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Florida Court Rules It’s OK to Shoot a Dog in Stand Your Ground Situation

October 16, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

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In a case stemming from a man who killed a pit bull when he and his Chihuahua felt threatened, an appeals court ruled Wednesday that Florida’s “stand your ground” self-defense law can apply to cases involving animals. A three-judge panel of the 4th District Court of Appeal said a Palm Beach County circuit judge improperly denied a stand-your-ground immunity hearing for Cassanova Gabriel, who was charged with crimes including cruelty to animals.

Against Protest, Walton County in Panhandle Joins Marion to Let Confederate Flag Fly For Now

July 14, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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Walton County flew started flying the Confederate flag at its courthouse in 1964 in direct opposition to the Civil Rights Act, which extended rights protections to blacks.

As South Carolina Folds the Confederate Flag, Florida County Votes to Raise It Back Up

July 9, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 34 Comments

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The Marion County Commission voted unanimously to raise the Confederate flag again on government grounds after removing it last week, just as the South Carolina Legislature ended debate this morning ina vote to remove it from state grounds.

Accenting His First Name, Dissing His Last, Jeb Bush Finally Declares for 2016

June 15, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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Jeb Bush made his announcement in Miami with his brother and father, both ex-presidents, nowhere in sight as the latest Bush hopes to redefine the tarnished name in his quest for the White House.

Florida’s Smallest Police Department Gets a Mine-Resistant Armored Vehicle

May 18, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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The Pentagon put more than 12,000 MRAPs into service in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Now many of those MRAPs are being unloaded to 780 domestic civilian law enforcement agencies.

2014 In Review: For Florida, A Year of Same-Olds More Than Change

December 27, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

State government from the governor on down is virtually unchanged, with all major figures and almost all incumbent senators winning reelection, but gay marriage and some legalized marijuana suggest some change for the state.

Florida’s Gay-Marriage Ban Teetering as U.S. Supreme Court Clears Way to Equality in 11 More States

October 6, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

With the U.S. Supreme Court clearing the way for same-sex marriages in 11 other states, gay-rights supporters said Monday they will ask a federal judge to follow suit in Florida.

Meeting With Scientists on Global Warming, Gov. Scott Shows No Interest in the Science

August 20, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Gov. Rick Scott, in a 30-minute meeting with scientists, asked whether the professors’ students were getting jobs in Florida, but showed no interest in the science under discussion or scientists’ urging him to prepare the state for the coming challenges posed by climate change.

In a Defeat For Non-English Speakers, Court Bars Entitlement to Spanish-Speaking Shrinks in Workers-Comp Claims

June 3, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

In what could be a first-of-its-kind decision in Florida, an appeals court ruled Tuesday that a man suffering from head injuries was not entitled to treatment from a Spanish-speaking psychologist as part of a workers-compensation insurance claim.

U.S. Supreme Court Declares Florida’s Death Penalty Too Rigid in Low I.Q. Cases

May 27, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

The execution wing at Florida's Starke prison, scene of many an execution involving intellectually disabled inmates. (© FlaglerLive)

The court, in a 5-4 decision, said Florida’s use of an IQ score of 70 “creates an unacceptable risk that persons with intellectual disability will be executed, and thus is unconstitutional.” “Intellectual disability is a condition, not a number,” wrote Justice Kennedy for the majority.

Medical Marijuana Initiative Gets Needed Signature to Make November Ballot, Pending Court Clearance

January 24, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

With 710,508 validated signatures statewide in Florida— 27, 359 more than the required 683,149 — and reaching signature requirements in the bare minimum of 14 congressional districts, People United for Medical Marijuana beat a Feb. 1 deadline for submitting petitions to the state.

Florida Is 7th Worst State For Lax Highway Safety Laws, Including Teen Protection

January 23, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Florida is “missing rear primary enforcement seat belt law, all-rider motorcycle helmet law, booster seat law, 4 of the 7 teen driving provisions, an ignition interlock law, and an all-driver text messaging restriction,” according to a new report.

As State Mulls Review, Christians and Atheists Agree: Keep Florida Capitol a Free Speech Zone

January 7, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The threat of a lawsuit is hovering over the state’s rejection of a satanic display, and the rotunda exhibit policy is set to undergo a staff review. But the prevailing view among those who have recently jumped at the chance to use the public floor space to express their beliefs is to simply let everyone have their say.

Specialty Tags Lose Their Gloss As Fewer People Are Willing to Pay Extra For Causes

November 12, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

There’s been a noticeable decline in motorists willing to pay an extra $15 to $25 to let others know their college or sports preferences or that they support the troops, manatees or even trees, but advocates say reducing registration fees could reinvigorate the program, which helps raise $30 million a year for a wide range of causes.

Harsh Outlier: Florida’s Sentencing Laws Still Lock Up More Juveniles Than Any Other State

October 17, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

As state legislators have tried and failed to craft a juvenile-sentencing law that conforms to landmark U.S. Supreme Court rulings, a national advocacy group is calling Florida a “clear outlier” among states for its hard-line approach to trying juveniles as adults.

