Just 10.6 percent of registered voters turned out on Tuesday, which means that just 4.7 percent of Palm Coast’s voting-age residents made the difference in electing Jon Netts. The turn-out was worse than Bunnell’s and Flagler Beach’s recent city elections.
Backgrounders
Incomes at Their Worst Since 1996, Poverty At a 52-Year High, Inequality Deepening
Florida’s poverty rate rose to the highest level in 16 years, with 3 million residents—one in six—living under the poverty line in 2010. Nationally, most economic and health insurance indicators are worsening to historic levels.
Jon Netts: The Live Interview
Jon Netts, incumbent mayoral candidate in the Palm Coast election, answers 12 questions and a few follow-ups on a broad range of issues. He faces Charlie Ericksen and Joe Cunnane.
Charlie Ericksen: The Live Interview
Charlie Ericksen is challenging incumbent mayoral candidate Jon Netts in the Palm Coast election. He answers 12 questions and a few follow-ups on a broad range of issues.
This Week in Flagler and Tallahassee: An Election and the Gun to Governments’ Heads
A relatively quiet week if not for the Palm Coast mayoral primary, which is shaping into quite a contest. “The Laramie Project” opens at the Repertory Theatre, and the Palm Coast City Council will talk guns.
Palm Coast Mayor Poll: Make Your Voice Heard
Who are you voting for in the Palm Coast mayoral election? Netts? Ericksen? Cunane? None of the above? Take the FlaglerLive poll. Also: do you approve of the job Netts is doing? Of your choices in this year’s election?
This Week in Flagler and Tallahassee: Budget Hearing Galore, Saturday at the Galleries
Several local governments hold public hearings on their 2011-12 budgets, the county commission takes on economic development again, the Flagler Youth Orchestra kicks off again, Hollingsworth and the Art League galleries hold show openings, and Tallahassee talks online bookings.
Door-to-Door Salesmen, Peddlers, Solicitors:
The Palm Coast Ordinance
The Palm Coast ordinance setting forth the regulations and penalties regarding solicitors, peddlers, door-to-door salesmen, solicitations and hawkers. From Chapter 35 of the Code of Ordinance, under “Nuisances, Offenses and Miscellaneous Provisions,” Article III.
Texas-Size Holes in Gov. Rick Scott’s Boast Of Florida Job Creation as 2nd to Texas
Rick Scott called the rest of the nation’s job numbers “pathetic” compared to Florida’s, yet Florida ranks near the bottom in the nation on Gallup’s index of job creation, while its 70,000 new jobs in the past year proportionally rank the state below the national average.
Elect Jason DeLorenzo
Palm Coast City Council District 3
Jason Delorenzo for Palm Coast City Council District 3: his experience, qualifications and priorities for Palm Coast City Council.