The Beverly Beach Town Commission meets in workshop at 5 p.m. with Surfside Estates to discuss revisions to the mobile home code, felony court is off the rest of the week, the nuclear march of folly.
Florida & Beyond, and All Opinions
The Supreme Court Makes It More Difficult to Prosecute Trump and Insurrectionists
The indictments – and in some cases, the convictions – of hundreds of people charged with participating in the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, will have to be reconsidered, and possibly dropped, because of a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on June 28, 2024. Among those charged using a broad interpretation of the obstruction law now narrowed by the high court: former President Donald Trump.
Gov. DeSantis’s War on the Arts
Some people are ignorant and proud of it. Ron DeSantis is one of those people. The man just vetoed almost every pitiful penny of arts and culture funding in the state budget. Museums, music, youth programs, local treasures, historic houses, Black heritage centers, performing arts spaces, dance companies, kids’ music programs, even renowned institutions such as the Ringling Museum of Art. With his characteristic eloquence, DeSantis snarled, “Some of the stuff I don’t think was appropriate for state tax dollars.”
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, June 30, 2024
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, the free St. Augustine Music Festival in its last day, V.S. Naipaul among the believers, Philip Roth’s Sabbath on the news.
Biden Crashes, Trump Lies
The earliest-ever general election debate featured a lot of bitter personal attacks. Joe Biden’s universally acknowledged poor performance surprised and even panicked Democrats; Donald Trump gave a more forceful – if not truthful – performance.
Panel Moves Forward on Black History Museum in St. Johns County,
Facing a Monday deadline, members of a state task force Friday voted to submit a report to the governor and the Legislature that outlines suggestions on how to build, market, operate and eventually make self-sufficient a Black history museum proposed for St. Johns County.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, June 29, 2024
Peps Art Walk in the Hammock, coffee with Flagler Beach Commissioner Scott Spradley, how American comedy has become too safe on TV, the menace of George Wallace type politics.
Should We Care About Cricket?
In what has been dubbed “one of the biggest shocks in cricket history”, the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup co-hosts USA beat Pakistan in a pulsating game on June 6. With seven runs needed off the last ball of a “super over” tiebreaker, Pakistan could only manage a single. Cricket is also hardly a mainstream sport in the US. Indeed, the New York Times suggested that many Americans were “oblivious to the magnitude” of the victory.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, June 28, 2024
Talking July 4 festivities on Free For All Fridays, an update in pictures from the renourishment project, Acoustic Jam Circle at the Community Center In The Hammock.
The Strange History of Journalistic Blackface
A peculiar desire seems to still haunt some white people: “I wish I knew what it was like to be Black.” This is a presumptive, racially imaginative desire, one that covets not just the rhythm of Black life, but also its blues. Canadian-American journalist Sam Forster is one of those white people.