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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, September 3, 2024

September 3, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The Voter Purge by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com
The Voter Purge by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com

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Weather: Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent. Heat index values up to 106. Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy. Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 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 Daytona Beach (a few minutes off from Flagler Beach) here.
  • tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.




Today at a Glance:

In Court: Tyler Habdas is sentenced at 8:30 a.m. by Circuit Judge Terence Perkins in Courtroom 401 at the Flagler County courthouse. A jury in a July trial found Habdas guilty on nine charges involving video voyeurism of his 12-year-old stepdaughter. He faces second and third degree felony charges that together add up to a maximum of 75 years in prison, though his scoresheet will place him at considerably below that number, while the judge retains discretion on the sentence. See: “Jury Finds Man Guilty on 9 Counts in Video Voyeurism of 12-Year-Old Stepdaughter in Her Bathroom.”

The Flagler County Commission meets at 9 a.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. Meetings stream live on the Flagler County YouTube page.

The Flagler County School Board holds a workshop at 3 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. The board meets again at 5:15 p.m. to adopt its budget and tax rate for the fiscal year.

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 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 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.

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.






Notably: The New York Post maintains a “complete collection of the best Donald Trump New York Post covers.” I don’t know how complete it is, since it starts in 1990. I recall in my high school and college years, when I commuted on the 7 and 6 lines, the Post would come out in the afternoon and Trump’s face would often be underfoot already, back when just about everyone on the train read something, a quarter read the Post in the evening commute, to the extent that it could be read before junking it on the train’s floor. Any Trump headline oozed with sleaze though Trump on the cover of the New York Post was always a tautology, the Post being the essence of sleaze. Long gone were the days when the paper Alexander Hamilton launched in 1801 had (to his Hoboken bloodied grief) was a liberal tabloid, starting in 1829 under William Cullen Bryant: it opposed the Bank of the United States but supported Andrew Jackson, the republic’s first Trumpian type. Then it opposed the other Andrew’s impeachment. By 1967 it was the only afternoon paper left in New York, but then came the Schiff family’s sale, in 1976, to Rupert Murdoch. That was the end of the Post as a newspaper, the beginning of the Post as a roll of sleaze, and the beginning of Rupert’s bromance with Donald Trump, not long afterward. Crime, sex, scandal, gore, no distinction between reporting and the conservative screeds on the editorial page. A natural home for Trump. But it always posted a loss. By 1988, Murdoch had lost $150 million (I’m getting all this from the Kenneth T. Jackson’s fabulous Encyclopedia of New York). He sold it to Peter Kalikow so he could have his Fox News TV empire, but only until 1993, when Murdoch bought it back. Here we are. Still Trump. Still sleaze. Still Murdoch.

—P.T.

 

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October 2025
flagler beach united methodist church food bank
Thursday, Oct 23
9:30 am - 12:00 pm

Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry

Flagler Beach United Methodist Church
Courts around Florida are overworked and need more judges, the Supreme Court found. While the 7th Judicial Circuit, which includes Flagler County, was found to need some additional judges, Flagler County was not among divisions considered in need. (© FlaglerLive)
Thursday, Oct 23
10:00 am - 11:00 am

Flagler County Drug Court Convenes

Flagler County courthouse
Thursday, Oct 23
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center

Central Park in Town Center
palm coast logo
Thursday, Oct 23
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Palm Coast Beautification and Environmental Advisory Committee

Palm Coast City Hall
flagler beach city commission logo
Thursday, Oct 23
5:30 pm - 10:30 pm

Flagler Beach City Commission Meeting

Flagler Beach City Hall
Thursday, Oct 23
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town,’ at Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine

Limelight Theatre
florida ethics commission
Friday, Oct 24
8:30 am - 10:00 am

Florida Ethics Commission Meeting

pierre tristam on the radio wnzf
Friday, Oct 24
9:00 am - 10:00 am

Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF

WNZF
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Friday, Oct 24
9:00 am - 10:00 am

Scenic A1A Pride Meeting

Hammock Community Center
palm coast democratic club
Friday, Oct 24
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm

Friday Blue Forum

Flagler County Democratic Party HQ
Friday, Oct 24
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock

Friday, Oct 24
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town,’ at Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine

Limelight Theatre
Friday, Oct 24
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

‘The 39 Steps,’ at the Daytona Playhouse

Daytona Playhouse
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Near the end of Donald Trump’s first year in power, for instance, The New York Times reported that, before taking office, he had “told top aides to think of each presidential day as an episode in a television show in which he vanquishes rivals.” This Hobbesian view of the presidency—that every single day is a war of all against all—is novel and out of sync with much of the presidential past.”

–From Jon Meacham’s The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels (2018).

 

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  1. Ray W. says

    September 3, 2024 at 9:36 am

    Ford’s EV division COO, Marin Gjaja, told The Cool Down that for was both pivoting to smaller, less expensive EVs and developing a new lithium-iron-phosphate battery line.

    “Our sense,’ Gjaja said, “is the uptake on electric vehicles will be on smaller vehicles over time. That’s where you will see the most acceleration because that’s the group that’s going to be most sensitive to fuel costs.”

    As for the batteries, they are more affordable and durable. Per Gjaja, the LFP batteries are “basically indestructible” and can be handle far more charging cycles that current lithium-ion batteries.

    Make of this what you will. Me? Battery development is so rapid these day that long-term investments in what might be considered accepted battery technology are relatively risky. I don’t see advances in battery aspects slowing down. Investing billions in factories to build today’s widely used liquid-state lithium batteries might be for naught if solid-state batteries come to swamp the sector with cheaper, more powerful, lighter, and more easily chargeable options.

    And it might be that the luxury high-end EV market is saturated with products from more than a dozen manufacturers. The target market for that type of personal transportation is much smaller than the city-car marketplace.

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