Today at the Editor’s glance: The Flagler Beach July 4 Committee appointed by the City Commission to study the feasibility of the July 4 fireworks, and the event’s effect on local businesses, meets at 8:30 a.m. at City Hall. The committee is finalizing the report it will turn into the city commission next month. The Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop at 9 a.m. at City Hall. The workshop will be followed by a special meeting to establish two community development districts, items that will be discussed during the workshop. The council will also discuss its search for a manager. The county’s Community Traffic Safety Team meets in the 1st Floor Conference Room, Government Services Building, 1769 E Moody Blvd., at 9 a.m. for a quick round up of the issues of 2021, and a discussion of initiatives for 2022. The St. Johns River Water Management District Governing Board holds its regular monthly meeting at its Palatka headquarters. 10 a.m., Governing Board Room, 4049 Reid St., Palatka. The Flagler County Planning Board meets at 5:30 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. The Flagler County School Board meets in workshop at 1 p.m. and in regular session at 6 p.m. at the Government Services Building. The board’s meetings have been unpredictable since summer.
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Flagler County Commission Workshop
Women’s Palm Coast Open, a USTA Pro Circuit Event
Flagler County’s Cold-Weather Shelter Opens
Contractor Review Board Meeting
Flagler County’s Technical Review Committee Meeting
Tourist Development Council Meeting
Separation Chat: Open Discussion
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Flagler County’s Cold-Weather Shelter Opens
Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board
Story Time for Preschoolers at Flagler Beach Public Library
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Flagler County’s Cold-Weather Shelter Opens
Town of Marineland Commission Meeting
For the full calendar, go here.
“The reflexive impulse to respond to Black people with severe punitiveness is traceable to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when white people desperately sought to control a large unfree population who refused to submit to their enslavement. The deep-seated, gnawing terror that Black people might, one day, rise up and demand for themselves the same freedoms and inalienable rights that led white colonists to declare the American Revolution has shaped our nation’s politics, culture, and systems of justice ever since. The specific forms of repression and control may have changed over time, but the underlying pattern established during slavery has remained the same. Modern-day policing, surveillance, and mass criminalization, as well as white vigilante violence and “know-your-place aggression,” have histories rooted in white fear—not merely of Black crime or Black people but of Black liberation. Nothing has proved more threatening to our democracy, or more devastating to Black communities, than white fear of Black freedom dreams.”
–Nikole Hannah-Jones, “The 1619 Project” (2021).
