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A Storied Gay-Pride Flag Doubles Down Outside FPC as Veterans Lead Protest of Student Leader’s Suspension

March 8, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Demonstrators protesting the law dubbed "Don;t Say Gay" outside of Flagler palm Coast High School in March. (© FlaglerLive)

Military veterans from Key West and Washington, D.C., led a protest that drew 30 people outside Flagler Palm Coast High School at dawn today in protest of the school suspending student-leader Jack Petocz last Thursday after he led an anti-“Don’t Say Gay” walkout and distributed gay-pride flags. Petocz’s suspension ended today.

Ukraine and the Fallacy of ‘All Lives Matter’

March 6, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

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Every war brings out the best and the worst in human beings. Ukrainian resistance has been heroic and inspiring as Russia carries out its war crimes. But there’s also a strong element of bias at work in the public reaction. You know, the way a blue-eyed blond child gone missing will get page one sympathy while a missing Black child will be ignored. 

Flagler Beach City Commission Election Profile: 2 Incumbents Speak Experience as a Newcomer Promises

March 5, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

The three candidates for the two seats in the March 8 Flagler Beach election for City Commission. From left, newcomer James Sherman, incumbent Jane Mealy, first elected in 2016, and incumbent Rick Belhumeur first elected in 2016. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler Woman’s Club on Tuesday hosted a forum for the three candidates running for Flagler Beach City Commission–incumbents Jane Mealy and Rick Belhumeur, and newcomer James Sherman. Here’s a complete report and analysis of the evening.

Court Says City-Owned Golf Course Managed By a Private Company Can Be Required to Pay Property Taxes

March 4, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Flagler Beach's privately-run, city-owned Ocean Palms Golf Club has never paid property taxes. A court decision this week suggests local property appraisers may legally deny a local government's exemption for such privately run amenities. (© FlaglerLive)

The court decision could potentially have ramifications in Flagler Beach, where the city owns Ocean Palms Golf Club, a nine-hole golf course, but has been leasing it to a private company since 2015, tax-free. The decision this week suggests local property appraisers may legally deny a local government’s exemption for such privately run amenities.

‘Say Gay! Say Gay! Say Gay!’ FPC Students Chant in Walkout Protesting Bills; Organizer Jack Petocz Is Suspended

March 3, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 50 Comments

Jack Petocz, left, at the height of the walkout he organized this morning at Flagler Palm Coast High School, an hour or two before he was suspended pending an investigation. (© FlaglerLive)

Hundreds of students at Flagler Palm Coast High School staged a 12-minute walkout this morning to protest bills nearing passage in the Legislature that would silence educators’ freedom to discuss certain topics, including gender identity, sexual orientation and certain anti-racism themes. Jack Petocz, the organizer of the protest, was suspended after the event.

Walmart Voids Trespass Warning Against Ex-Councilman Victor Barbosa

March 3, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

Victor Barbosa in the asset protection office as a sheriff's deputy wrote him a trespass warning on Feb. 27, in a still from a body camera video.

The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office has voided the Feb. 27 trespass warning against ex-Palm Coast City Council member Victor Barbosa after receiving a request to do so from a Walmart employee.

With Average Gas Price in Florida at $3.57 a Gallon, Some Begin to Change Driving Habits

March 3, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine caused oil prices to surge above $110 a barrel for the first time in a decade. Oil is now $19 a barrel more than Friday’s settlement.  An increase of that magnitude could signal a 40-50 cent jump at the pump.

Ultimatum from Flagler Beach, Husband in Prison: Ocean Palm Golf’s Unintended Owner Tells Her Story

March 2, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Speaking publicly for the first time since she took over management of the city-owned Ocean Palms Golf Club in Flagler Beach, Belle McManus says she had no intentions to be at loggerheads with the city, and is hoping to resolve all differences. The city has issued an ultimatum that could lead to a severing of the lease after seven years. (© FlaglerLive)

Belle McManus had to take over the city-owned, privately managed Ocean Palms Golf Club in Flagler Beach after her husband was imprisoned on a DUI conviction. The city and the golf course already had rocky relations, and now the golf course faces a lease termination ultimatum. McManus describes her attempts to save the business in her new, unexpected role.

