Daily Briefing

The Bunnell City Commission hears a strategic plan for its police department, Mamie Smith’s “This Thing Called Love,” the end is near, democracy’s sorry state, Peter Taylor’s “Demons.”

American Association of University Women hears about “The Contextualization of Confederate Iconography,” Daytona Playhouse stages “Calendar Girls.” the Jacksonville Symphony is all brass and organ, big days for Abraham Lincoln and Bill Clinton.

Flagler Technical College Director Renee Stauffacher and Sheriff Rick Staly talk about giving convicted criminals a second chance on the job, Meowy Hour at Sea Casas Boutique and Uncork’d, Lincoln on xenophobia.

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets and will ban balloon releases, people who believe in Covid conspiracies, all the news that’s fit to print’s history, a little Virgil as time goes by.

Gunnar Galambos pleads out in court, Circuit Judge Perkins is in pre-trials, including that of Brennan Hill, the Microtel shootist, the cold-weather shelter opens again, recalling “Homosexuality and Citizenship in Florida,” the 1964 legislative report.

The cold-weather shelter is open tonight, the Flagler County Planning Board takes up the rezoning of Eagle Lake, the Palm Coast City Council talks public works, Joseph II talks burials.

Jason Reynolds on anxiety and book-banning, the Flagler County Commission holds a pair of meetings, including a workshop on beach issues, the Beverly Beach Town Commission meets, the biggest book ban advocates in the country are parents, Notes from Underground.

Cirque Ma’Ceo, the revolutionary theatrical experience, has its last day at the county fairgrounds, Ronald Reagan’s corruption and lawlessness, Richard Hofstadter on the Constitution’s paradox.

PCAF’s First Saturday Creative Bazaar Arts and Craft Market, Friends of the Library book sale at the Flagler County Public Library, John Adams on democracies’ suicidal tendencies, Olympic winners over the ages.

Joseph Bova, convicted of murdering Zuheily Rosado at a Palm Coast convenience store in February 2013, is back in court, First Friday in Flagler Beach, Cirque Ma’Ceo at the county fairgrounds, Rigoletto in Daytona Beach and The Chris Thomas Band in Jacksonville.

Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin is the featured speaker at the meeting of the Palm Coast Democratic Club this evening, America’s non-partisan debt, an excerpt from John McGahern’s “The Barracks.”

The Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board meets, Florida’s citrus crop is as bleak as ever (but not California’s), rediscovering Florence Price, Dostoevsky’s bleeding heart.

Allyson Dawn Bennett, 39, is sentenced in the overdose death of Michael Joseph Burnett Jr., 33, in June 2018, the school board discusses changing start and end times of school days, slightly, Dostoevsky among the murderers.

A warming trend after a freezing weekend, Anthony Burgess on death camp commanders who went home to Schubert and tears, the first Social Security Check.

The Cold Weather Shelter open again tonight. The matinee and last showing of City Repertory Theatre stages “Wait Until Dark.” Ernie Pyle looks up people hungry for divorce in Reno.

Hard freeze watch tonight with temperatures dipping into the upper 20s. The Cold Weather Shelter will open. Palm Coast Historical Society Lecture Series on Florida before the European invasions. City Repertory Theatre stages “Wait Until Dark.”

The Cold Weather Shelter is open tonight, “Florida History through the Amazing Illustrations of Harper’s Weekly,” a lecture at the Palm Coast library, City Repertory Theatre stages “Wait Until Dark,” Dostoevsky reflects about his first book after a prison term.

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets and hears a report from its attorney on its nine-hole golf course at the south end of town, Neil Postman’s favorite quotes on science and religion.

The Tourist Development Council awards 10 grants for various sports events and conferences, the county’s parks advisory board considers waiving fees for teams seeking to use county parks, a warning from George Orwell about Tories.

GOP Rep. Michael Waltz hosts the annual Academy Nomination Ceremony, this year held at the Flagler Auditorium. The county’s Affordable Housing Advisory Committee meets, Etta James sings at last.

The Flagler County Commission workshops more hopes and plans for a south side library, Richard Dunn is in a hearing before Circuit Judge Perkins, the Bunnell City Commission meets and, hopefully, discusses the turmoil at its police department.

“Mass Appeal” is in its final performance, “Wait Until Dark” at City Repertory Theatre, Cornel West’s fabulous commercial for his philosophy class, and rights as people’s bogus consolation for their actual misery.

“Wait Until Dark” at CRT and “Mass Appeal” at Flagler Playhouse, Francis Bacon, George Balanchine and John Donne give us flights of fancy, Yiyun Li’s tortured child.

