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Children and Families

Let Us Now Bow to the Quackery of Conversion Therapy

October 17, 2025 | Pierre Tristam | 8 Comments

A case of bloodletting, which for over a thousand years was falsely believed to be curative of numerous ills. The print is byan unknown artist.

Conversion therapy is the non-medical and debunked theory that if you hector gays, lesbians and trans long enough, they’ll convert back to heterosexuality. The approach is premised on self-loathing. It’s abusive. It has nothing to do with science. It has everything to do with a perverted interpretation of Christianity’s vilification of anything non-heterodox. yet after hearing the case this week, the U.S. Supreme Court, continuing its upending of First Amendment interpretations, appears inclined to open the door to conversion therapy to those under 18 as a legitimate professional practice.

With Shutdown, Democrats Finally Take a Clear and Critical Stand

October 11, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

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Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill will add $4 trillion to the national debt and throw 20 million people off Obamacare over the life of the bill, which lets supplemental premium subsidies enacted during the Biden administration expire. It would more than double premium costs for Obamacare recipients. The cost of extending the subsidies over the next 10 years is $350 billion, or 8 percent of the Trump tax cuts. This is what the Democrats have been willing to shut the government over. It’s about time.

St. Johns County Launches Children’s Advocacy Group

October 10, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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St. Johns County has helped launch IMPACT: Advocating for Children Today, Inc., with community partners to identify the needs, resources, and partnerships to improve the lives of St. Johns County children and their families by advocating for a safe, healthy, and nurturing environment. A community workshop was held in August to proceed forward with program priorities, funding opportunities, and the formation of a board of directors.

Palm Coast Man Neglects to Take Infant Daughter to Hospital After She Ingested Edibles, Attending Football Game Instead

October 9, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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Kajuan Arthur Harris, a 29-year-old resident of Wheatfield Drive in Palm Coast, faces a charge of child neglect with great bodily harm, a second-degree felony, following the second hospitalization of his 5-year-old autistic daughter after she ingested a large quantity of marijuana edibles while she was in Harris’s care. He refused to take the child to the hospital, going to a football game instead and urging the child’s mother to let the child “sleep it off.”

Florida Has No Clue How Many Kids Have Lost Health Coverage Since DeSantis Refusal to Comply with Eligibility Rule

October 7, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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In 2023. the Legislature ordered that children in families making up to 300 percent of the poverty level be eligible for KidCare, not 200 percent. The DeSantis administration has refused to comply, sticking with 200 percent, and causing enrollment to fall. But Brian Meyer, the state’s top Medicaid official, couldn’t answer a simple question: How many children have been disenrolled from the program because their families haven’t paid the premiums.

Florida Attorney General Leads 21 States Backing ‘Parental Rights’ Over Child’s Gender Privacy in Court Case

October 6, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier led 21 states in a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court Monday supporting a Tallahassee mother who claimed her rights were violated when a local middle school created a secret plan supporting her child switching genders.

Do ‘Conversion Therapy’ Bans Violate Free Speech?

October 5, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Points of view are protected by the First Amendment. Medical therapy is not a point of view. (Wikimedia Commons)

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Tuesday in a challenge to Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy” – treatment intended to change a client’s sexual orientation or gender identity – for young people. Kaley Chiles, a therapist in Colorado Springs and a practicing Christian, argues that the ban violates her right to free speech because it imposes “a gag order on counselors.” Colorado counters that the ban merely regulates the treatments that mental health professionals can provide because conversion therapy has been found to be “unsafe and ineffective.”

Florida Is Misleadingly Invoking Slavery as It Readies to Kill All Vaccine Mandates in Schools

September 22, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Vaccination rates in Florida schools have dipped below the threshold for immunity to certain preventable diseases.

On Sept. 3, 2025, Florida announced its plans to be the first state to eliminate vaccine mandates for its citizens, including those for children to attend school. Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Florida’s surgeon general and a professor of medicine at the University of Florida, has stated that “every last one” of these decades-old vaccine requirements “is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery.” He is wrong.

