Daily Briefing

Clay Jones on the grifting of a 747, the Palm Coast City Council talks dredging and commercial vehicles in driveways, the Community Traffic Safety Team meets, Alastair Horn on Napoleonic corruption, Robert Caro on Robert Moses’ corruption.

The Flagler County Land Acquisition Committee meets, as does the Library Board of Trustees, the romance with radio and its darker wavelengths from Father Coughlin to the podcast age, a few words from Alexander Theroux.

Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area at Flagler Beach, last day for RockabillieWillie At City Repertory Theatre, the ongoing demolition of 2 million Gazans.

RockabillieWillie At City Repertory Theatre, Murder at Shivering Timbers Murder Mystery Dinner Show Fundraiser, Peps Art Walk in Flagler Beach, donations for Travis Sundell and SunBros Cafe, Robert Louis Stevenson on death.

RockabillieWillie At City Repertory Theatre, Ed Danko on Free for All Fridays, Ben Rhodes on the rapid decomposition of the United States, David Brooks talks to Mark Lilla on “Ignorance and Bliss.”

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, Evening at the Whitney Lecture Series, Model Yacht Club Races, a terrible memory triggered by Simenon and one of his Maigret novels.

Connecting to Palm Coast Expo at the Palm Coast Community Center, Separation Chat, Open Discussion, Weekly Chess Club for Teens, at the public library, when Retif de la Bretonne and Ronald Reagan were big readers.

5th District Court of Appeal holds a session at the Flagler County courthouse, the Palm Coast City Council decides what to do next on its city manager search, and a new lawsuit, the Bunnell Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board considers a massive rezoning.

The Flagler County Commission holds a workshop to decide the fate of its beach-management plan, the Beverly Beach Town Commission meets, press freedom again falls in the United States.

Bringing back the décrotteurs, RockabillieWillie At City Repertory Theatre, Paws for Music: Benefit for Community Cats of Palm Coast, the unending corruptions of Napoleon and his family.

RockabillieWillie At City Repertory Theatre, Arbor Day in Palm Coast’s Central Park at Town Center, The Flagler Beach All Stars hold their monthly beach clean-up, the end of an era and time’s dark matter.

RockabillieWillie At City Repertory Theatre, Sneaker Ball Gala at the Community Center, Bunnell’s State of the City, First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, Rex Stout on getting up in the morning.

The Palm Coast City Council holds a special meeting to review the findings of the investigation of Mayor Mike Norris that found him to have violated the city charter, Eugène Pottier and his Internationale, the true Labor Day.

The US Supreme Court justices hear arguments in a Catholic charter school case that could open the gates for public funding to go directly to religious schools, Separation Chat, Open Discussion, weaponry bazaars.

Flagler Airport Terminal Groundbreaking at 10 a.m., Random Acts of Insanity at Cinematique Theater, when a judge calls an inmate “sane and competent” for a state-sponsored killing.

Bunnell Mayor Catherine Robinson delivers the Bunnell State of the City Address, Ta-Nehisi Coates on our imagined traditions, The Economist on the best places to live, 12 states dependent on international migrations.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Clay Jones on why the president hires only morons, when Ronald Reagan pined for the time when war was “civilized,” before he joked about nuking the Soviet Union.

Philomena Cunk on the meaning of life, Gamble Jam, Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley (assuming he’s not too jet-lagged), a few lines from Percy’s Moviegoer.

Council member Theresa Pontieri and two prospective city managers on Free For All Fridays, Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock, the discovery of life on another planet 120 light years away, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing on what makes man valuable.

Robert Reich on Tariffs, The Flagler Beach City Commission meets and hears about its latest audit, Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, a few words about nuts from Richard Powers.

Jermaine Williams, who stabbed his wife to death in Bunnell last year, is in a pre-trial hearing, the River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization meets, Flagler Beach Commissioner Scott Spradley sends a few pictures from England.

Stetson University’s 2025 Holocaust Memorial Lecture, the Palm Coast City Council will have a look at a proposed YMCA in Town center, it will discuss the Palm Harbor Golf Club, the city’s 10-year capital improvement plan, and other issues, the school board holds a pair of meetings.

The county commission in a pair of meetings today discusses replacing County Attorney Al Hadeed, who retires this summer, and further discusses its teetering beach management plan, the East Flagler Mosquito Control District Board meets, manufacturing an America crisis.

J.S. Bach’s dark vision on Easter Sunday, the complete St. John Passion, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Richard Taruskin revisits the cantatas.

