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TR, as FPC Principal Tom Russell Was Known to Most, Is Celebrated as Learner, Leader, Tweeter and Jovial, Heroic Dad

December 18, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Tom Russell in a photo shown at this evening's memorial, with a grandchild.

James Tom Russell, who died on Dec. 9 after leading Flagler Palm Coast High School for just a year and a half after a long career in leadership of Volusia County schools, was celebrated at a memorial at Jackie Robinson Stadium Friday evening with broad-ranging affection and admiration.

AdventHealth Marks ‘Milestone Week’ of Covid-19 Vaccinations

December 18, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Vaccinations at AdventHealth facilities this week. (AdventHealth)

Capping a fast-moving and historic week in medical history, AdventHealth leaders shared optimism, celebrated triumphs, and continued their focus on administering vaccines to help conquer Covid-19.

On Eve of Tom Russell Memorial, School Board’s McDonald Downplays Covid Deaths and Calls for ‘Backing Off This Fear’ of Virus

December 17, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

Janet McDonald has on several occasions used her school board seat to disseminate false, misleading or inaccurate information about Covid-19. She did so again on Tuesday. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County School Board member Janet McDonald falsely claimed at a workshop that overall deaths are down this year, that masks are harmful, testing unreliable, and that the district should focus on “wellness” rather than additionally “ramp-up” safety measures. She did so days from the memorial for Tom Russell, the FPC principal who died of complications from Covid.

At Groundbreaking on $23 Million Sheriff’s Operations Center, County Hopes ‘Difficult’ Years of Errors Are Over

December 16, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

Ready shovels today on the site of what will become the Sheriff's Operations Center in Bunnell, south of the Government Services Building complex. (© FlaglerLive)

Sheriff’s, county, Bunnell and Flagler Beach officials broke ground today on a 51,000-square foot, $23 million Sheriff’s Operations Center on the future Commerce Parkway in Bunnell, possibly ending eight years of costly errors and misjudgments and what will be a four-year exile for the sheriff’s agency from a place of its own.

Hospitals Scramble to Prioritize Which Workers Are First for Scarce Covid Vaccine

December 14, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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An advisory committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended that top priority go to long-term care facilities and front-line health care workers, but the early allocation was always expected to fall far short of the need and require selective screening even among critical hospital workers.

As Covid Deaths Reach 46 in Flagler, Local Officials Detail Vaccination Plans and Refute Anti-Vaxxers’ Disinformation

December 11, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Flagler's weekly positive-coronavirus case load through last Saturday. In the five days since, 99 cases have been confirmed, with two days of reporting left. (© FlaglerLive)

Dr. Stephen Bickel and Bob Snyder of the Flagler Health Department outlined the logistics of vaccinating all residents and refuted disinformation about the dangers of vaccines, describing how individuals may feel after getting vaccinated and what the chances are of having adverse reactions.

Advisers Recommend Checkered Shortlist of 7 for Flagler Beach City Manager, Out of Motley Field of 57 Applicants

December 10, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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An advisory group of retired city managers has recommended a short-list of seven candidates for Flagler Beach city manager, but city commissioners are free to decide for themselves who they will choose to interview when they discuss the pool of 57 candidates Thursday evening. The candidate will replace the late Larry Newsom.

Flagler’s Cold-Weather Homeless Shelter, In New Home, Opens for 15 Guests With a Few Dollars’ Help from Local Governments

December 2, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

At the Sheltering Tree's new cold-weather shelter at Church on the Rock, beds are arranged for the homeless with distance and some privacy. (© Martin Collins for FlaglerLive)

Flagler County’s only cold-weather shelter for the homeless moved from its old location after 12 years to Church on the Rock on U.S. 1, where it operated for the first time this year, on Monday and Tuesday nights, with security, privacy from formerly resentful neighbors, and elbow room to spare.

Flagler Sees Highest 2-Week Tally Yet as Covid Hits School, County and City Leaders and Passes 1 Million Mark in State

December 1, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Cases have reached their highest levels of the pandemic in Flagler in the last two weeks. (© FlaglerLive)

Leaders in Palm Coast, the Flagler County Fire Department and the district’s largest school are battling Covid-19 in a two-week stretch that’s also seen the highest number of infections in schools, where the plan is to continue the option of remote learning past Christmas.