Forget Common Core: Here’s a Citizenship Test to Determine Who Can Survive In Florida

October 16, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Florida citizenship will be granted to all who live through the experience, don’t kill anyone else while doing it and swear to never, ever try to ride a manatee under any circumstances, writes Jim McLellan.

Let’s Holster Incendiary Rhetoric and Get Flagler Started on Meaningful Gun Talk

January 18, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 34 Comments

Flagler County must have an honest, open dialogue about the place of guns in our community, Milissa Holland argues, but to do so the extremists on both sides must be willing to calm down and let reason facilitate the dialogue.

Bill Filed to Repeal Florida Prohibition On Doctors Asking Patients About Guns

January 16, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Sen. Oscar Braynon, D-Miami Gardens, filed the measure (SB 314) to repeal the 2011 “Firearm Owners’ Privacy Act,” which isn’t currently being enforced because a federal judge threw it out in July. The state, however, is appealing that ruling.

Florida’s Year in Review: New Districts, New Voting Problems, Renewed Economic Hope

December 29, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The biggest stories of 2012 ended up being an election and redistricting. A third ongoing story also pervaded the year’s news: The economy continued its long, slow rise from the ashes of the recession, and by year’s end the rebound – while facing the possible stomach-punch of a fiscal cliff setback – appeared to be solid.

What’s In Your Gun Closet? In Florida, a Doctor’s Right to Ask Is Under Threat

November 28, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

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Should doctors be able to ask patients or patients’ parents whether they own a gun? What about health insurers, employers or health-care officials implementing the federal health law? Can they ask about gun ownership? The issue is playing out in Florida, where lawmakers want to ban doctors from asking the questions.

Voting Time Again as State Asks Floridians To Click on Their Favorite License Plate

November 26, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

The Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles is asking Floridians to vote on one of four choices, online, starting today and until Dec. 14. The redesigned plate with the most votes replaces existing plates beginning in 2014.

A Few Florida Facts for Republican National Convention Delegates

August 27, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

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Florida under the leadership of Republican icons like Bush, Scott and Rubio, and supported by proud and unthinking GOP legislatures for the last 15 years, has happily served as the grow house for Republican policies. The results are stunning, writes former lawmaker Dan Gelber.

Voter ID Laws: Your Election-Year Guide to Disenfranchisement and Fraud

July 23, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

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Voter IDs laws in Florida and 29 other states are a political flashpoint in another close election year, pitting claims of fraud against claims of disenfranchisement. A step back to look at the facts behind the laws and issues at the heart of the debate.

As Florida and Other States Privatize Prison Health Services, Care Standards Suffer

July 22, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Florida and other states, in an attempt to cut costs, are increasingly outsourcing health care for inmates to for-profit companies, but the trend is raising concerns among unions and prisoners’ rights groups.

Florida Law Barring Doctors From Asking Patients About Guns at Home Ruled Invalid

July 3, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

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The law restricts doctors’ ability to provide truthful, non-misleading information to a patient, U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke ruled. The “docs-vs-glocks” law was backed by the NRA and signed by Gov. Rick Scott in 2011.

Romney, in Orlando, Plays Catch-up On Immigration By Promising More Green Cards

June 21, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Speaking to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials in Orlando, Romney spent most of his time talking about making it easier for legal immigrants to come to America.

Florida Is the Most Corrupt State in the Union, According to a Federal Tally of Convictions

June 6, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Based on U.S. Department of Justice data, Florida led the nation in the number of convictions between 2000 and 2010, according to data compiled by Integrity Florida, a non-profit research group founded earlier this year by former Florida Chamber spokesman Dan Krasner and former Common Cause Florida executive director Ben Wilcox.

When Elderly Is an Offensive Term

May 28, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

The elderly are simultaneously the country’s most powerful single demographic and its least respected. But if the elderly don’t want to be infantilized, if they don’t want to be referred to as the elderly, it may be time to means-test the term and the literal benefits it entails.

Crime Falls, Cop-Killings Rise: Flagler Officers Honor the Fallen and Gauge a Disturbing Trend

May 16, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

For the second year in a row, Florida led the nation in cops killed on the job. The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office held its annual ceremony for the fallen, and local top cops discussed the disturbing trend.

The Florida Family Association’s Un-Christian Jihad on TLC’s “All-American Muslim”

January 6, 2012 | Pierre Tristam | 34 Comments

In their war on TLC’s “All-American Muslim,” a few aberrant fools at the Florida Family Association are yearning for “No Muslims Allowed” signs everywhere and smearing this state’s reputation while drafting Lowe’s to their bigoted crusade.

Florida’s Latest Immigrants: Undocumented Workers Fleeing Alabama’s Harsh Vise

November 10, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Reversing Florida’s recent population loss, there’s been an influx of undocumented workers moving to Florida from Alabama as a result of a newly passed state law, the harshest immigration enforcement measure in the country.

