Monday Briefing: Heat Again, Constitution Revision Commission Hearing, Commission Triple-Header

Today: Partly cloudy. Areas of fog in the morning. Visibility one quarter mile or less at times in the morning. Highs in the lower 80s inland…in the upper 70s coast. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Tonight: Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Details here.
Today’s document from the National Archives and the Astronomy Picture of the Day.
Today’s tides: at the beaches, at the Intracoastal Waterway.
Drought Index81
The OED’s Word of the Day: phlogistic, adj. and n..
The Live Community Calendar
Today’s jail bookings.

Today’s Briefing: Quick Links

• First Light
• In Flagler and Palm Coast
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• Announcements
• In State Government
• In Coming Days in Flagler, Palm Coast and Beyond
• The Day’s Best Reads
• Editor’s Tweets
• Fact-Checking the Knaves
• Palm Coast Construction and Development
• Local Road and Interstate Construction
• Cultural Coda

“So the growing peace, and the most beautiful visions of life, that began three months ago & which were great enough for a Remembrance 10,000,000 words long, the peace has led to a mind filled with work and a soul fortified with the knowledge of the inevitability of loss–and so goodbye sweet journal, adieu calm book, may the best hearts find you.”

–From Jack Kerouac’s “The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished and Newly Translated Writings” (Library of America, 2018).

Previously:

Swearing | Galileo’s heresy | Lincoln on Foreigners | Spinoza’s science | Hartley’s real change | Chesterton on public opinion | Music saves lives | Knausgaard’s Autumn | Dworkin’s intercourse | Religion’s subversiveness | Malcolm X | Dead bodies | 17th Century Nature | Imperfect mother | One’s stupidity | Third World | Tramps’ necessity | Stock market folly | Sunrise on America | Migrants through time | Mother tongues | Roth on age | Baudrillard’s reality | Madame de Sévigné’s fever | Public opinion | Wealth and art | Pascal’s world | Wheelies | Knausgaard on writing | Bach’s grace | Suffragette fury | Donna Tartt | Regrettable intercourse | Glory’s obscenity | Atheism v. Bach | Describing music | Dostoevsky’s truth

In Flagler and Palm Coast:

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.

Today is Presidents’ Day: No school.

The Constitution Revision Commission (CRC) invites all interested Floridians to participate in a public hearing at Eastern Florida State College’s Maxwell C. King Center, 3865 North Wickham Road, Melbourne, from 1 to 7 p.m. This will be the second public hearing held on the CRC’s 2018 “Road to the Ballot” public hearing tour, and the next-closest to Flagler County and Palm Coast residents. (The closest is on Feb. 20 in jacksonville.) Public hearings are free events open to all Floridians who would like to attend. No tickets or RSVPs are required. Free public parking will be provided. Those planning to attend the public hearing are respectfully requested to observe the CRC Public Hearing Participation Guidelines.

The Flagler County Commission holds a strategic planning, or goal-setting, session at 8 a.m. at the Emergency Operations Center, 1769 E. Moody Blvd, Bldg 3, Bunnel.

The Flagler County Commission holds a 1 p.m. workshop at the EOC, 1769 E. Moody Blvd, Bldg 3, Bunnel. to discuss foreign trade zones–a discussion relevant to Flagler County’s reorientation away from Volusia County and toward jacksonville and its port–employee pay, “escheatment” issues–the process by which a parcel is transferred to county ownership for unpaid tax reasons. Commissioners will discuss four such properties, three of which the administration is recommending be used for affordable housing, and one, located across the road from Imagine School in Town Center, be used for “economic development.”

The Flagler County Commission meets at 5 p.m. at the Government Services Building, Bunnell. The commission is expected to approve $52,000 in subsidies to private and non-profit organizations with tourist tax dollars, to award a $1.5 million contract to Halifax Paving to widen and resurface County Road 205 from mile post 1.86 to 3.77, with money in part from a state grant, as well as other paving projects. Commissioners are also expected to consider approving the change order to a grant agreement for the design and construction of a new water plant for Plantation Bay, and to consider approving a $32 million amendment to the county budget.

Live and inert bombing: Navy training schedules indicate that live and inert bombing will take place at the Pinecastle Range Complex located in the Ocala National Forest, which may rattle windows in Palm Coast and Flagler County. The schedule is as follows:

• Monday: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Live/Inert
• Tuesday: 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Inert
• Wednesday: 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Inert
• Wednesday: 2:45 p.m. to 4 p.m., Inert
• Thursday: 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Inert

During bombing periods wildlife may be temporarily displaced. Use extra caution when driving through the Ocala National forest and surrounding areas. Secure any items around your residence that could attract wildlife. Always be mindful of larger animals including black bears and practice bearwise measures. The telephone number for noise complaints is 1-800-874-5059, Fleet Area Control and Surveillance Facility, Jacksonville, Fla.

