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Weather: Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent. Heat index values up to 105. Wednesday Night: Mostly cloudy. Showers and thunderstorms likely in the evening, then a slight chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
- 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:
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]
The Circle of Light Course in Miracles study group meets at a private residence in Palm Coast every Wednesday at 1:20 PM. There is a $2 love donation that goes to the store for the use of their room. If you have your own book, please bring it. All students of the Course are welcome. There is also an introductory group at 1:00 PM. The group is facilitated by Aynne McAvoy, who can be reached at [email protected] for location and information.
Notably: The storefront above, glimpsed in a recent visit to Volusia Mall–one of my favorite sights at the mall, that shop, and Mike, always hunched over behind the counter always busy: no Kenneth Fearing Big Clock ruminations for him–made me think as if I was crossing through the page of a Bernard Malamud story in 1940s New York. You don’t think of watch or shoe repairmen anymore in our society of throwaways, which also happens to be a throwaway society (who remembers cabbage patch dolls anymore, or the Macarena? And when was there ever a watch repairwoman? She never had time to make it in the field by the time it was obsolete). There is always an invisible fog of sadness in Volusia Mall, its long marbled avenue so rarely trodden now but for those mall-walkers who get their exercise away from the elements, its shuttered storefronts ghosting you as you pass, its strange stores, like Mike’s Watch Repair, clinging to life. But Mike’s seemed to be doing well. Three customers in the couple of minutes we passed it: not bad for what was a Friday evening. Time ravages. It also still begs for repair once in a while, from a craftsman not that different in spirit from a surgeon: it’s all an attempt to repair time–the mall, the clock, the body–as we make our way to the exit only to hear how “a nearby siren yelped for a few seconds to remind one, if he had forgotten, of the perilous state of the world” (to quote an actual line from Malamud.)
—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.
“America has evolved into one of the world’s most inequitable societies. Today, the richest 10 percent of Americans own over 75 percent of the country’s wealth, with the top 1 percent owning well over a third.92 Many of the political systems, legal arrangements, cultural beliefs, and economic structures that uphold and promote this level of inequality trace their roots back to slavery and its aftermath. If today America promotes a particular kind of low-road capitalism—a union-busting capitalism of poverty wages, gig jobs, and normalized insecurity; a winner-take-all capitalism of stunning disparities not only permitting but rewarding financial rule-bending; a racist capitalism that ignores the fact that slavery didn’t just deny Black freedom but built white fortunes, originating the Black-white wealth gap that annually grows wider—one reason is that American capitalism was founded on the lowest road there is.
—Matthew Desmond in Nikole Hannah-Jones’s 1619 Project (2019).
Pogo says
@Jonathan Brown
Not so fast JB; yes, Lex Luther with a German accent is definitely the wrong messenger. But it’s the wrong idea too. A new improved poop (not really — just a new label) is nothing but a different brand of poop.
Real reform: for election financing, campaingning regulation and its enforcement, shorter campaign cycles that inform rather than test human endurance — and actual transparency in all of the afore mentiond. Try that.
Really want new brands? Ranked choice voting would give shelf space to more than 2 brands of cola. Oh, right — just what Coke and Pepsi want…
Jim says
Someone needs to show me who Musk thinks he’s going to draw into his American Party.
He’s alienated the MAGA crowd so you can rule them out.
He’s alienated the Green Energy crowd so you can rule them out.
He’s alienated anyone and everyone who has been either terminated by DOGE or impacted by those cuts.
He’s hardly “Mr. Personality”.
He has trouble with facts as often as not. Truth is not his strong suite.
He’s shown no compassion nor understanding of the American worker, the American Dream, nor anyone on a social strata lower than him.
So, I don’t know who is left for him to appeal. I guess he thinks he can buy votes like he did in the last presidential election. He does have lots and lots of money. Sadly for him though, that won’t make up for his failure to connect with virtually any group in this country.
But I do enjoy watching him spend money for nothing (like Twitter!). I hope he saves enough to float Tesla a loan to keep them afloat. Apparently politics and poor quality combine to drive a once-thriving company into oblivion (like Iran’s nuclear program!).
James says
Well, technically there are three colors that make up the American flag… two of which that have come closely associated with the to major political parties.
