Daily Briefing

Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres features Palm Coast Council member Charles Gambaro on the latest Norris follies, the very good and the very bad of Harry Elmer Barnes, and a sum-up of the mostly very bad Supreme Court term.

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, Model Yacht Club races in Central park in Town Center, a text exchange on the next Nobel Peace Prize, remembrances of Kissinger and Le Duc Tho.

Heat index values up to 105, Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Separation Chat, reflections on Mike’s Watch Repair at the Volusia Mall and Matthew Desmond on American inequalities.

The Palm Coast City Council, meeting under Mike Norris for the first time since he lost his court case to get Charles Gabaro off the council, meets to discuss its budget, the Flagler School Board holds a pair of meetings, Clay Jones on funding Florida’s concentration camp with FEMA money, the Library of America publishes a two-set anthology of the Jim Crow era.

The Beverly Beach Town Commission meets, the bill the Senate just passed adds 3.25 trillion to the national debt, John Oliver on the bill, Amin Maalouf on not getting do-overs in history.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, when personal libraries risk becoming a liability, Peter Arnett remembers interviewing Osama bin Laden, Dred Scott is making a comeback.

Clay Jones on the degenerate merchandizing of Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz, the Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, Georges Simenon’s Lock 14, or what’s behind the name of a book title.

Independence Day Events in Flagler Beach and Palm Coast and Evening Fireworks, with midday First Friday in Flagler Beach, when Harvard chose to celebrate its anniversary as Emerson would have disapproved, with a few reminders from his “American Scholar.”

Mayor Mike Norris’s lawsuit against the city and Charles Gambaro goes before Judge France, Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, the Australian cat-kidnappers of “Lebanon Days.”

Weekly Chess Club for Teens, the Flagler Beach Parks Ad Hoc Committee meets, the Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board meets, Jay Gardner’s birthday, John McEnroe at his tennis academy, Casanova on love.

The Bunnell Planning Board discusses a retail project on the west side, The Palm Coast City Council holds an evening meeting, a few more thoughts on the Schbertian “Memory of Old Jack,” and some late Schubert.

The total obliteration of truth, so naturally nobody wants to do anything today, how housing assistance falls short, how architecture shapes humanity, Dickens’s Bleak House.

On the pleasures of smoking a pipe from Casanova to Flaubert to Yusuff Ali to John Updike to Simenon, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Pat Bagley on the bombing of the Constitution.

Peps Art Walk, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. eat Beachfront Grille in Flagler Beach, the Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, Bruce Springsteen Hometown, Wendell Berry and Old Jack’s memories.

Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock, Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres, the Friday Blue Forum, Georges Lefebvre, Napoleon, and that bogus assassination attempt on 18 Brumaire.

Palm Coast Concert Series at the Stage at Town Center with Half Step Down FLA, The Flagler Beach City Commission talks Beachwalk/Boardwalk redesign, Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, J.M. Coetzee on the barbarians.

‘Let’s Talk Palm Coast’ Town Hall with Council Member Theresa Pontieri, The River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization meeting, Separation Chat, Open Discussion, the erasure of transgender people.

The Palm Coast City Council talks property taxes and the potential sale of the Palm Harbor Golf Club, the LAPD’s shameful apology for a humanist tweet, Budgeting by Values: a free virtual class to learn budgeting skills at Flagler Cares.

The Bunnell City Commission takes on the rezoning of nearly 1,900 acres to industrial, the Flagler County Beekeepers Association meets, visiting the caves of Altamira and Lascaux, and that first moment when Maria Justina encountered the bull.

Gamble Jam for musicians of all ages and just about all instruments, at Gamble Rogers Recreation Area, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, David Foster Wallace’s commencement and Kenneth Fearing’s Big Clock.

The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, the Democratic Women’s Club of Flagler County meets, what Hallmark birthday wishes sound like in China, a few words about the Chinese Exclusion Act now that these laws are back in vogue.

The Friday Blue Forum, Michael Martin’s Ellis Island ancestry, the opening Genesis-like lines of “The Columbia History of Literature.”

Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, the Library of America delivers a new Wendell Berry, who speaks with Bill Moyers and gives us a few lines about Old Jack.

Paul Peterson at Flagler Tiger Bay Club, the Flagler County Contractor Review Board meets, Weekly Chess Club for Teens at the library, Margolis & Cox’s dishonest cherry-picking quote from Martin Luther King’s “The Other America.”

Food Truck Tuesdays in Palm Coast’s Town Center, the Palm Coast City Council meets, the indifference of Americans as Israel bombs Iran, as John McCain sang about it, Andre Gide gliding on ice.

The Flagler County Commission meets in workshop at 9 a.m. to discuss the beach management plan, what may be a do-or-die meeting, Charles Van Doren and the great game-show fraud.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, memories of Louis Robilliard’s musician family, a few words from Solzhenitsyn.

No Kings Rally in Palm Coast, a Legacy of Care: Flagler Cares’ 10-Year Celebration at the Palm Coast Community Center, Peps Art Walk in Flagler Beach, Enrollment Day at Daytona State College, American Association of University Women (AAUW) Monthly Meeting, a sublime juxtaposition about the new world, Wendell Berry on militaristic morons.

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.