Daily Briefing

The latest uncertainties on the Omicron variant, All Things Christmas Sale at Santa Maria Del Mar, an excerpt from “Like to the Rushing of a Mighty Wind,” by Tracy K. Smith.

The cynics take hold of “It’s a Wonderful Life,” David Denby on capitalism, our children and the avalanche of crud, and a quick preview of the 2022 election.

Community Cats of Palm Coast is hosting the Third Annual Pawsitively Purrfect Auction at the Pine Lakes Golf Club Dec. 19 from 2 to 5 p.m., Karl Ove Knausgaard on faith.

“All Things Christmas” Sale at Santa Maria Del Mar Catholic Church, why people and birds aren’t real, Ronald Dworkin on the degradation of free speech in America.

Last day of school as Winter Break begins this afternoon and until the first week of January, local and state unemployment figures are released this morning, and how to celebrate Saturnalia without waiting for Christmas.

Circuit Court Judge Terence Perkins hears a plea from Joey Renn, the 22-year-old man facing a charge of vehicular homicide. Patricia Lockwood on her father’s belief that cats, which he despises, are Democrats.

The Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board meets, “Gone With the Wind”‘s anniversary, and a few words about Chief Justice John Marshall and his sordid history.

The Palm Coast City Council talks manager search and sets up new community development districts, Flagler Beach’s July 4 committee meets to finalize its report, the county’s planning board meets.

The Flagler County Commission meets for the last time in regular session this year and will approve the platting of the Beachwalk development in the Hammock. The Bunnell City Commission also meets and may discuss the revelations of serious problems at the police department.

Anniversary of the swearing in of Joseph Hayne Rainey, first Black man to serve in Congress, and birth anniversary of William Lloyd Garrison, plus a few words from Nikole Hannah-Jones and the 1619 Project.

The Flagler Woman’s Club honors Flagler Beach police at a pancake breakfast, and you’re invited, the Palm Coast Starlight Festival is this evening in Town Center, Darlene Love at the Flagler Auditorium for a Christmas Show.

Michael Waltz on WNZF’s Free For All Fridays, the Choral Arts Society’s Christmas concert, Mortimer Zuckerman decries American education, in 1988, “All Things Christmas” Sale at Santa Maria Del Mar.

Flagler Beach city commissioners are expected to approve submitting a $17.6 million loan application to the State Revolving Fund to fund sewer plant repairs. The All Things Christmas sale at Santa Maria del Mar in Flagler Beach continues.

“Jews of Florida: Centuries of Stories,” at the Main Library in St. Augustine this morning, the Flagler Tiger Bay Club’s guest this evening is CNN’s Alice Stewart.

A neighborhood meeting regarding the development of Eagle Lake on Old Kings Road is scheduled for this evening. The School Board meets in workshop and will discuss “equity.” The Palm Coast City Council meets. Jack Kemp when he called American football capitalism and European soccer socialism.

Flagler County commissioners are set to approve a new, expanded agreement with the East Flagler Mosquito Control District and approve their own new schedule of impact fees.

Craig Flagler Palms’s 18th annual Candlelight Service of Remembrance, Noel Coward’s “Blithe Spirit”, Holiday Concert, Stetson University Concert Band, U.S. Sen. Henry Kuchel, R-Calif., decries self-styled “I am a better American than you are” organizations.

Flagler Beach’s Holiday Parade is back, the Creative Bazaar is in Town Center, City Repertory Theatre stages Noel Coward’s ‘Blithe Spirit,’ the Jacksonville Symphony performs Mozart’s Dream, and in a Bob Cuff special, a codfish theft case from Old Bailey.

First Friday is back in Flagler Beach, Noel Coward at CRT, A busy day starting hearings in court featuring perennials suspects or convicts, a Christmas sale at Santa Maria del Mar, Mozart’s Dream at the Jacksonville Symphony.

Michael McIntyre, who faces a capital murder charge in a death by overdose, is scheduled for a plea, another sold-out candlelight concert at Stetson, J.B. Jackson on the necessity of ruins.

Lane closure on Matanzas Woods Parkway at the I-95 overpass, Palm Coast’s Code Enforcement Board meets, Stetson’s School of Music’s Christmas Candlelight Concerts kick off, but they’re sold out, and Maupassant explains why he’s terrified of December.

Terry McManus formerly of Ocean Palms Golf Club in Flagler Beach, now serving four years in prison, is back in court on a fraud case, Superintendent Cathy Mittelstadt learns to drive a school bus, Gordon S. Wood on the War of 1812.

Grand Chanukah Celebration at European Village, a Charlie Brown Christmas, Diderot and Hume, citizens of the world, UN’s International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.

Happy Hanukkah, which begins this evening, the Real Heisenberg on Omicron And The Slow Death Of Common Sense, Leslie Kirk Campbell on why she writes, and Ferenc Vizi plays Schubert as the weekend winds down all too soon.

If your soul isn’t entirely soot from black Friday, let us now praise James Agee (and Walker Evans). An eventless weekend in Flagler, and Edith Wharton’s Duchess at Prayer.

