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Today at a Glance:
River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) Bicycle/Pedestrian Advisory Committee meets at 9 a.m. at the Airline Room at the Daytona Beach International Airport. The TPO’s planning oversight includes all of Volusia County and the developed areas of eastern Flagler County including Beverly Beach and Flagler Beach as well as portions of the cities of Palm Coast and Bunnell, with board member representation from each of those jurisdictions. The committee is responsible for reviewing plans, policies, and procedures and rank priority projects as they relate to bicycle and pedestrian issues within the TPO planning area. See the full agendas here. To join the meeting electronically, go here.
David Jolly Town Hall, 5:30 p.m. at Palm Coast United Methodist Church, 6500 Belle Terre Parkway. David Jolly, a centrist Republican U.S. Representative for Florida’s the 13th Congressional District in Pinellas County from 2014 to 2017–he defeated Alex Sink–switched to the Democratic Party in April and is considering a run for governor, a decision he intends to make around Memorial Day. He is the Executive Vice President and Principal of Shumaker Advisors Florida. “Jolly has been attending Democratic town-hall meetings since he announced that he was considering a run for governor a month ago,” the Florida Phoenix reported, “and he says those meetings have encouraged him to step back into the political arena. The intensity displayed in these events in reaction to the first months of the second iteration of a Trump presidency shows that Democrats have a chance to win back voters disaffected by the party in recent years, he said.” Jolly has been an analyst for MSNBC and has been featured in numerous national media.
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.
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]
Mother’s Day in Gaza is just another day for Israel to kill Palestinian mothers and their children. pic.twitter.com/9aoMyBXW9j
— Assal Rad (@AssalRad) May 11, 2025
Notably: I realize that Gaza made an appearance on this page and in this space just a few days ago, and that it’s really overkill to note mention twice in five or six days that 52,000 people have now been massacred there, but four days ago The Economist updated its own death tally, with mind-boggling drone images of Gaza that, without exaggertion, make Dresden after the allied bombing look salvageable in comparison. (Incidentally, the death tally in Gaza is now twice that of Dresden.) The Economist: “The precise daily counts from Gaza are unusual. No such tally emerges from Ukraine. But during this war, as in past ones, Gaza’s authorities, run by Hamas, have issued details of how many Palestinians have been killed. Doubts about such figures are reasonable. Hamas, presumably, has an incentive to inflate civilian losses. When previous conflicts ended, however, estimates from Israel and the UN of the numbers killed have roughly matched those released during the fighting. This war has been far more extensive and lasted longer than any in the past. Many of the institutions that count deaths, such as hospitals, have been destroyed. As of May 5th, the health ministry said that 52,615 people had died in the war. As in previous wars, its tally does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. In January, Israel estimated that about 20,000 of those killed were militants.” Yet the Lancet, the medical journal, considers the figures low. “The researchers found that the overlap was so small that the true number of deaths was probably 46-107% higher than the official ministry total. If you assume that the ratio has stayed the same since last June (and not fallen, as systems caught up during the ceasefire, say) and apply them to the current tally, it would suggest that between 77,000 and 109,000 Gazans have been killed, 4-5% of the territory’s pre-war population (see chart).” The 109,000 figure should strike home. It is the population of Palm Coast. It is every home, every school, every hospital, every business: leveled. erased. Somewhere in that rubble, a young Palestinian Vonnegut is writing his own Children’s Crusade, though we can only wish he could say, and so it goes.
—P.T.
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June 2025
In Court: John Cascone Probation Violation Hearing
Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club
Flagler Beach Planning and Architectural Review Board
Palm Coast City Council Meeting
Bunnell Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board Meeting
Separation Chat: Open Discussion
Flagler Beach Library Book Club
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Flagler County Republican Club Meeting
Flagler Beach Parks Ad Hoc Committee
For the full calendar, go here.
