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Leann Pennington, Flagler County Commission Candidate: The Live Interview

October 20, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Leeann Pennington. (© FlaglerLive)

Leann Pennington is a Republican candidate for Flagler County Commission, District 4, facing Independent Jane Gentile-Youd in the Nov. 8 general election. Pennington defeated first-term incumbent Commissioner Joe Mullins in the Aug. 23 primary with 69 percent of the vote.

(REDIRECTED) Leann Pennington, Flagler County Commission Candidate: The Live Interview

October 20, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Leeann Pennington. (© FlaglerLive)

Leann Pennington is a Republican candidate for Flagler County Commission, District 4, facing Independent Jane Gentile-Youd in the Nov. 8 general election. Pennington defeated first-term incumbent Commissioner Joe Mullins in the Aug. 23 primary with 69 percent of the vote.

Jane Gentile-Youd, Flagler County Commission Candidate: The Live Interview

October 20, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

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Jane Gentile-Youd is an independent, or no-party affiliation, candidate for Flagler County Commission, District 4, in the general election on Nov. 8. She faces Leann Pennington. All registered Flagler County voters may cast a ballot in the race, regardless of party affiliation or residency location.

Denise Calderwood, Flagler County Commission Candidate: The Live Interview

August 11, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Denise Calderwood. (© FlaglerLive)

Denise Calderwood is a Republican candidate for Flagler County Commission, District 2, facing incumbent Greg Hansen and Janet McDonald in the Aug. 23 primary. It is an open primary: all Flagler County voters are eligible to vote regardless of party affiliation.

Joe Mullins Declares Himself and His Companies ‘Insolvent,’ ‘Riddled with Debt’ and ‘Potentially Bankrupt’

August 3, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 153 Comments

Joe Mullins when he was first seated as a Flagler County Commissioner in 2018. (© FlaglerLive)

County Commissioner Joe Mullins in court pleadings and testimony claims he has a net worth of negative $675,000, that his companies are juggling debt, his Ferrari and Mercedes vehicles are under water, and that he may be bankrupt. The self-portrait of relative indigence contrasts with his claims as a successful businessman and steward of the county’s finances, and appear to differ from his financial disclosure form filed filed ahead of this year’s election.

Greg Hansen, Flagler County Commission Candidate: The Live Interview

August 3, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Greg Hansen. (© FlaglerLive)

Greg Hansen is a Republican candidate for Flagler County Commission, District 2 primary on Aug. 23. He faces Janet McDonald and Denise Calderwood. All registered voters in the county, regardless of party affiliation, get to cast a vote in this race, which will decide the next commissioner.

Janet McDonald, Flagler County Commission Candidate: The Live Interview

August 2, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 33 Comments

Janet McDonald. (© FlaglerLive)

Janet McDonald is one of three the Republican candidates for Flagler County Commission, District 2, facing incumbent Greg Hansen and Denise Calderwood in the Aug. 23 primary.

Joe Mullins, Flagler County Commission Candidate: The Live Interview

July 25, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 47 Comments

Joe Mullins. (© FlaglerLive)

Joe Mullins is a Republican candidate for Flagler County Commission, District 4 primary on Aug. 23. He faces Leann Pennington. Mullins has declined participation in the Live Interview.

Joe Mullins Falsely Claims 2 Associations of Retired Cops Support Him, Drawing Sharp Disavowals

July 20, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 47 Comments

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Reeling from publicity about his disrespect of Florida Highway Patrol troopers, Joe Mullins falsely claimed on Facebook this week that he had the “support” of local organizations of retired police officers, drawing disavowals from the presidents of both organizations and being forced to reword the post, which he still got wrong.