The Strange Case of Cornelius Baker’s Dangling Fate on Death Row, 13 Years After a Bunnell Murder

November 30, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Cornelius Baker arriving for his last hearing in Flagler County Circuit Court in February. (© FlaglerLive)

Conflicting Supreme Court cases gave convicted murdered Cornelius Baker hope that he could get a new sentencing trial and escape the death penalty, as have two previous Flagler death row inmates. But the conflicting cases, again reflecting the contradictions of Florida’s capital punishment laws, now leave his fate in an absurd twilight zone.

Oral Arguments on Alachua’s Mask Mandate Evoke Hijabs, Nazis, KKK, Crime and, Finally, Public Health

November 24, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

The appeal was argued on Zoom before, Judges (© FlaglerLive)

Oral arguments about Alachua County’s mask mandate before a three-judge panel of the First Circuit Court of Appeal Monday was a spectacle of audacious leaps and strange analogies that nevertheless illustrated the sharp and far from resolved divide between mask proponents and anti-maskers, including on the judicial bench.

Powered by Vacation Rentals, Flagler’s Tourism Revenue Is Up Significantly as State’s Drops 30%

November 24, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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Flagler County’s tourism-tax revenue has gone up three successive months between July and September, substantially so in August and September, in contrast with statewide tourism revenue, which plummeted 30 percent in the third quarter. Vacation rentals, the beach, and vacationers traveling shorter distances account for the county’s success.

Flagler Public Health Director Echoes Strong CDC Directives Against Travel at Thanksgiving as Covid Surges

November 19, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The way the CDC wants it: an empty section of Orlando International Airport. (© FlaglerLive)

Bob Snyder, who heads the Flagler health department, has been warning for weeks that the combination of holiday gatherings, cooler weather and more indoor activities would result in quicker spread of the disease at a time when community spread is already out of control in much of the country and not exactly under control in Flagler.

Belle Terre Elementary Briefly Under Code Blue Alert for Bomb Threat This Morning

November 19, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

A very vague bomb threat led school and sheriff's officials to sweep Belle Terre Elementary this morning, out of caution. (© FlaglerLive)

Belle Terre Elementary was placed under a “Code Blue” alert early this morning when a parent found a note in the parent’s child’s backpack mentioning a bomb. The parent found the note at the child’s home.

FPC Principal Tom Russell Reveals Covid Diagnosis as Cases Rise and State Extends Remote School Option To June

November 18, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Flagler Palm Coast High School Principal Tom Russell with his wife Julie at the school in June 2019, shortly after his appointment. "It has shocked my family because of my vigilance about practicing safeguards," he wrote of his Covid-19 diagnosis. (© FlaglerLive)

Russell’s revelation occurs as cases in Flagler and in Florida are rising sharply and the surge cascading over much of the nation, now reaching catastrophic proportions in many states, is beginning to ripple in Florida, where the state agreed to extend remote-learning options in all schools through June.

Palm Coast Fire Department Revives Its Junior Firefighter Program to Prepare Young Recruits for a Career

November 18, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The sky's the limit for students who enroll in the Palm Coast Fire Department's program. (© FlaglerLive)

The program is not in competition with the Fire Academy at Flagler Palm Coast High School, but rather a complement to it: students enrolled in the academy are welcome to apply to be in the fire department’s program as it would provide the natural steps in the progression toward becoming a firefighter.

Flagler Commission Bids Charlie Ericksen Farewell After 8 Years as ‘Model for Comportment and Friendliness’

November 17, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Charlie Ericksen was elected to the County Commission in 2012. Today is his last day as an elected official. (© FlaglerLive)

A pragmatist and a statesman-like county commissioner for eight years, Charlie Ericksen was a quiet, forceful contrast to some of the more boorish and crude elected officials who’ve managed to win seats in recent years.

The Trump Campaign Can’t Find a Judge Who Will Ignore Facts — but It’s Trying

November 16, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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The Trump campaign’s legal strategy has come down to this: Even as judges dismiss lawsuits as baseless, it files nearly identical ones in new courts, hoping for more favorable judges. Failure has not slowed it down.

One Undisputed Winner on Election Night: Marijuana

November 12, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Majorities of Americans decided in favor of every marijuana-related proposition placed before them — a clean sweep — and they did so by record margins, whether to cultivate pot, use it recreationally or use it medicinally.

Covid Hospitalizations Up 25% in 2 Weeks Statewide, Flagler Cases Above 100 for 3rd Week In a Row

November 12, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

As Gov. Ron DeSantis adopts a dangerous policy of letting the coronavirus run its course to build herd immunity, case loads are steadily rising in Florida and remain high in Flagler, suggesting that the surge experienced across the country will likely cascade over Florida with colder weather and more indoor activities.

