Daily Briefing

Moms Into Literary Freedom: Jennifer Vale and Courtney Vandebunte talk about their podcast at Separation Chat, the Flagler County Republican Club, survivalists are reborn as “preppers.”

Animal control and citation hearings in Palm Coast, the City Council meets for a long session, student art at the Government Services Building, the Coneheads, and a little Robert Kaplan.

A jury in deliberation since last week might render a verdict in a wrongful death lawsuit involving AdventHealth Palm Coast, the County Commission meets, a few notes about Thomas Asbridge’s Crusades.

A performance of Handel’s Messiah, the annual Candlelight Service of Remembrance, the firing of Steve Bell, what is and what isn’t anti-Semitism, and its uses as a smokescreen to the war crimes in Gaza.

DSC’s early-enrollment day, Breakfast with Santa at Captain’s BBQ, 10th Annual Gullah Geechee Heritage Festival, Sandra Day O’Connor.

The sentencings of Gabriella and her brother Nicholas Alo are scheduled for the morning, the sentencing of Brenan Hill, to life in prison, is scheduled in the afternoon, First Friday is this evening, and Henry Kissinger is all over the place.

Willie Gardner is back in court in an animal cruelty case, Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center, Annie Ernaux and Resier, Rachel Carson on the Florida shore.

Alfonso Joseph is sentenced, Separation Chat, Open Discussion, the public library offers an Internet Safety Class on online frauds and scams, reflections on the Aral Sea disaster.

Random Acts of Insanity today is not just a show at Cinematique in Daytona Beach: The Flagler County School Board, unfortunately, meets, as does the Palm Coast City Council, and both panels discuss what do do next for legal representation.

The Bunnell City Commission considers an economic development incentive package for a company, George Brinton McClellan Harvey gets war wrong, Rajah Shehadeh talks to David Grossman.

Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center, Farmers’ Market at European Village, the civilian death toll in Gaza.

Tree-lighting ceremony and Fantasy Lights in Palm Coast’s Central Park this evening, a little exercise in perspective, comparing the South of Reconstruction with Israel’s policy toward Palestinians, Raja Shehadeh and Amos Oz.

Why Clay Jones doesn’t do obit cartoons, the dark side of black Friday, Letterman’s stupidest pet tricks, Bill Bryson recalls the good old days of dads’ girlie magazines.

Happy Thanksgiving: Nothing is going on today outside of your homes, Roseanne Roseannadanna, the first book, and Amos Oz’s mother, the Reader.

The Atlantic Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State meets, a few thoughts on assassinations, what the evening news commercials say about viewers.

Random Acts of Insanity at Cinematique Theater, Clay Jones has a few things to say about Trump’s alleged acuity, marking Voltaire’s 329th birthday with Goethe and Theodore Besterman.

The Flagler County Commission in a pair of meetings takes up the proposed settlement with Captain’s BBQ and improvements at Wadsworth Park. When Carl L. Stinedurf joined Richard Cory: Guns and Simon and Garfunkel.

Riverfest Seafood Festival, Deland Fall Festival of the Arts, the Library of America’s edition of William Faulkner’s collected stories, a few words from “Uncle Willy.”

The Flagler Woman’s Club’s Bunco evening open to all, Live From the Waterworks: Gamble Rogers Folk Festival’s Monthly Concert Series, when teachers learn to fire guns.

Brandon Washington, the notorious gang leader sentenced to several life terms a decade ago, is back in court, the Blue Forum 24 meets, a look at the construction of the Margaritaville hotel construction site in Flagler Beach, F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Christ the King Lutheran Church hosts its Meals of Hope (and can use your help), the United States accounts for one of the highest proportion of trans individuals murdered in the world, Dr. Phil on trans rights.

The Palm Coast Planning Board meets, the Flagler County Public Library Book Club talks John Grisham, a few words about Frederick II, Renaissance Man of the Crusades, Rabbit Angstrom on anger.

The Palm Coast City Council will hear the latest utility rate study–usually the precursor to rate hikes, and hear about Community Cats. A few words about the two-state solutions, and a few thoughts from Raja Shehadeh.

The Bunnell City Commission discusses an Italian Festival in the city, Brendan Depa and school violence make it onto Bill Maher, it’s trial week, and the Flagler Cares Coalition’s general membership meets.

The Palm Coast Fall Arts Festival in Central Park, the Farmers’ Market at European Village, Donnie Brook’s underwater UFO base near Deerfield Beach, Rachel Carson on the Sea Around Us.

Veterans Day Parade in Bunnell and subsequent ceremony at the GSB, celebrating the skies in Flagler Beach with the photography of Scott Spradley and Rick Belhumeur, on the magic of books according to Amos Oz.

Free For All Fridays tries to make sense of the art scene in Flagler County, the Blue 24 Forum, celebrating Ennio Morricone, Rachel Carson on the Sea Around Us.

