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Weather: Showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 2pm. High near 87. Light and variable wind becoming east 5 to 10 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 16 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Tuesday Night: Showers and thunderstorms likely before 11pm, then a slight chance of showers between 11pm and 2am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 74. South wind around 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
- 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:
In Court: It’s trial week, with Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols presiding over the trial of Quinntavus Kwame Jordan, who faces a charge armed robbery and the possibility of a 30-year prison sentence if convicted, while Senior Judge Terence Perkins has returned to preside over the trial of Joao Paulo Fernandes, who turned down a plea deal of serving one year in prison for a hit-and-run charge, and would face up to 15 if he is convicted. Both trials begin at 8:30 a.m., in Courtroom 401 for Jordan, 301 for Fernandes.
The Palm Coast City Council meets at 9 a.m. at City Hall. For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. For meeting agendas, audio and video, go here.
Food Truck Tuesdays is presented by the City of Palm Coast on the third Tuesday of every month from March to October. Held at Central Park in Town Center, visitors can enjoy gourmet food served out of trucks from 5 to 8 p.m.–mobile kitchens, canteens and catering trucks that offer up appetizers, main dishes, side dishes and desserts. Foods to be featured change monthly but have included lobster rolls, Portuguese cuisine, fish and chips, regional American, Latin food, ice cream, barbecue and much more. Many menus are kid-friendly. Proceeds from each Food Truck Tuesday event benefits a local charity.
The Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club meets at 5 p.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach.
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy, 8 p.m. at Cinematique Theater, 242 South Beach Street, Daytona Beach. General admission is $8.50. Every Tuesday and on the first Saturday of every month the Random Acts of Insanity Comedy Improv Troupe specializes in performing fast-paced improvised comedy.
Notably: This explains why golf and tennis clubs and golf clubs are struggling. It’s a boomer thing. From Statista: “After a period of slow but steady growth, pickleball saw a 21-percent jump in participation in 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic forced Americans to find ways to stay active outdoors. That was only the beginning though. According to the Sports & Fitness Industry Association (SFIA), 4.2 million Americans played pickleball at least once in 2020. Since then, participation has more than tripled, reaching 13.6 million in 2023. The sport’s sudden growth has led to some tensions, however, particularly with the tennis community. As pickleball gained popularity, some tennis players and clubs began to view it as a threat rather than an opportunity. The popular practice of repurposing tennis courts for pickleball to meet growing demand has sparked concerns among tennis enthusiasts, who argue that the noise from pickleball, different playing styles and the reduction in available tennis courts could negatively impact their sport. Some tennis clubs have so far resisted the inclusion of pickleball, fearing it might lead to a decline in tennis participation. Despite these tensions, pickleball continues to thrive, appealing to a wide demographic from retirees to younger players looking for a social, less physically demanding alternative to tennis. The sport’s inclusive nature – you can pick up a paddle and have fun from day 1 – has only fueled its growth, even as it faces opposition from the more established tennis world. Interestingly, the same dynamic can be observed with the game of padel, which has taken large parts of Europe by storm in recent years and has faced the same skepticism from the tennis community.”
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July 2025
Palm Coast City Council Meeting
Food Truck Tuesday
Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
Contractor Review Board Meeting
Flagler County’s Technical Review Committee Meeting
Derek Barrs Senate Confirmation Hearing
Separation Chat: Open Discussion
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board
Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Story Time for Preschoolers at Flagler Beach Public Library
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Palm Coast Democratic Club Recap Meeting
For the full calendar, go here.
One day, sitting in Western Biological, Joseph and Mary saw a chess board and, finding that it was a game and being good at games, he asked Doc to teach him. J and M easily absorbed the characters and qualities of castles and bishops and knights and royalty and pawns. During the first game Doc was called to the telephone, and when he returned he said, “You’ve moved a pawn of mine and your queen and knight.”
“How’d you know?” the Patrón asked.
“I know the game,” said Doc. “Look, Joseph and Mary, chess is possibly the only game in the world in which it is impossible to cheat.”
Joseph and Mary inspected this statement with amazement.
“Why not?” he demanded.
“If it were possible to cheat there would be no game,” said Doc.
J and M carried this away with him. It bothered him at night. He looked at it from all angles. And he went back to ask more about it. He was charmed with the idea, but he couldn’t understand it.
Doc explained patiently, “Both players know exactly the same things. The game is played in the mind.”
“I don’t get it.”
“Well, look! You can’t cheat in mathematics or poetry or music because they’re based on truth. Untruth or cheating is just foreign, it has no place. You can’t cheat in arithmetic.” Joseph and Mary shook his head. “I don’t get it,” he said.
It was a shocking conception, and he was drawn to it because, in a way, its outrageousness seemed to him like a new, strange way of cheating. In the back of his mind an idea stirred. Suppose you took honesty and made a racket of it-it might be the toughest of all to break. It was so new to him that his mind recoiled from it, but still it wouldn’t let him alone. His eyes narrowed. “Maybe he’s worked out a system,” he said to himself.
