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Weather: Partly sunny with a slight chance of showers in the morning, then mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 40 percent. Wednesday Night: Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 50 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:
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. You can watch it live below:
Separation Chat, Open Discussion: The Atlantic Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State hosts an open, freewheeling discussion on the topic here in our community, around Florida and throughout the United States, noon to 1 p.m. at Pine Lakes Golf Club Clubhouse Pub & Grillroom (no purchase is necessary), 400 Pine Lakes Pkwy, Palm Coast (0.7 miles from Belle Terre Parkway). Call (386) 445-0852 for best directions. All are welcome! Everyone’s voice is important. For further information email [email protected] or call Merrill at 804-914-4460.
The Flagler County Public Library Book Club meets at the Meeting Room of the Palm Coast Branch Library, 2500 Palm Coast Pkwy NW, Palm Coast, from 2:45 to 4:30 p.m. No reservations are required, but please call to verify the date and time of the meeting. New members are always welcome so just show up to join in the literary fun. Today’s book: Isabelle Allende’s Japanese Lover.
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library: Do you enjoy Chess, trying out new moves, or even like some friendly competition? Come visit the Flagler County Public Library at the Teen Spot every Wednesday from 4 to 5 p.m. for Chess Club. Everyone is welcome, for beginners who want to learn how to play all the way to advanced players. For more information contact the Youth Service department 386-446-6763 ext. 3714 or email us at [email protected]
 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. |
Perth Postcard: We interrupt regular programming to bring you a pictures from the man responsible for getting just enough independents and Democrats registered Republican at the last primary to affect a couple of final results. He and his wife went to Australia to see family. The picture above is a beach on the Indian Ocean, at Safety Bay–which has its own Waikiki–a bit south of Perth, that Nice, or niece, of the Indian Ocean and glen of Glenns (see below). It’s the sort of place that makes you wonder why a visitor would want to return here. Then again, it’s not as if our beaches, reconstituted though some are, have much to complain about. The emptiness looks ravishing, as does the color of the ocean. A quick glean of the news from Perth tells us that the city had a $1.8 billion plan (Australian dollars) for a world trade center that just collapsed. And columnist Gary Martin tells us that the “Desire to be liked makes us lose touch with who we are.” Suddenly Perth doesn’t seem so far off. Then there’s this, below.
—P.T.
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Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Flagler County Canvassing Board Meeting
Story Time for Preschoolers at Flagler Beach Public Library
Flagler Tiger Bay Club Guest Speaker: Carlos M. Cruz
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Scenic A1A Pride Meeting
Blue 24 Forum
Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock
Flagler County’s Cold-Weather Shelter Opens
For the full calendar, go here.
Notably: The lights of Perth are burning late again these nights. This city which blazed with light to help John H. Glenn Jr. mark his path in space as he orbited the world in 1962, now marks Christmas with a dazzling electrical display. Until the Glenn flight, Perth was always much prouder of its natural illumination than its electric lights. It boasts that it gets more sunshine than any city in the world, an average of eight hours a day. The Tourist Bureau still calls Perth the “City of Sunshine.” The light bulb, however, is rapidly eclipsing the sun as the city’s symbol. A “City of Lights” theme was first used officially in decorations for the British Commonwealth Games held here in November 1962. The same decorations were used that Christmas. […] Residents are still surprised at how far their city’s new reputation has carried. One television station here called Dallas police headquarters last month, on the day President Kennedy was assassinated. The sergeant who answered the phone could not understand the Australian pronunciation of Perth, so the caller, spelled out the name. “Oh, the city of lights,” the sergeant exclaimed.
–From a J. Anthony Lukas article, “Light Bulb Eclipses Sun as Symbol of Australian City That Aided Glenn,” The New York Times, Dec. 28, 1963.
Ray W says
Harvard University recently hosted Federal Reserve Governor Adriana Kugler, according to Barron’s.
She told her audience that “[w]hile future actions … will depend on data we receive on inflation, employment, and economic activity, if conditions continue to evolve in the direction travelled thus far, then additional cuts will be appropriate.”
According to the author, Gov. Kugler “sees a resilient-but-slowing U.S. economy that the Fed doesn’t want to weaken any further.”
“Moderation in the labor market has slowed wage growth, she added, helping to slow inflation in other services prices. Monthly hiring has slowed this year, as the unemployment rate has increased. The latter is largely a function of an increasing supply of workers, rather than layoffs or other job losses, Kugler said. Immigration has added millions of working-age people to the U.S. economy, while others who left the workforce during the pandemic have slowly returned.
“‘After a couple of years in which labor demand exceeded supply, the labor market has come into balance, reflecting an economy that has moderated in part due to tighter monetary policy, Kugler said.'”
Make of this what you will. Me? Gov. Kugler states the obvious. Over the past couple of years, millions of immigrants entered the country, and it still wasn’t enough to meet the demand for more and more workers created by American businesses. She said that for a couple of years the labor market was out of balance, due to too many unfilled job openings. It was the drag on the economy caused by higher lending rates that has finally brought the labor market back into balance. Gov. Kugler predicts future lending rate cuts if things keep going as they are now going.