Daily Briefing

Terry McManus formerly of Ocean Palms Golf Club in Flagler Beach, now serving four years in prison, is back in court on a fraud case, Superintendent Cathy Mittelstadt learns to drive a school bus, Gordon S. Wood on the War of 1812.

Grand Chanukah Celebration at European Village, a Charlie Brown Christmas, Diderot and Hume, citizens of the world, UN’s International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.

Happy Hanukkah, which begins this evening, the Real Heisenberg on Omicron And The Slow Death Of Common Sense, Leslie Kirk Campbell on why she writes, and Ferenc Vizi plays Schubert as the weekend winds down all too soon.

If your soul isn’t entirely soot from black Friday, let us now praise James Agee (and Walker Evans). An eventless weekend in Flagler, and Edith Wharton’s Duchess at Prayer.

Pictures of Thursday’s volunteer distribution of 100 free meals prepared by Beachfront Grill, a few cautionary words about shopping in unvaccinated environments, Rousseau on doctors.

Happy Thanksgiving. No garbage collection today. Flagler Beach and others remember the neediest. Jean-Jacques Rousseau says a few very mean things about actors.

The county and the country wind down ahead of Thanksgiving, a look at Thanksgiving prices in 1954, a Schubert impromptu, Adam Smith on science and superstition.

The Flagler Beach Ad Hoc Committee appointed by the City Commission to study the city’s July 4 festivities meets this morning. The Stetson Choral Union and Chamber Orchestra is in concert. Seneca reflects on gladiatorial barbarism.

Remembering John F. Kennedy’s idealism and the New Frontier, the Bunnell City Commission borrows millions to rebuild its sewer plant, Bill Maher explains why Democrats are losers.

Voltaire on old age (it’s his 243rd birthday today), the final Fall Festival day at the county fairgrounds, the final day of Sartre’s depressing “No Exit” at on stage Stetson.