Dim All The Lights: Remembering Disco Queen Donna Summer and the decade of failure
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Life was much simpler back in 1979 when Donna Summer was queen of the pop charts. The music helped define the 1970s, the decade of mistrust, betrayal and failure.
And as much as that decade said "Disco Sucks!" it was the music that moved us. It was the beat that helped us endure and transition to a new decade of living large and enjoying the good times: the Big 80s.
No singer transcended the music of the disco era better than Donna Summer. And if Disco sucked, it was a reflection of our leaders who sucked: Nixon, Ford and Carter.
I was a wide-eyed naive 17-year-old begging, hoping to put high school behind me as fast as possible for college and the beginning of my adult life with endless possibilities.
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"Daytona's PD's Internal Affairs: Segment 2 of our investigative report continues with yet another woman cop whose life was turned upside down by Jim Newcomb, shown at left, promoted less than two weeks ago to captain by Police Chief Mike Chitwood. Our first segment looked at the case of woman cop, Kelly Fishpaugh, who was taunted for more than a year by Newcomb with insinuations she was pregnant when she wasn't and pressuring her to arrange for him to get with her sister, who worked in a bar with a skimpy bikini as a beer tub gal. Today's segment tells the story of lesbian woman cop Sarah Martin, who lost her job after an extensive internal affairs investigation by Newcomb that led to her being fired. Two years later she was brought back 
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New Smyrna Beach City Commissioner Jim Hathaway, at far left, has a new supporter in his campaign for Volusia County Council: Former Southeast Volusia Chamber of Commerce President Robert Lott, who, along with his wife, received bankruptcy protection, having owed hundreds of thousands of dollars to creditors.
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DELAND -- Kyle Sikora only averaged 1.5 points and 1.8 rebounds per game for Michigan's Oakland University, but Stetson University men's basketball coach Casey Alexander likes his size. Sikora is a 7-footer who weighs 240 pounds..jpg)
Headline Surfer photos by Sera Frederick / Young partiers had no worries about drinking in public during Saturday's Crawfish & More Festival on Main Street in Daytona Beach. The cops were looking the other way.
PONCE INLET -- State Rep, Dorothy Hukill, R-Port Orange, will be among a contingent of dignitaries on hand to commemorate the Memorial Day Holiday with the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse veterarans memorial as a backdrop in Davies Lighthouse Park, 4931 S. Peninsula Drive.