeing the evacuation of Floridians from strife-torn Haiti, along with a controversial program to transport migrants to “sanctuary” areas of the country.

Signing Bill Inviting Chaplains Into Public Schools as Counselors, DeSantis Scoffs at Challenges and Church State Wall

April 18, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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The state won’t allow satanists to take advantage of a new law allowing religious chaplains to serve as counselors in public schools for students whose parents approve, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday while signing the legislation. The governor also predicted the state would prevail if the new law draws a legal challenge over separation of church and state concerns.

DeSantis Signs Education Bill Controlling Book Challenges and Broadening Charter School Takeovers

April 16, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

John Green's "Looking for Alaska" was challenged in Flagler County schools last year. It survived at the time. It may not have survived since. (© FlaglerLive)

After more than 1,200 objections were filed to school-library books and other materials last school year, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday signed a bill that will limit challenges by some people. The wide-ranging bill (HB 1285) also includes making changes designed to ease the process of charter schools taking over operations at traditional public schools that lag in performance.

Civilian Oversight Boards Are Now Prohibited from Investigating Police Misconduct in Florida

April 15, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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Gov. Ron DeSantis signed two bills last week that would prohibit civilian oversight boards from investigating police misconduct and stop people from getting too close to first responders doing their jobs.

Rest Easy: Florida Law Erases and Bans All References to Climate Change

April 14, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 53 Comments

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You probably think Ron DeSantis and the yahoos, grifters, simps, dolts, and dunderheads who populate the Florida Legislature are collectively incapable of solving even one of the bazillion issues facing this state. But the Legislature has figured out how to fix climate change. Your bought-and-paid-for Legislature has delivered a bill that amends Florida statutes to delete all references to climate change. Thanks to them, climate change is gone. Erased. Kaputt. Ya no es. C’est fini.

Evading Usual Bill-Signing Spectacle, DeSantis Kills Local Efforts to Protect Workers from Florida’s Brutal Heat

April 14, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 54 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis has quietly signed into law a measure barring local governments from requiring employers to provide workers with basic protections like shade, accessible water, and breaks from the Florida’s scorching heat and humidity.

Yes, Efforts to Eliminate DEI Programs Are Rooted in Racism

April 13, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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In the past year, a number of states have begun to dismantle their DEI programs. Alabama, Utah, Texas and Florida have all passed and signed into law anti-DEI legislation ranging from prohibiting diversity training to terminating all positions associated with DEI efforts. Florida lawmakers have restricted the teaching of what they call racially “divisive” subject matter in public schools, colleges and universities. Legislatures in more than two dozen additional states are considering similar measures.

DeSantis and Surgeon General Turn Fentanyl Bill-Signing Into Attack on Transgender Athletes

April 9, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

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Just moments after the governor said that he would sign two bills, one promoting opioid antagonists to prevent deaths from overdose and another boosting penalties for recklessly exposing first responders to fentanyl, Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo opened fire on athletic competitions that pit transgender women and girls against those who are biologically female.

DeSantis Lashes Out at Pot Freedom and Abortion-Rights Amendments

April 6, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis violated the public record law. (© FlaglerLive)

Gov. Ron DeSantis lashed out at two proposed constitutional amendments that will appear on the November ballot, three days after the Florida Supreme Court signed off on the measures.

You May Not Have An Abortion Past 6 Weeks in Florida. You May Vote To Restore Abortion Rights in November.

April 2, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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The Florida Supreme Court released two blockbuster rulings on abortion rights on Monday — one that within a few weeks will allow a ban on the procedure after six weeks’ gestation to take effect, and another allowing the voters to decide in November whether to amend the Florida Constitution to protect access to the procedure.

DeSantis Signs Off and Drinks Up: You Can Now Buy a 4-Gallon Bottle of Wine in Florida

March 28, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis at a bill signing ceremony at Wine Watch in Fort Lauderdale on March 28. (Screenshot from the Florida Channel)

Under current state law, wine distributors and manufacturers are allowed to sell wine to other distributors and manufacturers in containers of any size, but regular Floridians are prohibited from purchasing wine in containers larger than one gallon. Under the new law (HB 583), wine will be allowed for purchase up to 15 liters, which is 3.963 gallons, according to the legislation.