Appeals Court Ruling Against Transgender Deputy May Buttress Florida’s Restrictions on Pronouns Use

September 10, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

A sharply divided 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday against a transgender Georgia sheriff's deputy. 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Florida’s defense of a 2023 law restricting pronouns that transgender teachers can use to identify themselves could be aided by an appeals-court ruling Tuesday in a Georgia case. A transgender Houston County, Ga., sheriff’s deputy filed that lawsuit after she was denied coverage under a county health-insurance policy for surgery related to gender dysphoria. The sharply divided appeals court ruled against the Georgia deputy, Anna Lange. Judge Nancy Abudu, in a dissenting opinion, pointed to potentially far-reaching effects of the majority ruling, calling it discrimination against transgender people.”

“The majority opinion effectively sanctions employment discrimination against transgender people,” Abudu’s dissent said.

State Leaders Claim Farmers Feeding Florida Program Will Stave Off Hunger

August 16, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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Farmers Feeding Florida expands Florida food bank infrastructure so that fresh produce, meat and other products from the Sunshine State can end up in food banks and help feed The state’s $38 million investment with the Farmers Feeding Florida initiative that began July 1 expands Florida food bank infrastructure so that fresh produce, meat and other products from the Sunshine State can end up in food banks and help feed hungry people, they said.

Judge Rules Illegal a Florida Law Banning Trans Teachers’ Choice of Pronouns

August 14, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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U.S. District Judge Mark Walker sided with Hillsborough County teacher Katie Wood and a Lee County teacher, identified as Jane Doe, in finding that the state law discriminates in violation of what is known as Section VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. That section bars employment discrimination because of a person’s “race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.” But the outcome of the issue might ultimately hinge on an appeals-court ruling in a Georgia case.

The Eugenics of the Big Beautiful Bill

August 12, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Fifth Avenue in New York, the president's killing field. (Wikimedia Commons)

Withdrawing or making Medicaid and Affordable Care Act coverage more restrictive will cost 51,000 lives a year by 2034. It’s one way to reduce the government’s liability for lives on the dole. It is eugenics by other means.

At Flagler Cares, A Play Therapy Room That Allows Children to Express the Unspeakable

August 11, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

A portion of the play therapy room at Flagler Cares at the Flagler County Vollage. The room was made possible with a grant from the Early learning Coalition, a partner with Flagler Cares. (© FlaglerLive)

Imagine a 5 or 6-year-old child, maybe an abused child or one who’s just endured unspeakable trauma. The child has been incapable of expressing feelings as other children might. The child’s parents have been unable to connect. Play therapy enables the child to express those feelings as nothing else might. That’s the purpose of the play therapy room at Flagler Cares, “a place to play, a place to heal,” as the plaque outside the room put it.

Keep Your ICE Raids Out of Our Schools

August 2, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 31 Comments

ICE storm troopers in a so-called Removal Operations in Los Angeles in June. (Wikimedia Commons)

Immigration raids have escalated — often under questionable pretenses. This spring, immigration agents tried to enter two elementary schools in Los Angeles. At the door, agents said they wanted to determine students’ well-being and claimed to have authorization from the children’s caretakers. Administrators denied them entry — and when they spoke with caretakers later, they learned that agents had lied about receiving permission.

Child Care Is Increasingly Cost-Prohibitive for Florida Parents

July 12, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

A Florida Tax Watch report points to the increasing difficulties of finding affordable child care in Florida. (© FlaglerLive)

There are about 1.28 million children under the age of 6 in Florida, and it’s getting costly for parents to get child care when needed, according to a new analysis from Florida TaxWatch. The watchdog group has published a new report, How Childcare Costs Impact Florida’s Economy. The analysis concludes that child care is taking its toll on the workforce. The report found that the Sunshine State economy loses about $1.5 billion per year due to absenteeism by employees who can’t work due to demands of caring for children.

One in 3 Florida 3rd Graders Have Untreated Cavities. Now a New Law Prohibits Fluoride in Water.

