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GOP Measure Would Forbid Government Agencies from Using Individuals’ Preferred Pronouns

January 7, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Mirroring a House bill filed in November, a Senate Republican on Thursday proposed a measure that would place restrictions on government agencies in the use of personal pronouns.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, January 7, 2024

January 7, 2024 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

What If He Loses by Ed Wexler, CagleCartoons.com

Florida Winter Volleyball Festival in Daytona Beach, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Israel’s expulsion end game in Gaza, Benny Morris on the expulsions of 1947.

For Supreme Court, a ‘Monumental’ Decision on Donald Trump’s Ballot Eligibility

January 6, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

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Momentous questions for the U.S. Supreme Court and momentous consequences for the country are likely now that the court has announced it will decide whether former president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump is eligible to appear on the Colorado ballot.

An Interview with Acclaimed Civil Rights Attorney and Equal Justice Initiative Founder Bryan Stevenson

January 6, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Bryan Stevenson is the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal clinic in Montgomery, Ala., that’s made strides on prisoners’ behalf, and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a six-acre remembrance space highlighting the racial terrorism campaign that saw the lynching of over 6,500 victims, including women and children. In a wide-ranging interview, he reflects on the state of race in America and how honest accounts of history can help overcome resistance to progress.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, January 6, 2024

January 6, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

January 6 Epiphany (update) by Pat Byrnes, PoliticalCartoons.com

The Volusia Latin Festival and Three Kings Festival in Deltona all day, Sunshine and Sandals Social at Cornerstone, The Flagler Beach All Stars hold their monthly beach clean-up, catching up with Robert Caro at 88, and his LBJ biography still in the works.

School Board and Other Elected Officials Could Soon Be Barred from Censoring People on Social Media

January 5, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

A California couple sued two school board members who blocked them on Facebook after they made critical remarks.

At stake is what constitutes state action – or action taken in an official governmental capacity – on social media. Under the First Amendment, officials engaging in state action cannot restrict individuals’ freedom of speech and expression. The ruling could establish whether social media accounts of public officials should be treated as personal or governmental.

Prosecution Considers Man Who Fondled Girl at Walmart Too Dangerous To Be Let Out on Bond

January 5, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Assistant State Attorney Melissa Clark, right, is arguing before Circuit Judge Terence Perkins that Robert Goldstein is too dangerous to be let out on bond. The picture above was taken in a previous, unrelated proceeding. (© FlaglerLive)

The prosecution argued before a judge today that Robert Goldstein, the 64-year-old Palm Coast resident who briefly fondled an 11-year-old girl at Walmart while her mother was not looking, is too dangerous to be let out of jail on bond pending trial. But a decision is not expected until Jan. 17, giving Goldstein time to bail out.

Superintendent Appoints Angela O’Brien, a Former Special Education Executive, as Her No. 2

January 5, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Angela O'Brien. (Flagler Schools)

Superintendent LaShakia Moore is recommending the appointment of Angela O’Brien to the post of Assistant Superintendent of Academic Services. The post was previously held by Moore. O’Brien previously served as Regional Director for Pennsylvania-based New Story Schools–a national network of schools that focuses on students with special needs.

With 3,500 Petitions from Flagler Voters, Abortion-Right Ballot Measure Meets Signature Requirements

January 5, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 43 Comments

Pro-abortion protesters gather in front of the Florida Supreme Court on May 3, 2022. (Danielle J. Brown)

Some 910,946 valid signatures have been tallied for a constitutional amendment proposal that would protect the right to an abortion in Florida until the viability of a fetus. That topped a requirement of submitting 891,523 signatures to qualify for the ballot. Flagler County alone submitted 4,800 petitions, 3,543 of them valid.

20 Years Later, 1.7-Mile, $14.5 Million Commerce Parkway from SR100 Is a Go. Just Don’t Call It a ‘Bypass’ Anymore.

January 5, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Commerce Parkway will be dug through the forest to the left of the Sheriff's Operations Center and curve through that area for 1.7 miles, to U.S. 1. (© FlaglerLive)

The concept of a new Bunnell road from State Road 100 to U.S. 1 has been talked about for 20 years. It’s been debated, opposed, embraced and finally funded. Monday, it’ll clear its last hurdle when the County Commission approves a $9.5 million contract to build the 1.7-mile, two-lane road going south from Commerce Parkway, past the Sheriff’s Operations Center and the future sites of the south branch of the Flagler County Public Library and Bunnell’s City Hall. The project will take between 18 months and two years.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, January 5, 2023

January 5, 2024 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Society of the Offended by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com

First Friday in Flagler Beach, the great divide in the United States (and Afghanistan), a recap of 2023’s biggest news stories on WNZF’s Free For All Fridays, Robert Goldstein in court.

