Today: Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs around 90. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index readings 101 to 105. Tonight: Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Details here.
Drought Index is at 142.
Today’s tides: at the beaches, at the Intracoastal Waterway.
Today’s document from the National Archives.
The OED’s Word of the Day: neolocal, adj..
The Live Community Calendar
Today’s jail bookings.
Today’s Briefing: Quick Links
- First Light
- In Flagler and Palm Coast
- Flagler Jail Bookings and Sheriff’s Crime Reports
- Announcements
- In State Government
- In Coming Days in Flagler, Palm Coast and Beyond
- The Day’s Best Reads
- Fact-Checking the Knaves
- Palm Coast Construction and Development
- Local Road and Interstate Construction
- Cultural Coda
” “All fear of the world or consequences is swallowed up in a manly anxiety to do Truth justice.”
–Henry David Thoreau, from his Journals, Feb. 9, 1838. This week (on Wednesday) marks Thoreau’s 200th birth anniversary.
Previously:
Note: all government meetings noticed below are free and open to the public unless otherwise indicated. Many can be heard or seen live through each agency’s website.
The Sheriff’s daily incident reports and jail bookings are posted here.
The Flagler County Commission meets for a budget workshop at 9 a.m. at the Emergency Operations Center, Bunnell.
The Flagler County Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board meets at the Emergency Operations Center, 1769 E. Moody Blvd., Building 3, Bunnell, at 9:30 a.m. The board will hear an appeal of the June 20 Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board decision regarding the Special Exception Request to allow a transitional housing project at 210 N. Fig Street.
The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office celebrates its centennial in an 11 a.m. ceremony at the Sheriff’s Operations Center, 901 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. All public welcome.
The Flagler Library Board of Trustees meets at 4 p.m. in the Doug Cisney Room at the Flagler County Library, 2500 Palm Coast Parkway NW, Palm Coast, FL.
The Bunnell City Commission meets at 7 p.m., 201 West Moody Boulevard, City Commission Chambers, Building 3
None today.
In Florida and in State Government:
Note: Some proceedings below can be followed live on the Florida Channel. Most legislative proceedings can be followed through the Senate or House websites.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission will start a two-day meeting and take up issues such as a legislative and budget update. (8:30 a.m., Orange County Convention Center, West Building, 9800 International Dr., Orlando.)
FPL Solar Expansion: State Sen. Debbie Mayfield, R-Vero Beach, Florida Power & Light President and CEO Eric Silagy and other officials are expected to take part in an event about FPL projects to build three solar-power plants in Indian River and St. Lucie counties. (10 a.m., FPL Blue Cypress Solar Energy Center, 10401 Fourth St., Vero Beach.)
The Education Estimating Conference will hold what is known as a post-session “impact” conference for the pre-kindergarten through 12th grade system. (10 a.m., 117 Knott Building, the Capitol.)
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REPORTS DUE: State candidates, political committees and parties face a Monday deadline for filing reports showing campaign-finance activity through June 30.
In Coming Days in Palm Coast, Flagler and the Occasional Beyond:
Trouble up on the roof: “There’s no doubt these utilities are out to kill rooftop solar, and they’re succeeding." https://t.co/miew2A4OOg
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 9, 2017
Federal appeals court: You have a constitutional right to film police officers in public. https://t.co/X5QESTY83q pic.twitter.com/kdNeRZNOjO
— Slate (@Slate) July 9, 2017
122 nations adopted a U.N. treaty to prohibit the possession & use of nuclear weapons. The U.S. was not one of them. https://t.co/zCPnPoSK4W pic.twitter.com/4Ua4vbVeXg
— POLITICO (@politico) July 9, 2017
"It is a rich medium that brings me joy as a reader and creator." –
@nidhiart #NPRComics https://t.co/fjZHkkeEHG— NPR (@NPR) July 9, 2017
Catching up with the Beats: https://t.co/04LaVFZ0OY
— Arts & Letters Daily (@aldaily) July 8, 2017
Palm Coast Construction and Development Progress Reports
The following is an update of ongoing permitting, construction and development projects in Palm Coast, through June 24 (the city administration’s full week in review is here):
Click to access development-june-14-2017.pdf
Road and Interstate Construction:
Macklemore Feat Skylar Grey: Glorious
Previous Codas:
- Edward Luce On the Retreat of Western Liberalism in the Trump Era
- Why Don’t All Instruments Sound The Same?
- Joachim Horsley’s “Beethoven in Havana”: What the Piano Can Do
- Bojan Cicic and Richard Egarr: Giovanni Carbonelli’s Violin Sonata No. 1
- Voyager: The 116 images NASA wants aliens to see
- Bohemian Rhapsody: Brooklyn Duo and Ft. Dover Quartet
- Down in the River to Pray: University of Texas Tuba/Euphonium Studio
- Brahms : Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, op. 25
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist: Mohsin Hamid in Conversation with Akhil Sharma
- “The Day After” (1983)
- Rui Arayama Performs Domenico Scarlatti’s Sonatas K.427 & K.455
- Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras
- Angelina Jordan, 10 Years Old Norwegian, Sings the Blues: I Put A Spell On You
- Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689-1755), Concerto in B Minor for five Recorders Op. 15 Nr. 4, Abateva
- Introduction to Bullshit
- Chopin: 24 Etudes for Piano Op.10 , Op 25, Lukas Genjušas, Piano
- Alike: The Best Short Film Ever
- Fauré’s Requiem, Performed by the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Choeur Accentus
- Arthur Rubinstein Performs Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor, Op 22
- Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 5, Reformation: Jérémie Rhorer Conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
- C.P.E. Bach Keyboard Sonata in F sharp minor, Wq 52 4
- Boccherini: Quintet with Guitar G 448 D-Major
- Jean-Baptiste Poyard Performs Telemann’s Violin Fantasia n°1
- Eudora Welty Reads “A Worn Path”
- Francis Poulenc at the piano
- Antonin Dvořák: Romance for Violin and Orchestra performed by Tanja Sonc
- Joseph Haydn’s Symphony Nr. 66 in F major, Herbert Blomstedt, cond.
- Sarah Chang Plays Elgar’s Damn Romantic Salut d’amour, Op. 12
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Iván Fischer, cond.
- Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36
- Händel: Keyboard Suite HWV 428, Daria van den Bercken, piano
- Haydn: Piano Trio No. 39 in G major Hob. XV/25
- Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus, Leonard Bernstein
- What is McCarthyism? And how did it happen?
- The Corrs: Toss the Feathers
- Peter Falk’s Acceptance Speech for 1972 Emmy, for Colombo
- How Did Beethoven Compose His 9th Symphony After He Went Completely Deaf?
- Ray Chen Performs Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
- The Well Tempered Clavier, Book 1,HJ Lim, Piano
- Alicia de Larrocha plays Two Spanish Dances By Granados
- Comparone Plays a Scarlatti Sonata
- C. A. de Beriot, scene de Ballet, Daniel Shindarov, violin, Sergey Silvanskiy, piano
- Johnny Cash: Sunday Morning Coming Down
- Cinema Paradiso: The Main Theme