June 30, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

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Florida ranks among the worst states in the U.S. for dental care access, with over 5.9 million residents living in dental care health professional shortage areas. a new Florida law, signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis in May 2025 and going into effect on Tuesday (July 1), now prohibits local governments from adding fluoride to public drinking water. This makes other preventive treatments even more essential. Fluoride varnish, recommended by pediatric and dental associations, is a topical treatment that should be applied every 3-6 months to reduce the risk of tooth decay.

Federal Funding Cut Could Close Hundreds of Planned Parenthood Clinics

June 13, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Planned Parenthood's presence in Jacksonville. (© FlaglerLive)

If the budget reconciliation package before the U.S. Senate becomes law in the coming weeks, reproductive health advocates say the provision that would cut federal funding to Planned Parenthood clinics could serve as a backdoor nationwide abortion ban, eliminating access to 1 in 4 abortion providers.

Opening No Wrong Doors to Dignity, Flagler Cares Marks 10 Years of Closing Gaps For the Most Stressed and Depleted

June 13, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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As Flagler Cares marks its 10th year anniversary with a Legacy of Care celebration at the Palm Coast Community Center Saturday, its no-wrong-door approach under the leadership of Carrie Baird has served nearly 5,000 clients to date, including 765 last year with over $11 million in grants. Its rent, mortgage and utility programs alone have provided nearly $2 million in emergency help to keep people in their homes. The organization is navigating an increasingly challenging landscape for social service non-profits.

28-Unit Affordable Apartment Complex for Foster Youth and Poor Wins Swift Approval in Bunnell

June 10, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The Phoenix Crossings property is outlined in Blue, in Bunnell. (Flagler Property Appraiser)

Without discussion, the Bunnell City Commission on Monday evening unanimously approved the development agreement for Phoenix Crossings, the 28-apartment complex breaking ground this summer on 8 acres off North Bay Street, not far from the city’s sewer plant. The project overcame some strident but localized public opposition in recent months. In contrast, Monday’s hearing drew no public participation, and the commission approved the development order in barely a minute.

Reported Abortions in Florida Down 46% from 2024

June 9, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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A reported 17,377 abortions had been performed in Florida this year as of June 2, a 45.8 percent decrease from a comparable period in 2024, according to state data.

DCF Threatens Reporter Investigating Hope Florida Scandal with Cease and Desist

June 6, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

No one was watching the store when $10 million in state Medicaid settlement money was diverted to the Casey DeSantis-led charity Hope Florida. (Facebook/Casey DeSantis)

The Department of Children and Families (DCF) has sent a cease and desist letter to an Orlando Sentinel reporter who has been digging into the Hope Florida scandal. Jeffrey Schweers, the Sentinel’s Tallahassee bureau reporter, has broken some scoops regarding the embattled charity backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and First Lady Casey DeSantis.

Bill to Help Domestic Violence Victims Dies

May 10, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

A "silent witness" at Flagler County's Family Life Center, the county's only shelter for abused persons, in operation since 1987. (© FlaglerLive)

Legislation that aimed to provide more resources to domestic violence victims was permanently shelved this Regular Session after failing to progress through its assigned committees. The legislation would have established an app that allows a victim to reach law enforcement without alerting the perpetrator. Boynton Beach Democratic Sen. Lori Berman sponsored the measure (SB 240).

Students Will Be Banned from Using Cell Phones in Florida Elementary and Middle Schools

May 3, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Can't even call 911. (© FlaglerLive)

Florida lawmakers late Friday approved barring students in elementary and middle schools from using cell phones during the school day — and testing the idea in high schools. Current law prevents students from using cell phones during instructional time, but the change would expand that prohibition to throughout the school day in elementary and middle schools. Rep. Demi Busatta, a Coral Gables Republican who spearheaded the proposal, described it as “bell to bell.”

Florida House Backs Off Later School Start Times

April 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Flagler County schools' bus drivers had a surprise inspection as they were preparing to roll out this morning. (© FlaglerLive)

The Florida House on Tuesday gave final approval to a bill that would back away from a requirement aimed at starting high-school classes later in the morning. The Legislature in 2023 passed a law that would prevent high schools from starting earlier than 8:30 a.m. to help teens get more sleep.

