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Today at a Glance:
Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres, an hour-long public affairs radio show featuring local newsmakers, personalities, public health updates and the occasional surprise guest, starts a little after 9 a.m. after FlaglerLive Editor Pierre Tristam’s Reality Check. Today’s guests include Flagler County Commissioner Leann Pennington. See previous podcasts here. On WNZF at 94.9 FM, 1550 AM, and live at Flagler Broadcasting’s YouTube channel.
Volusia County Drug Court Celebrates 100th Graduation, 10 a.m. in Courtroom 1 at the Volusia County Courthouse, 101 N. Alabama Ave., DeLand. Established in 1997, the Volusia County Drug Court was the first program of its kind in the Seventh Judicial Circuit and remains its longest-standing problem-solving court. Since its inception, the court has supported individuals on the path to recovery, with 1,354 participants successfully completing the program. At this milestone event, judges Elizabeth Blackburn and Kathleen McNeilly will graduate 14 participants from Drug Court. The ceremony will also recognize several former Drug Court judges who helped shape the program’s legacy, along with the many community partners who have contributed to the program’s success. Graduates are expected to share personal stories that highlight the impact of accountability, treatment, and peer support —core values of the Drug Court model. Media are encouraged to attend and witness the transformative power of these programs firsthand.
The Friday Blue Forum, a discussion group organized by local Democrats, meets at 12:15 p.m. at the Flagler Democratic Office at 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite C214 (above Cue Note) at City Marketplace. Come and add your voice to local, state and national political issues.
Notably: The goons are now targeting journalists. Not just the goons in the streets. The goons in corporate suites. Terry Moran’s tweets when he was still an ABC News reporter may have been foolish to post for a straight-news reporter at a principal network already in the shah’s crosshairs. ABC had already caved and settled a lawsuit after George Stephanopoulos paraphrased a judge’s words calling Trump a rapist. Moran maybe should have known better than to tempt the goons again in the blogosphere. Calling the shah and his junta “world-class haters” isn’t news, and his description of Stephen Miller was dead-on: “Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. He’s a world-class hater. You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate.” His editor might have suggested he tone it down. But a firing offense? That’s where we are. Meanwhile, they’re shooting at journalists in Los Angeles. Of course they are. What do you think is ABC’s message, firing a reporter for telling truths on his own social media platform? It’s open season. From every angle. Reporters Without Borders is weeping as the United States’ ranking on its press-freedom index continues to collapse.
—P.T.
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July 2025
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Friday Blue Forum
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
Peps Art Walk Near Beachfront Grille
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
Al-Anon Family Groups
For the full calendar, go here.
I wondered if I should press him. That’s what journalists do. We’re worse than the media haters can imagine. We leave a message and when we don’t get an answer, we leave another and sometimes we just knock on a door on the other side of which, we know, is fear, or grief, or anger that does not want our questions. Our measuring gaze. But we want it. Their fear, their grief, their anger. Our measuring gaze. So we soothe, we cajole. We seek “access.” Open, sesame. Give us your story. Every journalist, the guilty ones, at least, knows what Janet Malcolm wrote in The Journalist and the Mur-derer. “Every journalist who is not too stupid or full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people’s vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.” Since we know what Malcolm wrote we think our readers do too. Some do. Sneddon didn’t. Was he lying about his father’s memorial? Had he simply thought better of talking to a reporter? He should have. But I thought he was telling the truth, and I didn’t have the stomach anymore-I should say the heart-for that kind of story, so I offered my condolences and hung up. I wanted to follow rather than to find, to let the strange wind of the singing smelter set my course.”
–From Jeff Sharlet’s The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War (2023).
Dennis C Rathsam says
HMMMMMMM, I didn’t see any of the press, dead lying in the streets? All Ive heard from the FAKE NEWS, in LA, telling me not to believe what I see….Its a PEACEFULL protest!!!! Since when is burning cop cars, throwing bricks at police, & looting ma & pa bodegas peacefull? MY EYES WORK FINE!
Jim says
@ Dennis C Rathsam says,
I’m glad your eyes work fine. Ever consider watching some other channel than FOX? You’d be shocked to see that the “insurrection” is limited to a very small area, the LA police have it completely under control and the National Guard is standing around looking quite bored. I don’t know what the Marines will be doing when they get there. But that’s not the narrative you want to see so I’m sure you won’t even consider doing so.
There’s other things of interest like Kristy Noem’s team roughing up a sitting US Senator (use your eyes to watch the full video instead of the Fox edits). Or check out Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. who has just fired the entire membership of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and replaced them with several vaccine skeptics. You might want to review the backgrounds of most of his new team. I don’t know what the previous members did to get canned but this bunch comes in with a ton of baggage. Maybe we’ll not have access to vaccines after this!
And then there is Tulsi Gabbord, Director of National Intelligence. She’s got a new video out saying we’re on the brink of nuclear war. Scary stuff coming from the director. Curiously, her video seems to mimic Russian talking points about the risks of anyone helping Ukraine, something she previously denied. And you’d find that even some Republicans are questioning what she’s done. Isn’t that unique?