My husband, Jamal Hamad, 39, and I have six children: Nagham, 15, Shatha, 13, Jawad, 11, ‘Abd al-Wahab, 10, Sila, 4, and ‘Alaa, 1, who was born during the war. The past year and a half, we’ve been living in a hell of war and destruction: bombings, killing, starvation, and being displaced again and again. At the beginning of the brutal war on Gaza, we and my husband’s family left our homes in eastern Jabalya Refugee Camp and moved to the home of relatives in western Gaza City. We stayed with them for 45 days of fear and panic, surrounded by fire and bombings. Everywhere we went, leaflets were dropped from the air ordering us to evacuate. There was no safe place. Later, we were displaced again with my husband’s family to an apartment in al-Maghazi Refugee Camp in the central Gaza Strip. There were 35 of us in an 80-square-meter apartment. The situation there was catastrophic, no less than in the north. After we were displaced, hunger spread throughout the Gaza Strip. We lived without meat, vegetables, or fruit — products that almost completely disappeared from the markets. A 25-kilogram sack of flour sold for nearly 300 shekels, compared to 30 shekels before the war. We are a big family, and all we ate was canned food and grains. We usually had one meal a day, at most two. I remember that on the day I gave birth to my daughter ‘Alaa, I ate falafel, and for lunch I ate some halva in the hope it would help me breastfeed her. I was constantly hungry. I didn’t eat any vegetables, fruit or meat, and was afraid I wouldn’t make enough milk. It was especially hard because infant formula was almost impossible to obtain. ‘Alaa cried all the time. Jamal, my husband, would go out looking for formula for her, but only managed to get a single tin from time to time, which was enough for only a week. After the invasion of Rafah, we were displaced again, this time to a tent in Khan Yunis. The constant displacement made our suffering much worse. My husband, my kids and I lived in that tent for eight months. We suffered from the lack of food, the daily struggle to find some, and the misery of living in a tent that offered no protection at all. The tent was full of insects, flies and mosquitoes. I found them on my kids’ bodies day and night. We also suffered from stray dogs that roamed near our tent and in the surrounding streets. But the hunger overshadowed everything. We ate only canned food, fava beans, lentils and noodles. I feel like our stomachs have shrunk and atrophied because we haven’t been eating healthily, only canned goods and grains.
–From the testimony of Anwar Hamad, a Gaza resident, to B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights organization, April 20, 2025.
Pogo says
@Collateral damage from ISIS, HAMAS, Hezbollah, Ansar Allah, PLO, Iran, Iraq, Persian Gulf states
… and their Christian Right friends in the United States:
The planet Earth.
And so it goes.
Kennan says
Well done Pierre. I’ve been saying it for the past year. These figures are far higher than reported, and what’s reported is bad enough.
It’s crazy you don’t know why you hold out for humanity anymore.
Israeli forces killed at least 84 people since dawn Tuesday, medics say victims include 50 people who were killed in North Gaza. Thousands of people have been killed since Israel broke ceasefire in March and since humanitarian was blocked on March 2, 2025.
Israel led raids on May 13 when patients were trying to get to hospital in Khan Yunis on Tuesday. They were killed or wounded for their efforts as CCTV footage shows. Details are scant as nobody could get close to hospital, because Israeli army was attacking anyone who tried to do that.
Netanyahu is quoted as saying, “We will not die with Palestinians. We want them to die alone”.
The media has manufactured consent. Has iced out Palestinian voices. Americans don’t hear from Middle Eastern experts. People in Janin or the occupied West Bank. That’s a problem. A very one sided view of the conflict. A recent Pew poll puts American support for Palestine at 52%. They are more critical of Israel and that is despite the media coverage in favor of Israel. Can you imagine how critical we would be if coverage was close to accurate.
I’m at a loss. Any policy maker in this country that does not acknowledge the Genocide we see before us is a racist. Plain and simple. The sad part is there are far too many racists on the hill. Folks that are bought and paid for by the American Israeli Political Action Committee. They run everything from media to our foreign policy. These are not Jews, but instead they are ZIONSTS. NAZIS that don’t represent many Jews in America, but weild unprecedented power. A hateful group of people that spread a hateful message with the help of a healthy portion of GREED and/or IGNORANCE.
