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Weather: Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Friday Night: Mostly cloudy. Isolated showers after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
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Today at a Glance:
Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres, an hour-long public affairs radio show featuring local newsmakers, personalities, public health updates and the occasional surprise guest, starts a little after 9 a.m. Palm Coast Observer Brian McMillan is hosting today, and welcomes students from Matanzas High School and Flagler Palm Coast High School to discuss graduation and, for several of them, the scholarships they earned through the Education Foundation. See previous podcasts here. On WNZF at 94.9 FM and 1550 AM.
Flagler and Florida Unemployment Numbers Released: The state’s Commerce Department released the previous month’s preliminary unemployment numbers for Florida and its 67 counties, at 10 a.m. See the data releases page here.
From Blueprint to Action: Local Strategies for Housing Policy Advancement, 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway. This luncheon-style forum is tailored for individuals interested in housing policy, particularly in matters of affordability. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage with panelists and contribute their insights. Panelists include Scott Culp, Principal of Atlantic Housing Partners (for-profit affordable housing developer); Bill Lazar, Executive Director of St. Johns Housing Partnership (non-profit affordable housing developer); Ali Ankudowich, AICP, Technical Advisor with the Florida Housing Coalition; Annamaria Long, Executive Officer of the Flagler Home Builders Association; Maeven Rogers, City Administration Coordinator for the City of Palm Coast; and Jay Gardner, Flagler County Property Appraiser. Tickets for the luncheon forum can be acquired through Eventbrite here.
The Blue 24 Forum, a discussion group organized by local Democrats, meets at 12:15 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE. Come and add your voice to local, state and national political issues.
‘Sense and Sensibility,’ at Daytona Playhouse: All shows at 7:30 p.m. except on Sundays, at 2 p.m. Daytona Playhouse, 100 Jessamine Blvd., Daytona Beach. Adults $20, Seniors $19, Youth $10. A playful new adaptation of Jane Austen’s beloved novel follows the fortunes (and misfortunes) of the Dashwood sisters—sensible Elinor and hypersensitive Marianne—after their father’s sudden death leaves them financially destitute and socially vulnerable. When reputation is everything, how do you follow your heart?
 Keep Their Lights On Over the Holidays: Flagler Cares, the social service non-profit celebrating its 10th anniversary, is marking the occasion with a fund-raiser to "Keep the Holiday Lights On" by encouraging people to sponsor one or more struggling household's electric bill for a month over the Christmas season. Each sponsorship amounts to $100 donation, with every cent going toward payment of a local power bill. See the donation page here. Every time another household is sponsored, a light goes on on top of a house at Flagler Cares' fundraising page. The goal of the fun-raiser, which Flagler Cares would happily exceed, is to support at least 100 families (10 households for each of the 10 years that Flagler Cares has been in existence). Flagler Cares will start taking applications for the utility fund later this month. Because of its existing programs, the organization already has procedures in place to vet people for this type of assistance, ensuring that only the needy qualify. |
Notably: When I went to college at NYU between 1982 and 1986, tuition was, toward the end, somewhere in the range of $7,000. Since my two older brothers had opted for campus life around the same time, at Columbia both (they were quieter times just then, aside from the protests about South Africa’s apartheid), I stayed home and commuted, which saved us all quite a bit of money: grants took care of a third of my tuition, I took care of a third, and the parents covered the last third. It was doable, even with two other kids in college and, from what I recall, not the wealthiest parental salaries. But we lived in Queens, paid somewhere around $850 for a three-bedroom walk-up, and lived very well, as I recall. Take that $7,000, adjust it for inflation, you get $20,723 in today’s dollars. Rent would be $2,500 in inflation-adjusted dollars. The reality? Rent is in the $4,500 range for a three bedroom in Sunnyside, where we used to live and tuition at NYU today? For commuters, $75,000. $75,000. A 971 percent increase, though inflation increased a cumulative 192 percent. Something has gone very, very wrong in our country. Which brings us to this, below.
—P.T.
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Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Al-Anon Family Groups
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I want science to do something to help the billions of poor people all over the earth. Too much of science today is making toys for the rich. So my mission is to help push science in a new direction; away from toys for the rich, toward necessities for the poor.
–From Freeman Dyson’s 1997 graduation speech at the University of Puget Sound.
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The purpose of life is to perpetuate itself.
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