A new financial report projects the Social Security trust fund will face depletion by 2032, when incoming revenue might cover only 78 percent of scheduled retirement benefits. Deeper structural challenges drive the crisis. Declining birth rates, lower net migration, and high national debt complicate potential solutions. Congress must secure a bipartisan compromise soon to protect workers and avoid a severe political emergency.
Archives for June 14, 2026
Flagler County Leadership Academy Graduates Historic Class
Thirteen executives, managers, and professionals graduated from the Flagler County Local Government Leadership Academy during a special ceremony Thursday. This graduating class marks a historic milestone for the academy as the first class to include representatives from every major local government organization in Flagler County.
World Cup Fever
Why do we watch the World Cup? This is a tournament of paradoxes, a too-big-to-fail quadrennial festival of corruption, cheating, profiteering, nationalist chauvinism and mostly crappy soccer. Yet it can hypnotize and transport to a utopia of competition as idealized and convincing as Pelé’s deification of the sport as “the beautiful game.” We watch not so much for the thrill–most games are snoozfests–but for the nostalgia of a game that never existed, but that we reimagine with every match.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, June 14, 2026
Four World Cup matches today, Country Highway’s “2026 Fifa World Cup Events By State,” Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village.