‘I Run the County,’ Commissioner Joe Mullins Tells FHP; A Trooper Calls Him ‘Belligerent’ and ‘Disrespectful’

July 11, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 109 Comments

Joe Mullins last January at the opening of SMA Healthcare's Access Center in Bunnell, a facility that provides mental health and addiction counseling. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Commissioner Joe Mullins, who has made a chronic habit of speeding, getting pulled over then attempt to get out of a ticket by abusing his authority, told a Florida Highway Patrol trooper that “I run the county” in one such attempt on I-4 last month, video of the encounter shows, and another trooper called him “extremely condescending, belligerent, illogical, and disrespectful.”

‘If You Get Out of This Car You’re Going to Jail,’ Troopers Warned Joe Mullins in Confrontational Stop

July 1, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 105 Comments

Troopers pulled over Flagler County Commissioner Joe Mullins, who was driving his Mercedes at over 90 miles per hour in the express lanes of I-4 the evening of June 2. Mullins was threatened with arrest before the traffic stop was over. (© FlaglerLive via FHP video)

Flagler County Commissioner Joe Mullins was threatened with arrest by troopers as he argued with them and told them, twice, he was an elected official, after being pulled over for going 91.7 mph on I-4 in June, and after initially ignoring the troopers even as one of them clocked him.

Again Ticketed for Speeding, Flagler Commission Chairman Joe Mullins Again Begs for Favor

June 23, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 109 Comments

Joe Mullins at a Flagler County Commission workshop in 2019, holding his wrist two days after he was in a crash on State Road A1A. He was not at fault, according to a Florida Highway Patrol report. (© FlaglerLive)

The ticket is not remarkable. What’s more notable about Joe Mullins is his pattern of seeking to get out of penalties, and of reaching out to public officials to do so or invoking their names either to get out of a ticket or in attempts to get out of being adjudicated and getting points on his license, with a promise that he’d never do it again. Then he does it again.

The GOP Normalizes Islamophobia

December 8, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

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Rep. Lauren Boebert insinuating that Rep. Ilhan Omar could have been a suicide bomber isn’t just about an unhinged Congresswoman stoking the extreme fringe of the Republican base. The real issue is the ongoing normalization of Islamophobia in America, which has soared to frightening new heights since 9/11.

The County Commission’s Choice Tonight: Filth or Statesmanship

November 15, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

County Commissioners Don O'Brien and Dave Sullivan, with their Svengali, Joe Mullins. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County Commission this evening is set to elect a new chairman, with Joe Mullins in line for the job, unless fellow-commissioners think better than to choose a bigot to represent them and the county. The School Board elects a chair Tuesday evening, with its own dilemmas.

Flagler Beach Mayor Throws Marker Against Supporting Organizations Appearing on Joe Mullins Infomercial

July 12, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 45 Comments

A mirror at the Family Life Center's offices. The center runs the county's only shelter for abused people. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler Beach Mayor Suzie Johnston, with fellow-commissioners’ support, severed her support for the Family Life Center, the shelter for abused people, after the center’s director appeared on Joe Mullins’s partisan infomercial on WNZF, what Johnston described as crossing a line. Mullins recently had slurred Flagler Beach commissioners as “cowards” and has been in an open feud with Commission Chairman Eric Cooley.

Joe Mullins’s Defamatory Attack on Eric Cooley

July 1, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

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Ostensibly proposing a discussion about sexual predators and domestic violence abusers, Joe Mullins in a Facebook posting about his radio infomercial features a screenshot of Bill Cosby over one article, and the image of Flagler Beach City Commissioner Eric Cooley over another, implying an equivalence. 

How Flagler County’s Drunken-Sailor, All-Republican Commissioners Tried to Con You Into a Higher Tax

June 25, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 58 Comments

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The Flagler County Commission’s attempt unilaterally to impose an increase in the sales tax is the latest example of a lazy, bumbling commission addicted to spending, deceptive in its methods and indifferent to the long-term public interest.