Florida House Votes to Scrap Work Limits for Older Teens But Ban STI Treatment Without Parental Consent

April 27, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

High school and college students participating in Planned Parenthood programs testified against a bill in the Senate on March 25, 2025, that would require parental consent to access birth control and treatment for sexually transmitted infections. (Photo by Jackie Llanos/Florida Phoenix)

Although older teens could work unlimited hours, they wouldn’t be able to get treatment for sexually transmitted infections on their own under two bills the Florida House approved Friday. House lawmakers voted on party lines both to require parental consent for health care providers to treat minors with STIs and to let 16- and 17-year-olds work full-time hours during the school year without their parents’ permission.

Florida Sues Snapchat, Alleging Social Media Platform Is Not Blocking Minors

April 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has filed a lawsuit alleging that the operator of Snapchat is violating a high-profile 2024 law aimed at keeping children off some social-media platforms. The lawsuit, filed Monday in Santa Rosa County circuit court, came after a federal judge last month rejected a request by tech-industry groups for an injunction to block the law. In a federal-court filing Monday, attorneys for the state said Uthmeier “expects that additional investigations and enforcement actions will commence soon.”

Florida Senate Will Vote on Prohibiting Fluoride in Local Water Services

April 8, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Palm Coast hasn't used fluoride in its water system since the city's founding in 1999. (© FlaglerLive)

Over objections by the Florida Dental Association and League of Women Voters of Florida, a Senate panel voted Tuesday to bar public water systems from “the use of any additive included primarily for health-related purposes.”

Florida Law Banning Kids off Some Social Media Prevails as Judge Refuses to Block It

March 16, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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A federal judge has rejected a request to block a 2024 Florida law aimed at keeping children off some social-media platforms, ruling that industry groups did not show they had legal standing to challenge the measure.

Republicans Are Slashing Health Insurance for the Poor to Extent Trump’s Tax Cut for the Rich

March 8, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

The cost of access. (© FlaglerLive)

The House last week approved a Republican budget plan that could shrink Medicaid spending by $880 billion over 10 years, only partially paying for an extension of expiring tax cuts from President Donald Trump’s first term, plus some new ones he has promised, totaling as much as $4.5 trillion. Providers, patient advocates, disabled people, and family members are furious.

Don’t Blame Trans People for Your Own Struggles

February 18, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Today, both in the United States and in many parts of the world, trans and nonbinary people — a tiny, frequently poor, and marginalized percentage of the general population —  are being used as scapegoats, as symbolic threats to the “right” way of being. These constant attacks are aimed at getting struggling people to blame trans folks for their problems. And they’re designed to keep us all politically reactive, overwhelmed, and unfocused on the deep systemic failures of our society, Aaron Scott, Moses Hernandez McGavin argue.

Selfish or Selfless? When Going Childless Is an Ethical Choice.

February 13, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

In anti-natalists’ eyes, not having children is the ethical choice.

Plenty of childless people want children but can’t have them. Other people may not want kids for personal or economic reasons. But advocates for “anti-natalism,” a relatively new social movement, argue giving birth is immoral. They push back against the idea that childlessness is selfishness. They believe they are protecting their unborn children, not neglecting them: that childlessness is the ethical choice.

Senate Proposal Expands Opportunities for Children with Autism and Their Families

February 6, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

State Sen. Benjamin Albritton (Screenshot, Florida Channel)

The bill (SB 112) filed by Sen. Gayle Harrell, expands a health care grant program established by the Legislature last year to include free screening, referrals, and related services for autism. It also creates two education-related grant programs: one for specialized summer programs for children with autism and the other to support charter schools exclusively serving them.

