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Weather: A slight chance of thunderstorms. A chance of showers in the morning, then showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent. Friday Night: Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
- Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
- Check today’s tides in Flagler Beach here.
- tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
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. after FlaglerLive Editor Pierre Tristam’s Reality Check. Today’s guests: Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin, Flagler Beach City Manager Dale Martin and Flagler County Commission Chair Andy Dance, who will discuss the much-reduced state appropriations they are receiving than the amounts they expected. 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.
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.
The St. Augustine Music Festival, a series of free concerts in the historic Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine. The concerts take place Friday to Sunday at 7:30 p.m. with a different performance each evening. 38 Cathedral Place, St. Augustine. 904-342-5175 www.staugustinemusicfestival.org.
In Coming Days: June 27: Flagler Tiger Bay Club Candidate Meet and Greet: 5 to 8 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway. As part of Flagler Tiger Bay Club voter education program, we are hosting a candidate meet and greet.  This is your opportunity to meet, talk with, get information, and form informed opinions about the people who want to govern our local communities.  A s it stands today, approximately 70 percent or more of local positions up for 2024 local election could be filled at or before the August Primary Election.  Make this a must attend event on your calendar. A Flagler Tiger Bay Club Straw poll candidate vote and results will be conducted by Flagler County Supervisor of Elections. There’ll also be voter registration and food available for purchase. Flagler Tiger Bay Club is a nonpartisan political club. We do not support or endorse candidates nor do we advocate or take sides on issues. Rally for Reproductive Rights: Members and friends of the Atlantic Coast Chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State (www.au.org) will gather to rally for Women’s Reproductive Rights from 4 to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, July 3, at the northwest corner of Belle Terre and Pine Lake Parkways in Palm Coast. They protest Florida’s six-week abortion ban and urge voters to vote “Yes” on Florida Amendment 4, Right to Abortion Initiative. This event will last an hour and is open to the public; all are welcome. There is no charge. Participants are invited to bring US flags and their own signs promoting religious freedom, separation of church and state, and reproductive rights. For further information email [email protected] or call 804-914-4460. |
In medias res: From the Miami Herald in mid-May: “Sea levels are rising, swamping roads and homes in South Florida. And it’s picked up the pace in recent years. In the last 80 years, sea level rise has risen about a foot, with 8 inches of that total in the last 30 years. […] According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s best estimates, that pace is expected to speed up — dramatically. It took about 80 years for the first foot. The second one will only take 30 years. The next, 20 years. And Florida could see the next foot in merely a decade after that. […] That’s according to NOAA’s “intermediate-high” projection of sea level rise. The agency created a range of predictions — low, intermediate-low, intermediate, intermediate-high and high — to estimate what sea level rise could look like in places like Florida. So far, scientists have found that we’re trending toward the high end of those predictions. […] Those are the same predictions used by South Florida governments when deciding how high to build new developments. But after a new bill signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis this year, local governments hoping for state money for sea rise projects have to only consider the intermediate-low and intermediate scenarios, a downgrade from previous legislation that asked them to consider intermediate-low and intermediate-high scenarios.” Quick, get your beachfront property in the P-Section.Â
—P.T.
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Separation Chat: Open Discussion
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Flagler County Public Library Book Club
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Palm Coast Beautification and Environmental Advisory Committee
Flagler Tiger Bay Club 2024 Candidate Meet & Greet
Flagler Beach City Commission Meeting
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But we who live today can only wonder; a rising sea could write a different history.
–From Rachel Carson’s The Edge of the Sea (1955).
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Jim says
I never have expected “Justice” Thomas to have any ethical or moral concerns about all the bribes (call them what you want) he has received. Very few thieves and criminals have remorse. They just want to get away with the crime. What really upsets and disappoints me is the the Chief Justice (Roberts) has repeatedly declined to address the issue and claims the court polices itself. Al Capone would have done a better job of policing Chicago than this court is doing!
And the Republicans – the party that used to claim they were for Law and Order, stanchly defend Thomas (and Alito) on all of it. Their very transparent reasoning is that they want the court to be very right wing in their decisions and have no issues with the ethics of the right wing justices. I wonder what they would say if a liberal justice had a $278k loan on their RV forgiven?
This is the result of the lack of any moral compass among the Republicans who want to get religion in the government, ban transgenders from everything and everywhere, get books out of schools, cry about the border (but do nothing), contain some of the most despicable politicians in history (Trump, Gaetz, MTG, Boebert, Cruz, Hawley, Graham, Ron Johnson, Stefanik, Jim Jordan, Paul Gosar, Mitch McConnell, and Mike Johnson). I just hope we’ll start waking up and do something about this in November. It didn’t happen overnight and we can’t fix it overnight but this is a good time and place to start.