Daily Briefing

A day of swearings-in at the Palm Coast City Council, the County Commission and the School Board, a Fall Horticultural Workshops at the Palm Coast Community Center, Colleen Conklin’s last interview, Geoffrey Ward’s “Tiger in the Road.”

The Flagler County Commission meets in workshop to discuss the case of developer Mark Langello’s impact fees, the Land Acquisition Committee meets, ghost guns and an epidemic of violence.

Jake’s Women at City Repertory Theatre, a final matinee, the Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, John Oliver on the West Bank, and a look at “Welcome To Hell,” a report on the abuse and inhuman treatment of Palestinians held in Israeli custody.

Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley, “Jake’s Women,” the Neil Simon play, at Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre, Celine Dion singing Piaf at the Olympics: a rewind.

David Alfin on Free For All, unemployment numbers are released, “Jake’s Women” at City Rep Theatre, Keep the Holiday Lights On fund-raiser, 988 Suicide Prevention Walk, and where Trump meets Mickey Sabbath.

Evenings at Whitney Lecture Series: Steven Noll on the relationship of Floridians and manatees in historical perspective, the Flagler Beach City Commission meets, reflections on not reading the press.

Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Separation Chat, Remembering Frederic Jameson and a few difficult memories about The Political Unconscious.

Veteran Resource Fair at the Flagler County Public Library, Tyrese Patterson in court (sort of), the pre-election Palm Coast City Council’s last meeting, the Community Traffic Safety Team meets, Google’s fabulous translation app.

Joint Veterans Day Ceremony and Parade in Bunnell, the reading habits of Americans, Michel Houellebecq on literature, a Latvian cartoonist heads for the American cloud.

Clay Jones on knowing her place, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market, Jake’s Women, By Neil Simon, at City Rep Theatre, ‘No Sex Please, We’re British,’ at Daytona Playhouse, the Sursock Museum in Beirut.

Palm Coast Fall Arts Festival in Central Park, Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens, Jake’s Women, By Neil Simon, at City Rep Theatre, the Gamble Jam is back, a few good post-election covers, Johnny Cash and Gore Vidal on fascism.

Jake’s Women, By Neil Simon, at City Rep Theatre, ‘No Sex Please, We’re British,’ at Daytona Playhouse, Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres, welcoming Colleen Conklin on 24 years as a school board member, plus and Carrie Baird and Cheryl Tristam on a special program at Flagler Cares.

Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, drug court, a lecture by Kurt Vonnegut, a few words from Ta-Nehisi Coates, the sheriff’s bobblehead and Trump’s grenade.

The Flagler Beach Library Book Club meets, the Flagler County Republican Club holds its monthly meeting, Weekly Chess Club for Teens at the library, Jacques Brel’s bridge-jumpers.

Election Day, finally, endless Flagler County Canvassing Board meetings, thinking with George Orwell and Billy Currington (beer is good and people are crazy) and thinking of Iowa.

The Flagler County Commission meets, the Beverly Beach Town Commission meets, the sense of curfew before Election Day, an excerpt from Robert Graves’s Goodbye To All That.

Jake’s Women, By Neil Simon, at City Rep Theatre, Maze Days at Cowart Ranch, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, when an obscure Beirut paper broke the Iran-Contra affair.

Last day for early voting, the Flagler Beach All Stars hold their monthly beach clean-up, Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley, Jake’s Women at City Rep Theatre, Charlie Hebdo’s latest cover and Jacques Derrida’s hospitality.

Jake’s Women, By Neil Simon, at City Rep Theatre, the Flagler County Sheriff’s National Night Out at FPC, the lawsuit over Palm Coast’s debt referendum is in court, Daisy Henry Street Renaming, Google’s concerns.

The Halloween Hall of Terror is back at Palm Coast Fire Station 21, Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, Wendell Berry and critical race theory before its day.

Future of Flagler Forum 2024, The Halloween Hall of Terror is back at Palm Coast Fire Station 21, early voting, blind soccer and DEI, and the divine and felonious nature of the human being.

Early voting continues at five sites in Palm Coast and Flagler County, Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy at Cinematique Theater in Daytona, a wise and benevolent maxim.

Early voting enters its second week, the Bunnell City Commission meets, the Washington Post’s decision not to endorse, and whether newspapers should ne endorsing to start with.

The St. Augustine Orchestra is in Concert at Flagler Auditorium, how unaffordable homes have become, Peter Viereck’s review of William Buckley’s God and Man at Yale.

Peps Art Walk, noon to 5 p.m. next to JT’s Seafood Shack, Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley, Maze Days at Cowart Ranch, an enraged elephant hits a woman at the zoo.

Flagler Outreach Brings Social Service Providers to Cattleman’s Hall, Collective Bargaining session in Palm Coast, Fall Horticultural Workshops at the Palm Coast Community Center, reflections on raising a new roof.

Early voting continues, the Flagler Beach City Commission meets, the Model Yacht Club races at the pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, and could a letter to the editor have provided the idea for the first-ever beach renourishment, at Coney Island?

Early voting, the River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization meets, a Palm Coast Parkway flash mob of one, Beirut Airport flash mob, metropolitan diaries.

Fall Horticultural Workshops at the Palm Coast Community Center, Palm Coast’s bedraggled Residential Drainage Citizens Advisory Committee meets, Willie Nelson, the Red-Headed Stranger and “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain.”

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.