1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (995+ words) Hazel Brannon Smith was almost certainly the most unpopular woman in Mississippi when she wrote an editorial in 1963 lambasting the racist White Citizens Councils in the Lexington Advertiser, a newspaper she owned. “The hierarchy of rulers in this totalitarian-like organization…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (294+ words) An independent investigation of complaints two Flagler Beach city employees filed against each other concludes that there is more sound and fury than actionable substance in the dispute, that no disciplinary action is warranted, but that some additional supervision is....

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (259+ words) The Sierra Club has become the latest organization to announce opposition to Amendment 3 on the November ballot, saying that if passed it “will effectively gut the buckets of local governments in Florida.” The Republican-controlled Legislature placed the measure on the…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (441+ words) When a developer is planning a subdivision of 40 housing units or more, Palm Coast government requires the developer to hold a neighborhood meeting for surrounding residents who’ll be affected. The meeting must take place before the proposal goes before the…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (410+ words) The threats 34-year-old Cody Lee Thayer is accused of making against Flagler County sheriff’s deputies and against his girlfriend caught a judge’s attention at his first appearance hearing Sunday: Circuit Judge Mark Johnson ordered Thayer held without bond. Ordinarily, Thayer…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1839+ words) Raymond Royer is an independent–or no party affiliation–candidate for Flagler County Commission, District 2, facing Theresa Pontieri, the current Palm Coast City Council member and vice mayor. Pontieri defeated Greg Feldman in the Republican primary. The District 2 seat has…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (1639+ words) Had Florida’s high school marine biology students read the original draft of their textbook, they would have learned about research that found climate change is killing at least 150,000 people per year, and another 1 degree Celsius of warming would double that....

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (765+ words) September 4, 2026 | Pierre Tristam | 11 Comments I started my career with a newspaper that covered about 10 counties in Southern West Virginia–some of Appalachia’s poorest counties in one of the most exploited regions of the country. Companies have historically pillaged West Virginia’s…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (446+ words) September 4, 2026 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments If the live-wired Aaron Van Kleeck ends up getting the job as Flagler County administrator–and the odds he will are better than even–it may have to do with the second interview County Commissioners asked for…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (742+ words) First proposed in 2005, the Cascades development north of Seminole Woods Boulevard in Palm Coast keeps returning before the City Council in different guises with different asks, and keeps getting rejected, or at least rebuffed, as it was Tuesday evening. The…...