Herman Cain? Seriously? He Wins Florida Straw Poll, Upending GOP Race

September 26, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Herman Cain, a pizza magnate seen as a minor candidate in a crowded field for the GOP nomination, scored an upset victory Saturday in the Republican Party of Florida’s Presidency 5 straw poll, raising questions about the standing of the two front-runners and the bellwether status of the fundraising event.

Snooping Security: “If You See Something, Say Something” Campaign Comes to Florida

September 2, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Gov. Rick Scott is welcoming the “If You See Something, Say Something Campaign,” which encourages callers to use a statewide toll-free telephone number to report suspicious activity. The program raises spying, profiling and other civil liberties concerns.

Florida Gun Nuts, Evils of Going Green, Blacks and Marriage, Allen West’s Idiocy: The Live Wire

September 1, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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Florida law as a gun to local governments’ heads, when GIs executed children in Iraq, a sickness beyond Fox, Is Marriage for White People?, homeland security sex, Allen West’s stupid comments on the Arab Spring, and more.

Health Care Reform Ruling: 11th Circuit Court of Appeals’ 2-1 Decision

August 14, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Full text of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals’ 2-1 ruling on Aug. 12, 2011 overturning parts of the Obama administration’s health care reform law, in a case from Florida.

Foreclosures Down 59 Percent in April, But Don’t Celebrate Yet, Florida

May 12, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Longer processing times and the backlash against banks’ speed-dialed foreclosures have more to do with the brighter number than an actual recovery in the housing market.

Union-Busting Bill Narrowly Clears Hurdle and GOP Dissents Before Full Vote at Florida Legislature

April 13, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

The proposed law forbids union deductions from public employees’ paychecks, essentially gutting unions. It passed a committee, 11-9, with three Republicans breaking rank to oppose it.

Gainesville’s Rogue Pastor And the Limits of Free Speech: A Dissent

April 3, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

First Amendment rights have their limits, argues Thomas Brown: Gainesville’s Pastor Jones should have been stopped from burning the Koran, which can be viewed as an act of terrorism expressly and imminently inciting violence.

Gainesville’s Terry Jones Did Not Murder 11 UN Workers and Afghans. Muslims Did.

April 2, 2011 | Pierre Tristam | 23 Comments

From Enlightenment to fanaticism: Mazar-i-Sharif's Blue Mosque, origin of Friday's massacre. (© Arslan Zahid)

There is no comparison between Terry Jones of Gainesville’s Dove World Outreach burning the Koran and Muslim fanatics murdering 11 people in retaliation. Jones is a fanatic. He’s no murderer. And he deserves First Amendment protection.

Chamber Survey: 21% of Floridians Would Leave; Business, Government Equally Blamed

February 14, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

The annual Sunshine State Survey finds 65 percent of Floridians saying the state is worse or the same as five years ago, and 69 percent saying business leaders do the right thing only some of the time or never, about as much as government leaders. The full results.

Florida’s Broke, But It’s Refusing a $1 Million Health Insurance Oversight Grant Anyway

February 6, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty forfeit a $1 million federal grant that was supposed to go toward beefing up oversight of health-insurance rates.

Wrongful Foreclosure: What You Need To Know

November 27, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Banks and foreclosure defense attorneys disagree on whether errors in the process have caused wrongful foreclosures — but their definitions of what constitutes a “wrongful foreclosure” differ.

Health Care Deformed: Florida’s Incoming House Speaker Defies Federal Law

October 21, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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With no apparent authority from the Legislature or the courts, incoming Florida House Speaker Dean Cannon is aiming to scuttle state agencies’ enactment of federal health care reform laws and regulations.

A Bench, a Homeless Man, A Cop’s Brutal Judgment: Poverty as a Presumption of Guilt

October 19, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 8 Comments

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The man was sleeping on a bench in Sarastoa. The cop noticed a duffel bag and decided to invoke the city’s anti-camping ordinance. The result: felony charges for the man, and neither justice nor common sense served.

Ending 33-Year Disgrace, Appeals Court Rules Florida’s Gay Adoption Ban Unconstitutional (Updated)

September 22, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Updated at 2:55 p.m. The unanimous decision found no rational basis in the state’s prohibition on gay adoptions, and Gov. Crist, who’d once supported the ban, termed the decision “great.”

Heather Beaven’s WTF Campaign

May 6, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 5 Comments

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Democrat Beaven’s congressional campaign against John Mica so far is shoddy, vague, and lacking transparency.

Students Fail. Cut Teachers’ Pay. Seriously?

April 19, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The thinking behind Senate Bill 6 is rooted in the idea that teachers cause students’ success or failure. That’s wrong, argues Dave Riegel, a high school principal.

Briefing: Florida’s Qualified Target Industry Tax Refund Program

April 19, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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.

At 16.6%, Flagler Unemployment Crawls Lower

April 17, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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While Florida’s unemployment rate continues to break post-Depression records, Flagler’s may be steadying downward.

Health Reform’s Bigger Windfalls for Florida

April 12, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

while there are still many unknowns about how the new federal health-care laws will be implemented, Florida stands to do very well financially and socially.

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