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Today at the Editor’s Glance:
Today is Washington’s birthday. Schools are off. Courts and most government offices are not. Federal government offices, however, including federal courts and the post office, are closed.
In Court: It’s trial week. Five trials are scheduled in felony court, though some will likely be continued, others may be settled before an actual trial. None are high profile.
The Flagler County Commission meets at 5 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 E. Moody Boulevard, Building 2, Bunnell. Access meeting agendas and materials here. The five county commissioners and their email addresses are listed here.
Nar-Anon Family Groups offers hope and help for families and friends of addicts through a 12-step program, 6 p.m. at St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church, 303 Palm Coast Pkwy NE, Palm Coast, Fellowship Hall Entrance. See the website, www.nar-anon.org, or call (800) 477-6291. Find virtual meetings here.
In Coming Days:
February 21: The Flagler Woman’s Club hosts Candidates’ Night at 7 p.m. at 1524 S Central Ave, Flagler Beach. Meet the five candidates for the Flagler Beach City Commission. Each candidate will have 5 minutes to introduce themselves, followed by a question-and-answer period for each race, followed by closing statements. Afterwards will be the opportunity to talk one on one with the candidates. For more information call Joann Soman at 305-778-2885. You will be able to submit your questions upon arrival. Please be aware of and respect the club’s “no campaign paraphernalia inside the clubhouse” rule. Candidate brochures can be placed in the foyer.
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As early as the time of Cicero and Varro, it was the opinion of the Roman augurs, that the twelve vultures which Romulus had seen, represented the twelve centuries, assigned for the fatal period of his city. 75 This prophecy, disregarded perhaps in the season of health and prosperity, inspired the people with gloomy apprehensions, when the twelfth century, clouded with disgrace and misfortune, was almost elapsed; 76 and even posterity must acknowledge with some surprise, that the arbitrary interpretation of an accidental or fabulous circumstance has been seriously verified in the downfall of the Western empire. But its fall was announced by a clearer omen than the flight of vultures: the Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects. 77 The taxes were multiplied with the public distress; economy was neglected in proportion as it became necessary; and the injustice of the rich shifted the unequal burden from themselves to the people, whom they defrauded of the indulgences that might sometimes have alleviated their misery. The severe inquisition which confiscated their goods, and tortured their persons, compelled the subjects of Valentinian to prefer the more simple tyranny of the Barbarians, to fly to the woods and mountains, or to embrace the vile and abject condition of mercenary servants. They abjured and abhorred the name of Roman citizens, which had formerly excited the ambition of mankind. The Armorican provinces of Gaul, and the greatest part of Spain, were-thrown into a state of disorderly independence, by the confederations of the Bagaudae; and the Imperial ministers pursued with proscriptive laws, and ineffectual arms, the rebels whom they had made. 78 If all the Barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of the West: and if Rome still survived, she survived the loss of freedom, of virtue, and of honor.
–From Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776).
Pogo says
@FlaglerLive
Speaking of augurs:
Proposal would open thousands of acres in Volusia County to mobile homes in rural areas
https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/volusia/2023/02/20/volusia-county-could-allow-mobile-homes-thousands-acres/69902187007/
Wouldn’t it be, uh, intriguing, to see the e-mails and phone logs of Flagler County’s overlords now?
Let’s make it even better: https://www.google.com/search?q=tiny+homes
Stay tuned?
Pogo says
@FlaglerLive
Before I forget to thank you, I always look forward to the daily quote, but by God, Cognac of writing: Gibbon.
Pierre Tristam says
That’s a Gibbon-like way of putting it.
Jackson1955 says
eagan deregulated the Saving and Loan industry.
Boom! Entire industry implodes in 1987.
Bush deregulated oil platform safety.
Boom! Deepwater Horizon catastrophe.
Bush deregulated the finance industry.
Boom! 2008, the biggest finance crash since the 1930s.
Trump removes train brake regulations.
Boom! Railroad history!
E Mitchell James says
Hard to pin this on Strumph when the man in charge of transportation believes his anus is a sex organ and he can purchase children to raise with his boyfriend