Today at the Editor’s glance: Closures: Schools and some government offices, including courts and the Post Office, are closed today in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. MLK Day Voting Rights Rally: The Flagler County Democratic Club holds a voting rights rally in celebration of the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr. from noon to 1 p.m. outside of Wadsworth park in Flagler Beach, just before the Flagler Beach bridge. Organizers ask you to “bring positive, appropriate signs related to voting rights and consider bringing one to share.” Masks recommended. Social Distance please. Petition Delivery, 9 am. Today of all days happens to be the 45th anniversary of the first modern-era execution. Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty will be delivering petitions calling for an end to the federal death penalty and live streaming that action. Register here. The Cold-Weather Shelter run by the Sheltering Tree at Church on the Rock is open tonight, not only for the homeless, but for anyone who is without heat. Church on the Rock is located at 2200 N. State Street. The cold-weather shelter will open at 5:30 p.m. tonight and Monday night and will close at 8 a.m. the following day. See details here.
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September 2025
Palm Coast City Council Meeting
Flagler County Industrial Development Authority Meeting
Food Truck Tuesday
Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club
Kiwanis Community Open House
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
Contractor Review Board Meeting
Flagler County’s Technical Review Committee Meeting
Flagler Tiger Bay Club Guest Speaker: Former U.S. Prosecutor Roger B. Handberg
Separation Chat: Open Discussion
“Conversations in American Democracy” Celebrates Constitution Day
Flagler County Industrial Development Authority Meeting
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board
For the full calendar, go here.
“This remarkable imperviousness to facts when it comes to white advantage and architected Black disadvantage is what emboldens some white Americans to quote the passage from Martin Luther King’s 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech about being judged by the content of your character and not by the color of your skin. It’s often used as a cudgel against calls for race-specific remedies for Black Americans—while ignoring the part of that same speech where King says Black people have marched on the capital to cash “a check which has come back marked ‘insufficient funds.’ ”
–Nikole Hannah-Jones, “The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story” (2021).
Brad says
I hope the intention of the cartoonist was not to imply that the two statements are contradictory, because they are not.