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, Chris Lowe of Hopkins Marine Station at Stanford University is the speaker at Whitney’s Lecture Series, a stream of consciousness from Brown Dog, plus Jack London.

The Atlantic Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State hosts its weekly chat, the office as we knew it is over, the soul of computers.

The Flagler County School Board’s firing squad meets again to discuss its attorney’s fate, the Palm Coast City Council meets, the Central Amazon Conservation Complex, Frederick Douglass on “the dark outlines of approaching disasters.”

Alleged murderer Charles Kidd Jr.’s competence is decided in court, the County Commission decides whether to approve a settlement with Captain’s BBQ, from Obama to Double Trump.

“Educating Rita,” a staged reading at City Repertory Theatre, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Cliché Day, Hanan Ashrawi back in 2000.

The Gammon Ruck Relay across fire stations, Clean-Up Day at the Florida Agriculture Museum, Flagler Woman’s Club’s Craft Extravaganza, “Educating Rita,” a staged reading at City Repertory Theatre, Laika the poor Russian dog sacrificed to Sputnik.

Central Park Bike Rodeo & Ride, Flagler Woman’s Club’s Craft Extravaganza, “Educating Rita” at City Rep Theatre, First Friday in Flagler Beach, euphemizing Israeli terrorism as “settler extremism.”

The 21st turtle in the trail of sculpted turtles, Renny, is unveiled at Intracoastal Bank, “Educating Rita,” a staged reading at City Repertory Theatre, the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Hawthorne’s American eagle.

Brandon Washington, the former gang leader, is back in court contesting his life terms, Separation Chat, Bridge and Games at Flagler Woman’s Club, Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, the Disney version, Updike on smoking a pipe, Clay Jones on Republicans’ hypocrisy when they make accusations of anti-Semitism.

The Flagler Woman’s Club’s Pink Pearl Workshop, the Halloween Hall of Terror, John Oliver on the exploitation behind chocolate harvesting, Jarvis Jay Masters’s foster brothers.

Brendan Depa pleads, Pumpkin Patch at Trinity Presbyterian, The Halloween Hall of Terror at Palm Coast Fire Station 21, mis-reporting Gaza, Neil Postman and amusing ourselves to death.

Nat Adderley Jr Performs for NEFJA, Tommy Tant Memorial Surf Classic winds down, Remembering Heroes Fall Festival, “Menopause, the Musical 2″ at the Auditorium, the ongoing atrocities in gaza and how “It Is Forbidden to Even Empathize With Innocent Gazans.”

Palm Coast Founders’ Day Food Truck Festival, Witches of Flagler Beach Bike Ride, John Eliot Gardiner’s Bach, Tides of Hope benefit for breast cancer research, Tommy Tant Memorial Surf Classic, Sheriff’s trunk-or-treat, Pianist  Paolo André Gualdi at Stetson.

Othal Wallace sentencing this morning, the 22nd Annual Tommy Tant Memorial Surf Classic kicks off, Stetson University Symphony Orchestra in concert, we welcome Clay Jones to our stable of cartoonists, and puzzle as always over the contradictions of Nietzsche.

The Flagler County School Board decides whether to fire its attorney, the Flagler Beach City Commission meets, Annual Pumpkin Patch at Trinity Presbyterian Church, trust in media reaches a new low, the dismal coverage of the Gaza-Israel war.

Al Krier Trail dedication this morning, the Atlantic Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State meets, Halloween Trick or Treating and Costume Contest With Prizes at City Market Place, Raymond Reddington meets Schopenhauer.

The Palm Coast City Council talks about its own rules of behavior, the NAACP’s general membership meets, Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy in Daytona, Henri Bergson in retrospect.

It’s trial week in felony court, including potentially the trial of Damari Barnes, the Bunnell City Commission and the Flagler County Beekeepers Association meet, deconstructing Fox News’s anti-Gaza biases.

Boo-Ling For Wishes fundraiser, St Elizabeth Ann Seton Community Fall Festival, the sad part of clearing the grounds for the Margaritaville Hotel in Flagler Beach, St. Augustine Music Festival, when the Democratic Party was the pits, circa 1866.

Ground Up Motors’s Cars and Coffee, Boo-Ling For Wishe, The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, the pine barrens of Thunder Gulch and New Jersey.

The Flagler County Cultural Council’s annual meeting, Palm Coast officials talk comprehensive plan on WNZF, when Reagan’s chief speech writer compared Reagan to Jay Gatsby.

The sentencing of Tina Marie Teixeira, the Democratic Women’s Club meets, the beauty of wind-assisted shipping, Bill McKibben’s age of missing information.

Public Meeting on Flagler Beach Project Updates at Santa Maria del Mar, plus the Tourist Development Council and the Contractor Review Board meet, so does the Palm Coast Planning Board, and Víkingur Ólafsson has a new recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations.