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Ex-Youth Pastor Convicted of Molesting Teen Church Members Back in Court, and Jail

March 1, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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Christopher Thomas Miller was convicted of molesting two 15-year-old girls at Bunnell’s Praise Assembly of God in 2006, but was jailed over violating his probation.

3 Reasons The Trump Tax Plan Is a Disgrace

December 17, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 32 Comments

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Robert Reich’s three-step guide on the rubbish of the Trump-Republican tax plan for when you confront your Republican Uncle Bob during the holidays.

Flagler Beach Pastor Who Defrauded Church Members of Hundreds of Thousands Blames Others As He’s Sentenced to 7.5 Years

March 29, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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Wesley Brown, the 54-year-old pastor who’d won the trust of church members only to defraud them, sought to lay blame on others even as he was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison, after facing a potential 100 years.

GOP Rep. Cary Pigman, Chairman of House Health Subcommittee, Arrested for Drunk Driving

March 25, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

State Rep. Cary Pigman, an Avon park Republican.

With a blood-alcohol level nearly double the legal limit, state Rep. Cary Pigman was charged with drunken driving after a traffic stop on Florida’s Turnpike several hours after a House session Thursday.

Surprised? Trump’s Advisor on Wall Street Regulations is a Longtime Swamp-Dweller

November 25, 2016 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

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Donald Trump’s transition advisor for financial regulations works for a firm that is emblematic of the Washington revolving door: deregulation could serve Paul Atkins’ wallet as well as his political agenda.

Ex-Deputy Guilty on 14 Counts of False Imprisonment Could Still Get Retirement Pay

June 8, 2016 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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Jonathan Bleiweiss had been accused of intimidating undocumented immigrants into performing sex acts. He entered a plea deal that spared him a designation as a sexual offender.

The Real Enemy: Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabism, Mother to al-Qaeda, ISIS and the Taliban

December 26, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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If you want to know who inspired the Taliban, al-Qaeda and ISIS, look further than America’s “friend” and ally, Saudi Arabia, which has been financing the spread of Wahhabism’s lethal adulteration of Islam for years.

Rick Scott, Who Made Millions as Hospital CEO, Now Faults Hospital Costs

September 28, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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The proposals are the latest in a series of moves by Scott, who made millions as CEO of HCA/Columbia, to revamp the hospital industry. The Legislature will have to enact his proposals.

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.

When Bigots Hide Behind Religious Freedom

January 16, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 31 Comments

Kelvin Cochran, the former Atlanta fire chief, and his supporters, are using the veil of religious freedom to justify homophobic and bigoted views that have no place in the workplace.

Flagler Detention Deputy of the Year Twice Reprimanded for Sexual Improprieties With Inmates in Last 2 Years

October 29, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

Deputy Randy Stephen Vickers was disciplined in May for having a relationship with a repeat offender and inmate and two years ago for asking an inmate, jokingly, if she’d like to be sexually assaulted.

FSU Coddles Jameis Winston Again, Undercutting Its Own Anti-Sexual Violence Campaign

September 22, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Just as FSU has ramped up its kNOw MORE anti-sexual violence campaign, Winston unleashed a misogynistic, vile, expletive punctuated public outburst. The reigning Heisman Trophy winner and star quarterback was benched just one game.

With Marco Rubio’s Walmart Mentality, Republicans ‘Discover’ How to End the Poverty They Created

June 4, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

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The Tea Party GOP has declared Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty” a failure. And with the 2014 elections looming, Rubio-Republicans are trying to remake themselves as sympathetic and empathetic, instead of apathetic, to the plight of the poor and the middle class, writes Stephen L. Goldstein.

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?

Flagler-Based Family Life Center Will Provide Rape-Exam Services, Ending Year of Failures Under Children’s Advocacy Center

March 3, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

A waiting room at the Children's Advocacy Center's then-new space in Bunnell. The center had pledged it would provide forensic exams for rape victims, only to break its pledge. The service will now be provided by the Family Life Center at its facilities. (© FlaglerLive)

The Children’s Advocacy Center failures came to light last spring when it failed to provide a certified nurse following a rape, forcing the victim to wait for hours. The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office will administer the contract, awarded to Palm Coast and Bunnell-based Family Life Center. which says it has Flagler-based nurses to provide exams when needed.

Global Warning Olympics: Closing Ceremonies for Winter

February 23, 2014 | Pierre Tristam | 4 Comments

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Watching the Olympics requires too much of a suspension of disbelief to make the effort worth the time or the self-deception. There was an added and quite massive invention to these games: faking winter in a warming world, though in that regard we’re all self-deluded Russians.

Again Breaking a Pledge, Children’s Advocacy Center Sets Ultimatum On Rape-Crisis Intervention as Top Cops Scramble

January 9, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

In July, Sheriff Jim Manfre, seen here speaking with the Children Advocacy Center's Terri Karol, the CAC's vice president for financial operations, was among several top officials--including State Attorney R.J. Larizza--who toured the CAC's new facility in Bunnell, where the center pledged it would provide rape exams to adult victims. The pledge proved hollow. (© FlaglerLive)

The Children Advocacy Center’s promise in July to provide rape-crisis exams to adults in Flagler and Volusia counties turned out to be relatively hollow, and was followed by an ultimatum that the CAC would get out of the business altogether by June, triggering a furiously critical response from State Attorney R.J. Larizza, Sheriff Manfre and other local top cops.

Troopergate: Florida Highway Patrol Was Wrong to Fire Charles Swindle Over Bogus Ticket

June 10, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The Florida Highway Patrol shouldn’t have fired trooper Charles Swindle, who followed “the agency’s unwritten policy of professional courtesy” toward state legislators, a hearing officer ruled Monday. But that doesn’t mean the ex-trooper was right when issuing less expensive tickets last November to the lawmakers.