Education Department Kills Biden’s Title IX Protections Against Gender-Based Discrimination

January 31, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Such a sign, at Motorworks, the pub in Orlando, would no longer be allowed in publicly owned venues. (© FlaglerLive)

The U.S. Department of Education said Friday it is scrapping a Biden administration rule about gender-based discrimination in education programs. The department will use a previous rule about enforcement of Title IX, a landmark 1972 law that bars discrimination in education programs based on sex. In 2020, the Flagler County School Board revised a policy that added “gender identity” to the list of explicit protections in the school district’s anti-discrimination policy. That wording may now be in question.

Protesters Disheartened and Disbelieving at an Abortion-Rights Rally in St. Pete: ‘Florida Is Gone’

January 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Bree Wallace with the Tampa Bay Abortion Fund in St. Petersburg, Florida on Jan 22. 2024 (Photo by Mitch Perry/Florida Phoenix)

Two months after a proposal to repeal Florida’s six-week abortion law and enshrine abortion rights into the state constitution failed to gather the 60% required for passage, more than 100 people gathered Wednesday on four street corners in downtown St. Petersburg to advocate for the cause. But it was a dispirited and disbelieving protest.

Childhood Vaccination Rates Are Slipping in ‘Health Freedom’ Florida and Other States with Exemptions

January 19, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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Pediatricians in states with high exemption rates, such as Florida and Georgia, say they’re concerned by what they see — declining immunization levels for kindergartners, which could lead to a resurgence in vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles. The Florida Department of Health reported nonmedical exemption rates as high as 50% for children in some areas.

Senator Files Bill to Scrap Later Start Times for High School Students, Putting Transportation Ahead of Student Needs

January 17, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Transportation issues, not student health or best practices--which call for later start times for older students--are driving the renewed debate on school schedules. (© FlaglerLive)

With Florida school districts facing a 2026 deadline, a Senate Republican on Friday filed a proposal that would repeal requirements aimed at later start times for many high schools. The proposal would benefit Flagler County schools, where officials in 2023 devised a new start times, but in the opposite direction. Supporters of later start times have argued that the changes would help high-school students get more sleep. But the requirements have faced concerns from school districts about issues such as bus schedules.

Vincent’s Clubhouse Enrichment Center Sets Grand Opening at European Village

January 13, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Vincent's Clubhouse at European Village. (Palm Coast)

The Vincent’s Clubhouse Enrichment Center will host the Grand Opening of its new location at 101 Palm Harbor Parkway, Unit B120, in European Village. The celebration will take place on Jan 21, from 4 to 7 p.m., with a special ribbon-cutting ceremony at 5:30 p.m.

Judge Scraps Biden’s LGBTQ Protections and Bans Requiring Teachers to Use Students’ Chosen Pronouns

January 11, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

Hundreds of people gathered at Washington Square Park in New Orleans on March 31, 2023, for a march to mark Transgender Day of Visibility. (Greg LaRose/Louisiana Illuminator)

A federal district court judge struck down President Joe Biden’s effort to protect transgender students and make other changes to Title IX, ruling the U.S. Department of Education violated teachers’ rights by requiring them to use transgender students’ names and pronouns. The ruling, which applies nationwide, came as a major blow to the Biden administration in its final days and to LGBTQ+ advocates. President-elect Donald Trump took aim at transgender people in a culture war-focused campaign.

Christian Pressure Group Pushing Lawmakers to Ban Freedom of Personal Pronouns in Local Governments

January 9, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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John Labriola, a lobbyist for Christian Family Coalition Florida, told Marion County lawmakers Wednesday that his organization would like to see restrictions in the 2023 education law extended to city and county governments. Labriola said he hopes the issue will be considered during this year’s legislative session, which will start March 4.

Doctor Faces $10,000 Fine for Violation Abortion Waiting Period

January 5, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Detail from the original cover of Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" (1985).

After the state Department of Health called for revoking the doctor’s license, the Florida Board of Medicine this week issued a final order imposing a $10,000 fine and reprimanding a physician who did not comply in 2022 with a law requiring 24-hour waiting periods before abortions can be performed.

Court Rejects Teen’s Challenge to Florida Law Banning Trans Women Athlete from Teams

December 22, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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A federal judge appointed by Donald Trump dismissed a Broward County teen’s challenge to the constitutionality of a 2021 Florida law that bars transgender female students from playing on women’s and girls’ sports teams.

