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Weather: Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the morning, then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Much cooler. Less humid with highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent. Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
- 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: Zachary Tuohey is scheduled to appear before Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols in a status hearing on his aggravated injunction case to which he pleaded in January. He has since violated his probation. The hearing is at 1:30 p.m. in Courtroom 401. Tuohey’s last appearance before Nichols did not go well. See: “A Furious Judge Puts 34-Year-Old Suspect and His Family ‘On Notice’ in Bizarre Aggravated Stalking Case.”
The Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop at 6 p.m. at City Hall. It is expected to discuss its diminishing city manager search and the proposed fuel depot on U.S. 1. For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. For meeting agendas, audio and video, go here. (The time was incorrectly posted as 9 a.m. in an earlier version.)
The Community Traffic Safety Team led by Flagler County Commissioner Andy Dance meets at 9 a.m. in the third-floor Commissioner Conference Room at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. You may also join virtually by computer, mobile app or room device. Click here to join the meeting. Meeting ID: 276 236 998 121 Passcode: CyEKoW [Download Teams | Join on the web]
The Flagler County School Board meets at 3 p.m. in workshop to go over the items on its upcoming school board meeting two weeks hence. The board meets in the training room on the third floor of the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. Board meeting documents are available here.
The Flagler County Planning Board meets at 5:30 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. See board documents, including agendas and background materials, here. Watch the meeting or past meetings here.
The St. Johns River Water Management District Governing Board holds its regular monthly meeting at its Palatka headquarters. The public is invited to attend and to offer in-person comment on Board agenda items. Note: meeting start times vary from month to month. Check here to verify the time. A livestream will also be available for members of the public to observe the meeting online. Governing Board Room, 4049 Reid St., Palatka. Click this link to access the streaming broadcast. The live video feed begins approximately five minutes before the scheduled meeting time. Meeting agendas are available online here.
4-H and FFA Youth Livestock Show and Sale: The Flagler County Fair and Youth Show presents the 4-H and FFA Youth Livestock Showmanship competitions and auction. Monday April 7 @ 6 pm Pullet and Rabbit Competition Wednesday April 9 at 6 p.m., Steer, Heifer and Goat Competition. Thursday April 10 at 6 p.m., Swine Competition. Friday April 11 at 6 p.m., Livestock Auction.
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: That about sums up the past week since last Wednesday’s attempt by maga shah to hump Mt. Mckinley. Except that from here on we won’t be able to enjoy that Fin du Monde without paying $3 a can.
—P.T.
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There are people like that in the world. There are others, like these two customers of the small bar, the only two customers at this late hour, a fat one, who was a butcher, and a thin, clever, pontificating one, quite proud to be employed in an office, perhaps at the town hall, both of whom, at ten o’clock in the evening, were playing checkers near a large stovepipe against which, from time to time, the butcher leaned. The butcher was sure of himself, because he had money and he didn’t care if he lost the round. The skinny guy thought that the world was bad because an educated intellectual should have an easier life than a pig killer.”
–From Georges Simenon’s Maigret gets Angry (1947).
Pogo says
@P.T.
Thank you for the introduction:
As stated
https://www.google.com/search?q=Georges+Simenon
Opinions vary, as does criticism, and its utility; popularity of writing is what it is — and, IMO, usually enjoys much, often good, company:
As stated
https://www.google.com/search?q=Erle+Stanley+Gardner
As stated
https://www.google.com/search?q=Zane+Grey
Pogo says
@Big Brother’s small, awkward claws
… spite, retaliation, oppression, subjugation to tyranny — and the total destruction of our inheritance:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/doge-spying-on-federal-workers-for-anti-trump-musk-messages-report/ar-AA1Cww2s?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=e584926580c24b67998fbf0fdc8521dc&ei=18
Clean your plate, that’s all there is.
Sherry says
MAGA Can’t Even Get The Math Correct!
In an op-ed for The New York Times published Monday, economist Brent Neiman, whose research was used to justify the White House’s implementation of reciprocal tariffs, wrote that the White House fundamentally misunderstood his work.
