The Moon is getting 1½ inches (3.8 centimeters) farther away from the Earth every year. The motions of the Earth and Moon have many interesting consequences, and studying how they move over time can help researchers better understand how each has changed over the 4½ billion years since the Earth and Moon formed.
Archives for February 14, 2026
New Palm Coast Government App Now Available
The City of Palm Coast has announced the launch of its official mobile app, now available as a free download on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
Bill Would Ban Local Governments From Requiring Lot Sizes Larger Than 1,200 Square Feet
A proposal by a Port Charlotte Republican to ease local zoning rules to spur construction of smaller, more affordable homes has cleared its first House Committee. The House Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee advanced HB 1143, titled the “Florida Starter Homes Act,” on a 14-2 vote following debate over local control, infrastructure capacity and housing affordability.
Saturday in Byblos:
Raja Shehadeh’s Vanishing Palestine
Florida’s House Bill 31 seeks to rename the West Bank as “Judea and Samaria,” erasing Palestinian history and rights to their land and violating international law. Raja Shehadeh’s “Palestinian Walks,” originally published in 2007, explores the systematic expropriation of Palestinian land through legal chicanery, balkanization, theft and settler vigilantism. But it does so through six walks that, for all the politics and bitter history, also have the transcendent feel of inner discovery of the soul through nature or reverence for the deep roots of genealogy through places as ordinary as a hillside.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, February 14, 2026
The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, ‘Social Security,’ At the Daytona Playhouse, Gamble Jam, Israel’s continuing land grabs in the West Bank.