Palm Coast Fire Chief on Joe Mullins: a ‘Wrecking Ball’ who ‘Disgraces the Hard Working Men and Women of Flagler County Fire Rescue’

June 10, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

The Touch-a-Truck event Palm Coast organized in late May, where the city's fire chief, Jerry Forte, said he was approached by County Commissioner Joe Mullins, who spoke to him about Palm Coast taking over the county's fire services. (Palm Coast)

After County Commissioner Joe Mullins spoke to Palm Coast Fire Chief Jerry Forte about Palm Coast taking over county fire services, Forte ripped into Mullins in a scathing email to the county administrator and his deputy, calling Mullins a “hack” who seeks to incite hostility when he “stay in his own lane.”

‘Enough’ Is Not Enough: Flagler’s Dangerous Leer at Extremism

May 7, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 67 Comments

What happened on Tuesday at the Palm Coast City Council is indefensible and dangerous. But it’s nothing new. We’ve simply not been paying attention to a perilous degradation of public discourse and behavior. We are slowly becoming a crueler community debased by primitive instincts, because no one in charge, or too few people in charge, are standing up and saying enough.

News-Journal: Joe Mullins’s Political Stunt with Constitution Is More Theatrics of Duplicity

April 27, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

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Outlining a long list of Joe Mullins contradictions, bigotries and discrimination, the News-Journal in an editorial joins “those registering doubt of his sincerity last week, when he pushed the resolution of support for the Constitution that allowed him to unleash a flood of patriotic-sounding rhetoric in the middle of a commission meeting.”

Contrary to Commissioner’s Claim, Flagler County Is Not at Herd Immunity, Health Officials Warn, Only Nearing It

April 27, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

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Local health officials cautioned against ending covid-19 precautionary restrictions in response to a false claim by Flagler County Commissioner Joe Mullins that herd immunity has been reached, and that he would call for an end to restrictions at the next county commission meeting. Mullins often writes or speaks falsehoods or makes misleading statements about covid-19 and numerous other matters.

Joe Mullins Faces $2.4 Million Federal Lawsuit Alleging He Defrauded Company of Augusta Masters Golf Tickets

April 19, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 68 Comments

Flagler County Commissioner Joe Mullins at the commission this evening. (© FlaglerLive via Flagler County TV)

Joe Mullins, the Flagler County Commissioner and business owner, faces a $2.4 million federal lawsuit over allegations he defrauded a golf vacation-package company by delivering either invalid tickets to the 2018 Augusta National Masters tournament or failing to deliver tickets in 2018 and 2019, costing the company hundreds of thousands of dollars and lost customers and ruining the company. 

Attention Flagler: Your County Commission Wants You To Know That It Believes in (Most of) the Constitution.

April 6, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

They support the Constitution. Most of it. (© FlaglerLive)

A Flagler County commissioner wants the commission to approve a resolution affirming support for the Constitution, but in his enumeration of rights, he excluded the right to free speech and a free press.

Calling Mullins ‘Pied Piper of Hate, Deception and Fraud,’ School Board’s Conklin Rips His Latest Attack on LGBTQ and GOP

March 29, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 47 Comments

Joe Mullins speaking to a group he calls the 'adorable deplorables,' in a still from the video he'd posted, then taken down, at his Facebook page.

Joe Mullins combined attacks on transgender people and local Republicans in an extended screed filled with falsehoods and mischaracterizations as he spoke to a local far-right Republican group, prompting the School Board’s Colleen Conklin to issue a severe condemnation and called him a “narcissistic beast.”

Joe Mullins Falsehoods, Mischaracterizations, Misleading and Baseless Statements: A Fact-Check

March 29, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 27 Comments

Joe Mullins.(© FlaglerLive)

Joe Mullins’s problem with facts is not new, pre-dating his election. We fact-checked his latest statements from that March 25 appearance point by point as he discussed Flagler schools’ transgender students, local Republicans allegiances, the massage parlor murders, immigration, why people move to Flagler, guns and other matters.

It’s a County Priority, But Quest to Bring Broadband to Flagler’s West Side Runs Into County Hurdles

March 2, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Flagler County's west side, a mainstay of Flagler's economy because of its agriculture businesses, has been left behind by the information revolution. Residents there are pursuing avnues to extend broadband access to the region, so far without success. (© FlaglerLive)

County Commissioner Joe Mullins is seeking county staff’s help with an informal broadband “task force” he leads to land a grant that could improve internet services on the west side, raising questions about the extent to which the county can get involved in a group it has not formally recognized or knew much about even though broadband access is now a county priority.