The third… and often overlooked… I’d like to think of as symbolizing all the rest of us. The vast uncounted, and unrepresented by the two… but without which there is no whole.
Yes, some from the fringe, but many more of the middle, that see the limitations of both from the outside looking in… an unsung, but integral part of the delicate tapestry… which helps bind the whole, whilst simultaneously grounding, keeping it to account.
It is a transparent and nameless body… one of elusive definition, just as the color it is represented by… and despite it’s shortcomings in this, should probably remain so… nameless, transparent and perhaps leaderless.
Just an opinion.
Ray W, says
Prompted by curiosity about Ford CEO Jim Farley’s several comments that EVs are having a Model T moment, I looked up prices for Ford’s Model T.
In 1909, the Runabout variant sold for $825. By 1915, the Runabout’s price had dropped to $390. By 1925, it was selling for $260.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Battery technology improvements are coming fast and furious. Electric motor technology improvements, too, are increasing. Costs for both of the most important components of an EVs drivetrain are dropping. Range is steadily increasing. No one knows just how far the drops in costs and the rises in efficiency will go.
Yes, car companies in China are under great stress. One need only recall from decades ago that when Apple tottered on the edge of bankruptcy, Microsoft purchased the right to use Apple’s most prized software, the point and click mouse sub-routine. Apple used the infusion of cash to survive. Both companies then thrived in their own way.
By this reasoning, China’s NIO, while cash-strapped right now and struggling to hold its small but significant market share in a rapidly growing EV marketplace, holds many patents on its battery swapping technology. I could see a more profitable carmaker buying rights to use the swapping process technology. NIO’s cash problem, if solved, might help it survive and grow, and its battery swap technology might also be spread to a wider market by the other carmaker. Win, win!
Pogo says
Sherry says
So Critical to our well being. . .
A MUST READ!
Regarding the downsizing of our critical weather prediction service . . . there is most certainly a”Corrupt” motivation that has been brought to light by the Associated Press. . . The push to “Privatize” and make $$$$ for key members of trump’s “Oligarchs”:
WASHINGTON (AP) — As commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick oversees the U.S. government’s vast efforts to monitor and predict the weather.
The billionaire also ran a financial firm, which he recently left in the control of his adult sons, that stands to benefit if President Donald Trump’s administration follows through on a decade-long Republican effort to privatize government weather forecasting.
Deadly weekend flooding in central Texas has drawn a spotlight to budget cuts and staff reductions at the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, two agencies housed within the Commerce Department that provide the public with free climate and weather data that can be crucial during natural disasters.
What’s drawn less attention is how the downsizing appears to be part of an effort to privatize the work of such agencies. In several instances, the companies poised to step into the void have deep ties to people tapped by Trump to run weather-related agencies.
Privatization would diminish a central role the federal government has played in weather forecasting since the 1800s, which experts say poses a particular harm for those facing financial strain who may not be able to afford commercial weather data.
The effort also reveals the difficulty that uber wealthy members of Trump’s Cabinet have in freeing themselves from conflicts, even if they have met the letter of federal ethics law.
“It’s the most insidious aspect of this: Are we really talking about making weather products available only to those who can afford it?” said Rick Spinrad, who served as NOAA administrator under President Joe Biden, a Democrat. “Basically turning the weather service into a subscription streaming service? As a taxpayer, I don’t want to be in the position of saying, ‘I get a better weather forecast because I’m willing to pay for it.’”
The White House referred requests for comment to the Commerce Department, which said in a statement that Lutnick has “fully complied with the terms of his ethics agreement with respect to divestiture and recusals and will continue to do so.”
Laurel says
Musk manipulates his AI to give us the answers he wants us to read. Trust is becoming extinct.
Today I saw a car sticker that read “Are you an American or a Democrat?”
Shame on you, driver.
Laurel says
So, today, a quick jump into Publix for chips revealed a bag of Stacy’s Naked pita chips at $8.25 a bag. For pita chips. One bag. Once again, I stood in the isle, staring, with my mouth agape. I left chipless on principle.
As much as I can, I’m not going to support this. I’ve already started my protest, as has my husband. Will it matter? I don’t know. The tourists here will pick up the slack, but for how long? I guess we’ll see.
What will you do?
Laurel says
Pogo: Where do you find this stuff? What a great, and timely, rendition of a great song! Thanks. I will check out this artist.