The Generosity and Warmth of Poet Seamus Heaney

January 4, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Seamus Heaney in 1982. He died in 2013.

The English war poet Wilfred Owen once wrote, “Celebrity is the last infirmity I desire.” Killed in France at the age of 25, unpublished and unknown, “celebrity” for Owen was a posthumous phenomenon. By contrast, celebrity status for the Irish poet Seamus Heaney – “Famous Seamus” – came early in his life.

UF’s Extension Office in Flagler Offers 4-Week Florida 101 Course on State’s Ecology and How to Protect It

January 4, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The wonders of Pellicer Creek. (© FlaglerLive)

Florida 101 is an introduction to Florida designed for both new and seasoned residents of Flagler County who are interested in learning about the ecology of Florida, how to best take advantage of our unique climate, flora, and fauna, and how to protect it.

Proposed Old Kings Village’s 205-Home Subdivision Still Clashing With Polo Club West’s Cling to Old Florida

January 4, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

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The clash has as much to do with the opaque minutiae of land-use regulations as it does with something anyone in Palm Coast and Flagler County can relate to: what kind of community do residents want for themselves, and how far should the city go to change zoning and land use designations that result in two vastly different subdivisions–one densely packed with homes, one not, with a rapidly increasing population adding its own pressures on diminishing green spaces.

A Note To My Grandson

January 4, 2024 | Pierre Tristam | 21 Comments

Felix at T plus a few minutes after 7 Phoenix time this morning, 9 a.m. Palm Coast time.

Well dear Felix, this is the day chosen for you–as so much has been since before your conception, as almost everything will be for the next dozen years, as most things will be after that–to be born into this, not quite our world: you arrived as scheduled a little after 7 this morning, your time.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, January 4, 2024

January 4, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

eft Wing Fantasy by Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News

On the birth of Baby Felix and the meaning of life, scientists in 1967 predict the 21st century to Walter Cronkite, Nathaniel Hawthorne on “the infant was worthy to have been brought forth in Eden.”

How Religion and Politics Will Mix in 2024

January 3, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Attendees at evangelist Franklin Graham’s ‘Decision America’ tour in Turlock, Calif., in 2018. The tour was to encourage Christians to vote.

Religion is likely to play a big role in voters’ choices in the 2024 presidential election – much as it did in previous years. Despite an overall shift away from participation in organized religion in the U.S. populace, religious rhetoric in the political arena has intensified with end-times rhetoric, talk of divine mandates and the intersection of white supremacy and Christian nationalism.

Raising Alarms, Pontieri Calls for Moratorium on Flood-Prone Construction Until Regulations Are Rewritten

January 3, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

As John Winthrop almost said: Sitting on a hill. (© FlaglerLive)

Palm Coast City Council member Theresa Pontieri unexpectedly called for a 60 to 90-day moratorium on construction on so-called in-fill lots, the traditional quarter-acre lots that ITT platted, or until until the city’s revised construction regulations are enacted. The regulations address issues that have caused flooding on existing lots. Pontieri’s proposal, to be considered for adoption on Jan. 16, drew a startled response from the Flagler County Home Builders Association and caution from some council members.

After Raucous Hearing, Palm Coast Votes Again to Limit Cascades Development in Seminole Woods to 416 Homes

January 3, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

On the verge of losing control of an often distempered meeting Tuesday evening, Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin called for a recess.

Nearing midnight Tuesday the Palm Coast City Council voted unanimously again to limit development on the Cascades development in Seminole Woods to 416 single-family homes following an often raucous hearing before an overflow and untempered crowd. Much of the discussion–or arguments–hinged on whose fault it was that the issue required the extraordinary re-hearing, after the council had seemingly settled the matter in a pair of votes last September and November.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, January 3, 2024

January 3, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Moms for Hypocrisy (Clay Jones)

Damari Barnes in court, Waste Pro changes its pick-up schedule this week in unincorporated Flagler, the Code Enforcement Board flexes its muscles, The Flagler County Republican Club meets, on the word cachinnate, and on doubt.

