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Michael Benkert, on the Run for 19 Days Since Flagler Beach Trailer Park Manhunt, Is Arrested

September 26, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The heavy police presence around the trailer park in Flagler Beach the evening of Sept. 7. (© FlaglerLive)

Michael Benkert, the thrice-imprisoned 31-year-old Palm Coast resident who had terrorized family members in Flagler Beach and whose evasion from law enforcement turned a trailer park there into a police-chase zone three weeks ago, was finally apprehended, along with his twin brother Anthony, and faces a half dozen charges, three of them felonies.

‘No Smoke and Mirrors’: New Baler Helps Flagler Beach Recycle 4 Tons of Cardboard a Week

September 26, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Flagler Beach's Sanitation Department is now in the cardboard baling business: it placed 18 tons of cardboard, or 24 bales, on a truck last month when the new system kicked off. (Rob Smith)

Flagler Beach’s Sanitation Department acquired a $6,000 carboard baler and since mid-August has been baling some 4 tons of carboard a week. The city was previously trucking the loose cardboard to ELS Environmental in Bunnell, and losing on the revenue.

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

September 26, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

DeSantis Rocket Campaign Update by Jeff Koterba, patreon.com/jeffreykoterba

Taylor Manjarres is sentenced for her role in the December 2021 home invasion robbery and death of Zaire Roberts, Brightline’s launch and the cost of driving cars, the evanescence of health.

Traditional Downtowns Are Dying. What Next?

September 25, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

A sign advertises retail spaces for lease at Union Square in San Francisco on June 21, 2023.

Across North America, downtowns are recovering from the pandemic more slowly than other urban areas and that “older, denser downtowns reliant on professional or tech workers and located within large metros” are struggling the hardest. The shuttering of a Whole Foods market after only a year in downtown San Francisco in May 2023 received widespread coverage.

DeSantis Will Debate Gavin Newsom in Georgia in November

September 25, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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After weeks of negotiations, a 90-minute debate between Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom hosted by Fox News’ Sean Hannity will take place on the Fox News Channel on November 30 in Georgia. The specific location has not been announced yet.

Montessori School Owner Kerri Huckabee, 54, Arrested on 3 Felonies in Dispute with Flagler Beach Neighbors

September 25, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 34 Comments

The Nardone property in the foreground was built in 2018, immediately adjacent to that of Kerri Huckabee, who has been angered by the Nardones' surveillance cameras and lights. (© FlaglerLive)

Kerri Ann Huckabee, 54, the long-time owner of the Montessori school in Flagler Beach that moved to Bunnell in 2018, was arrested on three felony charges, including a second degree felony, and for kicking two police officers, and was booked at the Flagler County jail. The arrest was the result of long-running antagonism toward her neighbors on South 23rd Street since they moved in in 2018.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, September 25, 2023

September 25, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Shutdown Side Effects by Monte Wolverton, Battle Ground, Washington.

The Bunnell City Commission adopts its 2023-34 budget and tax rate, the mosquito board and the Beekeepers Association meet (separately), hopefully without fumigation, Robert Reich on socialism.

Time to Stop Using Individuality-Obliterating Acronyms Like BIPOC

September 24, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

French colonial cops in all their gore. (NYPL Digital Collection)

BIPOC is an acronym for “Black, Indigenous and People of Color,” and has become increasingly popular in recent years. The acronym came about as a way to address the erasure of Black and Indigenous Peoples and center their unique struggles while promoting solidarity. But BIPOC amalgamates distinct experiences of racism and colonialism and misses those that do not fit within one category, like individuals of mixed ancestry.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, September 24, 2023

September 24, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Time For A New Hobby by Christopher Weyant, CagleCartoons.com

Matinee of “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” at City Repertory Theatre, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, your car is to blame for the largest share of greenhouse gases, Purdue Pharma’s guilt.

How Biases Against Black-Sounding First Names Lead to Job Discrimination

September 23, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

What role will race play in determining who gets the job?

A hiring experiment found that participants systematically discriminated against job candidates with names they associated with Black people, especially when put under time pressure. It also found that white people who oppose affirmative action discriminated more than other people against job candidates with distinctly Black names, whether or not they had to make rushed decisions.