Oh, and Trump went to see the play “Les Misérables”. When the president arrived to the Kennedy Center , he was asked on the red carpet whether he identifies more with Jean Valjean (the destitute protagonist of the play who was imprisoned for 19 years for stealing bread to feed children), or Javert (the villainous police inspector who dogs him cruelly and senselessly until his own hatred drives him to madness). “That’s tough,” Mr. Trump said, turning to Melania Trump. “You’d better answer that one, honey. I don’t know.” She just smiled. I’m glad the president doesn’t know whether he’s the villain or hero. Fortunately, many of us don’t share his confusion!
Mark says
Your eyes don’t work fine Dennis. The video being passed around showing a burning L.A. police car is from MAY 2020 NOT JUNE 2025. If you would switch from the Faux News Channel and other ultra right sites you’d be able to correct that myopia you suffer from.
Laurel says
Dennis, your eyes work selectively. Tell us about the January 6th insurrection where cops were attacked wounded and some died by the hands of the people your Trump pardoned as “victims.” He did nothing to stop the death and destruction at our very Capital.
What Trump stated was true was when he said “I could stand on Fifth Avenue, shoot someone, and get away with it.” That’s true because of you, and the supporters who refuse to see, and only go by a grifter’s word.
Just keep believing the con, no matter how much he lies to you. Enjoy!
Ray W, says
Autoweek reports that on June 17th, Chevrolet will unveil its latest Corvette variant, believed to be the Zora model, named after the famed Zora Arkus-Duntov, the GM engineer who birthed the original Corvette.
Reportedly, the Zora variant will add the front-wheel-drive electric motor from the E-Corvette to the existing 1064 HP turbo-V-8-powered Z-71 an additional 156 HP.
Make of this what you will.
Ray W, says
Fox Business reports that JetZero intends to invest more than $4.7 billion to construct a “state of the art” aircraft assembly factory at Greensboro, North Carolina’s, Piedmont Triad International Airport.
The company plans to build its “Z4 blended-wing-body” jet aircraft, which utilizes a V-shaped design providing for six passenger bays and seating for up to 250 passengers, plus a central galley. The design promises up to 50% better fuel efficiency when compared to traditional tube-body aircraft designs.
In exchange for JetZero promising to hire over time more than 14,500 employees, North Carolina will pay out $1.1 billion in performance incentives spread over 40 years. Airport grounds will see $450 million in infrastructure improvements. JetZero will receive additional county and city incentives.
Groundbreaking for factory construction will take place within the first six months of 2026. A demonstrator, or prototype, airplane should be flying by 2027, and production planes should enter commercial service in the “early 2030s.” At full production capacity, 20 planes per month will roll off the assembly line.
The JetZero announcement follows a separate manufacturing plant investment by supersonic plane manufacturer, Boom, which already assembles jet aircraft on airport grounds.
In 2006, Honda established its aircraft division’s design and manufacturing headquarters in Greensboro. Honda, too, has an operational jet aircraft factory on airport property.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Greensboro-Winston Salem is at the far western fringe of what has been known for decades as the “Research Triangle”, stretching from Raleigh to the east and Durhan to the south. Within the triangle sit UNC-Chapel Hill, N.C. State University, Duke University and Wake Forest University.
Greensboro, founded by Quakers around 1740, sits on a rail line built prior to the Civil War between Richmond and Atlanta; it served as the last Confederate capital after the failing government fled west via rail from Richmond.
Greensboro has long been a major regional distribution center for rail and truck freight.
Pogo says
Sherry says
This from highly esteemed Joyce Vance:
Judge Breyer pointed out that “it is not the federal government’s place in our constitutional system to take over a state’s police power whenever it is dissatisfied with how vigorously or quickly the state is enforcing its own laws. Quite the contrary, the Founders reserved that power, and others, to the states in the Tenth Amendment.”
That means that there is no reason for the federal government to intervene when the state is in the process of bringing a situation under control. Judge Breyer cited an 1878 Supreme Court case out of Kentucky, that held, “Whether the policy thus pursued by the State is wise or unwise, it is not the province of the national authorities to determine. That belongs to each State, under its own sense of duty, and in view of the provisions of its own Constitution.” It’s tough to dive deeper into history than that. This is a decision written by someone who is deeply conversant with how the Supreme Court operates these days. The opinion is written to beat them at their own history and tradition games and survive appeal, lest Justices Alito and Thomas find themselves arguing that states no longer have these rights—in sharp contrast to the position they took when they decimated American women’s abortion rights, leaving them up to the states in Dobbs.
Now, we wait on the Ninth Circuit.
Kristi Noem gave the game up at the press conference Thursday, the one where California Senator Alex Padilla was tackled and handcuffed, although apparently, “not arrested.” Noem said she was going to “liberate” Los Angeles “from the socialists and the burdensome leadership this governor and mayor have placed on this country and this city.” That’s not a rebellion by people on the streets in Los Angeles. It’s a takeover by the federal government.
Lawyers for the State will likely ask the court to amend the evidentiary record in the case to include Noem’s comments. They make this situation crystal clear. This is all about presidential power and its centralization into Donald Trump’s hands, the same issue we’ve been confronting since the day he took the oath of office and promptly issued a series of executive orders that violated that oath. The question is, will the Supreme Court continue to defend Donald Trump at the expense of the people?