Note: today is the Flagler Class 25 Application Deadline at the Flagler County Chamber of Commerce. $385 for members, $535 for non-members. Call the Chamber at 386-437-0106.

Blood Donations: The Big Red Bus will be at the following locations this week:

• Monday: Sunshine Academy, 1230 Palm Coast Parkway, from noon to 5:30 p.m.
• Wednesday: Carrabba’s, 160 Cypress Edge Drive, Palm Coast, from 3 to 7:30 p.m.
• Thursday: Tom Gibbs Chevrolet, 5850 East Hway 100, palm Coast, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
• Thursday: CVS Pharmacy, 1 Old Kings Road, at Palm Coast Parkway, 1:30 to 6:30 p.m.
• Saturday: Epic Theaters, Town Center, Palm Coast, from noon to 6 p.m.
• Sunday: Walmart, 174 Cypress Point Parkway, Palm Coast, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Jail Bookings and Last 24 Hours' Incidents in Flagler, Palm Coast, Flagler Beach, Bunnell

Jail Bookings, June 19-22 Sheriff's night shift incident reports, June 21 Sheriff's day shift incident reports, June 21 Flagler Beach's night shift incident reports, June 21 Flagler Beach's day shift incident reports, June 21 Bunnell police's night shift incident reports, June 21 Bunnell police's day shift incident reports, June 21
Previous and archived reports

Announcements:

Flagler Beach city crews have done an amazing job repairing more Beach Access Points last week. Here’s an updated list of available access points:

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.

SENATE SPECIAL ORDER SET: The Senate Special Order Calendar Group will meet to set the special-order calendar, which lists bills that will be heard on the Senate floor. (Monday, 5:45 p.m., 401 Senate Office Building, the Capitol.)

ECONOMIC CLUB MEETS: Greg Vestri, co-founder of Vestment Global Services, will speak to the Economic Club of Florida and make a presentation titled, “The Economics of Integrating Purpose with Profit & Africa as a Growing Opportunity for Impact Investing.” (Monday, noon, FSU Alumni Center, 1030 West Tennessee St., Tallahassee.)

—-Compiled by the News Service of Florida and FlaglerLive

In Coming Days in Palm Coast, Flagler and the Occasional Beyond:

The Day’s Best Reads:

Editor’s Tweets

Keep Up with Donald Trump’s attacks on the press through the ACLU’s running tab here.

Keep Up with mass shootings in a running database here.

Palm Coast Construction and Development Progress Reports

Here’s a summary of the latest city developments as of Feb. 16, 2018, with a link to the full week in review here.

Click to access week-in-review-palm-coast-feb-16-20181.pdf

Road and Interstate Construction:

• Florida Department of Transportation Road Project List

Cultural Coda

Keith Jarrett Standards Trio

Previous Codas:

• Anoushka Shankar Ensemble
• Jacques Loussier Play Bach Trio: a 2007 Concert
• Abdel Rahman el Bacha Plays Two Nocturnes by Chopin
• Edith Mathis’s Creations
• Sheku Kanneh-Mason: No Woman No Cry, Cello Version
• Viotti’s Violin Concerto No 23 in G Major, Performed by Jennifer Jeon
• Bruckner’s Symphony Nr. 7 at the Lucerne Frestival
• Beethoven’s 5th Symphony in the style of Chopin: Syd R Duke
• Nikolai Kapustin performing Prelude, op. 53, no. 11
• Ray Chen, Sarabande from Bach’s Partita No. 2 in D minor
• It’s A Small World: Ken Kubota and Friends
• Maria Callas: The Mike Wallace Interview
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Oboe Concerto in B flat major, Wq 164
• The Cranberries: Linger
• Martha Argerich Performs Liszt’s Piano Concerto No 1 in E flat major
• Vivaldi’s Winter in a Wintry Performance By Milan Řehák
• Bach: Musical Offering BWV 1079, Concert des Nations Jordi Savall
• Bach: Sonata for Gamba and Harpsichord in G minor, BWV 1029
• Claude Debussy, La fille aux cheveux de lin, from Préludes
• Bach’s Complete Christmas Oratorio BWV 248, Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir & Bach Soloists
• Angels in Heaven: Chris Rodrigues and the Spoon Lady
• Hindemith: Der Schwanendreher
• Brendel Performs Schubert’s A Major Sonata No. 22, D. 959
• The New York Philharmonic in a 2016 Performance of Dvorak’s New World Symphony
• Alexander Gavrylyuk Plays Bach İtalian Concerto