College Football Reflects America As it Really Is: Indefensible In a Civilized World

September 23, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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It’s college football season in Florida and you know what that means: trash talking, martial metaphors, peculiar rituals involving animals, bizarre clothing in colors not found in nature, bad grammar, mansplaining, and racism. College football reinforces some of our least attractive stereotypes — those Black kids sure are fast! — and extreme gender roles, as well: huge dudes on the field knocking the living hell out of each other, while small (though quite athletic) women with incongruously large bows in their hair cheer them on.

Clarence Thomas Secretly Participated in Koch Network Donor Events

September 23, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was at the Bohemian Grove, a secretive all-men’s retreat in Northern California, with billionaire industrialist David Koch, right, and Ken Burns, whose films Koch has financially supported.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has attended at least two Koch donor summits, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a political network that has brought multiple cases before the Supreme Court.

Florida’s Minimum Wage Goes to $12 on Sept. 30

September 23, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Clearly, not yet. (Joe Brusky)

Chambers of commerce and Republican lawmakers have routinely claimed that higher minimum wages would hurt workers, cut back their hours, increase unemployment, or shutter small businesses. Those fears have not materialized in Florida.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, September 23, 2023

September 23, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Freedom Caucus holds U.S. hostage by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com

Another homage to Krys Fluker, “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” at CRT, Gamble Jam, a few words about the heart-rending Domenico Scarlatti, the pain of the elderly.

Green Growth Is Losing Traction. De-Growth Is Not.

September 22, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The idea of “green growth” is appealing, but it is losing appeal among climate policy researchers.. (© FlaglerLive)

The “degrowth” school of thought proposes a planned reduction in material consumption in affluent nations to achieve more sustainable and equitable societies. Meanwhile, supporters of “agrowth” adopt a neutral view of economic growth, focusing on achieving sustainability irrespective of GDP fluctuations. Essentially, both positions represent scepticism toward the predominant “green growth” paradigm with degrowth representing a more critical view.

Sean Barry, 33, Found Hanging at County Jail and Dies at Hospital. He’d Been Waiting for a Drug-Treatment Bed.

September 22, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Sean Barry and his sister Danielle Brown, and Barry by himself. (Danielle Brown)

Sean E. Barry, a 33-year-old resident of Butternut Avenue in Bunnell’s Mondex, died at AdventHealth Palm Coast on Thursday afternoon, five days after he was found hanging in an apparent suicide attempt at the Flagler County jail. Barry was not at the jail on a criminal charge, but on a Marchman Act motion his sister had filed with the court in early August as she sought to get him the drug treatment help he needed. 

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, September 22, 2023

September 22, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Worlds Apart by Christopher Weyant, The Boston Globe.

The mania to destroy nature to appreciate it, “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” at CRT, asking a salient question about Trump.

Rupert Murdoch’s Legacy of Lies and Little Accountability: A Round-Up

September 21, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Rupert Murdoch attends the 2019 Vanity Fair Oscars

Rupert Murdoch’s Fox meant that so-called journalists could lie with near total impunity, but Fox News’ settlement with Dominion Voting Systems was a win for all media.

Florida Icon and Pulitzer Prize Winner Lucy Morgan Dies at 82

September 21, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Lucy Morgan. (Florida Phoenix)

Lucy Morgan, an icon in Florida politics and American journalism, has died. She was a Pulitzer Prize winner and chief of the St. Petersburg (now Tampa Bay) Times capital bureau in Tallahassee for 20 years, retiring in 2006 and serving as senior correspondent until 2013.

Flagler County Approves Higher Taxes, Palm Coast Stays Level, But Claims of ‘Historic’ Rollback Are Inaccurate

September 21, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Not quite sine die: the council meets again on Oct. 3. (© FlaglerLive)

Palm Coast and Flagler County government this week adopted their budgets and tax rates for the 2023-24 fiscal year with little controversy and so few people in the audience at final hearings that you could count them on one hand. The county raised taxes, the city kept its taxes flat. Palm Coast going back to the rolled back rate was not unique, as some council members claimed or thought.

At Root of Palm Coast’s Affordable Housing Crisis: We Got Our Own. Screw the Rest. 

