Daily Briefing

The Flagler County Commission meets in workshop to talk beach management and other matters, then in a voting evening meeting, the canvassing board meets, reading crime novels, Celine on fearing human beings.

Bunnell’s Italian Festival at the county fairgrounds, Maze Days at Cowart Ranch, Grace Community Food Pantry is back, David Brooks on why Harris isn’t running away with this, John Travolta’s famous opening.

Bunnell’s Italian Festival  at the county fairgrounds today and tomorrow, Maze Days at Cowart Ranch, Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley and City Manager Dale Martin, on the killings of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders, and the surviving Benjamin Netanyahu.

A face-off between Palm Coast mayoral candidates Cornelia Manfre and Mike Norris on WNZF’s Free For All, unemployment numbers are released, The music duo Wandering Spiral, featuring Michelle Davidson and Rick de Yampert at Flagler Beach’s Gathering Place, and in praise of Robert Caro and “The Power Broker.”

Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols’s first Drug Court session, Election turnout and interest in politics in the United States compared to other countries, and “The Big Money Behind the Big Lie.”

Flagler Cares hosts its quarterly Help Night from 3 to 7 p.m., the Flagler County Tourist Development Council meets, the Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board meets, remembering Lebanon’s Elias Khoury.

The Palm Coast City Council meets at 9 a.m. at City Hall for a marathon meeting, A Community Presentation on Sand Dunes By Florida Sea Grant and UF/IFAS Extension Flagler, Food Truck Tuesdays, campaign ads, the Kennedy-Nixon election of 1960, Machiavelli’s refuge.

The Flagler County School Board holds a trip of meetings, including orientation meetings for incoming board members, the Bunnell City Commission meets, tales of the Nonna Tree and olive trees, and a poem by Mahmoud Darwish.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Grace Community Food Pantry distribution is cancelled today, a few lines from the early essays of Montaigne, Liszt’s Consolation, Vidal on Norman Mailer.

11th annual iFish Flagler In-Shore Tournament, yes, the Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market is open today but Grace Community Food Pantry’s food distribution is cancelled, on Lebanon’s St. Charbel and the canonization of 1977.

Palm Coast City Council candidates Jeffrey Seib and Ty Miller in a debate-style face-off on WNZF’s Free For All Fridays, the Flagler County Canvassing Board, LGBTQ+ Night at Flagler Beach’s Coquina Coast Brewing Company, second thoughts on progress.

Town Hall with Palm Coast Council Member Theresa Pontieri, Evenings at Whitney Lecture Series, the Flagler Beach City Commission meets, the Nobel Prize for literature and the joys of surprises.

Nobel Prize Week. Today: Chemistry, Separation Chat, Open Discussion, Weekly Chess Club for Teens at the public library, the state of freedom in 2024, James Baldwin debates William Buckley, Joseph Brodsky on beauty.

Nobel Prize Week. Today: Physics, the Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop, the Flagler County Planning Board meets, Adam Shatz on what comes after Hezbollah, the myth of Israel’s self-defense wars.

The Beverly Beach Town Commission meets, the Flagler County Commission meets, another excerpt from the J.D. Vance epic, Barbara Ehrenreich on working two jobs, Jon Stewart.

Pink on Parade in Town Center, Creekside Music and Arts Festival at Princess Place, ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students, the origins of “boots on the ground,” John Oliver, the interview.

Creekside Music and Arts Festival at Princess Place Preserve, Sunshine and Sandals Social at Cornerstone, Robert Reich on Trump and Project 2025. V.S. Naipaul among the believers

First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, First Friday in Flagler Beach, the Blue 24 Forum, Tony Tulathimutte’s “Pics” and a look back at Gangnam Style.

The Flagler County Canvassing Board meets, Palm Coast’s Residential Drainage Citizens Advisory Committee meets, the Eiffel Tower marks Breast Cancer Awareness Month, when Kris Kirstofferson sang last sang in Paris.

“Inside Project 2025: A blueprint for America’s future?”: A Presentation by Flagler College’s Michael Butler, the Flagler County Republican Club meets, Weekly Chess Club for Teens at the library, Nancy Eisenberg and JD Vance.

Flagler Beach’s Planning and Architectural Review Board meets as does the Palm Coast City Council, why there are fears of post-election violence only if Trump loses, Christo-fascism and remembering the vigilantism of the Knights of Liberty.

A judge’s last day, Bill Day’s take on Amendment 3 legalizing recreational marijuana, Robert Fisk on the abduction of Lebanon, footage from an Associated Press report on Israel’s 1978 invasion.

Last day for Jesus Christ Superstar at City Rep Theatre, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, throwing away a CD collection, a few words from Donna Tartt’s Goldfinch.

Jesus Christ Superstar at City Rep Theatre, Peps Art Walk, Bob Kealing On How the Beatles Rocked Florida, the beauty and pathos of Philip Glass, a few words from Elmore Leonard’s Fifty-Two Pickup (1974).

Jesus Christ Superstar at City Rep Theatre, Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock, the Scenic A1A Pride Committee meets, torture museums around the world and Phyllis Rose’s “Tools of Torture.”

All eyes on Helene, the Flagler Beach City Commission meets to approve its budget, everything else–schools, courts, colleges–have cancelled classes and operations for today, Mikhail Bakunin on the meaning of freedom.

The Palm Coast Tiger Bay Club presents a candidate forum ahead of the Nov. 5 general election, the Flagler County Public Library Book Club on Isabelle Allende’s Japanese Lover, Jake Scully in Australia and memories of John Glenn over Perth.

The Palm Coast City Council’s workshop is cancelled, UF/IFAS’s Fall Horticultural Workshops at the Palm Coast Community Center, Israel shifts the mass killings with the worst attack on Lebanon since 2006.

The Bunnell City Commission meets, the Flagler County Beekeepers Association meets, the final words of a dying coal miner in the Fraterville mine disaster of 1902, a few words from Frank Kilgore’s “J. D. Vance Is a Fake Hillbilly.”

Jesus Christ Superstar at City Rep Theatre, ‘The Great American Trailer Park Musical’ at Daytona Playhouse, ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students, a few words about the great William Maxwell and his story, “Billie Dyer.”

Annual Intracoastal Waterway Cleanup, Jesus Christ Superstar at City Rep Theatre, Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley, The Onion thinks print is the way of the future, Gregor von Rezzori in Lolitaland.

Flagler and Florida unemployment numbers are released this morning, Free For All Fridays on WNZF, ‘The Great American Trailer Park Musical’ at Daytona Playhouse, an odd message about life insurance, the opening of “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”

988 Suicide Prevention Walk at Wadsworth Park and over the bridge, Sheriff’s Summit to Protect and Serve Seniors, gloomy musings about the election season, a few words from Wendell Berry.

US Attorney Roger B. Handberg is the guest speaker at Flagler Tiger Bay, the Palm Coast Planning Board meets, the Palm Coast Council holds its final budget hearing, what we lost in LBJ, and tales of a dismembered anatomy.

The Palm Coast City Council interviews candidates hoping to replace Cathy Heighter, Constitution Day With County Judge Andrea Totten at the library, Food Truck Tuesdays, the dark side of girls’ gymnastics and Béla and Márta Károlyi.

The East Flagler Mosquito Control District Board and the County Commission meet (separately), the empty space of the Flagler Playhouse, the uncertainty principle explained by Stephen Hawking.

ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, the DEA’s drug museum and the futility of the war on drugs, with a few words from “The New Jim Crow”‘s Alexander.

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.