Daily Briefing

The Flagler County Commission meets, it’s another trial week in felony court, but nothing high-profile, Paul Renner’s successor is crowned, reflections at a bus stop on love and fallen humanities, Chris Abani on our shared humanity.

“I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change,” 3 p.m. at City Repertory Theatre, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, what Tchaikovsky looks like from I-95, and what he sounds like from Royal Festival Hall.

Flagler OARS’ 3rd Annual Recovery Festival, “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” at City Repertory Theatre, US News judges the best countries in the world a bit tendentiously, a tipping point in Antarctica, Saul Bellow.

“I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” at City Repertory Theatre, Kant’s Notebook at a perfume counter at Dillards, Conan O’Brien’s Dartmouth Commencement Speech, more Didion from Miami.

The Flagler Beach City Commission takes on higher and new impact fees, the Brennan Hill trial on a murder charge is in its third day, Brancusi’s Bird in Space, Bobbie Ann Mason’s In Country.

Brenan Hill’s trial on a second degree murder charge enters its third day, cities and the county’s representatives meet in a joint committee, a yoga class mistaken for a mass murder, Alvin Kernan on death, atheists and foxholes.

The Palm Coast City Council discusses cell phone coverage in the city and its electric vehicle and EV charging station infrastructure, a Bach partita, Bobby Ann Mason’s In Country and Florida.

September 11 commemoration at heroes Park in Palm Coast, the Bunnell City Commission approves its budget and tax rates for next year, Don DeLillo’s Falling Man and Samuel Hynes.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market, Hamdi Ulukaya, the Turkish or rather Kurdish immigrant sheep herder who became Chobani billionaire, Colin Thubron on the Hills of Adonis and Jabal Sannin.

Gamble Jam at Gamble Recreation Area in Flagler Beach, keeping an eye on the tropics, Philip Roth and Michiko Kakutani on on Saul Bellow, reading the Bellarosa Connection.

The Blue 24 Forum, LGBTQ+ Night at Flagler Beach’s Coquina Coast Brewing Company, Jane Addams’s birthday, Christopher Hitchens v. Dinesh D’Souza.

Brendan Depa has a pre-trial hearing before Judge Perkins, drug court meets, a few thoughts on Plato’s “Gorgias” and Samuel Hynes’s experience with death, Christopher Hitchens and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Debate on God.

Separation Chat, Open Discussion, Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library, the Flagler County Republican Club meets, mapping where journalists disappear.

It’s back to work with–amazingly–three open meetings of the Flagler County School Board, a meeting of the Palm Coast City Council, Beth Macy on “Dopesick,” a few more words on the American worker.

A remembrance of Labor Day’s origins, history and misuses, a look back at the Florida labor department’s understanding of workers’ rights, Robert Reich on Labor Day.

Sunday Chess Club at Chabad of Palm Coast, the Farmer’s Market, Schubert’s Piano Sonata in A Major, John Pekkanen on the whole drug industry campaign for mood drugs in the 1960s.

The Flagler Beach All Stars hold their monthly beach clean-up, the Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, Sunshine and Sandals Social at Cornerstone, Henry James’s “A Light Man.”

First Friday in Flagler Beach, Remembering U.S. District Court Judge James C. Turk, Catherine Edmondston discovers that there’s nothing ever new under the sun, missing David Letterman.

Flagler County Comprehensive Plan update at Hammock Community Center, “digging out” from Idalia, the Charleston earthquake of 1886 and Edward Gibbon’s reflections on natural disasters.

Absent scheduling changes due to the storm, Michael Bowling, the former Mondex man serving 20 years in prison for molesting a girl at his stepdaughter’s sleepover, is in court arguing for a lesser sentence.

The Palm Coast City Council goes over its final budget for next year, A celebration of the life of the late Charlie Ericksen, keeping score on Donald Trump’s indictments and civil lawsuits.

The Flagler County Commission holds a 2:30 p.m. workshop to discuss its beach management plan, the Flagler County Beekeepers Association meets, a cop beats a man with a tennis racket as the man is being attacked by a police dog.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, how the FBI, not the Washington Post, brought down Richard Nixon, and once again, Pacho Flores’s performance, on the trumpet, of Arturo Marquez’s superb “Autumn Concerto.”

The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, “Jerry and Moly and Sam,” a story by Raymond Carver, the Commitments at the dark end of the street.

The Blue 24 Forum, the A1A Pride Committee meets, the death of Lolita, the The 57-year-old whale at the Miami aquarium, Susan Orlean on Willie.