Sedition Is Not a 1st Amendment Right, and There’s No Comparison With BLM Marches

January 14, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 37 Comments

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Mob participants claim they were only exercising their First Amendment right to protest, and that Black Lives Matter protests and riots didn’t draw the same scrutiny. Both narratives are factual and moral frauds that hide behind liberal rationales to perpetrate reactionary lies and justify the unconscionable. 

Trump’s Fascism and Republican Responsibility

January 7, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 109 Comments

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By the time Trump was spitting sedition and inciting violence Wednesday he’d had five years of encouragement from the same Republican charlatans who would later stand on the floors of the Senate and the House to declare themselves shocked, shocked that the rioters they’d courted had desecrated and bloodied their little sanctum. 

Flagler Commissioners Strongly Repudiate Mullins Letter On County Letterhead Disputing Biden Election

January 6, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 82 Comments

Joe Mullins, left, next to the Flagler County Sheriff's Office's Mike Lutz, who spoke to a group of local residents protesting Congress' certifying the election of Joe Biden, election of protesters whose trip to Washington Mullins was sponsoring

Flagler County Commissioner Joe Mullins used commission letterhead, without other commissioners’ approval, to plagiarize a letter and send it to Florida’s congressional delegation, repeating baseless, false, misleading, conspiratorial and widely discredited claims that Biden’s election was fraudulent. 

On WNZF, Flagler County Commissioner Joe Mullins Calls for Beheading Liberals

January 3, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 114 Comments

Joe Mullins in a WNZF promotion of his infomercial on the radio station.

A few minutes into his latest weekly infomercial on WNZF radio Saturday morning, Joe Mullins, the Flagler County commissioner, called for the beheading of liberals while decrying responses to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Health Department Chief Rips Social Club of Palm Coast for Preventable Covid “Illness and Tragedy”

October 5, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

The Social Club of Palm Coast's secretary was defensive and inaccurate as she told the County Commission that the superspreader could have happened anywhere. (© FlaglerLive)

The County Commission asked Flagler Health Department Chief Bob Snyder to explain the superspreader event at the Social Club of Palm Coast that led to dozens of infections and two deaths, and Snyder did not hold back placing the responsibility for the “tragedy” squarely on the club’s non-enforcement of masking and social distancing rules.

Joe Mullins’s Cowering Enablers

September 25, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

County Commissioners Donald O'Brien, left, and Dave Sullivan. For the third time in nine months this week they bowed to Joe Mullins's indecency. (© FlaglerLive)

By refusing to censure Joe Mullins for insulting Greg Hansen and Charlie Ericksen, Commissioners Donald O’Brien and Dave Sullivan are cowering enablers of Mullins’s bigotry, his bullying, his indecency. They all demeaned the County Commission and the constituents they represent.

Commissioners O’Brien and Sullivan Block Motion to Censure Joe Mullins Even as They Call Behavior ‘Unacceptable’

September 22, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 55 Comments

Commissioners Don O'Brien and Dave Sullivan flanked Joe Mullins Monday night. (© FlaglerLive)

Don O’Brien and Dave Sullivan refused to censure Joe Mullins for insulting fellow-commissioners, saying it would be bad for Flagler’s reputation. Sullivan didn’t want to be the first chairman on whose watch a censure vote passed.

With No Mention of Hansen or Ericksen, ‘Vague’ Joe Mullins Apology Contradicts Continuing Insults Online

September 18, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 37 Comments

Joe Mullins, standing, right, conferring with Assistant County Attorney Sean Moylan at a meeting in June. County Administrator Jerry Cameron is to the left. Mari Davis, his assistant, is in the center. (© FlaglerLive)

Joe Mullins’s brief apology today was more focused on back-patting and dissembling his role while never taking responsibility for the abuse he’s continued to heap on Commissioners Hansen and Ericksen. The email doesn’t materially change anything, Commission Chairman Dave Sullivan said, with a discussion about Mullins set for next Monday’s meeting.

