Daily Briefing

Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley, American Association of University Women (AAUW) Monthly Meeting, America’s killer SUVs.

LGBTQ+ Night at Flagler Beach’s Coquina Coast Brewing Company, ‘The Great American Trailer Park Musical’ at Daytona Playhouse, Robert Reich on Trump’s campaign money, and do you know what’s more distracting than a cellphone in school, asks Clay Jones? An AR15 in your face.

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, Evenings at Whitney Lecture Series, “The Great American Trailer Park Musical,” dance marathons and Gloria telling off the moms for liberty of her day in “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They.”

The Elks Lodge 2709 is holding its annual 9/11 ceremony, Weekly Chess Club for Teens, J. Michael Luttig recalls the prevarication of Mike Pence and how Jan. 6 almost caused an end to American democracy as Sept. 11 never could have.

The Community Traffic Safety Team meets, the Palm Coast City Council holds a workshop, the Flagler County Planning Board meets, when The New York Times advertised Florida real estate, Alex Shoumatoff’s Florida Ramble.

The Flagler County Library Board of Trustees and the The Bunnell City Commission  meet, Teddy Pendergrass, China’s beer consumption, the first four crusades showing the unpleasant face of greed.

‘The Great American Trailer Park Musical’ at Daytona Playhouse, Modern Jewish Food Festival at Jacksonville Beach’s Margaritaville Hotel, On Graphomania and the comment section, Joseph Brodsky remembered, a few lines from “Watermark.”

Flagler Woman’s Club’s Casino Night at the Italian-American Club, ‘The Great American Trailer Park Musical’ at Daytona Playhouse, Sunshine and Sandals Social at Cornerstone, a rainbow over Ponce de Leon.

a Margaritaville Hotel photographic update, Tyrese Patterson Sentencing, First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, First Friday in Flagler Beach, , Jackie Gleason, an excerpt from VS Pritchett’s “The Evils of Spain.”

The demise of New York City’s great WCBS 880 Newsradio, Rally for Women’s Reproductive Rights at the northwest corner of Belle Terre and Pine Lake Parkways in Palm Coast, Story Time for Preschoolers at Flagler Beach Public Library.

The Flagler County Commission holds the first of two public hearings to approve its budget and next year’s property tax rate, pretending that Mike Waltz cares about climate change, Separation Chat, Open Discussion.

Tyler Habdas is sentencing, the Flagler County Commission and the Palm Coast City Council meet, a short hstory of the New York Post’s journey from brilliance to sleaze, Donald Trump on Letterman.

Labor Day at the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse, the Atomic Museum in Las Vegas and its dissimulation of horrors by entertainment, Father Guido Sarducci, a little wisdom by a builder of nuclear weapons.

Storywalk with Parker The Pelican, ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students, the problem with Kamala Harris’s contempt for the press, JFK’s first televised news conference, William Buckley’s Yale.

Peps Art Walk, noon to 5 p.m. next to JT’s Seafood Shack, the Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, when Eisenhower could tour the world in a convertible without fear for his safety, Bill Bryson on bacteria.

Fall Horticultural Workshops at the Palm Coast Community Center, when Le Petit Journal, France’s most read daily in the old days, read like a broadsheet of the Trump era, Trump by the numbers, the Eisenhower years’ anti-immigration streak.

Palm Coast Concert Series: Soul Fire, this evening at The Stage, the old location of the Palm Coast Arts Foundation in Town Center, Arensky’s piano trio and why he should be reconsidered.

The River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization meets, the Flagler County Public Library Book Club takes on “Lady Tan’s Circle of Women,” the American divide on perceptions of slavery’s impact.

The Palm Coast City Council discusses how and when to replace Cathy Heighter, who abruptly resigned last week, Fall Horticultural Workshops at the Palm Coast Community Center, numbers of the Middle Passage, a few words from Olaudah Equiano’s narrative.

The Flagler County Beekeepers Association meets, remembering Larry Newsome on the fourth anniversary of his death, Joseph Brodsky’s Watermark.

Farmers’ Market at European Village, what god created in Flagler Beach after his/her/their third day, to the sips of a martini, Bill Withers.

Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley, why we love Colleen Conklin and why Barry White is never gonna give ya up.

The Canvassing Board wraps up the election, the Scenic A1A Pride Committee meets, Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock, a few thoughts about ocean depths.

Flagler Tiger Bay Club’s sixth annual Wine Tasting Meet & Greet at the Palm Coast Community Center, with the big reveal about next year’s lineup, the Flagler Beach City Commission meets, Sheherazade.