Pictures of Thursday’s volunteer distribution of 100 free meals prepared by Beachfront Grill, a few cautionary words about shopping in unvaccinated environments, Rousseau on doctors.

Happy Thanksgiving. No garbage collection today. Flagler Beach and others remember the neediest. Jean-Jacques Rousseau says a few very mean things about actors.

The county and the country wind down ahead of Thanksgiving, a look at Thanksgiving prices in 1954, a Schubert impromptu, Adam Smith on science and superstition.

The Flagler Beach Ad Hoc Committee appointed by the City Commission to study the city’s July 4 festivities meets this morning. The Stetson Choral Union and Chamber Orchestra is in concert. Seneca reflects on gladiatorial barbarism.

Remembering John F. Kennedy’s idealism and the New Frontier, the Bunnell City Commission borrows millions to rebuild its sewer plant, Bill Maher explains why Democrats are losers.

Voltaire on old age (it’s his 243rd birthday today), the final Fall Festival day at the county fairgrounds, the final day of Sartre’s depressing “No Exit” at on stage Stetson.

The annual 150-mile long garage sale along State Road A1A, the Fall Festival at the Flagler County Fairgrounds, a 30-year retrospective of artist Bettie Eubanks at the African American Cultural Society, I.F. Stone when the Supreme Court rediscovered its sanity–in 1957.

The Fall Festival at the Flagler County Fairgrounds kicks off today and runs through the weekend, unemployment figures for Flagler and Florida are released, Sartre’s “No Exit” on stage in DeLand.

The Flagler County firefighters’ union and Flagler County government’s management team are in collective bargaining negotiations, Sartre’s “No Exit” at Stetson’s Second Stage Theatre, notes on war reporting for cowards.

The Palm Coast City Council meets in special session this evening at City Hall to review the applications for city manager. The council members are expected to bring their own short lists of up to five candidates each.

The Flagler County School Board has a pair of meetings where the matter of book-banning is certain to be discussed, with a 5 p.m. protest of book-banning outside the Government Services Building in Bunnell. It’s also Food Truck Tuesday.

The Flagler County Commission this evening may decide that the face of the county should be a bigot as it elects a new chairman of the commission, with Joe Mullins in line for the title unless his colleagues think better of it. The funeral for Bunnell Police Department Sgt. Dominic Guida is at noon.

Maya Angelou’s critical race theory, Woodwinds and brass ensembles in two concerts at Stetson, Tommy Tant Surf Classic concludes, music revues at City Repertory Theatre and Flagler Playhouse have their final runs.

A few words about Flagler’s book-burners, the 20th Annual Tommy Tant Memorial Surf Classic takes to the waves near the Flagler Beach Pier, and City Repertory Theatre and the Flagler Playhouse each have a musical revue on stage.

The Tommy Tant Surf Classic kicks off, City Repertory Theatre’s All Together Now, a brand new musical revue, And the World Goes ‘Round, the music Revue at Flagler Playhouse.

Schools, government offices, police departments and courts are closed today in observance of Veterans Day. Commemorations are scheduled at 10 a.m. at the county, 11:30 a.m. in Palm Coast and 1 p.m. in veterans Park in Flagler Beach.

White Table Ceremony honoring soldiers missing in action in all wars, at the county library, competitive fencing, Community Night at Flagler Playhouse, Big Pharma’s big friends, a few lines from Jason Brown’s “A Faithful but Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed.”

The Palm Coast City Council does redistricting, the County Planning Board considers rezoning land near the airport on SR100 to industrial, LBJ’s spankings, and modern music at Stetson University.

The Bunnell City Commission is expected to set a closing date for the purchase of a 3-acre, $228,000 parcel where it’ll build its permanent city hall and police station. Socrates’ bad angel. Critical Race Theory opportunism.

The Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestras are in concert at Jacoby Hall, featuring a couple of Flagler’s own, how Alden Global Capital is gutting newspapers, And the World Goes ‘Round, the musical review at Flagler Playhouse.

The latest on the storm, with some flooding expected today, The Palm Coast Arts Foundation’s First Saturday Creative Bazaar Arts & Crafts Market is cancelled, Thomas Wolfe’s “Man in Full.”

Three to 6 inches of rain expected over the next 24 hours. Jonathan Lord discusses the nor’easter on Free For All Fridays, And the World Goes ‘Round Music Review at Flagler Playhouse, Willa Cather’s “Uncle Valentine.”

Joshua Carver, the 36-year-old Palatka man whom a jury found guilty of hit-and-run in the death of Jonathan Rogers, is sentenced, the Flagler Playhouse launches its “And the World Goes ‘Round” review, and a few kind words about Nero, Caligula and Domitian.

The Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board meets, Stetson’s Great Pianists series features pianist Kemal Gekic, Willa Cather on overdevelopment in the old countryside.

The Flagler County Commission holds the second required workshop and special meeting in the school board’s attempt to double its impact fees ahead of projected growth, a step the commission had resisted when the matter was first debated at a previous workshop.