Shop with a Cop Raises Another $35,000, and Sheriff Launches Reunification Program for Inmates and Their Children

December 12, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The Grinch during last December's Shop with a Cop event at Walmart. (FCSO)

Flagler County Sheriff’s Office employees and several community organizations and individuals have generously donated over $35,000 to the Flagler Sheriff’s Childrens Charities in support of the Agency’s annual Shop with a Cop event, scheduled for Friday, matching last year’s record amount. On Dec. 9, Staly launched a new program in partnership with Parkview Church, “Joy Beyond Walls,” enabling inmates in the Smart program to briefly reunite with their children to celebrate the holidays.

Mother Faces 4 Felony Child Neglect Counts As Loaded Gun Is Found on Top of Disney DVDs in Deplorable House

December 9, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Authorities could smell foul odors spilling out of the house at 20 Fanwood Court in Palm Coast.

Amanda Gaisford, a 37-year-old resident of Fanwood Court in Palm Coast, was charged with four felony counts of child neglect after authorities found a loaded firearm and numerous drugs within easy reach of the four young children she cares for, and a house in dire conditions. The house had no running water and was infested with insects and roaches.

RFK Factor: An Unwelcome, Possible Return of Measles, Whooping Cough, and Worse

December 8, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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After backlash against public health interventions culminated in President-elect Donald Trump’s nominating Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the country’s best-known anti-vaccine activist, as its top health official, infectious disease and public health experts and vaccine advocates say a confluence of factors could cause renewed, deadly epidemics of measles, whooping cough, and meningitis, or even polio.

The Best Exercises to Boost Brain Health After 60

December 6, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Contrary to popular belief, the brain does not deteriorate continuously with age. Instead, it only sees the number of its brain cells drop and connections deteriorate from the age of 45 onwards as part of a normal ageing process. But cerebral plasticity, although reduced, is present until the end of life. Each individual will build up a cognitive reserve throughout their lives. The more positive, rich and stimulating the lifestyle, the more powerful and effective the reserve. In other words, it’s possible to moderate the effects of age on cognition.

How Bathroom Bans on Federal Property Would Impact Trans Americans

November 30, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 60 Comments

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A proposed bill in Congress would ban trans people from bathrooms in museums, national parks and other federal property. How would it be enforced, and what are the consequences?

Project 2025’s Coming War on Struggling Families

November 29, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 56 Comments

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I’m a mom of four and have a child with special needs. My husband and I work hard for our four boys. We live above the official federal poverty line, but we struggle. And if conservative groups succeed in implementing Project 2025 under the next Trump administration, we’ll struggle a lot harder, with looming, harsh cuts to programs that families like mine rely on.

Florida Surgeon general Calls for End to Fluoride in Drinking Water

November 22, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo. (The Florida Channel)

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo — echoing viewpoints propagated by Robert F. Kennedy, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to become the nation’s chief health official — recommended against community fluoridation of drinking water Friday. The recommendation runs counter to public health officials and dentists.

St. Johns Clerk Hosts National Adoption Day Celebration on Nov. 22

November 20, 2024 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The St. Johns County courthouse. (© FlaglerLive)

The St. Johns County Clerk of the Circuit Court and County Comptroller’s office will host a special ceremony on Friday, Nov. 22, at 10 a.m. to celebrate National Adoption Day. The event will be held at the Richard O. Watson Judicial Center, marking the culmination of a long adoption process for six local children joining their forever families.

Florida’s Abortion Rights and Recreational Pot Amendments Fail

November 6, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

A disinformation campaign unworthy of the gutter helped defeat Amendment 4. (© FlaglerLive)

A ballot proposal that would have enshrined abortion rights in the Florida Constitution failed Tuesday, giving a major political victory to Gov. Ron DeSantis — and dealing a huge blow to abortion-rights supporters. A $150 million-plus effort to allow recreational use of marijuana in Florida fizzled out.

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