Will Biden’s Ego Bring Trump Back to the White House?

January 2, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

biden ego

Is Biden’s evergreen ego — his scrappy Scranton Joe determination — outpacing his ability to win a tough election, much less govern a bitterly divided country until 2029? Will there be dire consequences because the man who had been yearning to be president since he was 46 resists giving up the job at 81? Should he have stepped aside for someone younger?

Judge Rules Migrant Held Responsible for Death of Deputy After Arrest Is Incompetent to Stand Trial

January 2, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Mendez in court for his competency hearing on Dec. 22. (Pool)

Circuit Judge R. Lee Smith ruled that Vergilio Aguilar Mendez, the 18-year-old migrant held responsible for the death of a St. Johns County deputy of a cardiac episode several minutes after Mendez was arrested, is incompetent to proceed to trial and is to receive “competency restoration” while held at the Volusia County Branch Jail. The order suspends further criminal proceedings, but may be abrogated over the next 60 days should the treatment restore competency to the court’s satisfaction.

Social Media Regulation, AI, ‘Deregulation’ of Public Schools and Child Labor: 10 Top Issues of Legislative Session

January 2, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

With Ron DeSantis distracted by his presidential campaign, House Speaker Paul Renner, the Palm Coast Republican, may wield more power than his powerful post usually does. (© FlaglerLive)

Florida lawmakers will start the annual 60-day legislative session on Jan. 9, with Gov. Ron DeSantis giving his State of the State address before shuttling back to Iowa ahead of the caucus there on Jan. 15, with a slate of proposals–on artificial intelligence, the elimination of numerous regulations in public schools, allowances for 16 and 17 year olds to work longer hours–crowding the legislative agenda.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, January 2, 2024

January 2, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

carville biden too old Rick McKee, CagleCartoons.com

The Palm Coast City Council takes on controversial items, including Old Kings Village near Polo Club West and the Cascades development in Seminole Woods. Ted Koppel on journalism, Robert Fisk on terrorism.

How Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil and Ayn Rand Changed Our World

January 1, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Simone de Beauvoir is more enduring and profound than Sartre. (Wikimedia Commons)

Wolfram Eilenberger’s “The Visionaries” is a wild ride through ten of the worst years in the 20th century, and is told through the occasionally intersecting lives of four brilliant young women philosophers: Simone de Beauvoir and Simone Weil (both French), Russian-American Ayn Rand, and German-Jewish Hannah Arendt, who spent time exiled in France and New York.

Flagler Beach’s New Year’s Fireworks Celebration Draws 500 People and Hula Hoops of Raves

January 1, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Flagler Beach City Commissioner Scott Spradley captured the picture above with his drone last night before the surf board drop.

Flagler Beach may have ignited a new tradition for itself and the county as some 500 people turned up at Veterans Park and around the pier in the waning minutes of 2023 Sunday for the city’s inaugural surf board drop and New Year’s fireworks.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, January 1, 2024

January 1, 2024 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Americans’ top 10 New Year resolutions (exercising is at #2), Jimmy Stewart on Carson, how the Romans gave us January 1, and Clay Jones opens 2024.

Visiting a Museum Could Be the Secret to a Healthier Life

December 31, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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A Canadian medical association launched the museum prescriptions program in 2018. The project has enabled thousands of patients to get a doctor’s prescription to visit a museum, either on their own or accompanied. The aim of the prescription was to promote the recovery and well-being of patients with chronic illnesses (hypertension, diabetes), neurological conditions, cognitive disorders or mental health problems. The decision to write the prescription was left to the discretion of the doctor.

Can We Still Find Common Ground?

December 31, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

Americans and others, unlabeled. (© FlaglerLive)

Many Americans today worry that our nation is losing its national identity. Some claim loudly that the core of that identity requires better policing of our borders and preventing other races or religions or ethnicities from supplanting white Christian America. But that is not what defines our national identity. It’s the ideals we share, the good we hold in common.

