Daily Briefing

Flagler County Government’s second and last tax and budget hearing, the Bunnell City Commission meets, Ernest Gaines’s new volume in the Library of America and a thought from “A Lesson Before Dying.”

‘Avenue Q,’ at City Repertory Theatre, ‘Nunsense,’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, ‘All Shook Up,’ at Daytona Playhouse, a few thoughts on Philippe Lançon’s memoir of the Charlie Hebdo massacre and its current echoes.

Flagler Beach Centennial Cardboard Regatta, Florida Highwaymen Art and Sale Show, ‘Avenue Q,’ at City Repertory Theatre, what Trump’s cabinet meetings have in common with Stalin’s ovations.

Clay Jones revisits immigration phobia, the Flagler County Cultural Council meets, ‘Avenue Q,’ at Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre, ‘Nunsense,’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, inflation ahead, Mehdi Hasan against 20 far-rightists.

Jay Scherr gets Dave Freeman talking Appalachian Trail, Marineland Commission meeting, Town Halls with Council member Charles Gambaro, a few performance reviews for America’s citizens, model yacht races in Central Park.

Peter Kuper on erasing American history, the Palm Coast Planning Board talks concrete plant on Hargrove Grade again, Flagler Tiger Bay Club Guest Speaker Roger B. Handberg, an appreciation of Edmund Wilson,

Kiwanis Community Open House, Food Truck Tuesdays, The Palm Coast City Council meets, the suffocating atmosphere of a country’s propaganda, leaving our heart in San Francisco, John Darkow on the Department of War.

Canadian Michael De Adder’s take on American outrage, the East Flagler Mosquito Control District Board meets, the County Commission meets, traveling the rest rooms of I-4 in “free Florida,” Tom Hanks goes maga, changing place names.

Musicians of all ages can bring instruments and chairs and join in the jam session at Gamble Rogers State Recreation Area, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, why your personal parcels from abroad are not reaching your door anymore.

Peps Art Walk near  Beachfront Grille in Flagler Beach, American Association of University Women meeting, Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, the connection between Seal Team 6’s killing of innocent Koreans and a Jules Verne pearl diver.

John Darkow and a few other voices on on Florida’s anti-vaccine reversion, the Florida Ethics Commission meets and presumably resolves the Lauren Ramirez questions, the Friday Blue Forum meets.

9/11 Tribute Climb at Hammock Beach Resort, Flagler County government tax and budget hearing, Evenings at Whitney Lecture Series return tonight, the Flagler Beach City Commission meets, Model Yacht Club Races in Central Park, replaying the Gulf of Tonkin hoax in Venezuela.

Peter Kuper on Trump’s optical allusions, River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization’s bike and pedestrian committee meets, Weekly Chess Club for Teens at the library, remembering Charles Aznavour.

The Palm Coast City Council meets in an evening workshop, the Community Traffic Safety Team meets, so does the Flagler County Planning Board, a Bulgarian view of the tariffs, on the mythology of progress.

Clay Jones on the octogenarian president’s strange and shaky health, The Bunnell City Commission meets, the Library Board of Trustees meets, the great historian William H. McNeill’s optimism.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, when the Southern Baptist Convention told women to submit to their husbands the day before the Wisconsin Supreme Court opened the floodgates to school vouchers and called it safe for secularism.

It’s Casino Night at the Flagler Woman’s Club, the Flagler Beach All Stars hold their monthly beach clean-up, where medieval scribes and today’s fact-averse ideologues join hands, fact-checking Ronald Reagan.

First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, First Friday in Flagler Beach, Free Family Art Night, Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens, Flannery O’Connor’s “Geranium” and “Judgement Day.”

Clay Jones on flag-burning, Joao Fernandes, the 50-year-old Palm Coast resident a jury convicted of hit-and-run on Belle Terre Parkway in July, is sentenced, Palm Coast’s Residential Drainage Advisory Committee meets, when writers back censorship.

The Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board meets, the Flagler County Republican Club, the Weekly Chess Club for Teens at the public library, chatting with James Garner, America’s undistinguished years before the Founders.

The Palm Coast City Council and both Bunnell’s and Flagler Beach’s planning boards meet, a warning about silly season in the Florida House, visiting with the Ministry of Silly Walks, a few incomprehensible lines from Richard Powers.

It’s Labor Day. All government offices, courts, schools and some shops are closed. Workers Over Billionaires Demonstration at Palm Coast Parkway Overpass. When sanctuary cities had nothing to do with migrants and everything to do with oracles and games.

Overdose Awareness Day Walk Over Flagler Beach Bridge starting at Wadsworth Park, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Chandler Fritz on the demolition of public education.

Clay Jones on Cracker Barrel’s new logo, the Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, Flannery O’Connor’s uncomfortable fixations, a few words on bad taste, Grace Community Food Pantry.