Trump Won Florida After Running a False Ad Tying Biden to Venezuelan Socialists

November 12, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

A screenshot of the Trump campaign's false ad claiming that Venezuela's socialist regime was supporting Joe Biden. (YouTube)

The video was part of a broader Trump campaign strategy in heavily Latino South Florida that sought to tie Biden to Socialist leaders like Maduro and the late Cuban President Fidel Castro. Trump won Florida by about 375,000 votes, the largest margin in a presidential election there since 1988. He carried about 55% of the Cuban American vote.

Palm Coast Faces a Town Center Reckoning: Too Many Apartments, No Commercial Development, and Looming Cash Crunch

November 10, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 40 Comments

Plenty of apartments, no shops: Town Center is not yet living up to its mixed-use potential. (© FlaglerLive)

The Palm Coast City Council is awakening to several converging realities about Town Center, the once and future promise of the city’s vitality: incentives for apartment construction have worked, incentives for commercial development have not–not yet–and turnover on the council and the administration means few recall the purpose of Town Center to start with. The mayor is looking for a reset.

How American Candidates and Presidents Concede: a Century of Decency and Continuity

November 9, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

"Tonight — tonight, more than any night," John McCain said as he conceded victory to Barack Obama in 2008, "I hold in my heart nothing but love for this country and for all its citizens, whether they supported me or Sen. Obama, I wish Godspeed to the man who was my former opponent and will be my president. And I call on all Americans, as I have often in this campaign, to not despair of our present difficulties but to believe always in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here."

From Herbert Hoover to Hillary Clinton, concessions by presidential candidates are among the high watermarks of American democratic discourse and reverence for institutional continuity. Candidates and incumbents have been delivering them without fail, their gestures a window into their character at their most vulnerable times.

Who’s Afraid of a $15 Minimum Wage?

November 8, 2020 | Pierre Tristam | 42 Comments

In-N-Out Burger, the 75-year-old California chain, starts its employees at over $13 an hour. It does not have $20 burgers. (Mike Mozart)

Forget assumptions. Forget fear-mongering PR releases chambered in baseless claims that a $15 minimum wage will cost jobs. When the most extensive analysis on the subject shows 20 times more people will live better than lose jobs, it’s case closed.

Biden Wins

November 7, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 56 Comments

Peter Wentworth waving a Biden-Harris flag on Palm Coast Parkway on Election Day, across the street from Trump supporters. (© FlaglerLive)

Joe Biden was elected the 46th president of the United States, with Kamala Harris the first-ever woman–the first Black, the first Indian-American–vice-president.

If Trump Tries to Sue His Way to Election Victory, Here’s What Happens

November 5, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

Donald Trump is pinning his legal hopes on a Supreme Court he shaped to his advantage. (White House)

It’s easy enough for the Trump campaign to file a lawsuit claiming improprieties, but a lot harder to provide evidence of wrongdoing or a convincing legal argument. Here’s what you need to know as the election lawsuits start to mount.

Holland and Klufas Hold On, Staly Wins Re-Election, Don O’Brien and Andy Dance Win County Commission, Ed Danko, Victor Barbosa Win Council Seats

November 3, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Palm Coast Mayor Milissa Holland held on. (© FlaglerLive)

With all early voting results counted, Sheriff Rick Staly had an insurmountable lead to win re-election to his second term, as did County Commissioner Donald O’Brien. Andy Dance, the school board member, also had an insurmountable lead to win the County Commission seat Charlie Ericksen opted not to contest.

Electionland: The State of Election Day in Palm Coast and Flagler County

November 3, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

It's been like that since this morning at the Flagler Beach City Hall voting precinct. (© FlaglerLive)

At the current rate, and with mail ballots still being dropped off, Flagler could end the day with 75,000 ballots cast out of 92,000 eligible voters, for a turnout of 81 percent–close to the records of the 2000 and 2004 elections.

Electionland: The State of Election Day Across the Country

November 3, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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In a historic election shaped by a pandemic, mail-in voting and misinformation, election officials are scrambling to adapt. Here’s what reporters are seeing across the country.

How Covid Death Counts Become the Stuff of Conspiracy Theories

November 3, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

An estimated 240,000 flags were planted on the DC Armory Parade Ground in front of RFK Stadium during a two-week participatory exhibition by Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg. Flags were to be added daily as the death count rises.

Trump’s recent assertions have fueled conspiracy theories on Facebook and elsewhere that doctors and hospitals are fudging numbers to get paid more. They’ve also triggered anger from the medical community.