Lie of the Year: RFK Jr.’s Campaign of Conspiracy Theories

December 31, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

RFK lies

As pundits and politicos spar over whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign will factor into the outcome of the 2024 election, one thing is clear: Kennedy’s political following is built on a movement that seeks to legitimize conspiracy theories. His claims decrying vaccines have roiled scientists and medical experts and stoked anger over whether his work harms children. He has made suggestions about the cause of covid-19 that he acknowledges sound racist and antisemitic.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, December 31, 2023

December 31, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

New Year’s Eve in Flagler Beach beginning at 8 p.m. and culminating with fireworks, The Cold-Weather Shelter opens, The Bach Festival draws to its close soon, between Zionism and anti-Semitism.

Five Movies to Better Understand the Climate Crisis

December 30, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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The holiday season is, for many, a time for cherished rituals and down time, including watching movies like It’s a Wonderful Life, Elf or Die Hard. But this season is also a time for reflection on our lives and the world around us beset by conflict — and the worsening climate crisis. Here are five film recommendations to help combine ritual and reflection.

Women United Flagler Allocates Nearly $38,000 to Local Agencies

December 30, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Cindy Dalecki, Lynn McCormick, Diane Wasney, Suzy Gamblain, Linda Mahran

Women United Flagler, an affinity group of United Way of Volusia-Flagler Counties, is pleased to announce the group recently distributed grants and scholarships totaling $29,350 to Flagler County Non-Profit agencies and an additional $8,644 to the United Way Community Impact Fund, which serves nonprofits in both Volusia and Flagler Counties.=

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, December 30, 2023

December 30, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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TJ Schultz memorial at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Palm Coast, the Cold Weather Shelter opens, ice harvesting and trading from the middle ages to 19th century Boston and Calcutta, trap, neuter and release’s controversies.

You Must Switch Off From Work. Here’s How.

December 29, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

An office at 401 Seventh Avenue (West 32nd Street - West 33rd Street) in 1920. (NYPL collection)

It may not be enough simply to be physically away from work, particularly in an era when so many of us work from home. We also have to stop thinking about work when we’re not there – whether it’s fretting over your to-do list while out at dinner, thinking about your unanswered emails while you’re at your daughter’s soccer game, or lying in bed pondering what you’ll say at tomorrow’s board meeting.

We Asked Flagler County Leaders to Tell Us About Their Favorite Book of 2023. Their Answers Are Page-Turners.

December 29, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

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Twenty-one Flagler County leaders–in politics, culture, business, education, media–were asked to tell us about their favorite book of 2023. The very wide-ranging responses were always enlightening and often surprising, showing how minor our political or ideological differences can be, or ought to be, when we connect on a cultural and personal or literary level, which is to say: a human, or humanist, level.

Daytona Solisti Takes On Schubert’s Romantic Realms in January Concert

December 29, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The Daytona Solisti concert “Romantic Realms – Music of Schubert” will feature the Rickman-Acree-Corporon Piano Trio performing a Franz Schubert work that was never played publicly during the Austrian composer’s brief lifetime. “Romantic Realms – Music of Schubert” will be presented at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 14, at Lighthouse Christ Presbyterian Church, 1035 W. Granada Blvd., Ormond Beach, where Solisti is in residence again this concert season.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, December 29, 2023

December 29, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Bumpy Flight by Christopher Weyant, The Boston Globe

The Ultimate Mermen, The Ultimate Disney Tribute Band, 7 p.m. at Flagler Auditorium, the Cold Weather Shelter opens tonight, Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin, County Commission Chair Andy Dance and Bunnell City Manager Alvin Jackson look to 2024 on Free For All Fridays, Frederick Douglass as never before published.

Can the Economy Continue to Avoid a Recession in 2024?

December 28, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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The fundamentals are strong and may be on the rise, if you believe chief financial officers. Plus, despite dysfunction in Washington, recent laws and policies like the CHIPS and Science Act, the bipartisan infrastructure deal, the AI Bill of Rights and the Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Use of Artificial Intelligence could further boost economic growth by stimulating job creation and enhancing competitiveness.

Migrants Ace Their Citizenship Tests Routinely. Could You?

December 28, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

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At least 9 out of 10 applicants for legal immigration routinely pass a rigorous citizenship test, but an alarmingly high percentage of native-born Americans experience difficulty listing the three branches of government (“Lather, rinse, repeat?”) or remembering the name of their state legislator.

Students Are Not Showing Up for Class. Lawmakers Want To Do Something About It. But What?

