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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, February 2, 2022

February 2, 2022 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Soaring Housing Prices by Monte Wolverton, Battle Ground, Washington.
Soaring Housing Prices by Monte Wolverton, Battle Ground, Washington.



Today at the Editor’s glance: Weather: Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Tonight: Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.

The Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board meets at 10 a.m. at City Hall.

Is TED over? Oscar Schwartz in The Drift: “I recently watched some of the talks from this conference on my laptop. They hit like parodies of a bygone era, so ridiculous that it made me almost nostalgic for a time when TED talks captivated me. Back then, around a decade ago, I watched those articulate, audacious, composed people talk about how they were building robots that would eat trash and turn it into oxygen, or whatever, and I felt hopeful about the future. But the trash-eating robots never arrived. With some distance, now, from a world in which TED seemed to offer a bright path forward, it’s time to ask: what exactly is TED? And what happened to the future it envisioned?”

Florida’s citrus crop, from Statista: “The January forecast for the U.S. citrus harvest is looking bleak for Florida orange growers. The 2021/22 season, running from fall into the summer, is expected to consist of fewer than 45 million 90-pound boxes in the state. If the predictions are true, California’s orange crop would be larger than Florida’s for the first time, as the Western state is expected to harvest more than 47 million of the boxes. […] Blowbacks to the U.S. citrus industry have happened before, but mostly because of adverse weather. Dips in crop size were always temporary, like in the case of cold winter weather in the 1998/99 season and Hurricane Irma in the 2017/18 season (affecting only Florida). Florida’s recent crop decline brought about by citrus greening has been much more gradual and concerning, however. The crop losses starting after the 2003/04 season, when citrus greening first emerged in a commercial context, are starkly visible in USDA data. In that season, Florida still produced 242 million 90-pound boxes – more than five times this year’s projected harvest.”

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Thursday, Nov 20
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Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry

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Thursday, Nov 20
10:00 am - 11:00 am

Flagler County Drug Court Convenes

Flagler County courthouse
Thursday, Nov 20
11:00 am - 11:30 am

Story Time for Preschoolers at Flagler Beach Public Library

315 South 7th Street, Flagler Beach
Thursday, Nov 20
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center

Central Park in Town Center
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Thursday, Nov 20
5:30 pm - 10:30 pm

Copy of Flagler Beach City Commission Meeting

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Thursday, Nov 20
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Palm Coast Democratic Club Recap Meeting

Flagler County Democratic Party HQ
Thursday, Nov 20
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Town of Marineland Commission Meeting

GTM Research RESERVE Marineland Field Office
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Friday, Nov 21
9:00 am - 10:00 am

Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF

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Friday, Nov 21
11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Flagler County Cultural Council (FC3) Meeting

Flagler County Tourism Office
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Friday, Nov 21
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm

Friday Blue Forum

Flagler County Democratic Party HQ
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Friday, Nov 21
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

‘Around the World in 80 Days’ at City Rep Theatre

City Repertory Theatre at City Marketplace
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Saturday, Nov 22
9:00 am - 1:00 pm

Flagler Beach Farmers Market

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Saturday, Nov 22
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Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley

Law Office of Scott Spradley
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Saturday, Nov 22
10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way

Flagler School District Bus Depot
Saturday, Nov 22
12:00 pm - 5:00 pm

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“When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul–then my heart bleeds.”

–Dostoevsky, from a letter to his brother Mkhail, December 22, 1849.

Previously:

Maupassant's illusions | Music of the woods | Better lie than doubt | John Cheever's premature eulogy of John Updike | Updike's daily death of selves | Old age and habit according to Wharton | Marmontel's Belisaire's truth | The typical ancient Roman | Salman Rushdie realizes some people will never like him | Uncle Willy's Republicans and Democrats | Cicero on not knowing | A tyrant's culture | American regression | Bernard Rustin's Spokesmen of the Confederacy | Aged relic | Barthelme's alternative to intelligent conversation | On drunkenness | Bastards and sons of bitches | Junot Diaz's trauma |  Loyalty to a dream country | Sorrow for the Levant | Nixon resigns | Cross Creek | To die laughing | America's Hiroshima experiment | Aged beyond repair | Virtue without self-glorification | Adrift | James Baldwin dares everything | GOP menace to society | Human misery | Inflexibility as death | | Kant's Enlightenment | Belhumeur's ethics | Israel's bigoted nation-state law | More tolerant empires | American weather | Red Smith on dismal Olympics | Louis Brandeis on clear and present freedom of speech | Ishmael Reed | Don't tread on me | Wicker on LBJ's presidency | Marxist reality check | | Nelson Mandela invokes MLK | Fishermen's honor | Nuclear dawn in Almogorodo | Eric Hobsbawm's Enlightenment | | Ritchie Robertson's Enlightenment | When you don't know what you don't know | Leaving Lebanon | Rheumatic fever's side-effect | | Risk of becoming imbeciles | The blubbering of America | Why Vidal hates good citizenship history | An Elsa Morante bit | Woke aesthetics | Let America Be America Again | American artist | Custer's enduring myths | Orwellian politics | History as a weapon | Political correctness improved America

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