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Weather: Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 80s. Lows in the lower 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:
The three-member East Flagler Mosquito Control District Board meets at 10 a.m. at District Headquarters, 210 Airport Executive Drive, Palm Coast. Agendas are available here. District staff, commissioners and email addresses are here. The meetings are open to the public.
The Flagler County Commission meets in workshop at 1 p.m. to discuss the replacement of retiring County Attorney Al Hadeed, an update to the beach management plan, which is teetering, and a presentation from the fire department on its needs in the coming year.
The Flagler County Commission meets at 5 p.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.
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: What the shah of maralago is really pissed about. From Statista: “While China’s status as the world’s largest manufacturing hub seems to be a law of nature these days – one only challenged by President Trump – that hasn’t always been the case. In fact, as recently as 2009, the U.S. trumped China in manufacturing output as measured by total value added in the sector. China’s manufacturing output climbed from roughly $134 billion in 1980 to roughly $4.8 trillion in 2023. During that time, China’s share of global manufacturing output climbed from 5 percent to around 30 percent, while former manufacturing leader the United States saw its share drop from 21 to 17 percent. In 2001, the U.S. share of global manufacturing peaked at 28 percent, but China’s accession to the WTO in 2001, which opened the country up to the world economy, quickly changed the balance of power.”
—P.T.
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May 2026
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
“Once on This Island,” At Limelight Theatre
Al-Anon Family Groups
Nar-Anon Family Group
Bunnell City Commission Meeting
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry
Flagler County School Board Information Workshop
Flagler County Affordable Housing Committee Meeting
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 10-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club
NAACP Flagler Branch General Membership Meeting
Flagler County School Board Meeting
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
For the full calendar, go here.
Now that Harvard University has decided to defy the Trump administration, the stage is set for an epic struggle, one that has already defied the expectations of cynics on both sides. After being presented with new demands, Columbia is refusing to comply. No thanks to our fair-weather friends, our acting president, Claire Shipman, has vowed to reject any agreement in which “the government dictates what we teach, research or who we hire” as well as one that would “require us to relinquish our independence and autonomy as an educational institution.” Columbia alumni are rallying in support. The greatness of American universities is at risk because anti-intellectuals are undermining the foundation of academic excellence: the ability of teachers and researchers to work without political micromanagement in the pursuit of truth, even when these truths are unpopular. Colleges and universities should join a mutual defense pact, as faculty members at several universities, including Rutgers and Indiana University have proposed. If we speak with one voice, we can better articulate the essential importance of universities to the American way of life.
–From From Matthew Connelly’s “I’m a Columbia Professor. Here’s the Really Disheartening Part of This Mess,” The New York Times, April 16, 2025 .
Dennis C Rathsam says
If Obama & Biden, didn’t send all of our jobs overseas,now TRUMP has to bring them back with great tax rates! TRUMP cleaning up the Biden folly!
Jim says
Dennis, just out of curiosity, who was president between Obama and Biden? If you figure that out, next question: How many jobs did that guy bring back during his four year term?
It really doesn’t matter. Trump wrecks the economy, drives away our closest allies, sucks up to Putin like nobody has seen before, tramples on our rights (I know you don’t agree but in this country we’re supposed to give deportees a court hearing first) and lies daily. From The Hill: “Trump praised Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins for doing a “great” job and then asserted that egg prices are “down 87 percent, but nobody talks about that.” “. Well, I can’t speak for you but Walmart has a dozen at $5.52 so if that’s down 87%, then recently they were selling for around $37 (if I did my math right). Now, in the real world, people would hear a president lie like that and question almost every thing he said after that. Also, if that president had been Biden, you would have screamed that he was senile. But Trump flat out lies to the world and you don’t even blink.
Trump isn’t going to bring any jobs back. Wait and see. You’ll hear of some jobs coming back but it won’t be many and it won’t turn America into a manufacturing country again. But I know you don’t believe that because DJT said it will happen.
Just like he was going to stop the Russia-Ukraine war on “day 1”. But of course, you don’t even recognize that Trump says Ukraine started that war is another lie. So it’s hard to accept that folks like you are allowed to vote, own guns and drive vehicles on public roads!
Sherry says
Your last sentence says it all Jim! A huge ‘Thank You”!