Daily Briefing

Nature Walks with Urban Forester Carol, Clay Jones on the Yemen attacks, a warmer day than the last two days’ freeze, Neolithic Orkney, Carhenge in Nebraska, Benjamin Constant on liberty.

The cold-weather shelter opens again tonight. The Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board and the Contractor Review Board meet, Separation Chat, coffee culture from Yemen to the Enlightenment to Starbucks.

The cold-weather shelter opens tonight, the Palm Coast City Council takes up the revised technical manual for builders, revisions designed to minimize flooding problems, the age of self-promotion, a few lines from Saul Bellow’s “The Old System.”

Courts, schools and most government offices are closed in observance of Martin Luther King Day, a few thoughts about the American sermon, and Octavius Brooks Frothingham’s idea of hell.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, the 37th Annual Manatee Festival in Crystal River (it’s just a drive across the state), Aaron Copland’s “Billy the Kid” and those album covers.

Keep Palm Coast Clean: a Litter-all, all-volunteer effort to clean up the city, Gamble Jam, the American Association of University Women’s monthly meeting, Malamud’s “Angel Levine” in the Briefing’s periodic Storytime.

Qualifying period for Flagler Beach and Bunnell municipal elections end today, Indiana Jones at the public library, LGBTQ+ Night, what Voltaire had to say about the murders of OxyContin pills.

The Flagler Beach City Commission takes up a significant annexation proposal, all about bats at the Whitney Lecture Series, the baguette through the ages.

The Public Safety Coordinating Council meets, qualifying for the municipal elections in Flagler Beach and Bunnell continues, Separation Chat, Happy Birthday, Brian McMillan, in praise of Jimmy Carter, but not Woodrow Wilson.

The Palm Coast City Council talks roads, food and Florida Park Drive, the Flagler County School Board, unfortunately, meets, as does the county’s planning board, assuming it can muster a quorum, on gas giants.