–From Steinbeck’s Sweet Thursday (1954).
Skibum says
The orange buffoon in the WH still cannot get Rosie O’Donnell or Hillary Clinton out of his head. The thought of both of these strong women have disturbed him so much that it is no wonder he is still up at 3 am tweeting extremists nonsense in all caps on his phone, unable to sleep. Poor drumph, who lets them live with free rent in his little mind after all these years.
Rosie and Hillary have flummoxed him to the point that I now wonder if drumph too has grown a worm in his little brain, having the audacity to even create a fantasy that he could, by an unconstitutional presidential decree, strip U.S. citizenship from Rosie or any other U.S. born American just because he hates her. Well I’m sure feelings are mutual, LOL!
The larger issue, of course, is that no U.S. president has the unilateral authority to singularly, with a stroke of his pen, take anyone’s citizenship away. And especially for an individual like Rosie O’Donnell, who has committed no crime whatsoever. She made the personal choice to move her family to Ireland like so many other American citizens who live overseas for various personal or professional reasons – all of whom retain their U.S. citizenship unless they make an informed choice to give it up.
Get over it, baby donnie. Go off into some corner and suck that fat thumb of yours… but don’t you dare stay there too long because you will soil your diaper.
Ray W, says
Raw Story reports that shortly after the Labor Department’s release of June’s consumer price data, President Trump took to Truth Social to proclaim that “Consumer Prices LOW. Bring down the Fed Rate, NOW!” He then demanded that Fed Chair Powell immediately cut the federal lending rate to American banks and other lending institutions by three points.
The problem with Trump’s Truth Social post is that over the last 12 months the average CPI inflation rate was 2.7%, and that June’s monthly inflation rate on its own was 0.3%. Anyone who can multiply 0.3% by 12 will know what the annualized inflation rate would be if inflation did not go up or down for 12 months straight.
NPR reported that May’s annualized CPI data was 2.4%, significantly below June’s 2.7%. And that June’s year-over-year “core” inflation figure (stripped of data from the more volatile energy and food categories) was 2.9%, far above the Fed’s policy target rate of 2.0%.
According to the NPR reporter:
“Economists closely watch core prices because they typically provide a better sense of where inflation is headed.”
The NPR reporter added:
“Powell and other Fed officials have emphasized that they want to see how the economy evolves as the tariffs take effect before cutting their key short-term rate. The Fed chair has said that the duties could push up prices and slow the economy, a tricky combination for the central bank since higher costs would typically lead the Fed to hike rates while a weaker economy often spurs it to reduce them.”
According to the Associated Press, the 0.3% inflation rate for June was the highest since this past February. The AP reporter wrote:
“It comes down to ‘Trump’s sweeping tariffs,’ which ‘are pushing up the cost of a range of goods, including furniture, clothing, and large appliances, …”
The AP also noted that appliance prices rose for the third straight month and that grocery prices were up 0.35% for the month (multiply that by 12, too). Gas prices were up 1% for the month (I remind FlaglerLive readers that the Iran strikes last month rattled the oil marketplace for a time).
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Fed Chair Powell is right, in my estimation, to repeatedly plead caution in the face of on-and-off-again tariff policies. No one knows how it will all turn out. Cutting lending rates in the middle of a chaotic man-made economic environment might be the absolute worst thing to do.
2.9% core inflation is not low. 2.2% core inflation might qualify as low, but 2.9% does not. Nonetheless, the leader of the professional lying class that sits atop one of our two political parties apparently feels comfortable enough with his base to lie to the public about negative inflation data just hours after its, data that shows a rise in the annualized inflation rate.
From my perspective, one month’s data is of little importance, as even a month is considered by economists to be a relatively volatile term of time, though I note that at one time last year the year-over-year inflation rate had dropped to as low as 2.2% before it ticked up slightly for two months, and then settled, before ticking up again.
No doubt Dennis C. Rathsam will soon be laundering Trump’s Truth Social lie, as he has been doing with other lies for years.
He will claim, as he so often claims, that Biden destroyed the economy, when the pandemic was the proximate cause of the economic destruction.
He will claim that we are in the glory years of a Trump economy, as he recently claimed. In time, perhaps, he might be proved right on this last point, but not right now.
Ray W, says
The Telegraph reports that the Trump administration in now deporting immigrants who once possessed legal immigrant status under the Temporary Protective Status (TPS) program, a program that has been used by several presidents, including former President Biden, to permit entry of immigrants from war-torn lands.
Purportedly, over the past few weeks, more than 700,000 TPS program immigrants have lost that status, including 11,700 Afghans. According to the Afghanistan Analysts Network, which tracks the status of Afghans in the U.S., the 11,700 Afghans who are in the TPS program are but a part of the roughly 200,000 Afghans who entered the country under numerous other programs during and after the American exit in 2021.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
I have not forgotten that several gullibly stupid FlaglerLive commenters roasted the Biden administration for getting only 70,000 or so Afghans out of the country during an admittedly botched 2021 exit strategy; they didn’t mention in their comments that for the entire 2020 year, the Trump administration had approved the entry into our country all of 213 Afghans, even after the April date of the signing of the Trump agreement with the Taliban meant that our government knew it had to exit the country 12 months later.
