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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.
| In Coming Days: Sept. 16: NAACP Candidate Forum: The NAACP Flagler Branch hosts a candidate forum featuring local candidates in the Nov. 5 election for Palm Coast City Council, at 6 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE. September 17: Celebrate Constitution Day With County Judge Andrea Totten, 1 p.m. at the Flagler County Public Library, 2500 Palm Coast Pkwy NW, Palm Coast. The special Constitution Day program features the Honorable Andrea K. Totten in the Doug Cisney Room. The event offers a unique opportunity to explore the significance of the United States Constitution and its impact on our lives today. Judge Totten will share her insights into the importance of upholding constitutional principles in our democracy. Engage in enlightening discussions, ask questions, and deepen your understanding of the Constitution's role in shaping our nation's history and future. Don't miss this enlightening and educational event at the heart of our community's civic engagement. Sept. 19: Sheriff's Summit to Protect and Serve Seniors, 3 to 5 p.m. at the Sheriff's Operations Center, 2101 Commerce Pkwy, Bunnell. Participants will benefit from a presentation about frequent scams and frauds, have access to free document shredding and paramedicine, and will get a tour of the Sheriff's Office Museum. The event is free to the public. Sept. 19: 988 Suicide Prevention Walk: 5:30 at Wadsworth Park, 2200 Moody Blvd., Flagler Beach. The Rotary Club of Flagler Beach will host an Awareness Walk to promote the 988 National Suicide Crisis Hotline at 6:00 p.m. on September 19, 2024. Participants will walk from Wadsworth Park in Flagler Beach, over the Rt. 100 bridge to Veterans Park where we will gather for a brief ceremony. Anyone wishing to participate should arrive at Wadsworth Park at 5:30 pm. After a brief welcome, the walk will begin at 6 p.m. Participants are encouraged, if possible, to wear purple and/or teal, the colors of suicide prevention awareness. Advanced registration is not required. All are welcome at this cost-free event that aims to bring the community together to raise awareness about the importance of mental health and the critical resources available through the 988 hotline. Sept. 25: The Palm Coast Tiger Bay Club presents a candidate forum ahead of the Nov. 5 general election, Sept. 25, 5 to 8 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE. The forum will feature the candidates in three runoff elections for mayor and Palm Coast City Council seats. The forum is free and open to the public, and will be simulcast on WNZF and live-streamed on FlaglerLive, among other media sources. |
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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Palm Coast City Council Workshop
Community Traffic Safety Team Meeting
St. Johns River Water Management District Meeting
Flagler Beach Library Book Club
Flagler County Planning Board Meeting
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
Elks Lodge’s Annual 9/11 Ceremony
River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) Bicycle/Pedestrian Advisory Committee Meeting
Separation Chat: Open Discussion
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
For the full calendar, go here.
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).
Ray W. says
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.