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Winners and losers emerging from the 2021 Legislative Session They all cant be winners. Here is the definitive list of whos up and who took a fall. The ending of a Session is never a surprise. It’s like harvest season. What you get at the end is the result of months, maybe even years of tilling, planting, watering, tending, and shepherding. Against the odds and despite many challenges, the 2021 Legislative Session ended on time. The House Speaker and the Senate President were together for the...

Disused for over a decade, the old Country Hearth Inn on Old Dixie Highway is facing a county injunction and possible demolition. The owners have not been responsive to the county’s demands for cooperation. The image is part of the court documents in a suit against the owners. Flagler County government has filed suit to condemn and demolish the long-derelict, yellowed motel that’s vexed law enforcement, residents and county code enforcement officials for years near Dixie Commons along South...

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Jacksonvilles Ashley Collins Named Florida Certified Master Builder News provided by Share this article Share this article JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Dec. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Florida Certified Master Builder (FCMB), created to help consumers find a builder they can trust, is proud to announce Ashley Collins, of Collins Builders in Jacksonville, is now a Florida Certified Master Builder. Florida Certified Master Builders are elite Home Builders, Remodelers and Commercial Contractors who are dedic...

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Have to build to a higher standard or we will continue this vicious cycle over and over again. unfortunately, you know, were still not through all of the rubble. its going to take us a while to get through it, and people are not going to be able to return home. the other thing, too, mexico beach is going to have to strive for a new normal but when they do so they will have to do so from a higher standard. what you are seeing is older construction that was built before the florida building code b...

After the 2001 florida building code survived. when we look at the damage, this is why we keep preaching the predisaster message and congress proactively passed laws last week, the disaster recovery reform act and that will put disaster money up front, a large amount to mitigate the infrastructure, and then we have to get citizens to understand when they buy a home in these areas it has to be mitigated and built to a higher standard or we are going to continue to do this over and over and over a...

Should be to elevate as high as you can and get into a facility that you think can withstand the winds at this point. and hope for the best. you know, you always have the option of calling 911 but there is no guarantee that responders can get to you at this point. as the system continues to push through. what i mean by the storm being the type -- the worst type, not only are we going to see devastating storm surge push through florida that causes the most amount of destruction to facilities alon...

Especially when we get up into georgia, south carolina, some of the real estate in this country that is the most flood prone we have, you at least have the barrier of being inland a bit. >> too true. you hit the nail on the head. every wobble protects the i- 95 nightmare corridor that weve feared for decades. lets keep on seeing those wobbles right. >> what is your population? and by percentage how many folks preferred to stay and ride it out and how many folks did you feel like if you could, yo...