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Weather: Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent. Monday Night: Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.
- 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:
Cello Studio Recital, 8:30 p.m. at 7:30 p.m., Elizabeth Hall, Room 100 (Lee Chapel), 421 North Woodland Boulevard, DeLand. Free and open to the public. Presented by the Stetson School of Music.
Nar-Anon Family Groups offers hope and help for families and friends of addicts through a 12-step program, 6 p.m. at St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church, 303 Palm Coast Pkwy NE, Palm Coast, Fellowship Hall Entrance. See the website, www.nar-anon.org, or call (800) 477-6291. Find virtual meetings here.
Notably: Last week Assistant Principal Sara Novak and Principal Kristin Bozeman from Matanzas High School and Assistant Superintendent Dr. Angela O’Brien were in Orlando for a graduation ceremony after successfully completing the Florida Department of Education’s (FLDOE) Chancellor’s Leadership Academy. The FLDOE Chancellor’s Leadership Academy offers professional development for educational leaders, including assistant principals, principals and district-based instructional leaders. This program builds a statewide network of leaders while strengthening their instructional leadership skills.
—P.T.
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January 2026
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Friday Blue Forum
‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,’ the Billie Holiday Story, at City Rep Theatre
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
American Association of University Women (AAUW) Meeting
‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,’ the Billie Holiday Story, at City Rep Theatre
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A few weeks later, I become a citizen of the United States. Immigrants are supposed to be grateful. The narrative arc of immigration, in which one flees their own failing society to come to a better place, a country that was under no obligation to accept them but did, demands perpetual gratitude. And it exists, this gratitude, but the narrative makes no room for the many shapes it comes in, its many less straightforward forms. I harbor no ill will toward the immigrant who waves the miniature flag on the sides of the Independence Day parade, who says honestly and plainly: I love this country. But nor do I judge the immigrant who is as emotionless and pragmatic about the nation-state as the people who run that nation-state are so regularly emotionless and pragmatic about immigrants, who says honestly and plainly: I don’t love this country, don’t love any country, patriotism being the property of an entirely different kind of life than luck has given me; I live here because it will always be safer to live on the launching side of the missiles. I live here because I am afraid.
–From Omar el Akkad’s One Day Everyone Will have Been Against This (2025).
Pogo says
@Musk drops mask
As stated
https://www.google.com/search?q=musk+civilization+at+stake
An old song by the usual suspects…
https://www.google.com/search?q=camp+of+the+saints
… and a sociopath with the money to carry the tune all the way to hell.
“I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.”
― W.H. Auden
https://www.google.com/search?q=w+h+auden
James says
Something had bothered me about the Bunnell Elementary incident… and still does.
Perhaps in the end it’s simply not (only) that the teachers resorted to coercion and bribery, but that they had completely lost sight of their own accomplishments and their own living example to those students to whom they were trying to effect academic change.
None seemed to come out and say… “I’m a teacher, I’m proud to be one, it’s an honorable profession and it’s an honest living… and YOU TOO CAN BE ONE SOME DAY.”
There’s really something wrong when teachers seem to forget that… or are led to lose sight of the most basic of lessons to their pupils, that of their own living example… by circumstance.
But I suppose that’s what Pierre was noting back when he commented on the pressures and predicaments afflicting many teachers, both internal and external to the classroom today.
Just a final comment… an opportunity to put voice to a point of thought on that matter which had eluded me.
EMOJI says
👑🦈 + 🏴☠️ = 🔥🇺🇸👊