Against commission direction, County administrator Craig Coffee placed his contract renegotiation on a portion of the agenda that doesn’t usually get discussed.
All Else
Flagler County’s Half-Cent Sales Taxes for Schools and Infrastructure, 2002 Referendum Results
Results of the 2002 Flagler County and Flagler County Schools half-cent sales tax referendums for school construction and infrastructure.
What’s the State of Ecumenism in Flagler (And What on Earth is Ecumenism Anyway)?
Saturday evening’s music and fellowship program at Santa Maria del Mar brings together six churches and five denominations in a historic display of unity in Flagler County.
Best of the Rest: June 4-6, 2010
Oil slicks Florida tourism, Bill McCollum’s homophobia, Lawton Chiles’ inpedendence, good and bad bullying, and more.
Best of the Rest: May 3, 2010
Jim Greer’s felonious corruptions, how to blame Obama for the Gulf spill, Ayn Rand meets Charles Murray, the pleasures of imagination, and much more.
Brain Drain: School Board Retires 36 (and 745 Years of Experience)
Some of the school district’s most familiar names took their last bows Tuesday, including Michele Crosby, Hanneke Jevons, Myra Middleton and Rebecca Dunn.
Raven Sword Wins Florida Bar Pro Bono Award
Raven Sword, a lawyer with the Rice & Rose law firm, won the Florida Bar Pro Bono Award for the Seventh Judicial Circuit which includes Volusia, Flagler, Putnam and St. Johns counties.
Emerson: The American Scholar
Emerson’s “American Scholar,” a graduation speech to Harvard’s Phi Beta Kappa, redefined the way Americans saw themselves–as intellectual individuals on their own terms. Take a second look in this season of commencements.
Best of the Rest: May 28-30, 2010
What else: oil spill plumes, Crist vetoes, Boortz rumors, boys and teen sex, and more.
Best of the Rest: May 24, 2010
BP skates by as Obama lets it, Ayan Hirsi Ali is back, John Mica’s two faces, the crap about cougars, and more.
Why Tea Parties Are More Bunkers than Bunker Hill
The tea party’s booting out of Utah Sen. Robert Bennett from his state’s GOP primary, despite Bennett’s extreme conservative credentials, is emblematic of a movement in the grip of its own delusions.
Best of the Rest: May 21-23, 2010
Oil begins to wash up on Florida beaches, a father rapes his daughter and kills himself, Hobbes returns, Democrats love Rand Paul, and more.
Best of the Rest: May 20, 2010
Florida woes: oil slick, FCAT, foreclosures, bankruptcies, plus living wage arguments and the latest on Koestler’s suicide.
Crime Reports, May 17-23
A good samaritan holds a teen vandal at gunpoint until deputies arrive, domestic disturbance turns up backyard pot plant, a caller demands phone sex, and more.
Obama, Biden, Kagan: Where Their Pocket Money Comes From
Where does Obama’s, Biden’s and Elena Kagan’s money come from? Look for yourself: complete financial disclosure forms.
Best of the Rest: May 18, 2010
Marco Rubio doesn’t know his Arizona, BP’s latest insult to Florida, Elvis Costello won’t go to Israel, what to think of the Loop current, and more.
Smetana’s Fatherland: “The Moldau”
For your Sunday fix: “The Moldau” evokes the power of nature and nationalism as if flows through Smetana’s Czech fatherland.
Best of the Rest: May 13, 2010
Duke Ellington, race and music in America, Kagan and Thurgood Marshall, bikini meter-maids in Australia, and why you can’t trust the Wall Street Journal anymore, and more.
Best of the Rest: May 12, 2010
Children on trial for rape, Crist renounces the party that raped him, Ginn suits redux, and more.
Palm Coast Resolution of Support for Amtrak/Florida East Coast Railroad Project (2010)
Text of the Palm Coast City Council resolution supporting an Amtrak train station in Bunnell or Flagler County.
Best of the Rest: May 10, 2010
PBS dumbs down, literary theory still doesn’t make sense, Florida sues BP, and more.
Gov. George W. Bush’s Jesus Day Proclamation in Texas
In 2000, while thick in his first campaign for the presidency, then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush issued a proclamation declaring June 10 “Jesus Day.” Here’s the full text and an image of the proclamation.
Best of the Rest: May 7-9, 2010
Conservatives fail to take over UK Parliament, the dome meets the oil slick, the US Senate votes for Wall Street, and more.
Best of the Rest: May 6, 2010
GOP wants its Crist money back, oil slick gambles, novel library censorship, we told you so: Progress Energy’s latest deceptions, and more.
