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Weather: Mostly cloudy. Widespread dense fog in the morning. Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent. Tuesday Night: Showers with a chance of thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming south after midnight. Chance of rain 90 percent. See the daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
Today at a Glance:
The Flagler County School Board meets at 3 p.m. in workshop to go over the items on its upcoming school board meeting two weeks hence. The board meets in the training room on the third floor of the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. Board meeting documents are available here.
The Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club meets at 5 p.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach.
Flagler Beach’s Planning and Architectural Review Board meets at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall, 105 S 2nd Street. For agendas and minutes, go here.
The Palm Coast City Council meets at 6 p.m. at City Hall. For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. For meeting agendas, audio and video, go here.
The Bunnell Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board meets at 6 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. The board consists of Carl Lilavois, Chair; Manuel Madaleno, Nealon Joseph, Gary Masten and Lyn Lafferty.
Hammock Community Association Meeting Featuring County Attorney Al Hadeed on History of the Hammock: The association meets at 6:30 p.m. at the Hammock Community Center, 79 Mala Compra Rd, Palm Coast. Hadeed, who moonlights as a historian (and that’s a historian, not an historian), will talk about the history of the Hammock. It’s open to the public.
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy, 8 p.m. at Cinematique Theater, 242 South Beach Street, Daytona Beach. General admission is $8.50. Every Tuesday and on the first Saturday of every month the Random Acts of Insanity Comedy Improv Troupe specializes in performing fast-paced improvised comedy.
Editorial Notebook: It’s pleasant enough when presidents appear on talk shows. Nothing wrong with it. They’re all doing it since Clinton did his Arsenio bit with the sax (not the trumpet, as I had it in an earlier version until corrected by a friend. I must’ve freuded the Clinton memory with Dante’s judgment in the Inferno: “And he had made a trumpet of his ass.”) I imagine the littler Bush went on Leno and Obama did Letterman before and after Letterman was cancelled (he went on his “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction”), Trump is on a right wing talk show on TV or radio very six hours, and now Biden on Seth Myers (no the oddest choice: Myers is a gentler Maddow on NBC’s network). But it wasn’t an impressive appearance. The audience applauded dutifully, a few times. Myers tried to ask a few questions but didn’t go further than his initial attempt when he touched on age, so it wasn’t nearly enough. He let Biden get away with a one liner that was so obviously prepared, it might as well have been on the cue cards. The little lapel pin of the American and Ukrainian flags was a clever touch. Glad it wasn’t an American and Israeli pin, though that’s probably in his breast pocket. At least twice he stopped in mid-thought with an “anyway, don’t want to get started,” as if he’d forgotten he’d used the line already, and when he was barely finished. He was careful, slow, pre-packaged. Fine. The point he made–that it’s not how old one is, it’s the ideas that matter–was a strong one, if made weakly. But for all that, it’s still disheartening that he goes on a TV talk show but refuses to meet the press face to face, to engage in serious, sustained questioning. He’s got to break out of the cocoon, not to keep reminding us of Cocoon.
—P.T.
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Flagler County Commission Workshop
Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Story Time for Preschoolers at Flagler Beach Public Library
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella: Youth Edition, at Athens Theatre
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
Friday Blue Forum
First Friday in Flagler Beach
Free Family Art Night at Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella: Youth Edition, at Athens Theatre
For the full calendar, go here.
What a strange phenomenon is the drug of hope. I was to hear this explanation from countless governors and soldiers across the Middle East over the coming quarter of a century—Westerners as well as Muslims—all insisting that things were getting worse because they were getting better, that the worse things were, the better they would become.
–From Robert Fisk’s The Great War for Civilization: The Conquest of the Middle East (Knopf 2005).