Flagler County’s Technical Review Committee and Contractor Review Board meet, a better idea for Social Security benefits than Trump’s plundering, bribing voters at election time.

It’s Election Day, it’s also (heaven help us) School Board day, so we may need a few random acts of insanity, or a trip to Kiribati and the Palau islands. But there’s also Food Truck Tuesday.

Mosquito control meets, the Flagler County Commission meets, it’s election eve, passing the torch to the Joan Didion Olympics in Los Angeles to the tune of John Williams’s “Fanfare” from 1984.

That Girl Lay Lay in Jacksonville, Farmers’ Market at European Village, a federal court decision in Iowa bodes ill for Florida advocates of the freedom to read.

Last day of early voting, Coffee with Commissioner Spradley, the Flagler Beach Farmers Market, Florida Surf Film Festival, the torture of being on hold, a few words from Mohsin Hamid.

Flagler and Florida Unemployment Numbers Released this morning, early voting winds down to its last two days, the BBC World Service’s theme meets Henry Purcell.

Only three days left for early voting, Story Time for preschoolers in Flagler Beach, the Supreme Court’s decision criminalizing homeless sleeping, the homeless crisis in Florida.

The River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) Bicycle/Pedestrian Advisory Committee meets, the Flagler County Canvassing Board meets, Carlos Lazoda wonders about America as a City on a Hill.

Early voting continues, the Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop, the Community Traffic Safety Team, muted Islamophobia so far in the presidential race, Armstrong’s “Good luck, Mr. Gorsky.”

Early voting continues, the different reaction to the boy who threatened to blow up Orlando with nukes and the one who placed bogus swatting calls to Flagler schools, the Flagler County Library Board of Trustees meets, the Bunnell City Commission meets.

Tabasco Brothers at the Golden Lion Cafe, farmer’s market, taking the measure of Parisian distances against Palm Coast sprawl, Sharath Mahendran’s “Building Beautifully” and a few words from Redburn.

American Association of University Women (AAUW) Monthly Meeting, Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, Gamble Jam, dueling banjos revisited.

Terrell Sampson sentencing, LGBTQ+ Night at Flagler Beach’s Coquina Coast Brewing Company, relics from the east, remembering the Beirut port blast four years later.

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, the Palm Coast Democratic Club holds its monthly meeting, the routine of Israel settlers’ Jim Crow violence against Palestinians of the West Bank.

The Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board meets, Kamala Harris’s choice of Tim Walz, a look back at the Palmer raids.

The Flagler Beach Planning Board takes on a revised height ordinance, the Palm Coast City Council holds an evening meeting, Nukemaps and the simulated results of nuclear bombings.

The groundbreaking for the southern branch library known as the Nexus Center is at 1 p.m., the County Commission has a pair of meetings, the Canvassing Board meets, Bernard Malamud delights us with his metaphors.

Unlimited Devotion performs in St. Augustine, the Magic of Motown at the Peabody, the LOL Jax Film Festival, the chauvinism of some American media’s medal-table standings.

Back to school jam at FPC, the Flagler Beach All Stars hold their monthly beach clean-up, further thoughts on the Olympics’ opening ceremonies and arts’ controversies, a pop-up exhibit of paintings by Kiersten Hawkins.

First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks, First Friday in Flagler Beach, Free Family Art Night at OMAM, the cost of the Olympics, if economics were an Olympic sport.

Clay Jones, Charlie Hebdo, Trump and voting for the last time, health care provider scoring meeting at the GSB, Lawrence Wright on a pledge of allegiance to the future of the country.

The Flagler County Canvassing Board meets, Flagler Parent hosts a one-hour live-streamed forum with school board candidates, Elvis’s very first concert at Overton Park Orchestra Shell in Memphis.

The Flagler Branch of the NAACP hosts a candidate forum at 6 p.m. at AACS, Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy, where Jimmy Carter went wrong on Salman Rushdie.

Eisenhower’s convertible trip to Karachi, Pakistan, in 1960, America’s dwindling reputation abroad, Springsteen’s, “This Land is Your Land,” a few words from James MacGregor Burns.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, V.S. Naipaul’s odd turn in the South and a couple of seemingly nonexistent towns, Naipaul at Colgate university.

Peps Art Walk next to JT’s Seafood Shack, Gamble Jam, Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley, with City Attorney Drew Smith, A Tribute to Queen at the Bandshell.