FHP Director Julie Jones Is Shocked, Shocked to Hear of Troopers Issuing Fake Tickets

June 4, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles Executive Director Julie Jones said she expects the agency will look into allegations of bogus tickets, described last week by a handful of former and current troopers during an administrative hearing on the firing of former FHP Trooper Charles Swindle.

FHP Troopers Speak of Unwritten Directive to Ticket Lawmakers Less Harshly Than Other Drivers

May 29, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

A sheriff who appeared at a hearing for a trooper fired over for being lenient toward a lawmaker said it’s a “common practice” that legislators have been given leniency on state highways, the same as law enforcement officers regularly waive rules for other law enforcement officers as a “professional courtesy.”

The Military’s Sexual Assault Crisis: Our Women in Uniform Deserve Better

May 28, 2013 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

There were 3,374 reported cases of sexual assault in the military in 2012, and 26,000 assaults likely went unreported. Those shameful numbers don’t have to speak for themselves, argues Martha Burk, but most of the victims were afraid of being punished by superiors if they reported what happened.

Despite Snubbing Obamacare, Florida Gets Thousands of Jobs and Cash from Health Act

May 13, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Even though Florida officials tried to block the implementation of the Affordable Care Act at every turn over the past three years, the state will gain millions in grants and hundreds of new jobs this year from its implementation.

Altered States: Now Lefty Hollywood Is Protesting Gun Control in Gotham

May 5, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Movie-makers opposing New York’s recently passed gun-control laws are upset that they may have to use props instead of real firearms in films, a a blatant admission from people we call “creative,” , argues Steve Robinson, that without endless, massive gunfire there are no stories to be told, no issues to explore, no human experiences to illuminate.

Flagler Youth Center’s Shannon Diamond Is Again Arrested on Drunk Charges

April 22, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Shannon Diamond was arrested on a DUI charge last year but kept his employment, supervising students. He was arrested at McCharacter’s Sunday after allegedly refusing to pay his bill and trying to flee. He is on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.

Banning Internet Cafes While Gambling on Guns

March 24, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

Florida is quick on the trigger to ban Internet cafes, which have never killed anyone, but is doing nothing to rein in the state’s worship of guns, while 191 people have been killed by firearms in this state alone since the Newtown massacre.

Florida’s Two-Faced Feedback to Teachers: Do as We Say, Not As We Fail to Do

March 17, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

The Florida Department of Education expects its teachers to give immediate and detailed feedback to students on all work, yet the state will take three months to produce FCAT results, and it will do so without one iota of feedback other than a grade. Jo Ann Nahirny explores the hypocrisy.

Tipsy on Daytona Beach’s Example, Palm Coast Considers Getting Its Own Liquor License

February 26, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

The Palm Coast City Council is now considering applying for its own liquor license and, in an even more remarkable move, designating Central Park as a civic center where vendors could sell booze at special events under the city’s umbrella.

57 Republicans Who Voted for Bush’s Katrina Aid Voted Against Obama’s Sandy Aid

January 20, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

When Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, Congress passed two relief bills almost unanimously. But when it comes to Hurricane Sandy,179 Republicans and one Democrat opposed aid. Signal differences are the occupant in the White House and the states getting help.

In Defense of Ozzie Guillen: Cuban-Americans Have Held US Policy Hostage Long Enough

April 13, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

The Florida Marlins’ duplicitous suspension of Ozzie Guillen aside, the real scandal is the degree to which South Florida’s Castro-era Cuban community continues to hold American foreign policy hostage to seven decades of juvenile antagonism.

Mitt Romney’s Tax Returns: A Guide

January 24, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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As one of the richest men ever to run for President, Romney’s filings are enormously complex, and the subject of close scrutiny. News organizations are making their way through the returns. Here’s a guide to where to look to make sense of the numbers, including the original returns for 2010 and 2011.

Back from the Dead, Carver Gym Is Rededicated By Those Who Nearly Killed It

September 10, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Flagler’s governments gathered at South Bunnell’s Carver Gym Saturday to celebrate the rebirth of what, just 15 months ago, looked to be the end for the community center. Some of the applause was deserved, much of it was self-serving.

Refusing Other Federal Health Care Aid, Florida Welcomes Abstinence-Only Cash

August 9, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Florida has been against taking federal health care money until being for it–as long as it sustains abstinence-only sex classes.

They Bring Good Schemes to Life:
How GE Pays Little Or No Corporate Taxes

April 5, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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GE’s tax department is a company in itself: some 1,000 people working to minimize GE’s corporate tax liabilities, with huge success. In 2010, GE paid no taxes on $14.2 billion in profits. GE claimed a tax benefit of $3.2 billion.

Lobbying for Corruption: U.S. Chamber of Commerce Attacking Anti-Bribery Law

April 3, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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Even as anger over governmental corruption has exploded into protests across the Middle East, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has been working to weaken the law that bans companies from bribing foreign officials.

Mainland High School Coach John Maronto’s Prostitution Arrest: Hold Your Sanctimony

September 6, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 48 Comments

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Mainland High School football coach John Maronto, 68, was arrested in a prostitution sting Sept. 4. Hold your sanctimony: wasteful police stings aside, he did nothing wrong.

Palm Coast Liquors Up on Hypocrisy Ahead of ABC Store’s Opening (and 10 New Jobs)

August 19, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 32 Comments

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The November opening of Flagler County’s first ABC liquor store, a 10,000-square-foot facility, is drawing flack for its location despite its promise of 10 new jobs, choice booze and discounts.

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