The Friday Blue Forum, when coroner made a hero of a dead burglar, Harold Brodkey on the power of reading, and a few lines from Brodkey’s sorrows.

Clay Jones on the mass shooting during a mass at the Annunciation Church in Minneapolis, the Southern Rock Revival at Palm Coast Concert Series in Town Center, the model yachts are sailing at the Central Park pond, when sanctuary cities had nothing to do with migrants and everything to do with oracles and games.

Joint workshop of local governments at 5:30 p.m. at the Government Services Building, Weekly Chess Club for Teens at the Flagler County Public Library, what affordable housing looks like at Stuyvesant Town and the wreckages of Robert Moses.

Free Know Your Rights Workshop for Renters by Community Legal Services at Flagler Cares, the Palm Coast City Council discusses a slew of issues including the YMCA, the Palm Harbor Golf Club and the search for a new city manager, the school board holds a pair of meetings, Israel’s latest murders of journalists and others.

The Bunnell City Commission reconsiders and possibly approves the 6,000-to-8,000 home Reserve at Haw Creek development, the Palm Coast Charter Review Committee holds its inaugural meeting, a modest proposal for ICE.

Bethune-Cookman University Concert Chorale is in concert at Palm Coast United Methodist Church, Gamble Jam, chasing that first high, whether it’s the perfect golf swing or a shot of fentanyl.

The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, Peps Art Walk, Samer Abouhamad’s fabulous cycling adventure across 73,000 miles and all continents.

Arend van Dam compares the president to Neville Chamberlain, Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center in The Hammock, the Friday Blue Forum, intimations of war and rancid patriotism from 1914 to 9/11 to 2025.

‘Let’s Talk Palm Coast’ Town Halls with Council member Charles Gambaro, Model Yacht Club Races, the Marineland Commission meets, on being a Sullivan v. New York Times baby, and an interview with Anthony Lewis.

The Flagler County Contractor Review Board and Palm Coast’s planning board meet, Separation Chat, Open Discussion, how editorials might write the requiem of the current administration, and a little Gide on Wagner.

The Palm Coast City Council meets, Food Truck Tuesdays in Palm Coast’s Central Park, Flagler Tiger Bay Club’s annual Wine Tasting Meet & Greet at the Palm Coast Community Center, the nostalgia for the College Mariste de Champville.

The Flagler County Commission meets, so does the Mosquito Control district board, the Library of America’s new volume of Hemingway, containing “A Farewell to Arms.”

Clay Jones on the president’s military invasion of the nation’s capital, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, the fake DC crime wave, Vicki Gray on the militarization of language.

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Free For All Fridays with David Ayres on WNZF, going one step beyond that boundary line, Lyle Lovett’s boat, what Casanova told Diderot about fate.

Heat index up to 110, Michael Gilbert, an old accomplice of Brandon Washington, returns to court to decide whether to serve five more years or life, the Flagler Beach City Commission meets, grandparents’ serenity of Sannin, and a little Mozart.

U.S. Rep. Randy “Starve-Away” Fine finally makes good on his visit to Palm Coast’s oldest sewer plant, Separation Chat, Open Discussion, WNEW’s Make Believe Ballroom, and that other ballroom planned for the White House.

The Community Traffic Safety Team meets, the Palm Coast City Council meets, so do the School Board and the county’s planning board, the American passport is no longer most favored, Simone de Beauvoir on America’s idea of its own freedoms.

What if Immanuel Kant and Madonna had a baby, the Flagler County Library Board of Trustees meets, the Bunnell City Commission meets, Isaiah Berlin explains the inexplicable.

Clay Jones on gerrymandering Texas, Gamble Jam, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, on the criminal notion of killing time, Cyndi Lauper, Theodore Dreiser and Sister Carrie.

Sheriff’s Annual Safety Expo at European Village, Flagler Sportfishing Club’s Annual Local Brands Fishing Expo, Peps Art Walk at Beachfront Grille, the Maison Picassiette in Chartres, Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, American Association of University Women (AAUW) Monthly Meeting.

In Court, Docket sounding before Circuit Court Judge Dawn Nichols, Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres is all about the barrier island, the Friday Blue Forum, the Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, and a few words on the meaning of philosophy.

Drug Court convenes, Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, stumbling on a sublime scene in Death Valley (not Charles Manson’s cabin), and a few lines from Ian Frazier’s visit.

Palm Coast Council and County Commission Joint Workshop on Animal Control services, the Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board meets, Colleen Conklin’s birthday and the emptiness she left behind.

Flagler Beach Police Chief Matt Doughney’s tribute to Al Hadeed, The Palm Coast City Council meets this evening, as do the planning boards of both Bunnell and Flagler Beach, Wendell Berry on life’s purpose.

The Flagler County Commission meets, the Beverly Beach Town Commission meets, the geopolitical bigotry and economic suicide of tariffs in color, a Johnny Carson monologue, a sum-up of the so-called New South.