December 28, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 41 Comments

Sure it's Christmas, but absenteeism when school is in session has been a problem. (© FlaglerLive)

In measuring student attendance, the department looks at students who miss 21 or more days and students absent for 10 percent or more of the academic year. The 2021-2022 data showed that 32.3 percent of students, or more than 1 million students, were absent for 10 percent or more of the year.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, December 28, 2023

December 28, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Marking the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, but with a reminder of Elizabeth Kolbert’s Sixth Extinction, the Bach Festival continues, and the workweek remains at low simmer.

The Curious Joy of Being Wrong

December 27, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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The death of the author’s brother shattered his deeply held evangelical beliefs. This deep loss started a period of questioning in light of the evidence of the author’s experience, leading him to revise his worldview in a way that felt authentic. He changed his mind about a lot things.

Suzanne Johnston, Flagler County’s Unchallenged Tax Collector Since 1st Election in 2004, Will Not Run Again

December 27, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

A hug worth a million appreciations: Bart Johnston congratulates his mother Suzanne Johnston in 2020, the day Suzanne won her re-election uncontested for the fourth straight time. It would prove to be her last election. (© FlaglerLive)

Suzanne Johnston, Flagler County’s Tax Collector since 2004 and one of its more colorful and unchallenged elected officials, will be stepping down at the end of 2024, when she will be 75. She announced her decision in an interview with FlaglerLive this afternoon, and said she’d be supporting her second-in-command, Shelley Edmonson, for the seat in next year’s election.

From Abortion to Disney, Guns, Pot, Trans and Social Media Law: 10 Florida Court Cases to Watch in 2024

December 27, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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High-profile Florida cases in state and federal courts in 2024 include a challenge to the 15-week abortion ban, Disney’s claim that the DeSantis administration illegally retaliated against it, a challenge to the state’s age-restriction on buying long guns, whether the wording of a constitutional amendment legalizing recreational pot can head for the ballot, and several more.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, December 27, 2023

December 27, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

One-State Solution (Bart van Leeuwen, PoliticalCartoons.com)

Catch the final days of the Fantasy Lights in Town Center, the 10 days of Bach continue with the Magnificat, the history and ideological uses of Hagia Sophia, and a few words from Orhan Pamuk.

Blessings for LGBTQ+ Couples: Pope Francis’s Historic Gesture

December 26, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Heidi and Jamie Bell, who married in 2016, kiss and show the V for Victory sign near Dave Richards, a vacationer from Ohio who decided to hold up a quote from Romans for much of the event. He was briefly joined by a congregant from a local church who said she shared his cause. (© FlaglerLive)

Pope Francis’ Dec. 18, 2023, announcement that Catholic priests may bless LGBTQ+ couples and others in “irregular” situations marks a definitive shift in the Roman Catholic Church’s posture toward many types of loving relationships. It may also mark a definitive turning point within the Roman Catholic Church.

My Father’s Crèche

December 26, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

New Year's in Beirut, January 1, 1975. (© Fouad Haddad)

Taking down Christmas decorations can be difficult when they serve as buffers to memories as painful to remember as one is grateful not to have forgotten them, especially as we age: my father has been dead nearly 50 years, but that chasm of time disappears in the still-vivid hammer sounds of the crèche he built us every Christmas, and the joys of my mother’s New Year’s Day parties before lives became war zones.

‘That Was My Home’: The Homeless Are Being Purged Out of Their Encampments

December 26, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

It happened in Palm Coast when, in 2020, then-County Administrator Jerry Cameron had the homeless who'd encamped for years near the public library swept out, and the area fenced in, on the claim that the acreage would become a Sheriff's District Office. Months later, Cameron shifted the location of the Sheriff's facility back to Bunnell. By then, the homeless had been dispersed. (© FlaglerLive)

More than 653,000 Americans are experiencing homelessness in 2023, a 12% increase from last year. Among the people experiencing homelessness, 64% are unsheltered. As tent encampments continue to dot urban landscapes — strewn around parks, along sidewalks, lining highways or sometimes abutting schools — many cities have increased their sweeps, some governors have announced funding to clear encampments, and several states have outlawed the tent communities altogether.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, December 26, 2023

December 26, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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A day for gold bricking and Bach, a few words on love, kindness, greed and rapine from John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row, and a few sharply drawn lines rom Clay Jones.

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