Signal Shift: Flagler Health Department Ends Covid Testing As Cases Fade; Deaths Increase by 15 in 2 Weeks

February 28, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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The end of operations at the airport–or at the department itself–signal the Health Department’s shift back to what it is calling “normal,” pre-pandemic operations, exactly two years after mobilizing for the first covid surge.

Think Twice Before Scanning That QR Code

February 27, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Stained code windows. (Mitya Ivanov on Unsplash)

Scanning a Quick Response, or QR code, is convenient and easy. And it is contactless, which can make people feel safer. But cybersecurity experts say QR codes also created new opportunities for fraudsters, who can tamper with them and direct victims to malicious websites to steal their personal and financial information.

Cost and Location Questions Arise Over County’s Push for Visitor Center on A1A and South 9th Street

February 24, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 39 Comments

Flagler County's tourism bureau proposed buying this corner lot on A1A and South 9th Street in Flagler Beach when its director discussed it before the Tourist Development Council, but the site was left unmentioned in a presentation to the County Commission this week. (© FlaglerLive)

The chairman of the Flagler Beach City Commission and the chairman of the county’s tourism council, who also sits on the County Commission, both have questions about the location and the cost of building a potential visitor center the county’s tourism division is eying for South 9th Street and State Road A1A in Flagler Beach.

Residents of Hidden Lakes and Toscana Appeal Palm Coast Approvals of 2 Self-Storage Lots on Old Kings

February 23, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

A rendering of one of the two self-storage facilities proposed for Old Kings Road that residents of the Toscana and Hidden Lakes subdivisions are now contesting.

A group of Palm Coast residents in the Toscana and Hidden Lakes subdivisions off Old Kings Road have filed an appeal of a decision by the Palm Coast Planning Board clearing the way for a self-storage facility on Old Kings Road. The same group is preparing to file a civil suit in circuit court seeking to quash decisions by the planning board and the Palm Coast City Council clearing the way for both that facility and another like it nearby.

Dozens of Anti-Semitic Fliers Tied to ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Appear in Palm Coast and Ormond Beach

February 23, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

Some of the anti-Semitic fliers in sandwich bags picked up in Ormond Beach on Tuesday. Some 50 similar fliers were picked up by Flagler County Sheriff's deputies in Palm Coast's C Section on Tuesday.

The fliers, which authorities and the Anti Defamation League do not consider criminal, have been appearing at least since December in neighborhoods in Surfside, Miami, San Francisco, Denver, Las Vegas, Kenosha, Wis., Cartersville, Ga., towns in Texas, and California, according to press reports and a tally by the ADL.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on Ukrainian Nationalism and Separatism

February 22, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

A mural of Aleksandr Solzkenitsyn as a "Zek," or prisoner, in the Soviet gulag. (Thierry Ehrmann)

“Russia and the Ukraine are united in my blood, my heart, my thoughts,” Solzhenitsyn wrote in The Gulag Archipelago half a century ago. “But from friendly contact with Ukrainians in the camps over a long period I have learned how sore they feel. Our generation cannot avoid paying for the mistakes of generations before it.”

The GOP Is Using ‘Parental Rights’ to End Public Education as We Know It

February 21, 2022 | Pierre Tristam | 38 Comments

Florida's Parents' Bill of Rights capsizes ethical norms, placing parental rights ahead of those of children. (Stephen Harlan on Unsplash)

The Florida GOP is using the Parents’ Bill of Rights to weaponize a minority of insurrectionist parents against schools, giving parents the right to violate privacy and autonomy where it counts most at school: between students and teacher. No wonder there’s a teacher exodus. It’s just what the GOP wants. Destruction from within. 

Another Self -Storage Facility for Old Kings Road, a Car Wash Near Starbucks and Taco Bell on SR100

February 18, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 46 Comments

Car washes have been whirring their way into the Palm Coast market in the last few years, as have, even more intensely, self-storage facilities. (© FlaglerLive)

The Palm Coast Planning Board cleared the way for the third self-storage facility approved for Old Kings Road in the past four weeks, and a car wash near Aldi and Taco Bell on State Road 100. The self-storage facility was not permitted to have boats and RVs.

