Daily Briefing

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.

Trial week, the County Commission takes on the evictions at Bulow RV park, qualifying week for the elections in Flagler Beach and Bunnell, lack of trust in institutions, why democracies need an unlovable press.

Florida Winter Volleyball Festival in Daytona Beach, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Israel’s expulsion end game in Gaza, Benny Morris on the expulsions of 1947.

The Volusia Latin Festival and Three Kings Festival in Deltona all day, Sunshine and Sandals Social at Cornerstone, The Flagler Beach All Stars hold their monthly beach clean-up, catching up with Robert Caro at 88, and his LBJ biography still in the works.

First Friday in Flagler Beach, the great divide in the United States (and Afghanistan), a recap of 2023’s biggest news stories on WNZF’s Free For All Fridays, Robert Goldstein in court.

On the birth of Baby Felix and the meaning of life, scientists in 1967 predict the 21st century to Walter Cronkite, Nathaniel Hawthorne on “the infant was worthy to have been brought forth in Eden.”

Damari Barnes in court, Waste Pro changes its pick-up schedule this week in unincorporated Flagler, the Code Enforcement Board flexes its muscles, The Flagler County Republican Club meets, on the word cachinnate, and on doubt.

The Palm Coast City Council takes on controversial items, including Old Kings Village near Polo Club West and the Cascades development in Seminole Woods. Ted Koppel on journalism, Robert Fisk on terrorism.

Americans’ top 10 New Year resolutions (exercising is at #2), Jimmy Stewart on Carson, how the Romans gave us January 1, and Clay Jones opens 2024.

New Year’s Eve in Flagler Beach beginning at 8 p.m. and culminating with fireworks, The Cold-Weather Shelter opens, The Bach Festival draws to its close soon, between Zionism and anti-Semitism.

TJ Schultz memorial at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Palm Coast, the Cold Weather Shelter opens, ice harvesting and trading from the middle ages to 19th century Boston and Calcutta, trap, neuter and release’s controversies.

The Ultimate Mermen, The Ultimate Disney Tribute Band, 7 p.m. at Flagler Auditorium, the Cold Weather Shelter opens tonight, Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin, County Commission Chair Andy Dance and Bunnell City Manager Alvin Jackson look to 2024 on Free For All Fridays, Frederick Douglass as never before published.

Marking the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, but with a reminder of Elizabeth Kolbert’s Sixth Extinction, the Bach Festival continues, and the workweek remains at low simmer.

Catch the final days of the Fantasy Lights in Town Center, the 10 days of Bach continue with the Magnificat, the history and ideological uses of Hagia Sophia, and a few words from Orhan Pamuk.

A day for gold bricking and Bach, a few words on love, kindness, greed and rapine from John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row, and a few sharply drawn lines rom Clay Jones.

More Bach for the day, Christmas day coronations, when the arrogance of power married messianic presumption, John McGahern’s attempt to shine a few fantasy lights.

The perfect night for Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center, the Bach Festival returns, John Eliot Gardiner on the creator of Music in the Castle of Heaven.

The toy drive for Toys for Tots culminates today at European Village, the Saturday Flagler Beach market, an analysis of the massacre of civilians in Gaza and Robert Fisk on the siege of Beirut.

A special call-in Christmas show on Free For All Friday, the competency and a bond hearing in the case of Vergilio Aguilar Mendez, the Blue 24 Forum, loneliness in its many forms on the approach of Christmas.

Drug Court convenes for the last time this year, the Democratic Women’s Club meets, remembering Edward Said at the Lebanon-Israel border, and the time he put “the Rumsfelds, Bin Ladens, Sharons, and Bushes” in one breath.

The Palm Coast Planning Board meets, Kerri Huckabee is in court for a pre-trial, Stevie Wonder sings, Joe Biden’s poll numbers continue to sink, in no small part due to Gaza.

The Flagler County School Board holds a pair of meetings, the Palm Coast City Council meets, voting on a few land-use or development issues, what Americans worry about when it comes to their health.

Kids Count Director Norin Dollard at an Americans United for Separation of Church and State talk, The County Commission decides the fate of the Planning Board’s Heather Haywood, firing Santa and James Bennett on the state of the New York Times.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village’s Holiday Night market, a Message of Joy at Palm Coast United Methodist, the great cat massacre of the Macquarie Island, and in eighteenth century Paris.

Artie Gardella Book-Signing, The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, denying Palestinians the right to exist, Piers Morgan vs Bassem Youssef Round 2.