Joe Mullins Again Erupts in String of Abuse Against Commissioner Hansen at 9/11 Event, Spurring Calls for Censure

September 16, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 58 Comments

Commissioners Donald O'Brien, in the foreground, and Chairman Dave Sullivan, in the middle. Mullins, third from left, has relied on them as a shield. (© FlaglerLive)

Less than 48 hours after insulting Commissioner Greg Hansen at a County Commission meeting, Commissioner Joe Mullins unleashed another string of worse abuse on Hansen, to his face–at an event commemorating the death of 3,000 victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks. But Commissioners Sullivan and O’Brien are resisting saying whether they’d censure him.

Joe Mullins Fires Demeaning Personal Insults at Commissioners in a Meeting, Repeating ‘Dangerous’ Pattern

September 11, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 99 Comments

A flagler County Sheriff's deputy intervened as Commissioner Joe Mullins was insulting fellow-Commissioner Greg Hansen, to the right of Mullins on the dais, Wednesday during a commission meeting. Mullins later wanted to lodge a complaint against a deputy even as he spoke from the dais about the importance of supporting law enforcement. (© FlaglerLive via YouTube)

Flagler County Commissioner Joe Mullins called fellow-Commissioner Greg Hansen a “fat sonofabitch” and Charlie Ericksen a “useless old man” at a meeting Wednesday just months after Ericksen had felt so threatened by Mullins that he called on Sheriff Staly for help.

Jerry Cameron, Chief of Sham

August 31, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 52 Comments

Jerry Cameron has his own horizon. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Administrator Jerry Cameron put on a show behind closed doors of interviewing what may be his successor. Though 121 people applied, Cameron knew who he was going to pick from the start, skirting public record and open meeting laws along the way.

Flagler Commissioner Joe Mullins Pays $750 Fine in Settlement of Campaign Finance Violations Claim

July 30, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

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Flagler County Commissioner Joe Mullins paid the Florida Elections Commission a $750 fine on April 17 to settle allegations that he had accepted illegal campaign contributions during his 2018 run against then-Commissioner Nate McLaughlin.

FDLE Finds No Grounds for Criminal Investigation Into Allegations Involving Commissioner Joe Mullins

May 28, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Commissioner Joe Mullins. (© FlaglerLive)

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement closed a 10-day investigation into what it termed “unverified information” about Commissioner Joe Mullins, finding no corroborating evidence of improprieties.

Joe Mullins Wanted Sheriff to Fix Speeding Ticket in 2017; He Invoked Staly’s Name in Traffic Stop Last Week

May 20, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 64 Comments

Though he was a passenger, Flagler County Commissioner Joe Mullins almost immediately identified himself as "Joe Mullins" to a sheriff's deputy when pulled over last week on Belle Terre Parkway, then invoked the name of Sheriff Rick Staly. (© FlaglerLive via FCSO bodycam video)

Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly said he refused to fix a speeding ticket for Commissioner Joe Mullins three years ago. Last week, Mullins invoked both his own name and Staly’s during a traffic stop in Palm Coast.

Flagler Beach and County Commissioners Call Out Joe Mullins Over a Baseless, Inflammatory Claim

May 11, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 39 Comments

Parking along Flagler Beach's boardwalk and pier has been closed as a means of controlling large gatherings of people. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Commissioner Joe Mullins over the weekend made unsubstantiated accusations that unnamed Flagler Beach officials are hurting business and tourism in the city with their “stay on your side of the bridge mentality.” City commissioners corrected him.

The Joe Mullins Smear

May 4, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 46 Comments

Joe Mullins during today's county commission meeting. (© FlaglerLive via YouTube)

Joe Mullins is a distasteful man whose behavior as an elected official is dangerous and should be held to account. But not by reporting as unsubstantiated as the allegations it’s based on. To play into them without strict and uncompromising authentication legitimizes them and gives journalism a bad name.