To My Trump Neighbors

October 31, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 59 Comments

Goodbye to all that? (White House)

Can Biden and Trump neighbors drink with each other? Come Nov. 3, there’s room for a toast–not to either candidate necessarily, but to the election, to democracy, and to what endures. Presidents don’t. Neighbors do.

The Polls Aren’t Wrong. But Trump Can Still Win More Easily Than in 2016.

October 30, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 30 Comments

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Biden’s lead in none of the key battleground states is outside the margin of error and national polling is only reflecting the concentration of Biden votes in already-blue states, and the migration of some Trump votes in still-red states. The polls have it right, but Trump’s road to re-election is actually less daunting than presumed.

53,000 Flagler Voters Cast Ballots Without Incidents. A Handful of Local Republican Pols Have Behaved Less Well.

October 29, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

Competing tents at the Flagler County Public Library, one of three early voting sites. (© FlaglerLive)

If voters have been model citizens so far, and they have, a very small handful of candidates or party operatives, particularly in the Republican Party, have been a little less so: their actions have required the interventions of poll deputies, of Supervisor of Elections Kaiti Lenhart and of sheriff’s deputies.

Ballots Cast in Flagler Near 90% of 2016 Total, But Turnout Record Still Distant Absent Massive Election Day Surge

October 29, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

The percentages for 2020 are as of October 29, with five days to go to Election Day. Figures are drawn from Florida Division of Elections, the Census Bureau, the Flagler County Elections Supervisor, and the Elections Project at the University of Florida. (© FlaglerLive)

As in Florida and the rest of the nation, Flagler County is seeing a surge of early voting and voting by mail in one of the most unusual–and unpredictable–election in memory. But Flagler would have to experience an even more unusually heavy turnout in the remaining days of the election, especially on Election Day, if the turnout records of the 2000s are to be broken.

Facing Life in Prison, Benjamin Allen, 18, Rejects 30-Year Offer; State Rejects 50-Year Limit for Shimmel in Mom’s Murder

October 27, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Benjamin Allen appearing in court today by video link from the Flagler County jail. Nathaniel Shimmel is to the left, in the foreground. Both are facing first-degree murder charges. Both are set for trial in coming weeks. (© FlaglerLive)

Benjamin Allen, the 18-year-old Palm Coast resident accused of first-degree murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Elijah Rizvan 15 months ago, and Nathaniel Shimmel, facing a similar charge in the stabbing death of his mother three years ago, are both set for trial after settlement offers were rejected. Shimmel goes to trial next week.

Covid Cases Rising Again in Flagler and Florida, Pointing to ‘Third Wave’; DeSantis Relaxes Nursing Home Visits

October 23, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Coronavirus cases are again surging in Flagler, as they are in Florida and the rest of the nation, pointing to a fall wave. The current week includes only six of the seven days of tabulated cases. (© FlaglerLive)

Four weeks after the governor lifted all restrictions on restaurants and other businesses, Covid-19 cases are again rising in Flagler County and Florida, mirroring on a smaller scale a surge cascading across the country and sparing few states as officials speak of a third wave of the pandemic on the cusp of the holiday season.

From Unpredictable Encounters to Shots Fired, Flagler Sheriff’s Deputies Test Their Split-Second Judgments

October 21, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Flagler County Sheriff's deputy Kathryn Gordon instructing an armed suspect in a simulated exercise testing deputies' split-second judgments. (© FlaglerLive)

A three-week training block is putting every one of the Flagler County Sheriff’s 235 road and corrections deputies through simulated, unpredictable and at times violent situations to test their judgments and evaluate their skills either at de-escalating tense situations or using the proper level of force when necessary. 

GOP Voter Registrations Cutting Into Democrats’ Statewide Lead, and Reach Historic Lead in Flagler

October 20, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

A GOP tent at the Palm Coast Community Center, an early voting location until Oct. 31. (© FlaglerLive)

Republicans’ proportion of registered voters in Flagler County has grown to 45.7 percent this year, compared to 39.8 percent in 2016, while Democrats’ proportion has shrunk to 30.5 percent, from 31.8 percent four years ago.

The Bigotry Behind Judge Barrett’s Judicial Hijab

October 18, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

Judge Barrett and Donald Trump at the White House on Sept. 26. (White House)

We don’t have to imagine what Amy Barrett’s jurisprudence will look like regarding gay rights, abortion, women’s rights, sex discrimination, even human rights and the separation of church and state. Reactionaries can party like it’s Deuteronomy again.

Sheriff’s Deputy Loses Week and a Half’s Pay Over Abusive Encounter With Flagler Beach Police Officer

October 16, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

Sheriff's deputy Diego Gonzalez was hired in 2015.