Skibum says
The current circus… oops, I mean “administration” of the Trump 2.0 presidency is no longer even attempting to hide the grift and corruption. No, they are so brazen that the occupier of the WH, his two sons, and other unethical sycophants in positions of power are pushing it right in our faces, daring anyone to just try to stop it when they have arguably the most powerful convicted felon in the world behind them to ensure they all do his bidding. So, yeah, the unethical and corrupt Supreme Court associate justice Clarence Thomas cannot even hold a candle to the dirty deeds the felon in the WH is doing while on his routine, always first oversees trips as soon as he is elected to make more “business” deals with wealthy Arabian royals including the murderous crown prince of Saudi Arabia. Do people even realize what is happening in each of the middle east countries drumph is visiting before he arrives? It was reported on national media news this morning that BOTH of his sons are preceding him to each of those countries. Now, why in the world would he be sending his sons in advance to meet with the leaders of every middle east country he is going to unless it is to work out more grift and corruption for daddy so the felon can sign “deals” while traveling on American taxpayer expense! Oh yeah, the old Hunter Biden supposed corruption is NOTHING ever close to the ongoing and ever-present grift and corruption that is the hallmark of the Trump empire!!! Now, he is even so emboldened as to try to craft a sweet, near HALF BILLION $$$$$ way to acquire a 747 flying palace from Qatar royals, “supposedly” to be used as Air Force 1 for drumph’s use ONLY and then it would stay in his control afterward and go to his future presidential library?! But, of course, as everything else he does, he says one thing and then does something completely different. I suspect his ultimate motivation is that he realizes his current personal plane, that old and outdated 757 he flies around on when not on the taxpayer dole is in need of replacing and wouldn’t a relatively new 747 flying palace fit for a king be SWEET!!! I know damn well that corrupt, convicted felon will try any and all schemes while in office to made damn sure he will be able to have a flying palace of his own that was supposed to be U.S. government property… and just laugh along with his other billionaire cronies about how gullible and stupid U.S. taxpayers are. Yes, he stands there in front of the cameras telling all of us how we need to tighten our belts while he decimates the nation’s economy, saying little girls “only need to have 2 dolls instead of 30” Exactly which little girls are given 30 dolls by their parents anyway!!! Oh yeah, only the ones born with silver spoons in their mouths like the 1%ers who damn well DON’T need any more of our taxpayer dollars given to them while normal, everyday Americans suffer and have to make do with less! Jeez, I cannot wait for the day when I can go to his gravesite, mash my dirty shoe soles into the ground on top of his rotting body to celebrate the eternal absence of the absolute WORST example of human excrement to ever soil and tarnish the trappings of presidential power in the history of our nation.
Ray W, says
Fox Business has its own take on the current state of egg prices in the U.S., derived from yesterday’s Bureau of Labor Statistics consumer price index for April 2025.
Here are some bullet points from the Fox Business article:
– BLS data from 2021, just before the bird flu outbreak, reflected an average price of $1.80 per dozen grade A large eggs.
– By January 2023, the average price for a dozen large eggs was $4.82.
– The average price trended down to about $2 per dozen before “gradually rising in 2024 and early 2025 until the latest peak in March.”
– The price peak of $6.23 for a dozen grade A eggs occurred in March 2025, up from $5.90 per dozen in February.
– April 2025’s average price was $4.95 per dozen. Comparatively, for the month of April 2024, egg prices averaged $2.86 per dozen.
– When compared to historical trends, the Fox Business quoted language from a different USDA-generated report:
“Price levels to the consumer have eased considerably from early-year highs but remain at levels not conducive to more than normal purchases needs as consumers are slow to adjust to what may be the new near-term normal.”
– “Overall imports of shell and egg products rose 3 percent in March with an 18 percent increase in value driven by efforts to supplement shell and egg products in the domestic market due to reduced production resulting from persistent outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza in the first two months of the year.”