September 21, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 92 Comments

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We have a housing crisis in Palm Coast. Too few houses, too few apartments, discriminatory zoning and homesteading laws that make the problem worse. We who live in our sprawling, property-tax-sheltered single-family houses not only see these laws as entitlements. We want the door to more development closed behind us. We got our own. Screw the rest. So just when we need it most, affordable housing is becoming a dirty word.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, September 21, 2023

September 21, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Musk to charge for Twitter X use by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com

Drug Court meets, the Democratic Women’s Club meets, the decade we lost Earth to global warming, the etymology of “divine wind,” otherwise known as kamikaze.

How Local Law Enforcement Could Help Prevent Another Jan. 6-Style Insurrection

September 20, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Enrique Tarrio, leader of the Proud Boys, at left, and group member Joe Biggs were sentenced to many years in federal prison. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

If police had treated Proud Boys as members of a street gang from the group’s inception in 2016, the events of Jan. 6, 2021, might have been avoided, or at least reduced in severity. Instead, police continues to mistakenly focus on the belief that, like terrorist groups, white supremacists are coordinated in ideology and intent. Evidence shows that perception actually diverts local police agencies’ attention from identifying and managing these groups.

Flagler County Drug Court Foundation Announces Fall Ride for Recovery Fundraiser on October 14th

September 20, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The Flagler County Drug Court Foundation hosts the Fall Ride for Recovery fundraiser on October 14th. This exciting event promises a day filled with fun, food, and activities for a noble cause. The primary objective of this fundraiser is to provide assistance to individuals in Flagler County who are on their journey to recovery from substance abuse.

UCF May Close Three Campuses

September 20, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The state university system’s Board of Governors on Wednesday will consider proposals by the University of Central Florida to close three campuses no longer in use. The proposals involve the South Orlando Campus, the UCF Leesburg campus and the UCF Palm Bay campus.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, September 29, 2023

September 20, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Bizarro Statue of Liberty: Marjorie Taylor Greene, by Randall Enos, Easton, Conn.

The Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board meets, Separation Chat, the horrors of flying according to Robert Reich and Henry David Thoreau.

Moms for Liberty: Joyful Warriors or Anti-Government Conspiracists?

September 19, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Signs in the hallway during the inaugural Moms For Liberty Summit on July 15, 2022, in Tampa, Fla. (Octavio Jones/Getty Images)

The mothers group dominating media attention is Moms for Liberty, self-described “joyful warriors … stok[ing] the fires of liberty” with the slogan “We Don’t Co-Parent with the Government.” Others see them as well-organized, publicity-savvy anti-government conspiracists.

School Board Trio Will Hire an Attorney to Help Them Fire Board’s Attorney of 17 Years

September 19, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 39 Comments

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The Flagler County School Board has assigned fellow-board member Will Furry to hire a labor attorney–at the district’s expense–who will then shepherd them through firing Kristy Gavin, the board’s attorney, without risking a lawsuit. Board members Sally Hunt and Christy Chong pushed the idea of outside counsel. Board Chair Cheryl Massaro joined them in assigning Furry.

Rezoning Enabling Up to 850 Homes in Seminole Woods Causes Sharp Debate Before Palm Coast Approval

September 19, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 45 Comments

Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin and Council member Theresa Pontieri do not see eye to eye on the pace of development in Palm Coast. (© FlaglerLive)

The Palm Coast City Council today approved on a pair of 4-1 votes land use changes that clear the way for up to 850 housing units on 375 acres on the west side of Seminole Woods Boulevard, three miles south of State Road 100. The proposal, for a project called Cascades, drew sharp opposition from City Council member Theresa Pontieri and an equally sharp defense from the developer, Jeff Douglas of Douglas Properties. The exchange drew in the mayor and other council members and reflects a recurring debate in Palm Coast over the speed, density and purpose of development.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, September 19, 2023

September 19, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Trump on Policy by Monte Wolverton, Battle Ground, Washington.

The Palm Coast City Council takes up land use matters, the School Board takes up Board Attorney Kristy Gavin’s contract, the great crash of democracies around the world.

We Gave $7,500 to Homeless People. Here’s What Happened Next.