New Bunnell Police Chief Dave Brannon Steps In as Interim Snead Offers Valentine of Firsts to City

February 17, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Brannon Snead receiving a token of the city's appreciation for his interim role as police chief, from Mayor Catherine Robinson, at last Monday's City Commission meeting. (© FlaglerLive)

Dave Brannon, for 26 years a member of the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office and the commander of the DeLand and Deltona districts, will take-over as Bunnell Police Chief on Feb. 28 as Interim Chief Brannon Snead neared the end of his three-month tenure by presenting the commission with a series of firsts, including the department’s first-ever strategic plan.

Father Is Jailed Over Whipping 7-Year-Old Girl, 3rd Palm Coast Case of Parental Child Abuse in 10 Days

February 17, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

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Flagler County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Charles Nazworth, 69, of Palm Coast’s W Section on a charge of child abuse Tuesday after he was accused of whipping his 7-year-old daughter with a belt and causing her to run away from home. The girl was found bruised, shoeless and coatless on Pine Lakes Parkway Tuesday afternoon.

Palm Coast Council Sharply Reverses Course on Green Lion After Crush of Unanimity Against Severing Lease

February 15, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

The Palm Coast City Council chamber was at capacity this morning as hundreds of residents and supporters of the Green Lion restaurant at Palm Harbor Golf Club turned up to protest the city council's severing of the lease after five years. Sitting in the first row, to the left of the masked woman, are Carolyn Marlow, Tony Marlow, and Linda Provencher, the former Flagler Beach mayor who worked for the Marlows for 20 years. They also own the Golden Lion restaurant in Flagler Beach. (© FlaglerLive)

Faced with a rare, unanimous backlash against its arbitrary decision to end the city’s lease with the Green Lion restaurant at Palm Harbor Golf Club last week, the Palm Coast City Council executed a 179-degree turn Tuesday morning, dropping its order to sever the lease and opting instead to reopen negotiations with the restaurant, toward a five-year extension of the current lease.

Flagler County Tries to Buy More Time in Dunes Easement Dispute in Face of Army Corps’ Eroding Patience

February 14, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

A segment of the dunes to be rebuilt by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project, at the south end of Flagler Beach. (© FlaglerLive)

Faced with an ultimatum from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Flagler County government has outlined a timeline to the federal agency that it hopes will buy it more time before the Corps redirects $17 million earmarked for dune reconstruction in Flagler Beach.

Tom Gargiulo, Palm Coast’s ‘Unwavering, Steadfast Champion’ of the Arts for 25 Years, Dies at 83

February 14, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Tom Gargiulo and Arlene Volpe. (Greg Volpe)

Tom Gargiulo, co-founder of the Gargiulo Arts Foundations and the Flagler County Artist of the Year award, prolific artist and patron to innumerable shows and artists, and the conceptual energy and fund-raiser behind Palm Coast’s Sculpture Garden in Town Center, died after complications from surgery Sunday in Palm Coast.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, February 13, 2022

February 13, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Guns USA by Dave Granlund, PoliticalCartoons.com

The cold weather shelter opens tonight as temperatures go back into the 30s, “Calendar Girls” at the Daytona Playhouse, Teddy Roosevelt’s dead Indians, the firebombing of Dresden, one of the great war crimes of World War II.

Patriotism, Dissent, ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ and the NFL

February 12, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Whitney Houston sings the national anthem on January 27, 1991, at Super Bowl XXV during the Persian Gulf War. (Michael Zagaris/Getty Images)

Playing the national anthem at every game became a flashpoint in the 1960s. Today, the NFL’s promise to play the anthem at every game cuts both ways. For Super Bowl LVI, three songs performed by four Black American female vocalists will offer a musical suite of unity in the face of division.

Life After the Covid Pandemic

February 12, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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There will not be a single moment when social life suddenly goes back to normal. Instead, gradually, over time, most people will view Covid-19 as a background risk and abandon the trappings of pandemic caution. There are major caveats to when the pandemic will wane, and trust in public health agencies has declined significantly.

Your Garbage Rates Are Going Up 47% in June, Services Cut Sooner, as Bid Flub Forces Waste Pro Contract Extension

February 11, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 60 Comments

Weighing Waste Pro's value to Palm Coast, the city does not come out ahead in a contract extension through June 2023. (© FlaglerLive)

Waste Pro garbage rates for Palm Coast residents and businesses will go up nearly $10 a month starting June 1, some services will be reduced, and fines levied on Waste Pro when it fails on the job will be cut in half according to a one-year extension of the city’s contract with the hauler, required because a bidding process for a new contract went awry last year.