Best of the Rest: May 5, 2010
Tea party’s racism problem, BP’s cheapness, Jacksonville’s intolerance, black holes, Iranian nukes, and more.
Best of the Rest: May 4, 2010
Crist goes on auction, Disney’s Tower of Terror wins even in death, the Gulf’s dying turtles, David Foster Wallace, and more.
Thomas Jefferson’s “Separation Between Church and State” Letter
Original text of Thomas Jefferson’s separation of church and state letter from Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist association, 1802.
Harry Truman’s National Day of Prayer Proclamation, 1952
Harry Truman was the first American president to declare a National Day of Prayer, in 1952–on July 4 that year.
Barack Obama’s Presidential Proclamation
National Day of Prayer
On April 30, 2010, in contravention to a federal judge’s ruling in Wisconsin, President Obama issued a proclamation designating May 6 a National Day of Prayer.
Florida Law on How New Manatee Protection Rules May Be Adopted
Complete language of Florida Statute § 379.2431(2)(f) which sets out the steps the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission and county governments must follow when adopting rules regulating “speed and operation of motorboats for purposes of manatee protection.”
How Old Kings Road Was Re-Routed for Wal Mart
An aerial view of the old Old Kings Road and its new route nearer I-95, in preparation for Wal Mart construction.
Best of the Rest: May 3, 2010
It’s all about the Gulf oil spill, plus Bill Maher’s Brazilian fact-checking, Hitler in Arizona, and more.
Best of the Rest: April 30-May 2, 2010
Bush writes a book, Florida gets oil-slicked, Arizona keeps going nuts, and more on Knut Hamsun, Voltaire and reading in a digital age.
The Liberation of Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist, never foreign to transgression, transgressed what’s left of the Republican Party, which has no room for moderates.
Best of the Rest: April 29, 2010
An oil slick worse than Exxon Valdez spill, Charlie Crist goes independent, the Florida Legislature goes insane, and more.
Best of the Rest: April 28, 2010
Florida has a budget, Obama against the press, oil slick sprawls over Florida, Israel as Arizona, fair use as profit, and more.
Best of the Rest: April 27, 2010
Drill baby drill turns to spill baby spill, the end of statute limitations on sex crimes, the end of respect for arts teachers, Islamophobia in Jacksonville, and more.
When God and Politics
Take Over Public School Buildings
The Flagler School Board revisits its policy on community uses of school buildings in light of a growing controversy over Tea Party activists using Flagler Palm Coast High School.
Full Text of Flagler County School Board Policy on Community Uses of School Facilities
Community Use of School Board Facilities: The Flagler County School Board’s Policy 320.
Rental Fees/Costs for Use of Flagler County School Board Facilities
Chart of current rental fees and fee structure for public uses of Flagler County School Board buildings, including schools, cafeterias, playgrounds and other facilities.
Cash for Clunkers:
The Mica-Beaven Money Race
Complete charts, graphs and analysis of campaign finance for incumbent John Mica and challenger Heather Beaven in their 7th Congressional District race.
Best of the Rest: April 26, 2010
On sperm counts,coal’s dirty secrets, Charlie Crist’s soap opera, Florida’s latest assault on Medicaid, and more.
Diagram of Bus 2857 Showing Where Rosa Parks Was Seated, Montgomery, 1955
See the very spot from which Rosa Parks wouldn’t moved, in a court diagram preserved at the National Archives.
The Rosa Parks Arrest Report, 1955
Image copy of the Rosa Parks arrest report, Montgomery police, Alabama, December 1, 1955.
Best of the Rest: April 23-25, 2010
The GOP’s warning to Crist backers, an oil rig fire’s fumes over Florida’s drilling plans, South Park censored for Muslims’ sake, and more teacher-student sex.
Best of the Rest: April 22, 2010
Crist rhymes with centrist, racism at the Ritz-Carlton, Sex and the anal city, Salman Rushdie’s computer secrets, and more.
Best of the Rest: April 21, 2010
Crist’s disappearing GOP, the FBI and IRS investigate Rubio, scud missiles in Lebanon, blasting oil rigs in Louisiana, and more.
Best of the Rest: April 20, 2010
Crist is urged to quit the Senate race, environmentalists are mourning a lousy legislative session, why few trust governments, why Swedes live longer, and more.
Briefing: Florida’s Qualified Target Industry Tax Refund Program
Explanation of Florida’s $3,000-per-job tax rebate for companies creating new jobs in certain industries. The program is used by Flagler County and Palm Coast.
Best of the Rest: April 19, 2010
Jeb Bush as Florida’s Vladimir Putin, Charlie Crist as Florida’s Shakespeare, Healthy Start in jeopardy, Publix’s cheapness, and more.