September 18, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Cash transfers can help people find suitable accommodations and save governments money. (Levi Meir Clancy on Unsplash)

Present approaches to staving off homelessness are failing, as evidenced by the rapidly increasing number of people experiencing homelessness. Relying on short-term shelters has been shown to be more expensive than providing stable housing. It is therefore imperative to try something else. Cash transfers represent a dignified way to empower people to escape homelessness.

Fractured Leadership: Few Questions Asked, Fewer Concerns Raised Ahead of Segregated Assemblies, Investigation Reveals

September 18, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

A failure and fracture of leadership at Bunnell Elementary appears to have enabled what turned into segregated assemblies for Black students. (© FlaglerLive)

Bunnell Elementary school’s leadership environment that enabled a trio of teachers to hold assemblies targeting only Black students last month was disjointed, incurious, careless and oblivious to the optics of segregating Black students in the name of improving test scores, regardless of their academic standing, a  pair surprisingly limited and identical internal investigations reveal.

‘Savannah Asked Me To Never Be Silent.’ A Survivor of Brenan Hill’s Violence Speaks.

September 18, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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Brenan Hill was convicted on Friday for the murder of Savannah Gonzalez, 22. Shanell Torchia was a previous victim of Hill’s violence, and the mother of his child: he was a fugitive from justice, and the charges she had filed, when he shot Gonzalez. Torchia speaks out about her experience, her friendship with Savannah, and the dangerous leeway granted abusers.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, September 18, 2023

September 18, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

UAW Union demands by Dave Granlund, PoliticalCartoons.com

The Flagler County Commission meets, it’s another trial week in felony court, but nothing high-profile, Paul Renner’s successor is crowned, reflections at a bus stop on love and fallen humanities, Chris Abani on our shared humanity.

The Hunter Biden Stain

September 17, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

President Joe Biden and family after he was sworn in at the U.S. Capitol, January 20, 2021.

As Hunter Biden’s legal peril rises, with all its ensuing political complications, people have rediscovered the likes of Ulysses Grant Jr., Alice Roosevelt and Neil Bush, as if the best way to make sense of Hunter Biden is found in a rogues’ gallery of difficult presidential relatives.

Crazy and Cruel Sell Well in Florida. So Scott Is Running Again.

September 17, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

Rick Scott issues a manifesto. (© FlaglerLive)

In response to the NAACP, the ACLU and the Human Rights Campaign warnings that travel to Florida could be hazardous to people of color, LGBTQ people, or people who just believe in decency and tolerance, Scott posted a huffy hunk of mansplaining on that X-thing that everyone still calls Twitter, warning “socialists and communists” and suchlike to stay out of Florida.

Covid Deaths in Florida Near 91,000

September 17, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

As of Thursday, 90,740 resident deaths from Covid-19 had been reported, according to Florida Department of Health data released Friday. That was up from 90,232 reported deaths two weeks earlier.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, September 17, 2023

September 17, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

DeSantis DeMOCKracy by Bill Day, FloridaPolitics.com

“I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change,” 3 p.m. at City Repertory Theatre, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, what Tchaikovsky looks like from I-95, and what he sounds like from Royal Festival Hall.

Understanding Autoworkers’ Historic Strike

September 16, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

United Auto Workers members rally after marching in the Detroit Labor Day Parade on Sept. 4, 2023.

The autoworkers’ union is seeking higher pay, better benefits and assurances that large numbers of its members will work in the automakers’ growing number of electric-vehicle factories. Here’s how success or failure will be defined for the UAW, and why the strike is historically significant.

Florida Under DeSantis Is Ground Zero of Voter Disenfranchisement

September 16, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

If you can. (Derek Bridges via Flickr)

DeSantis and the malleable Florida Legislature have cracked down on political protest, asylum seekers, the LGBTQ community, and women and trans men who might need abortions, among others. In elections litigation alone, the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition sued the state in federal court in Miami alleging the state has erected barriers to felons hoping to regain their voting rights under 2018’s Amendment 4, which the organization sponsored.

Hillsborough County Judge Nancy Jacobs Accused of ‘inappropriate and Disparaging’ Remarks

September 16, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Judge Nancy Jacobs (Facebook)

The panel of the Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission filed what is known as a “notice of formal charges” against Judge Nancy Jacobs, who unseated then-Circuit Judge Jared Smith in the 2022 election.

