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Due To Be Fired, Ex-Coach Ripley Is Allowed to Resign Over ‘Excessive’ Force On 8 Year Old, and Keeps Getting Paid

May 21, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 34 Comments

Robert Ripley, a special education teacher at Wadsworth Elementary and a district faculty member since 2004, in a 2015 screen capture from a Florida High School 7v7 Association video, when he was the Matanzas High School football coach.

Ex-Matanzas football coach Robert Ripley was suspended with pay after using excessive force on an 8-year-old boy at Wadsworth Elementary in February. His firing was recommended in March. He’s been kept on through his resignation on May 29.

Palm Coast Manager Apologizes for Ordering Work Without School Board Approval First

September 16, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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City Manager Jim Landon ordered utility work to proceed without securing an easement from the Flagler County School Board, though he’s been critical of the county over a similar issue.

Lyndon B. Johnson, Terrorist

October 11, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Lyndon Johnson in 1925. (LBJ Library)

In 1926, Lyndon Johnson and his friends bombed the town square in Johnson City, Texas, taking out all the windows of a bank. He was never punished, let alone arrested. Times have changed.

Florida State University’s Rape Problem: Football First, Morals Later

April 19, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

The Jameis Winston revelations are one more reminder of just how far universities and their apologists are willing to go to protect the multibillion-dollar enterprise that we call “college sports.” What is the cost to the women at Florida State—and the parents who send them there–who surely can have no illusions about what will happen if they dare to cry rape?

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