Palm Coast Turns Nasty Against Green Lion Café Lease After 5 Successful Years and Turnaround at Palm Harbor Golf

February 9, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 109 Comments

The Green Lion Cafe's view on the Palm Harbor golf course is now in jeopardy as the Palm Coast City Council declared itself disenchanted with the restaurant's lease or even a proposed, sharp increase, though Green Lion has helped turn the golf course around in the past five years. (Facebook/Green Lion)

The Palm Coast City Council’s distempers have not been unusual, but council members’ attacks on the Green Lion Cafe’s proposed lease renewal at the city-owned Palm Harbor golf club was especially mean-spirited despite a proposed rent increase of over 300 percent over the next five years, and the restaurant’s key role in turning the golf club around since 2017.

‘Normal Life’ Likely a Month Away in Flagler as Omicron Surge and Covid Risks Recede

February 8, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Flagler' s cases since January 2021. Click on the graph for larger view. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler Health Department Medical Director Dr. Stephen Bickel expects a measure of normalcy to return to Flagler County in about a month as the covid pandemic’s latest surge tapers off. Hospitalizations have persisted even as new cases have fallen off, but hospitalizations always lag new cases by a few weeks.

Palm Coast Boy’s Father Brutalizes His Son for Wearing Make-Up; 2 Felony Counts, But No Hate Crime Charge

February 8, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

Lomack J. Bennett in his latest photograph from numerous bookings at the Flagler County jail, left, and in his Florida state prison photograph, where he served a term that ended in 2017.

Lomack J. Bennett, 33, was allegedly angered by his high school son wearing make-up and proceeded to slap him repeatedly, choke him, throw him to the ground and bust his lip, according to the boy’s account. He faces a child abuse “without great bodily harm” charge and a battery charge, but no hate crime charge.

Florida Lawmakers Applaud Local School Board members Even as They Consider Cutting Their Salaries

February 8, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Florida school board members visited the state Capitol Building and sat in the Senate gallery. Feb. 3, 2022. Credit: Screenshot/Florida Channel

Republican members of the Florida House and Senate have been pushing legislation to limit school board pay. At first, a House bill proposed zero salary for local school board members. Then, the Senate proposed a small salary of $29,697 — the same as Florida lawmakers, which would dramatically cut most school board member salaries.

Cost to Save Beaches and Properties in Flagler from Rising Seas: $6.3 Million a Year, Year After Year

February 7, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

What Flagler County is hoping to prevent with a beach management plan yet to be written, or paid for. Above, Hurricane Matthew's demolition of the southern part of A1A in Flagler Beach. The state transportation department rebuilt the road at costs exceeding $30 million, including a temporary fix. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is set to rebuild the dunes along that way, at costs exceeding $25 million (including a state and local match). But there's no start date. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County commissioners and other local officials heard the sobering conclusions of a seminal beach management study today, and the large costs ahead that will fall on all local governments and residents if the beaches are to be preserved. That money is nowhere in place for now, nor is a management plan.

Florida’s Black Snow: How the Sugar Industry Makes Political Friends and Influences Elections

February 6, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

You might love sugar less if you knew more about its origins, especially in Florida. (© FlaglerLive)

Florida produces more than half of America’s cane sugar and relies heavily on cane burning, a harvesting method in which the sugar industry burns crops to rid the plants of their outer leaves, producing pollution. Residents in the largely Black and Hispanic communities nearby claim the resulting smoke and ash harms their health. A city commissioner race provides a window into how the industry cultivates political allies, who help protect its interests.

City Panel Votes to Name Sports Complex Baseball Field After Doug Berryhill, Palm Coast Little League Champion

February 4, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Doug Berryhill in his ultimate element: in a Little League dugout, with his grandson, (Chris Shuddy)

The Palm Coast Beautification Committee voted 5-0 to rename Field 6 at the Indian Trails Sports Complex after Doug Berryhill, for more than a decade a legendary Palm Coast Little League vice president and coach who grew the organization and was beloved by thousands of families.