In Flagler Beach, a Few Dozen Demonstrators Rally for Trump, Leaving Reopening ‘Amerika’ To an Afterthought

April 25, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 55 Comments

Some 35 to 40 people stretched along State Road A1A in Flagler Beach this morning in what had been dubbed as a reopen-the-economy rally, but proved to be mostly a campaign rally for President Trump.

Joe Mullins Again Blistered for Divisive Attacks, and Commission Again Refuses to Intervene

February 3, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 40 Comments

Speaking for most of the Flagler County Commission, Commission Chairman Dave Sullivan today did not address a request by residents for a statement of public support for all citizens, regardless of party, following more criticism of Joe Mullins's statements online. Mullins is to the left. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Commissioner was again harshly criticized by residents at a County Commission meeting for claiming not to represent those who don’t support President Trump and bullying liberals on his social media account, but the commission refused to intervene.

County Opts to Sell Sheriff’s Plagued Operations Center, or Demolish It Absent a Buyer

February 3, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

The Flagler County Commission has given up entirely on the old Sheriff's Operations Center. (© FlaglerLive)

Sell it as is, presumably in the next 90 days: that’s the consensus of the Flagler County Commission for the Sheriff’s Operations Center off of State Road 100 in Bunnell, the 27,000 square foot building evacuated a year and a half ago and swamped before and since in an environmental and political tangle that keeps blighting county government.

No, Joe Mullins, Flagler Is Not a ‘Trump County.’ It Is an American County.

January 27, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 114 Comments

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Flagler County Commissioner Joe Mullins followed his call on liberals to love Flagler County or leave with suggestions of putting them on trains and buses, which brings to mind a different period of history, Christopher Goodfellow points out in an open letter to the commissioner.

Mullins-Centered Facebook Barbs Termed ‘Mishegoss’ But ‘Private’ As County Commission Rejects Censure

December 2, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 32 Comments

Mike Cocciola, a Democratic Party leader, implored the commission to focus on Flagler-related issues at the beginning of today's meeting. (© FlaglerLive)

County Commission Chairman Dave Sullivan rejected a call to censure fellow-Commissioner Joe Mullins today and said he would not entertain discussions of Mullins’s Facebook page–nor Mullins attempts to regulate media in any way.

County Administrator Cameron Sells Land to Commissioner Joe Mullins’s Company for $405,000, then Pays Off Home Mortgage

November 22, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 45 Comments

County Commissioner Joe Mullins, left, and County Administrator Jerry Cameron made a land deal focused on St. Johns County. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Administrator Jerry Cameron sold a parcel of land on U.S. 1 in St. Augustine to the Mullins Companies for $405,000 in August in what Cameron described as an “arms-length transaction” with Joe Mullins, the Flagler County county commissioner.

Flagler County Tells Sellers, Realtor and Inspector of Damaged Sears Building to Buy It Back or Get Sued

November 18, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 35 Comments

The beleaguered former Sears building off of Palm Coast Parkway, now part of the flock of county albatrosses. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County commissioners voted to offer the sellers of the $1.25 million Sears building the chance to buy back the damaged structure or face a lawsuit. Flagler bought the building in November and discovered it to be damaged from a pre-existing water-intrusion condition.

Flagler’s Permissive Rules on Dog-Chaining Draw Loud Calls for Revision as Palm Coast Takes Note

November 13, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Some 65 people turned up at a "town howl" on dog tethering at the Flagler Humane Society Tuesday evening, featuring, among others, the state official

Some 65 people turned up at a “town howl” on dog tethering at the Flagler Humane Society Tuesday evening, where County Commissioner Joe Mullins pledged he would be revisiting a controversial county ordinance. The debate may have consequences beyond county government as Palm Coast is in the midst of revising its own animal ordinance, and Flagler Beach may follow suit.

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