Daily Briefing

Commissioner Leann Pennington on Free For All Friday, Volusia County Drug Court Celebrates 100th Graduation, targeting journalists, Jeff Sharlet’s “Scenes from a Slow Civil War.”

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, the glee for arresting powers in traditional refuges, Learned Hand on red baiting.

Flagler Beach is hosting a Public Engagement Forum on Pier Replacement, Weekly Chess Club for Teens at the Flagler County Public Library, on the death of Socrates and Lao-Kung on the arts by way of Hendrick van Loon.

The Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop, a special school board meeting on rule development, remembering the blood of Hungarians in the 1956 uprising, Albert Camus, and the Los Angeles uprising.

Heat index up to 105 today. A Flagler County Commission Workshop is scheduled for 1 p.m., the Flagler County Library Board of Trustees meets, so does the Bunnell City Commission, Raymond Chandler on newspapers.

Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area, the Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Al-Anon Family Groups, a day in the life of America circa 1903, when they were not quite the good old days.

It’s Bunnell History Day, with daylong activities, speakers, music, tours and all sorts of other things, staring at 9 a.m., Sunshine and Sandals Social at Cornerstone, Paul Bowles’s “Thousand Days for Mokhtar” and “The Echo.”

Free For All Fridays takes on the beach and Bunnell History Day, First Friday in Flagler Beach, First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, remembering D-Day through the eyes of Le Havre.

Soul Fire, a Summer Sunset Concert at Daytona State College’s Palm Coast Campus Amphitheater, model Yacht Club races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, ICE meets its match after a raid on a San Diego restaurant.

It’s Code Enforcement Board time in Palm Coast, The Atlantic Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State meets for its weekly chat, the Flagler County Republican Club meets, and how China zips by the United States in the technology race while we build theme parks.

Physician John Cascone is back in court, the Palm Coast City Council meets, the Bunnell Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board, which has not been a dull place lately, meets, the undermining of the nation’s weather and hurricane forecasting capabilities.

Jayden Jackson Sentencing, housing unaffordability in one graph, the Flagler County Commission meets, and when people didn’t so much live in their houses as camp in them.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Flannery O’Connor’s humor, and what she thinks of the smell of the National Geographic, Grace Community Food Pantry, comedians on college.

The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at Wickline Park, along South Daytona Avenue, the sordidness of juvenile prisons and justice from Bicêtre to Florida.

Public workshop to discuss impact fees, at the Community Center, the Friday Blue Forum, Becs, the Argentine cartoonist, misfires with a piece that recalls cheap stereotypes, cartoons during the Napoleonic era.

Palm Coast Concert Series, 6 to 8 p.m. at the Stage at Town Center. Tonight’s band: Chillula. Drug Court convenes for the first time in a few weeks, Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, the American Conservative calls for the resignation of Randy Fine.

The River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) meets, a “spicy level warning” at Thai and I triggers recollections of budget motels past, “Baghdad Cafe,” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Lost City.

The Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop to discuss coming increases in development impact fees, the Flagler School Board meets in the evening, William Faulkner’s “That Evening Sun” and primitive fears.

Memorial Day ceremonies today at 8 a.m. in Palm Coast, 10 a.m. at Bunnell’s county government building, and 1 p.m. in veterans’ Park in Flagler Beach, Ronald Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate, behind the words: tear down this wall.”

SunBros Cafe Celebrates the Life of Travis Sundell, Clay Jones on Kristi Noem’s corpulent ignorance, Gamble Jam, André Gide on what gratefulness he owes his creator, Brian Greene on God’s choice.

Peps Art Walk, near Beachfront Grille in Flagler Beach with makers, crafters, artists, of all kinds, the Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, fanaticism and sexual repression and the rage of the incels.

School Board member Janie Ruddy is on Free For All Fridays, the Scenic A1A Pride Committee meets, Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock, Carlos Lozada’s 73 percent solution, André Aciman on non-fiction.

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets this evening, and will ask permission of itself to serve alcohol at a centennial event in veterans Park, Model Yacht Club Races, the tipping point in media.

The Flagler County Contractor Review Board meets, the Flagler County’s Technical Review Committee meets, the Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board meets, and we remember Joe Isuzu, emblem of the lying 80s.

The Palm Coast City Council meets at 9 a.m. but without a mayor (he’s on vacation), Food Truck Tuesdays in Central Park, the Library of America’s new volume by and on Hellen Keller.

A Flagler County Commission workshop takes on beach-management yet again, along with a few other issues, the Gershwin’s “Someone to Watch Over Me,” and Michel Houellebecq on nostalgia.

Troop 472 Summer Camp Car Show and Fundraiser in Central Park, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, NYU withholds a student’s diploma for speaking out about the Gaza genocide at his graduation.

The third annual Hang 8 Dog Surfing Competition in Flagler Beach, swing Through the Years Dinner Dance Benefit for St. Thomas Episcopal Church, The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, when Ronald Reagan was shot and John Hinkley unwittingly helped pass the biggest tax cut in history until then.

Buddy Taylor Middle School’s annual “Night at the Museum” features works created by sixth grade students, the ethics of the Times voyeuristic report on the death of Virginia Giuffre, Life Magazine on a picture of three dead Americans.

The Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board hears an appeal from a solicitor who was denied a permit, the Marineland Commission meets, yachts race in Central Park, Medicaid cuts move ahead to facilitate a tax cut for the rich, and what Ted Kennedy said about that sort of crime in 1980.

The River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization Bicycle/Pedestrian Advisory Committee meets, Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Mother’s Day in Gaza and the eradication of a population the size of Palm Coast’s.

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.