Disney and Oversight District Settle Lawsuit, Not Quite Ending Company’s Dispute With DeSantis

March 27, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Maybe DeSantis will take on Qin Shi Huang's Terracotta Army next. (© FlaglerLive)

The deal ends an Orange County circuit-court lawsuit that came amid a feud between DeSantis and Disney over the company’s opposition to a 2022 state law that restricted instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in schools. Disney filed a separate federal lawsuit and appealed after a U.S. district judge in January dismissed that case. The appeal remains pending.

Lawsuit Challenges Constitutionality of Florida Law Restricting Employment for Chinese and Some Others

March 26, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Two graduate students and a professor on Monday challenged the constitutionality of a 2023 state law that restricts employment of people from China and six other nations at Florida public universities and colleges. The challenge alleges, in part, that the law is unconstitutional because it is trumped by federal immigration laws.

DeSantis Signs Bill Restricting Children’s Social Media Accounts and Inviting Yet Another Lawsuit

March 25, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

House Speaker Paul Renner expressed confidence that a new social-media law will withstand a First Amendment challenge. Colin Hackley/File

With the state preparing for a legal challenge from the tech industry, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a high-profile bill aimed at keeping children off social-media platforms. Paul Renner and other key supporters argue that social-media companies have created addictive platforms that harm children’s mental health and can lead to sexual predators communicating with minors. But critics, including tech-industry groups, argue the bill is unconstitutional and point to courts blocking similar legislation in other states.

Pressure Mounts on DeSantis to Veto Vacation Rental Bill as Flagler County’s Exception Draws Sneers

March 22, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

A sign captured in front of a home on Harbor Drive in Indian Rocks Beach on Jan 14, 2023 (credit: Mitch Perry)

A growing list of opponents have been inundating Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office with emails and phone calls to veto the vacation-rental bill that, after 10 years’ tries, succeeded in scaling back local regulation of the short-term rental industry–except in Flagler County, which got the favor of an exception thanks to Paul Renner, the house speaker and Palm Coast representative.

DeSantis Signs ‘Live Healthy’ Package Spending $1.5 billion to Bolster Health Care Programs

March 21, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

A radiation beamer at UF Shands hospital in Gainesville. (© FlaglerLive)

The plan focuses on retaining and attracting health care workers to the state, creating a loan program for innovative health care projects, establishing behavioral health teaching hospitals, and providing at-home and community-based services to Floridians with disabilities.

Florida Spring Break: Come for the Sunshine, Stay for the Measles.

March 17, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

Volusia County's tourism headquarters, combined with the local chamber of commerce, in DeLand, in 1937. (Florida Memory)

Too many dunderheads are buying what dangerous anti-vaxxers like Ron DeSantis and his pet quack Joseph Ladapo are selling, so the measles virus is roaring back in Florida as the governor basks in a series of retro-reactionary new laws, from the end of the DEI movement in state universities to the ban on local governments’ attempts to treat their workers humanely in the face of climate change–a pair of words disallowed in the governor’s administration.

DeSantis Says Undocumented Immigrants Will ‘Regret’ Coming to Florida as He Signs Harsher Penalties Into Law

March 16, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis stages a press conference in Winter Haven on March 15, 2024. Source: Screenshot/DeSantis Facebook

One bill doesn’t mention migrants specifically but imposes a mandatory 10-day jail sentence for a third or subsequent conviction for driving without a license or with a license that has been suspended, cancelled, or revoked. Another bumps criminal penalties for people who commit felonies after having been deported and returning to the United States.

Watchdog Groups Call on Gov. DeSantis to Veto Ethics Bill Restricting Investigations of Corruption

March 14, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

"Bosses of the Senate," Joseph Keppler's 1889 cartoon first published in Puck. (Wikimedia Commons)

A coalition of state watchdog groups have sent a letter to Gov. Ron DeSantis, calling on him to veto an ethics bill that prohibits ethics commissions from pursuing any investigation of public officials or candidates for public office unless it comes from an individual “based on personal knowledge or information other than hearsay.”

As DeSantis Crows, Opponents of ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Law Say Settlement Rectifies Some of the Damage

March 12, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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Gov. Ron DeSantis was quick out the door with a claim that a settlement in a legal challenge to his Parental Rights in Education Act— or Don’t Say Gay — vindicated his efforts “to keep radical gender and sexual ideology out of the classrooms of public-school children.” In fact, the settlement agreement’s terms also limit enforcement of that law which the governor pushed through the Legislature two years ago to bar public school instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity.