The North East Florida Jazz Association (NEFJA) Jazz Appreciation Concert, “Henry Flagler: Florida Visionary,” a Palm Coast Historical Society talk, ‘Sense and Sensibility’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, Ayşegül Savaş’s “Marseille.”

‘Sense and Sensibility’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, marking Flagler Beach’s centennial on Free For All, Robert Reich on the tax cut scam, Richard Powers on age.

Harvard’s message to the shah of maralago, Town of Marineland Commission Meeting, ‘Sense and Sensibility’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, John Updike’s sexism.

Flagler Tiger Bay Club welcomes Brian London on tourism, a suburban conjunction featuring Palm Coast’s Epic Theatre, Walker Percy on hs own “Moviegoer,” the Palm Coast Planning Board meets.

The Palm Coast City Council meets and picks a new member, Food Truck Tuesdays in Town Center, remembrances of Mario Vargas Llosa from “Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter” to “Conversations in the Cathedral.”

Kerouac on the road, Florida Man v. ski patrol, the Bunnell City Commission meets, the Flagler County Library Board of Trustees meets, and a look at how policy is devised in the Trump White House.

April 13, 1975: 50 years ago today, the beginning of long war. ‘Sense and Sensibility’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, “Something Rotten,” at the Daytona Playhouse.

Sean Foo on the Greenland Grab, U.S. Rep.  Earl Carter wants the island to be renamed “Red, White, and Blueland,” Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, “Something Rotten,” at the Daytona Playhouse.

John Cheever’s “Superintendent,” the Dallas String Quartet at the Fitz, State Attorney RJ Larizza, Sheriff Rick Staly and Family Life Center Director Trish Giaccone talk safety in Flagler County on Free For All.

A few thoughts about the McKinley tariffs, your $2,000 iPhone, the Flagler Beach City Commission meets, Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park.

Docket sounding in felony court, 4-H and FFA Youth Livestock Show and Sale at the Flagler County Fairgrounds, updating the 2025 Kennedy Center schedule, JFK on arts and politics.

Clay Jones on Trump golfing through the crash, the Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop, Zachary Tuohey is back in court, the Flagler County School Board meets, drinking La Fin du Monde.

The Palm Coast City Council and the County Commission hold a joint workshop on the $110 million sports complex they want to bring about, 4-H and FFA Youth Livestock Show and Sale at the Fairgrounds, Andras Schiff boycotts the United States.

‘Sense and Sensibility’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, “Something Rotten,” at the Daytona Playhouse, Daytona State College Spring Orchestra Concert, Robert Reich on the new tax on Americans, Don DeLillo on American irrelevance.

Alice Munro’s “Carried Away,” the Tolpuddle Martyrs, Annual Turtle Fest in Flagler Beach, the Flagler Beach All Stars hold their monthly beach clean-up, Sunshine and Sandals Social at Cornerstone.

Pastor Charles Silano talks about the Trump-ordered cuts that have drastically reduced the budget of the Grace Community Food Pantry, on Free For All, First Friday in Flagler Beach, campaign diary.

CJ Nelson Jr. Sentencing, Richard Powers on Detroit, consumer confidence falls to its lowest level since 2022, Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park.

Barring marine LePen from running in the 2027 presidential election endangers French democracy, the Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board, the Flagler Beach Parks Ad Hoc Committee meets, Voltaire on French fanaticism.

It’s Election Day: choose your next Congressman in this special election to replace the secrets-spewing Mike Waltz, the Palm Coast City Council and the planning boards in Bunnell and Flagler Beach meet, ICE raids, Democratic sheep.

Cello Studio Recital presented by the Stetson School of Music, Sara Novak and Principal Kristin Bozeman of Matanzas High School and Assistant Superintendent Dr. Angela O’Brien earn a milestone, Omar el Akkad on becoming American.

‘Violet’ at City Repertory Theatre, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Karen Russell’s “Prospectors” and the Florida writer’s love of weird.

Peps Art Walk, Phenomenal Women’s Event at AACS, Richard Slotkin turns Star Wars upside down, Curtis Yarvin welcomes the end of American democracy, Christopher Lasch bemoans American narcissism.

‘Violet’ at City Repertory Theatre, Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock, the curious retention pond in front of Flagler Beach’s coming Margaritaville Hotel.

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, the Marineland Town Commission meets, Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, the eternal adolescence of Air Force One.

Clay Jones on the Voice of America, Tyrese Patterson sentencing, Weekly Chess Club for Teens at the public library, in praise of Hooters, refuge against conversion therapy.

The Flagler County School Board meets at 1 p.m. in an information workshop and again at 6 p.m., Budgeting by Values, where people are the happiest (and the least happy).