Diego Gonzalez, a Flagler County Sheriff’s deputy with the agency since 2015, was suspended without pay for a week and a half–60 hours–and required to write a letter of apology to a Flagler Beach police officer Joseph McCraney.

Palm Coast Mayoral Candidate Alan Lowe Had Declared Himself ‘Sovereign Citizen,’ Rejecting Constitution and Law for God

October 15, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 44 Comments

Alan Lowe is a candidate for Palm Coast mayor. (© FlaglerLive)

As Palm Coast mayoral candidate Alan Lowe battled the IRS over unpaid taxes in the early 1990s, he declared himself a sovereign citizen and rejected all governmental authority. At 59, he registered to vote only before his own primary, when he voted for the first time in his life.

Victor Barbosa, Palm Coast City Council District 2 Candidate: The Live Interview

October 15, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

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Victor Barbosa is one of four candidates for Palm Coast City Council, District 2. All registered voters in the city may cast a ballot in that non-partisan election regardless of party affiliation or location in Palm Coast.

David Alfin, Palm Coast City Council District 2 Candidate: The Live Interview

October 14, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

David Alfin. (© FlaglerLive)

David Alfin is one of four candidates for Palm Coast City Council, District 2. All registered voters in the city may cast a ballot in that non-partisan election regardless of party affiliation or location in Palm Coast.

Bob Coffman, Palm Coast City Council District 2 Candidate: The Live Interview

October 14, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Bob Coffman. (© FlaglerLive)

Bob Coffman is one of four candidates for Palm Coast City Council, District 2. All registered voters in the city may cast a ballot in that non-partisan election regardless of party affiliation or location in Palm Coast.

Larry Jones, Flagler County Sheriff Candidate: The Live Interview

October 14, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Larry Jones. (© FlaglerLive)

Democrat Larry Jones is a candidate for Flagler County Sheriff, challenging first-term Republican incumbent Rick Staly in the Nov. 3 election. This is a rematch from the 2016 race, when Staly defeated Jones in a three-way race, with 54 percent of the vote.

Dennis McDonald, Palm Coast City Council District 2 Candidate: The Live Interview

October 14, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Dennis McDonald is one of four candidates for Palm Coast City Council, District 2. All registered voters in Palm Coast, regardless of party or location, may cast a ballot in the race.

Flagler Elections Supervisor Lenhart Issues Sharp, ‘Zero-Tolerance’ Warning Against Voter Intimidation

October 13, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Local Democrats and Republicans have both contributed evidence of signs that have been defaced locally in the primary and the general election.

Responding to concerns about voter intimidation days from early voting in Flagler, both Supervisor of Elections Kaiti Lenhart and Sheriff Rick Staly are sending strong messages to would-be disrupters at polling places, and preparing for polling days with 39 poll deputies–civilians sworn in just for the election period.

With 33rd and 34th Deaths, More Flagler Residents Have Died of Covid in 7 Months Than in Car Crashes in Any Year

October 13, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Positive cases continue to accumulate at relatively high levels even after coming down from summer peaks. (© FlaglerLive)

The number of confirmed covid deaths so far means that the disease is the eighth leading cause of death in Flagler County, ahead of suicide and Parkinson’s, and about even with deaths from Alzheimer’s. At the current rate, covid is on pace to become the sixth leading cause of death this year, ahead of diabetes.

Milissa Holland Campaign Will Edit TV Spot That Appeared to Dog Whistle as GOP, Democrats, NAACP and Lowe Rebuke It

October 9, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

The picture at the center of a controversial television commercial produced by Milissa Holland's campaign, showing candidate Alan Lowe, left, and Philip, a resident of Dominica, in 2017, after Philip survived drowning in waters churned by Hurricane Maria according to Lowe. (Alan Lowe)

A 30-second Milissa Holland campaign ad against Alan Lowe implies he’s a criminal (he’s not) just as he appears next to a Black man. The ad, part of a 30-ads-a-day buy, was produced by a high-powered firm that worked for Donald Trump and appeared on Fox News. An ad not featuring the segment appeared on MSNBC.

I Endorse Jacinda Ardern

October 8, 2020 | Pierre Tristam | 23 Comments

Jacina Ardern, covid's nemesis. (DonkeyHotey)

What country of 5 million has 300 fewer overall coronavirus cases than Flagler County, seven fewer covid-related deaths and zero mendacious elected officials who pat themselves on the back in the face of infections, suffering and cavalier attitudes?

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