Daily Briefing

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.

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.