I have not forgotten that several gullibly stupid FlaglerLive commenters roasted the Biden administration for the quick collapse of the Afghan army; they did not mention in their comments that after the Trump administration signed the agreement with the Taliban, it forced the Afghan government to return to the Taliban their leader, who had been in Afghan government custody for years. Alongside the leader’s return to the Taliban, thousands of other Taliban fighters had to be released out of Afghan government custody back to the Taliban under Trump administration pressure.
I have not forgotten that several gullibly stupid FlaglerLive commenters roasted the Biden administration for having left behind billions of dollars of military equipment, including armored personnel carriers, tanks, Humvees, helicopters, etc.; they didn’t mention in their comments that had the American military removed all that materiel, we would have denuded the Afghan army of all of its armaments, an army that we spent 19 years building up.
I have not forgotten the several gullibly stupid FlaglerLive commenters who roasted the Biden administration for not having developed a database listing the names and contact information for those thousands of Afghans who had admirably and bravely assisted American forces over the nearly 20 years that we were in the country; they didn’t mention in their comments that the truth was that Congress had passed an act early in the war, an act enabling the creation of such a database, but no one during the remaining years of the two Bush administrations worked on creating the database, that no one during the years of the two Obama administrations worked on creating the database, and that no one during the years of the first Trump administration worked on creating the database.
Where are the gullibly stupid commenters now, when our government has announced its intent to deport so many vetted Afghans without a hearing? What will happen to those who helped us over the decades that we were fighting in the country now that the Taliban knows they assisted the American military in time of war?
11,700 Afghans are at risk of return to Afghanistan.
The cruelty of it all stuns the imagination.
As an aside, CBS Evening News reported months ago that some 40,000 Afghans who were still living in that war-torn nation had been approved for entry into the U.S. prior to the Trump inauguration. Three days after Trump’s inauguration, the reporter wrote, he signed an executive order blocking their entry. A judge ordered withdrawal of the ban. The Trump administration responded by defunding the program. Now, according to the story, those approved for entry who had helped us during the war can enter if they can pay the airfare themselves. Who knows the impact of the recent removal of TPS status on those immigrants?
Ray W, says
According to a story published by the Telegraph, during the decades that the British army fought alongside Americans as coalition forces, the British government compiled a list of those Afghans, and their family members, who helped during the fight; it numbers some 25,000 people.
In 2022, the Taliban claims that it obtained from the internet a leaked copy of the list after a Royal Marine mistakenly it there; the Taliban is said to have since developed what is called a “kill list” and hired special units tasked with tracking the helpers down.
According to a family member of one of the hunted who had fled to Iran:
“It’s putting everyone in the family at risk — being related to someone on a Taliban kill list is a death sentence. They have all his details – his name, his wife’s name, even his children’s names.
“We were shocked when they listed him. If they can’t find him, they’ve said they’ll kill another family member instead. ‘The blood of a spy is in your veins,’ they told us.”
Make of this what you will.
Ed P says
Two words. DECOY FLARES
Until the Dems also accept Mark Cuban’s revelation of just saying “Trump Sucks” won’t win anything, Dems will remain ineffective.
Trump and his cabinet are moving at warp speed, deploying the Rosie O’ type decoy flares on a daily basis. The outrageous comments and actions are doing exactly what they are designed to do, draw the democratic heat seeking missiles. Prompting the Dems to appear to be chasing fire flies or butterflies without a net. The Dems are is a constant state of chaos and moving too far left. Focusing on Alligator Alcatraz. Really?
Critics, strategists, and fools all underestimated Trump. Mocked that he wasn’t even capable of even playing checkers, too stupid to play chess.
Maybe it’s dumb luck? But just in case it’s not….
Short of railing against your country and praying for a full blow depression ( rather unpatriotic) , Cuban’s suggestion is about the only other option.
Ray W, says
Reuters reports that the most recent San Francisco Fed “Economic Letter”, released yesterday, predicts that, should certain economic assumptions come to pass, the Trump tariff scheme could “boost U.S. manufacturing jobs and real income in a majority of states, but lower employment and income adjusted for inflation in the country as a whole.”
“Assuming a 25% increase in U.S. tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, 30% levies on Chinese goods, and 10% on the rest of the world, economists at the regional Fed bank estimated a 0.2% drop in U.S. employment over the next four years, as a reduction in U.S. services and agricultural jobs overwhelms a projected jump in manufacturing employment.”
Thirty-one of our states would see increased inflation under the assumed economic model, but the rest of the states would see declines, with an overall 0.4% drop in U.S. real income.
Fed researchers acknowledged that theirs was not a “precise” forecast, as actual tariffs might be higher or lower than the assumptions used in the study.
Make of this what you will.
Steve says
It all depends on how much money Desatan can get to blow this off.
Good luck