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Today at a Glance:
The Palm Coast City Council meets at 9 a.m. at City Hall. The council will consider adopting a utility franchise fee that could add up to 6 percent to electric customers’ bills. See: “Palm Coast Explores 6% Tax on All Electric Bills Through ‘Franchise Fee’ Repeatedly Opposed in Past.” For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. For meeting agendas, audio and video, go here. The full agenda is here.
The Flagler County School Board meets at noon in a special workshop to discuss its search for a new superintendent, third floor conference room, Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell.
Food Truck Tuesdays is presented by the City of Palm Coast on the third Tuesday of every month from March to October. Held at Central Park in Town Center, visitors can enjoy gourmet food served out of trucks from 5 to 8 p.m.–mobile kitchens, canteens and catering trucks that offer up appetizers, main dishes, side dishes and desserts. Foods to be featured change monthly but have included lobster rolls, Portuguese cuisine, fish and chips, regional American, Latin food, ice cream, barbecue and much more. Many menus are kid-friendly. Proceeds from each Food Truck Tuesday event benefits a local charity.
In Coming Days:
The Volusia-Flagler Sierra Club hosts a Group Social on Tuesday, July 25, at Hidden Treasure Tiki Bar & Grill, 5993 South Ridgewood Avenue, Port Orange, at 5:30 p.m. No lengthy presentations, just food, drinks, and good conversation. Register here.
September 16: Flagler OARS’ 3rd Annual Recovery Festival at Veterans Park in Flagler Beach, from 3 to 9 p.m., with live bands, food trucks, exhibitors, hosted by Open Arms Recovery Services. Vendor booth space and sponsorships available. Click here or contact savannah@flagleroars.org.
Keep in Mind: The Belle Terre Swim & Racquet Club is open, welcoming and taking new memberships, and if you enroll before Sept. 1, you’ll beat the price increase kicking in then. Experience the many amenities including a lap pool, wading pool, tennis/pickleball courts, sauna, and a modern wellness center–all for less than what you’d pay just for a fitness center at your typical commercial gym. Friendly staff is available to answer any questions you may have about becoming a member. Belle Terre Swim and Racquet Club is the sort of place where you can connect with fellow community members and experience the welcoming atmosphere that sets BTSRC apart. If you have any questions, feel free to call at 386-446-6717. If you would like to learn more about our club and membership options please visit online.
Notably: I don’t know, in the 70-minute video below from 1990, who I miss more: Ted Koppel (who’s still at it, however, but at low simmer) or Nelson Mendela. I’m not for golden ageism. There never were any. But this age feels a bit thin either in arresting leadership (quick: can you name an active, great leader today? Obama doesn’t count) or in conversation-altering journalism, at least on TV (print journalism from The Times to Le Monde to ProPublica is doing fine). Today is Nelson Mandela’s birthday. He was born in 1918, a few weeks before the armistice. He died in 2013. Ted Koppel is 83.
—P.T.
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Popper said, “Remember, sir, we’re talking about barbarians here. One of our early Masters wasn’t so squeamish in dealing with them. One of the very greatest of Masters.”
«Who was that?”
«Archimedes. Don’t you recall how he jumped into the battle with all his scientific tricks to help defend Syracuse against, who was it, Tamerlane, I believe, yes, and won the day? Or no, wait, they surrendered, and when it was all over Tamerlane found our man drawing triangles in the dust with his finger?
“Didn’t he ask Tamerlane to get out of his light?”
“How right you are, sir. So he could finish working out his geometry problem.”
“He couldn’t see to work for the shadow.”
“No, sir.”
“The fellow was blocking off his light.”
“Yes, sir.”
“Standing in the doorway, don’t you see, with the sun behind him so that his shadow made it hard for Archimedes to see what he was doing down there in the dust.”
“With his figures, yes, sir.”
“Down there on some kind of dusty floor.”
“Yes, sir, I understand.”
–From Charles Portis’s Masters of Atlantis (1985).
Pogo says
@P.T. c/o FlaglerLive
Concerning your notable lament — try this:
https://pbswisconsin.org/watch/tell-me-more-kelly-corrigan/michael-lewis-1tdflu/
BTW, here’s an issue that the majority of Flag-her County is probably oblivious to:
Elected Republican AGs claim your medical records belong to them too
https://www.google.com/search?q=red+state+ag+seize+medical+records
And so it goes.
Sherry says
@Pogo. . . this attempt by 19 GOP Attorney Generals to seize private medical records . . . EVEN FROM OTHER STATES. . . needs much more attention from the media. . . take a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRzz6lYStgo&ab_channel=MSNBC
The Geode says
I always thought the KKK was started by Democrats. Yet I get accused of disinformation.
YankeeExPat says
You are 100% correct, there is absolutely no denying that fact the KKK was indeed created by southern Democrats. In the here and now if you remind a Republican here in the south (ex F.L.) , that a Republican President “Abraham Lincoln” fought (and Won ) the war against the treasonous south and ended slavery you will also be accused of disinformation. As you will be told the civil war it wasn’t about slavery , but was a about states rights.
In the here and now we have our own Republican Gov. and Presidential candidate R. DeSantis writing and implementing laws that white wash the treasonous behavior of south as to its treatment of African Americans with the reasoning that it is WOKE and therefore upsets white members of our society.
In the here and now the GOP or as I like to use the acronym of GOOP is telling us that drag queens are the cause of our outlandish insurance premium prices here in F.L.
I m 60 and had been a Republican for 20 years / to date am am a proud N.P.A. for the last 23 years
DMFinFlorida says
@ YankeeExPat:
Thank you for being intelligent enough to know that corruption and sub-par politicos are on both sides of the aisle! I am proudly registered NPA and have been for 40+ years. I vote the candidate and how closely their platform matches my beliefs and morals, not whether there is an R or D next to their name.
To me, people who vote straight party without ever researching a candidate are a wasted vote. No brain power involved, no consideration as to the consequences. Sometimes we are forced to pick the lesser of the evils, sadly too often!
I had a woman here in PC at an event try to register me with the R party. I politely said, “No thank you, I’m already registered NPA,” and she verbally attacked me and told me I was a wasted vote. I think not, madam. What an unpleasant encounter of outright hostility because I didn’t have HER agenda in mind.
Participate in the process, but do it with some effort and thought.
Laurel says
DMF and YankeeEx: I, too, am a NPA, though I still like to be called Independent! Been since I could register. I think that voting for politicians for having a R or a D by their name is not just loyalty, it’s lazy. The politicians with the most road signs with that R or D get voted in. Look how things are now in Flagler County!