Flagler County and Cities Net Record $151 Million of Half Billion Requested as Budget Heads to DeSantis

March 8, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis, Senate President Kathleen Passidomo and House Speaker Paul Renner discussed the 2024 legislative session Friday. (Mike Exline/NSF)

The budget includes $151 million in appropriations for Flagler County, Palm Coast, Flagler Beach and Bunnell, a record besting last year’s haul by about $45 million. Palm Coast’s future, western expansion drew $80 million for the loop road the city is planning, but existing residents’ needs for a better Old Kings Road were stiffed. Flagler County is facing a funding cliff next year as Paul Renner and Travis Hutson will be gone.

After DeSantis Veto, Lawmakers Pass Watered-Down Social Media Ban Awash in Loopholes

March 7, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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The bill, in part, would prevent children under age 16 from opening social-media accounts — though it would allow parents to give consent for 14- and 15-year-olds to have accounts. Children under 14 could not open accounts, but the revamped plan does not include age-verification requirements, making the ban moot but for the state’s vague threat of lawsuits.

Senate Approves Ban on Homeless Sleeping in Public, Sending Bill to Gov. DeSantis for Signature

March 6, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Off limits, says Florida's sleep police. (© FlaglerLive)

The Republican-controlled Senate voted 27-12 along party lines to pass the bill (HB 1365), which would bar cities and counties from allowing people to sleep at places such as public buildings and in public rights of way. The House approved the bill last week, and DeSantis has voiced support for it. But Democrats argued the state would provide limited resources to local governments to carry out the measure, potentially exposing the local governments to lawsuits.

Lawmakers Set to Pass $117.46 Billion Budget by Friday, After ‘Cooling Off’ Period

March 5, 2024 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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

Overall state spending will be higher than the $117.46 billion in the budget because of separate legislation. For example, lawmakers have approved spending $717 million in a major health-care bill (SB 7016) that includes efforts to attract more doctors to the state.

Seniority Pork: Hutson Filed Staggering $475 Million in Requests for Flagler, Including $309 Million for Palm Coast

March 5, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

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Outdoing last year’s requests by far, Hutson filed 34 special funding requests on behalf of Flagler County governments and agencies, totaling a staggering $475.8 million–or 0.4 percent of the size of the current state budget. Seven of the requests are for Flagler County government, totaling $92.5 million. Fourteen requests were for Palm Coast, totaling a third of a billion dollars.

Federal Appeals Court Stops DeSantis’s ‘Stop Woke’ Restrictions on Workplace Training Against Bigotry

March 4, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

The 'Stop Woke Act' could make it difficult to discuss Bull Connor's response to civil rights. (© FlaglerLive)

The workplace-training part of the law listed eight race-related concepts and said that a required training program or other activity that “espouses, promotes, advances, inculcates, or compels such individual (an employee) to believe any of the following concepts constitutes discrimination based on race, color, sex, or national origin.”

DeSantis Thinks He’s Abolishing the Homeless by Banning Them from Sight. He’s Wrong.

March 3, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 31 Comments

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DeSantis and lawmakers are likely reacting to a shift in the way communities across the U.S. view homelessness from compassion to penalties and restrictions. Unfortunately, but true to form, DeSantis didn’t offer a palette of humane solutions to the homelessness problem. Instead, he spoke of the issue in stark, unsympathetic, self-absorbed terms characterizing homelessness in purely negative terms, blaming them for contributing to the erosion of the quality of life of others lucky to not be sleeping on the street.

The Controversial Concept of ‘Fetal Personhood’ Is Creeping Up on Florida

February 25, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

Chief Justice Carlos Muniz. (Florida Supreme Court)

If fetuses have legal personhood, abortion-rights activists argue it would infringe the rights of pregnant women and have serious implications for medical procedures like in vitro fertilization and the treatment of ectopic pregnancies and miscarriages. For all practical matters, the Florida Constitution is silent on the issue of fetal personhood, despite Chief Justice Muniz’s suggestion that fetal personhood rights might already exist.

Stunningly, Florida’s Ladapo Tells Parents It’s Fine to Send Unvaccinated Kids to School with Measles Outbreak

February 24, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 32 Comments

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With a brief memo, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo has subverted a public health standard that’s long kept measles outbreaks under control. On Feb. 20, as measles spread through Manatee Bay Elementary in South Florida, Ladapo sent parents a letter granting them permission to send unvaccinated children to school amid the outbreak. Ladapo’s move contradicts advice from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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