– “Imports of table shell eggs increased 257 percent as with two additional nations, Brazil and Honduras, shipping shell eggs to the U.S. in addition to Turkey and Mexico. … Imports of liquid egg products increased 11 percent for the month; 32 percent over year ago levels as both China and Thailand more than doubled their volumes from the prior month. Imports of liquid yolks increased 29 percent as Canada increased their shipments.”
– The Animal and Plant Health Information Service, an agency imbedded within the USDA, declared that the continuing avian flu outbreak from 2022 was “the largest and longest outbreak in the history of the United States.”
Make of this what you will.
Me?
I remember then-candidate J.D. Vance standing in front of an egg display case as he blamed the Biden administration for high egg prices. At the time of his claim, prices listed on display stickers behind him had eggs priced lower than what Vance claimed they cost. Yet, he insisted that they cost more.
Fox Business is quoting a number of government agencies to support its point that the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus, now the largest and longest viral spread in US history, is directly responsible for the long-term rise in egg prices.
It ought to be obvious to all by now that each time the current administration blames high egg prices on Biden administration policies it proves that the current administration is lying to the American people. And it should be equally obvious to all FlaglerLive readers by now that each time one of the several gullibly stupid regular commenters among us blames the Biden administration for high egg prices, he or she is laundering a lie to the FlaglerLive community.
There can be no doubt by now that there exists at the top of one of our two political parties a professional lying class. The modus operandi of that class of persons is to lie in hopes that the gullibly stupid among us will launder the lies.
There remains zero evidence that even one Haitian immigrant ate one or more pets while living in Springfield, Ohio. The woman who posted the original comment repudiated her decision, admitting that it was based on distorted hearsay. Yet Vance, when confronted afterward, stated that if it took him lying in order to get the press talking, he would continue to lie.
Pogo says
@Something else
… something better:
Circle of kindness
https://news.va.gov/140025/circle-of-kindness/
Laurel says
Oh come on, Skibum, feel a little pain. Don’t think of the nine bathrooms Trump would have access to on the Qartari jet, in 2028 after it has been refurbished with a billion of taxpayers’ dollars. Baby wants his toys. He peppers the White House with gold plated kitsch while we wait for a concept of a health insurance plan. He’s thinking of us only while on the golf course. His faithful cry about how we are caring for the rest of the world and how we should take care of Americans first, while the current administration chainsaws Meals on Wheels and programs for disadvantaged American kids. Don Jr. and Eric precede daddy to the Arab countries while reminding us of Hunter Biden’s (still) mysterious laptop. The Department of Defense needs a flying palace.
Well, somebody has to get something out of this administration, right?
It is so incredibly hard to believe that any Americans put up with this for an instant.
James says
I can understand that it would be difficult to choose some token, some small trinket, some humble gratuity that reflects one’s appreciation for all that Trump has done for them… after all, he is a man that has it all… but a 747 jet aircraft?
Some here still remember 911.
Of course this is a gift of the Qatar government, no connection to that tragic event… but couldn’t they just have given him a solid gold cutlery set? Or perhaps a set of those fancy sabre swords he was so fond of… gold handled, and gem encrusted of course.
A jet aircraft like a 747 seems in poor taste… but then again, it’s his choice. He doesn’t have to accept it… right?
Just an opinion.
Bob says
[Disallowed. Do not use this site to spread disinformation. Thanks.–FL]
bob says
Sorry, this website is nothing but disinformation.
Laurel says
bob: Just because the information here does not align with the propaganda you have absorbed over the past ten years, it doesn’t make what’s written here wrong. If you have factual information with substantial accurate backup, please proceed. But if you are just going to parrot disinformation without substantial fact, your parrot won’t fly.
Sherry says
@ bob. . . Bye! Bye! Don’t let the door hit you on the way out!
Sherry says
Right On Laurel. . . Very Well Said!