Unemployment figures, “Wait Until Dark” at City Repertory Theatre, “Mass Appeal” at the Flagler Playhouse, Hutson and Renner on Free For All Fridays, an excerpt from Rebecca Makkai’s latest story.

Drug Court, “Mass Appeal” returns for a final weekend at the Flagler Playhouse, Federico Fellini talks to Dick Cavett, and a few thoughts on travel.

The Palm Coast Planning Board hears an application for yet another self-storage facility on Old Kings Road, 24 hours after the Palm Coast City Council approved one nearby.

A busy day in local government and courts with the Palm Coast City Council meeting and likely again discussing July 4 fireworks and the Flagler County School Board discussing a new way to handle library books, and, potentially, controversial titles.

A voting rights rally near Wadsworth Park in Flagler Beach at noon, how a particular MLK quote is often used as a cudgel against calls for race-specific remedies for Black Americans, the cold-weather shelter is open, schools and courts and most government offices are closed.

The cold-weather shelter is open tonight for the homeless and for anyone who lacks heat, “Mass Appeal” in a matinee at the Flagler Playhouse, a matter of P-Section sex has neighbors frustrated, and a look back at a Jeremiah Wright sermon.

A Martin Luther King Day celebration parade is cancelled in Bunnell, but a prayer breakfast at Carver Center is still on, “Mass Appeal” at the Flagler Playhouse in Bunnell, a few words on heroes by Voltaire.

The biggest stories of 2021 in WNZF’s annual media roundtable, Meowy Hour at the Hilton Garden Inn, “Mass Appeal” at the Flagler Playhouse, Georg Büchner on the fatalism of history.

The Flagler Beach City Commission will receive the final report of the July 4 committee, “Mass Appeal” opens at the Flagler Playhouse, William Faulkner on his native soil in Oxford, and Neil Postman on smoke signals.

The Public Safety Coordinating Council meets, and the Flagler Playhouse hosts its Community Night for “Mass Appeal,” which opens at reduced price tonight, regular price tomorrow.

The Community Traffic Safety Team meets, the Palm Coast City Council discusses fireworks, its future manage and its video meetings, Flagler County marks the opening of a mental health center in Bunnell.

It’s trial week at the Flagler County courthouse. The Flagler County Commission meets for the first time this year, as does the Bunnell City Commission, the latter returning to the Government Services Building for its meetings, now that it’s homeless again.

Richard Nixon at 109, Simone de Beauvoir complains about how there’s always some holiday going on in America, and Octavio Paz explains why nature didn’t stand a chance.

Free tree recycling at Palm Coast fuel depot on Utility Drive, American Association of University Women (AAUW) Flagler’s January meeting with Dr. Mary Gatta on Generation X women, the morality (or immorality) of watching Squid Game, Isaac Asimov on Letterman.

James McIntire sentencing before Circuit Judge Terence Perkins, recalling the Jan. 6 insurrection, hunting deer instead of hippies, a seminar on Ritchie Robertson’s “The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness.”

Flagler County students return to school for the spring semester amid a surge of omicron and a dearth of safety directives, the Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board meets, Linda Greenhouse on Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s big mistake.

Happy birthday Jules Kwiatkowski. The Flagler County School Board discusses its own protocols, Bunnell Manager Alvin Jackson talks about changes at the city, the Palm Coast City Council meets this evening.

The grind returns. Court is back in session with arraignments, and the sentencing of former Seaman Isaac Julio Becker, the social virus of nationalism, remembering Arsenio’s first.

The great John Hope Franklin through the ages, LBJ’s “To Fulfill These Rights” address at Howard University, and a remembrance of the miserable Palmer Raids of 1920.

This is Be Kind to Food Servers Month, started by Memphis waitress Sybil Presley in 2008. A few words from Sandra Bullock on the subject, and C. Vann Woodward on the strange career of Jim Crow.

Government offices and courts are closed, fireworks are still banned in Palm Coast and Flagler Beach, Wesley Morris on Black music’s miracle of sound, and Bach on the miracle of Cantata BWV 170, closing out the year on a plea for the delights of the soul.

Nixon, Kissinger and the great war crime of Christmas 1972, the Everglades crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 401, Mary McCarthy disappoints her confessional priest when he asks her what kind of impurities she’d committed.

The funniest pandemic video you’ll see this holiday season, Frederick Douglass remembers his encounter with Andrew Johnson at the Lincoln inaugural, the novice who likes to watch women rub clothes on the stones.

On the death of E.O. Wilson, the great biologist and advocate of the Enlightenment. Today marks the 48th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, which Nixon signed into law while on vacation in California.

The criminality of Monday’s existence the week between Christmas and New Year’s, Wesley Morris on Motown’s wonders, Oriana Fallaci on Interviewing Henry Kissinger.