It’s Christmas in Bunnell this evening, with a big event that includes vendors, music and Florida snow, Jane Mealy’s birthday, the Blue 24 Forum meets at the Community Center, the new Caglecast is a Trump Christmas Special.

Holiday Sunset Concert at the Palm Coast Amphitheater, The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, Rajah Shehadeh on the separation wall, over a thousand years of unchanging disinformation.

The trial of Jerome Malerba on charges of stalking an underage girl and illegally using a computer continues before Circuit Judge Terence Perkins, Separation Chat, Open Discussion, too many people are postponing visits to the doctor, Janice Joplin and Barbara Ehrenreich.

The Palm Coast City Council has a long workshop agenda to close out the year, the Flagler County Planning Board, on Joyce Carol Oates’s Black Water and Chappaquiddick.

It’s trial week in felony court, including the case of the 54-year-old Palm Coast man and convicted felon arrested in February following a standoff with sheriff’s deputies at his house, the Bunnell City Commission meets, memories of the Dog River.

City Repertory Theatre’s Holiday Cabaret, a fund-raiser for the Flagler Playhouse, final day, the 18,000 dead of Gaza and the 18,000 dead of Lebanon in 1982, compliments of the IDF.

The Palm Coast Boat Parade and its 100 boats, City Repertory Theatre’s Holiday Cabaret, American Association of University Women (AAUW) Monthly Meeting, Gideon Levy on the latest Nabka and the American press’ new Gaza blind spot.

City Repertory Theatre’s Holiday Cabaret, with proceeds going to the Flagler Playhouse rebuild fund, Holidazzle Market at Ormond Memorial Art Museum, the wiles and wonders of the Portuguese Man of War, a few lines from Chekhov.

One Night in Memphis, at Flagler Auditorium, remembering why Norman Lear created People for the American Way, Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center.

Moms Into Literary Freedom: Jennifer Vale and Courtney Vandebunte talk about their podcast at Separation Chat, the Flagler County Republican Club, survivalists are reborn as “preppers.”

Animal control and citation hearings in Palm Coast, the City Council meets for a long session, student art at the Government Services Building, the Coneheads, and a little Robert Kaplan.

A jury in deliberation since last week might render a verdict in a wrongful death lawsuit involving AdventHealth Palm Coast, the County Commission meets, a few notes about Thomas Asbridge’s Crusades.

A performance of Handel’s Messiah, the annual Candlelight Service of Remembrance, the firing of Steve Bell, what is and what isn’t anti-Semitism, and its uses as a smokescreen to the war crimes in Gaza.

DSC’s early-enrollment day, Breakfast with Santa at Captain’s BBQ, 10th Annual Gullah Geechee Heritage Festival, Sandra Day O’Connor.

The sentencings of Gabriella and her brother Nicholas Alo are scheduled for the morning, the sentencing of Brenan Hill, to life in prison, is scheduled in the afternoon, First Friday is this evening, and Henry Kissinger is all over the place.

Willie Gardner is back in court in an animal cruelty case, Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center, Annie Ernaux and Resier, Rachel Carson on the Florida shore.

Alfonso Joseph is sentenced, Separation Chat, Open Discussion, the public library offers an Internet Safety Class on online frauds and scams, reflections on the Aral Sea disaster.

Random Acts of Insanity today is not just a show at Cinematique in Daytona Beach: The Flagler County School Board, unfortunately, meets, as does the Palm Coast City Council, and both panels discuss what do do next for legal representation.

The Bunnell City Commission considers an economic development incentive package for a company, George Brinton McClellan Harvey gets war wrong, Rajah Shehadeh talks to David Grossman.

Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center, Farmers’ Market at European Village, the civilian death toll in Gaza.

Tree-lighting ceremony and Fantasy Lights in Palm Coast’s Central Park this evening, a little exercise in perspective, comparing the South of Reconstruction with Israel’s policy toward Palestinians, Raja Shehadeh and Amos Oz.

Why Clay Jones doesn’t do obit cartoons, the dark side of black Friday, Letterman’s stupidest pet tricks, Bill Bryson recalls the good old days of dads’ girlie magazines.

Happy Thanksgiving: Nothing is going on today outside of your homes, Roseanne Roseannadanna, the first book, and Amos Oz’s mother, the Reader.

The Atlantic Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State meets, a few thoughts on assassinations, what the evening news commercials say about viewers.