It’s Fireworks as Usual in 2022 as Cities’ July 4 Grab Is Ticking Burst for Another Year

February 3, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The Flagler Beach pier will still light up on July 4, at least for another year. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler Beach and Palm Coast agreed to leave well enough alone this year, with July 4 fireworks in Flagler Beach and Palm Coast’s July 3 fireworks moved to the county airport. Palm Coast’s wish to have a some July 4’s of its own will be hashed out in future years.

Florida Judge Attacks Landmark 1st Amendment Decision Protecting Press as ‘Wrongfully Decided’

February 3, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Judge Brad Thomas of the 1st District Court of Appeal wrote an 11-page concurring opinion that took aim at the Supreme Court’s 1964 New York Times v. Sullivan ruling, which, in part, required that public officials prove “actual malice” to prevail in defamation lawsuits. But the concurrence’s reasoning and citations lack context.

Florida House Completes Work on Its Own Voting Districts as Litigation Looms

February 2, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Democat Carlos Guillermo Smith of Orange County debates the House’s proposed redistricting plan on Feb. 2, 2022. (Michael Moline)

The Florida House voted along party lines to approve a redistricting plan for itself and asked the state Senate to go along amid lingering uncertainty over the fate of congressional redistricting generated when Gov. Ron DeSantis got involved.

Shirley Chisholm Trail: Palm Coast Committee Votes 5-0 to Rename Pine Lakes Path After Maverick Black Leader

February 2, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Rosa Parks, left, and Shirley Chisholm in the 1070s. (Library of Congress)

The Palm Coast Beautification Committee, an advisory panel of the Palm Coast City Council, is recommending the renaming of the Pine Lakes Trail along Pine Lakes Parkway to the Shirley Chisholm Trail to honor the first Black woman elected to Congress and run for president, before she moved to Palm Coast in 1991. The recommendation requires the council’s ratification, however.

$2,000 Reward for Return of Stolen “Quilty” Sculpture, One of 16 in Palm Coast Arts Foundation’s Turtle Trail

February 2, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Artist Betty Eubanks with "Quilty," the sixth sculpture in the Palm Coast Arts Foundation's Turtle Trail, when Quilty was installed at Waterfront Park in 2019. See additional pictures of the turtle below. (PCAF)

One or more thief stole “Quilty,” the sixth of 16 turtles in the Palm Coast Arts Foundation’s Turtle Trail, an $8,000 work installed in October 2019 at at the Grand Haven Condo Association’s Creekside Park, at Waterfront Park and Colbert Lane in Palm Coast.

For Second Time in 3 Weeks, Flagler School Board Members Reject Declaration Against Hate

February 1, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

The Flagler County School Board attempted to discuss civility at a "retreat" last September. There were too many recriminations. (© FlaglerLive)

An attempt by Flagler County School Board member Colleen Conklin to revisit a proclamation denouncing hate speech failed today, with School Board member Jill Woolbright calling the debate a “waste of time” and Janet McDonald calling hate speech subjective.

Dear Chairman Tucker: Don’t Appease School Board’s Crackpots

February 1, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

The Flagler County School Board's Jill Woolbright and Janet McDonald. (© FlaglerLive)

School Board members Janet McDonald and Jill Woolbright are directly and exclusively responsible for the board’s degradation into binges of deceit and zealotry. Until they have their third vote, it’s in Chairman Trevor Tucker’s power to re-assert the reality-based majority he speaks for. Anything less is appeasement–or complicity.

New Flood Maps Show US Damage Rising 26% in Next 30 Years

January 31, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Coastal cities like Port Arthur, Texas, are at increasing risk from flooding during storms.

Despite recent devastating floods, people are still building in high-risk areas. With population growth factored in, the increase in U.S. flood losses will be four times higher than the climate-only effect. Deep inequities define who has to endure America’s crippling flood problem.

Hacked: How the Technician Helping Me Fix a Problem Was Scamming–and Hacking–Me

January 30, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Don;t let him in: "It has taken us almost two months to replace some account cards, create new passwords and accounts and make sure our computers and home internet services are secure. Even my Facebook account had been locked because someone was trying to make changes to it." (NeONBRAND on Unsplash)

How a simple problem with a printer turned into a two-month nightmare after a tech call involving a supposed Hewlett-Packard pro turned out to be an artful hack job that planted spyware and weeks of anxiety and clean-ups. A cautionary tale by Pulitzer Prize-winner Lucy Morgan.