“My first question, when the White House unveiled its tariff regime, was: How on earth did it calculate such huge rates?” Neiman wrote in the op-ed. “The next day it got personal.”
Shortly after the Trump administration announced its plan to implement tariffs of 10 percent or more on 90 countries—which it claims will eliminate the trade deficit but has only spurred global economic chaos—the Office of the United States Trade Representative published its methodology for the tariff calculations, citing a paper by Neiman and four other economists.
“But it got it wrong. Very wrong. I disagree fundamentally with the government’s trade policy and approach,” Neiman wrote. “But even taking it at face value, our findings suggest the calculated tariffs should be dramatically smaller—perhaps one-fourth as large.”
So if the White House had done the math right, and wanted its absurd trade plan to actually work, 20 percent tariffs should have been … 5 percent.
Ray W, says
Reuters reports that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating whether egg producers conspired to raise prices, and that the nation’s largest egg producer is “cooperating” with the DOJ after receipt of a DOJ “civil investigative demand.”
According to Reuters, “weaker demand and a lull in new cases of bird flu have helped cool prices, analysts said.”
Make of this what you will.
Me?
I checked with the CDC site that lists all outbreaks of avian flu, either in birds or mammals.
Since March 18th, when 1,340,200 commercial table egg pullets were slaughtered and March 17th, when 400,000 commercial table egg pullets were slaughtered, there have been few significant outbreaks of the avian flu, though minor outbreaks in chickens, turkeys and mammals have been reported at a rate of about one every other day.
I also looked for evidence to explain why egg prices have been dropping recently.
Newsweek reported on April 3rd that a recent survey revealed that egg prices, having reached $8 per dozen in various areas of the country, 34% of Americans surveyed said they had stopped buying eggs. Of the people surveyed, 10% of respondents had switched to purchasing egg alternatives. 60% had simply started eating fewer eggs.
Can it be argued that people acted as they always do. When a popular product becomes expensive beyond an individual threshold, people simply change their preferences or habits? That no government action prompted them to alter their consumption of eggs?
For over two years now, a certain clique of gullibly stupid FlaglerLive commenters have railed against the Biden administration over the high price of eggs. In reality, a highly pathogenic form of avian flu that first appeared in 2022 has prompted the slaughter of nearly 170 million birds, mostly egg-laying hens.
As recently as March 18th of this year, over 1 million pullets were ordered destroyed in one location, with another 400,000 ordered destroyed the day before at another location. Since those two dates, more than a dozen avian flu outbreaks, many in mammals, have been detected all across the country, albeit thankfully involving relatively small outbreaks.
In early March, a regular FlaglerLive commenter praised the new administration for bringing down egg prices, when in reality, there is evidence that prices had risen so high that a significant portion of the populace had simply stopped eating eggs. The national supply of eggs had not risen; it was that demand for eggs had fallen.
The avian flu has not gone away. Perhaps egg farmers are getting better at preventing bringing the virus carried by wild fowl from outdoor fecal droppings into their barns.
I have high hopes for the potential DOJ civil prosecution of those egg producers who have been gouging the public by artificially raising egg prices during the 2022-25 avian flu outbreaks.
Already, Kroger officials have admitted under oath that the company engaged in egg (and milk) price gouging of its customers. Kroger’s CEO was forced out due to “unethical practices.”
Texas is already prosecuting the nation’s largest egg producer for price gouging during the 2015 avian flu outbreak, and Texas is investigating the same company’s pricing practices during the pandemic. Time will tell us all the outcome of the DOJ civil investigation.
I suppose that every FlaglerLive reader will have to suffer through the disinformation laundering by the most gullibly stupid among us should egg prices drop due to a combination of fewer Americans eating eggs, due to a hoped for lull in avian flu outbreaks long enough to restock the egg-laying hen population, and due to egg farmers and distributors and grocery stores agreeing to no longer engage in price gouging of their customers.
YankeeExPat says
I am tired of all this winning!