School Board workshop on the hiring of LaShakia Moore as superintendent, Florida Humanities Speakers Series:  “Respect: Soul Music and the Civil Rights Movement” at AACS, Yasser Arafat and Jorge Luis Borges.

The Flagler County Public Library Book Club takes on “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo,” Separation Chat, Open Discussion, memories of Baalbek and the Temple of Jupiter.

The NAACP Flagler Branch’s General Membership meeting this evening, cry the oil companies a river of oil, H.L. Mencken on the American press, the Cast of Curb Your Enthusiasm with Brian William.

The Flagler County Commission takes on the final plat approval for Veranda Bay, the Mosquito Control District Board meets, the day the Mona Lisa was stolen for the second time.

Sunday Chess Club at Chabad of Palm Coast, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, William Maxwell’s “Over By the River,” Charles Portis on taking in an intellectual woman.

The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, Grace Community Food Pantry, Bill Clinton’s 77th, with rewinds to Clinton on Letterman and Michiko Kakutani on Clinton.

Waterfront Park Ribbon Cutting, Pete Davidson and Friends in Ponte Vedra Beach, Midnight Mayhem at One Daytona, E.B. Sledge and With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa.

Flagler Tiger Bay Club’s fifth annual Wine Tasting Meet and big reveal, Creative Writing for Adults at the Public Library, Democratic Women’s Club meeting, “Florida Soul” at the African American Cultural Society, the futility of beach renourishment.

The Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board takes on the Cascades development in Seminole Woods, Separation Chat, Open Discussion, George Carlin at the National Press Club, E.B. Sledge’s portrait of Sgt. Haney.

Food Truck Tuesdays, The Flagler County School Board has its monthly pair of meetings, the Palm Coast City Council meets, the Barbie movie is banned in Lebanon and is celebrated on SNL.

“Summer of Soul,” part of AACS’s film presentations of classic Black cinema, this afternoon, the Bunnell City Commission meets, Ian McEwan on civilization, on Bach, and on Ian McEwan.

Sunday Chess Club at Chabad, Jason Mraz at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre, your fuel consumption against a plane’s, Google’s AI efforts against contrails, reading a book in public in the United States.

The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, Gamble Jam, Steve McQueen and Cornel West in Conversation, Spottswood Rice’s letter, a shooting incident on Staten Island.

LGBTQ+ Night at Flagler Beach’s Coquina Coast Brewing Company, celebrating Britt Hobo Days, also known as the National Hobo Convention, the John T. Davis documentary, Jack London’s The Road.

Flagler County schools are back in session for students today. The Flagler Beach City Commission meets. A few thoughts on going back to school from George Bernard Shaw and John Updike. And Sam Kinison, of course.

More dangerous heat today, Separation Chat, Open Discussion, Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Johnny Cash’s greatest love affair, Christopher Niemann and Bach on coffee.

The Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop, the Flagler County Planning Board decides whether to allow less rain to seep through at the Cornerstone strip mall, Donald Hall and thoughts of oblivion in the middle of the night.

The Flagler County Commission holds a pair of meetings, the Beverly Beach Town Commission just one, only in America, a Texas Supreme Court decision ridiculing the fanaticism of the Second Amendment.

“Firebringer” at City Repertory Theatre, Sunday Chess Club at Chabad of Palm Coast, how the bombing of Hiroshima was reported the day after, how Enrico Fermi experimented during the blast of the first atomic bomb.

Back to School Jam, “Firebringer” at City Repertory Theatre, Monthly Volunteer Clean-Up Day at the Florida Agriculture Museum, Sunshine and Sandals Social at Cornerstone, Maupassant’s “Inheritance.”

“Firebringer” at City Repertory Theatre, Superintendent LaShakia Moore on Free For All, First Friday in Flagler Beach, the future of abortion and a moment with Margaret Atwood.

The incorrigible L’Darius Smith is back in court on a plea, a status hearing is scheduled in the case of Reba Lynn Johnson, who assaulted a teacher, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lawrence Friedman on law.

Flagler Beach’s Margaritaville Hotel public meeting, the Flagler County Republican Club meets, Separation Chat’s open discussion, the ins and outs of juries and jury selection.

The Palm Coast City Council will consider the management contract for a new cell tower at Ralph Carter Park, remembering Charlie Ericksen, Jack Reacher solves the mystery behind why hookers always carry big purses.

Heat index again at dangerous levels, stormwater and the Flagler County Commission, a celebration of the American language on the cusp of Gulden Draak.