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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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June 2025
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Volusia County Drug Court Celebrates 100th Graduation
Friday Blue Forum
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Enrollment Day at Daytona State College
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
American Association of University Women (AAUW) Meeting
Four No Kings Rallies in Palm Coast and Flagler Beach
Peps Art Walk Near Beachfront Grille
A Legacy of Care: Flagler Cares’ 10-Year Celebration
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.