Should Supreme Court Justices Have Term Limits?

January 26, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 32 Comments

Justice Stephen Breyer has been a Supreme Court justice since 1994. (World Affairs Council)

Extensive research on the Supreme Court shows life tenure, while well-intended, has had unforeseen consequences. It skews how the confirmation process and judicial decision-making work, and causes justices who want to retire to behave like political operatives.

Belle Terre Parkway Resurfacing Begins Monday from Royal Palm Parkway to SR100

January 26, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

A segment of the stretch of Belle Terre Parkway that will be resurfaced starting next Monday. (© FlaglerLive)

On Monday (Jan. 31), a contractor will begin milling and repaving the segment of Belle Terre Parkway between Royal Palms Parkway and State Road 100 as part of the city’s annual repaving program. The segment is among the most heavily traveled in the city. The project will take four to six weeks.

County in Talks with Coastal Cloud to Buy $1.5 Million Parcel on A1A for Future Visitor Center

January 26, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

Flagler County’s tourism bureau is in discussions to buy a corner lot on State Road A1A and South 9th Street in Flagler Beach for a future visitor center. The 0.37-acre lot, owned by Coastal Cloud (the Hammock-based tech company), is listed at $1.5 million.

Breaking 8 Years’ Standstill, Flagler County Will Move Ahead with $16 Million South Side Library

January 24, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

A conceptual rendering of the future south side library to be built in Bunnell, opposite the Sheriff's Operations Center.

The Flagler County Commission gave the go-ahead today for a $16 million south side library on Commerce Parkway in Bunnell, opposite the future Sheriff’s Operations Center, ending eight years of prevarications. But while several funding options are available, it is still not at all clear how the commission will pay for the 32,000 square foot facility, now slated to open in late 2024.

Except in Schools, Omicron Wave Crests in Flagler and Florida as Officials See End to Emergency

January 24, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

The omicron wave has crested. (© FlaglerLive)

An end to the pandemic has been predicted before, especially after vaccines began rolling out, only for delta to obliterated those premature hopes. But several factors are converging in an indication that this time the crisis stage may well be on the wane, to be replaced by more routine infectious-disease management strategies.

Patient, Beware: Florida Among States Still Pushing Ineffective Covid Antibody Treatments

January 24, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

A patient receiving monoclonal treatment in San Diego a year ago. Most of those treatments are ineffective against the omicron variant, but states like Florida continue to push them on patients. (US Navy)

Unethically and deceptively–since it gives patients a false sense of security–several states, Florida among them, are still pushing the costly monoclonal treatments — often charging hundreds of dollars a session — that public health officials now say are almost certainly useless.

Jacob Oliva, Still a Flagler Resident, Is One of Three Finalists for Miami-Dade Superintendent

January 23, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Jacob Oliva during his interview for superintendent in Flagler in 2014. (© FlaglerLive)

Jacob Oliva, senior chancellor of education and a former superintendent of Flagler County schools, is one of three finalists for superintendent in Miami-Dade, the nation’s fourth-largest district. The nine-member Miami-Dade school board will interview him for the job, along with two other candidates, on Monday.

Opelka Falls to Canadian Star Shapovalov in Australian Open 3rd Round

January 21, 2022 | Michael Lewis | 3 Comments

A stretch too far: Reilly Opelka in his third-round loss at the Australian Open today. (Peter Staples/ATPTour.com)

The No. 23 seed Opelka and the Canadian Shapovalov, seeded 14th, both looking to make the Round of 16 there for the first time in their careers, split the first two sets before the younger Shapovalov pulled away. He broke Opelka’s serve once each in the last two sets to snatch a 7-6, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 triumph.

GOP Lawmakers Back Prohibition on Innumerable Ballot Initiatives

January 19, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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Florida voters in recent years have approved high-profile initiatives about issues such as raising the minimum wage and broadly legalizing medical marijuana. Such initiatives would be barred in the future if the House proposal is ultimately approved.

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