City Repertory Theatre’s Audacious New Season Runs from ‘Perfect’ Love to Witch’s Cat to Freud’s Lingerie

September 16, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

John Sbordone. (Mike Kitaif)

Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre’s news season includes heady classics rarely staged in East-Central Florida: “Educating Rita” and Edward Albee’s unnerving “The Zoo Story.” There are acclaimed but off-the-radar, even experimental works: “Vinegar Tom,” Caryl Churchill’s Brechtian take on 17th-century witchcraft trials, and Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour’s bizarro, undirected “White Rabbit Red Rabbit.” Contemporary works include “Edges: A Song Cycle” and the comedy “Hysteria,” wherein Salvador Dalí meets Sigmund Freud.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, September 16, 2023

September 16, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

We’re All Kansas Now by Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune

Flagler OARS’ 3rd Annual Recovery Festival, “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” at City Repertory Theatre, US News judges the best countries in the world a bit tendentiously, a tipping point in Antarctica, Saul Bellow.

Alas, No Extraterrestrials, NASA Says

September 15, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

In Nevada, where extraterrestrial dreams can still come true. (© FlaglerLive)

NASA’s independent study team released its highly anticipated report on UFOs today. Bottom line: The study team found no evidence that reported unidentified anomalous phenomena observations are extraterrestrial. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson wants to shift the UFO conversation from sensationalism to one of science.

Jury Finds Brenan Hill Guilty In Murder of Savannah Gonzalez, and Faces 25 Years to Life in Prison

September 15, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Brenan Hill during his trial this week. (© FlaglerLive)

A jury of four women and two men found Brenan Hill guilty of second degree murder and two other charges in the shooting death of Savannah Gonzalez, 22, after deliberating two hours and 45 minutes today. He faces life in prison when Circuit Judge Terence Perkins, who presided over the five-day trial, sentences him at a later date.

Florida’s ‘Voucher’ System Adds 123,000 Students Attending Private School at Public Expense

September 15, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

Nearly 123,000 new students have received private-school vouchers after state lawmakers this year passed a major expansion of voucher programs, while a group that administers the programs says they will not bring an “exodus” from public schools as critics have predicted.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, September 15, 2023

September 15, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

McCarthy Impeach Biden push by Dave Granlund, PoliticalCartoons.com

“I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” at City Repertory Theatre, Kant’s Notebook at a perfume counter at Dillards, Conan O’Brien’s Dartmouth Commencement Speech, more Didion from Miami.

Sustainable Tourism Depends on Locals’ Help

September 14, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Making sustainable that which has not been designed as such (a destination, a resort, a mode of transport, etc.) is not easy, fast or affordable. This is especially true since, rather than conforming to standards, labels or certifications, we must change our relationship with the environment in order to be sustainable, rather than just appearing to be so.

Brenan Hill Takes Stand in His Defense, Weeping, then Seething that Shooting Savannah Gonzalez Was an ‘Accident’

September 14, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Brenan Hill reenacts his version of how the gun he took out of his waistband allegedly misfired and struck Samantha Gonzalez on march 26, 2021. He faces a second degree murder charge. He says it was an accident. (© FlaglerLive)

It was not an exactly calm man the jury saw when Brenan Hill took the stand this afternoon in his own defense. Not the sort of man who helped himself much in his trial on a second-degree murder charge that could send him to prison for life if he is convicted: when the prosecution cross-examined him, he was angry, exasperated and at times barely responsive.

Ed Danko Attacks City Staffer With Baseless Claims in Public Meeting, Drawing Sharp Rebuke from Mayor

September 14, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 54 Comments

The Palm Coast City Council's Ed Danko hectoring Chief Sustainability and Resiliency Officer Maeven Rogers at Tuesday's meeting, before turning to argue with Mayor David Alfin, who brought Danko under control. (© FlaglerLive via Palm Coast TV)

Palm Coast City Council member Ed Danko verbally attacked and disparaged the city’s resiliency and sustainability officer in a public meeting on Tuesday, baselessly calling her presentation “propaganda,” questioning why she had a job, and sparring with Mayor David Alfin, who brought him under control.

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