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Today at a Glance:
The Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board meets at 10 a.m. every first Wednesday of the month at City Hall. For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. For details about the city’s code enforcement regulations, go here.
Palm Coast Council and County Commission Joint Workshop on Animal Control services: The two local governments discuss whether, and how, to possibly jointly operate animal control services in the city and the county as both governments continue to wrestle with their contracts involving Flagler Humane Society. The meeting is at 5:30 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell.
Palm Coast Residential Drainage Committee meeting at 6 p.m. at City Hall.
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.
The Flagler Beach Library Book Club meets at 1 p.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach.
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.
The Flagler County Republican Club holds its monthly meeting starting with a social hour at 5 and the business meeting at 6 p.m. at the Hilton Garden Inn, 55 Town Center Blvd., Palm Coast. The club is the social arm of the Republican Party of Flagler County, which represents over 40,000 registered Republicans. Meetings are open to Republicans only.
In one of my favorite places on the planet, two of my favorite people on the planet, whose absence from the scene, politically anyway, explains the metastasizing stupidity around us. Today is Colleen‘s birthday: I’d never made the connection between her birth in 1968 and Hiroshima in 1945. Not that there is a meaningful connection other than the date. She happens to share a birthday (and a sense of humor) with Lucille Ball (1911) and Andy Warhol, and with the first-ever execution by electrocution (at Auburn prison in Upstate New York; Colleen was a city girl). As conjunctions go, Colleen’s would be with the anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, which preceded hers by three years. She’s not too absent anymore than Bob has been, at least in some circles. Did you happen to catch her latest here? “Stop the Grift: Florida’s School Vouchers Are Scamming Taxpayers and Sabotaging Democracy.” She needs to be like Eleanor and write a daily column.
—P.T.
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August 2025
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
Palm Coast Council and County Commission Joint Workshop on Animal Control
Flagler Beach Parks Ad Hoc Committee
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
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Dennis C Rathsam says
TRUMP cartoons, shows the intelect of fools. The man has accomplish more things in 6 months than any other president in history. TRUMP is #2 FDR was #1! TRUMP contines excell! He is the only president, that works for FREE! He has remodeled the Whitehouse without spending 1 tax payer dime! Name a Democrat that did that……. I,LL wait.
Ray W, says
Fox Business is reporting that a “leading economist” is inferring that DOGE jobs cuts and layoffs may be responsible for the downward adjustment to the May and June jobs figures.
Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody’s Analytics, told the reporter:
“Any notion that the economic data misrepresents the reality of how the economy is performing is way off base. The data always suffers big revisions when the economy is at an inflection point, like a recession. … It’s thus not at all surprising that we are seeing big downward revisions to the payroll employment numbers. …
“Particularly given the DOGE cuts — not because the BLS has had to cut staff, although that can’t help, but because the government often reports payrolls to the BLS late. This didn’t matter much when government employment was stable, but now that government jobs are declining, the cuts are being picked up in the revisions.”
Make of this what you will.
Me?
A prominent and respected economist is approached by a Fox Business reporter to talk about the recent downward revisions to the monthly paychecks added or subtracted numbers for April and May. The economist says it may be explained by the federal government’s delays in filing its responses to BLS surveyors.
Then, when the federal government finally gets around to answering the surveys, the BLS economists factor the now overdue data into its previously released figures, and the revised jobs gained numbers tank
Makes sense to me.
If the economist is accurate in his explanation, then it was the Trump administration that botched the filing of its firing and layoff actions.
When the administration got around to filing the data, late, BLS researchers then revised downwards the previously issued monthly releases. Since the new numbers looked bad, President Trump fired the BLS director. The real culprit is the Trump administration and not the more independent BLS leader, but, hey, somebody has to pay!
Ray W, says
More from the Fox Business article.
Two days ago, Mr. Zandi posted to X that the U.S. “economy is on the precipice of recession.”, citing to recently released inflation data and paychecks added data.
He also wrote: “Consumer spending has flatlined, construction and manufacturing are contracting, and employment is set to fall. And with inflation on the rise, it is tough for the Fed to come to the rescue.”
Mr. Zandi explained that “labor force growth has gone sideways”, as the number of foreign-born workers is declining right alongside a decline in the labor force participation rate. Also of note is an “economy-wide hiring freeze, particularly for recent graduates, and the decline in hours worked.”
Make of this what you will.
Ray W, says
Some eight months ago, Barron’s ran an article about the impact artificial intelligence was having on the drilling industry.
Here are some bullet points from the article:
– SLB, the world’s largest oil-services company, is leading the charge on interpreting data derived from 3D imaging technology. What once took 18 months for experts to interpret ultrasound imaging data now takes 18 days with AI assistance. Said SLB’s digital business director, Rakesh Jaggi, “From the time you shoot a seismic until the time you can plan a well in a place like the Gulf of Mexico is now measured in days.”
– And there is an instance of an AI interpretation of seismic imaging data saving a drilling company $170 million. The company had already decided to drill on a particular site. AI interpretation of the seismic imaging data found a geologic fault that convinced the drilling company to change plans on where to drill.
– While oil exploration was once a mechanical endeavor it is now also a digital enterprise, relying on ground sensors that record large quantities of data that is best interpreted by AI programs. Today, company workers can sit at a desk hundreds of miles away from wells where they constantly adjust remote equipment such as valves based on what they learn from the software, adjustments that used to be made by workers on the well sites.
– A Chevron-developed AI program now automatically detects methane leaks and shuts down sites without human intervention. Methane “flaring” at company wells has been cut by 60%.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
I have already commented about the use of AI software to review mining documents, some dating back from more than 100 years ago. Once the AI program taught itself how to read the ancient mining document symbols on maps, the program advised a mining company where to perform additional exploratory bores in an African nation already pocked with working copper mines. The new bores revealed one of the world’s richest reserves of copper ore.