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Today at a Glance:
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.
Kiwanis Community Open House: The Kiwanis Club of Flagler County is hosting an open house at 5:30 p.m. at the Hilton Garden Inn, 55 Town Center Boulevard, for an opportunity to learn about how an international organization and its local affiliate is enhancing the lives of our community youth and the betterment of our County as a whole. The Kiwanis Club of Flagler County is proud to host this informative program that will highlight some of our community service organizations and the positive work being accomplished. There will be interesting displays, food and beverages, and motivating presentations, along with meaningful conversations. Stop by and see what’s already happening in Flagler and what can be ahead.
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 atmosphere of lies is suffocating, poisonous, deadly. Our country deserved better,” the French novelist and essayist André Gide (1869–1951) wrote in his journal a September Sunday in 1916, at the midpoint of World War I, the trenches not too far from his home. I’d say the same of the atmosphere in this country, today, inexcusably so: there are no trenches anywhere tha the country has to worry about. It is still near the height of its powers, economic or military, but acts as if it were under siege in an existential battle for its survival. Gide’s country deserved better. I’m not sure ours does: our suffocation is self-inflicted.
—P.T.
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October 2025
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry
Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Palm Coast Democratic Club Meeting
Flagler Beach City Commission Meeting
Evenings at Whitney Lecture Series
‘Sweeney Todd’ at Athens Theatre
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Friday Blue Forum
‘Sweeney Todd’ at Athens Theatre
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
For the full calendar, go here.
“What humanity needs is balance between a range of competing identities. A single individual ought to be able to be a citizen of the world and hold membership in a series of other, less inclusive in-groups simultaneously, all without suffering irreconcilable conflict among competing loyalities. But that could only occur if conventional limits to jurisdiction somehow stabilized relationships among all the multitude of possible in-groups. Such stability has perhaps been approached in times past when some territorially vast empire brought order of a kind to parts of the globe, but it is no recipe for our foreserable future.”
–From William H. McNeill’s Mythistory and Other Essays (1986).
Dennis C Rathsam says
There is no war, against the people of the USA! More democratic poppycock. While Biden did nothing to stop the invation, nothing to stop all the crime in the big cities. Cashless bail, only comtributed to making the cities less safe, to not safe at all. Reguardless who runs these crime riddin cities, it needs to stop now! Ice is doing a fantastic job rounding up, & deporting illegals.Now TRUMP is taking on the big cities, the hell holes of America. Democrats see the problem, yet they act like its the norm, murder, carjacking, looting. This is far from the way we used to live, far from the insanity the jackass party holds near & dear to their heart. TRUMP sees this madness, & will use every means possible to bring these gangs & losers to justice. 5 days to clean up DC ! Why are democrats so soft on crime?????? Whats behind thier sinister plan to destroy America???? Thank god we have 77 million people with a brain! Now we can go to the nations capital & see the monuments, of a once great America, without losing your life. People are begging TRUMP to make their cities safe, while democrates continue to resist. Now its on to Tenn! To clean up Elvis,s town! For all of you TRUMP haters, look deep in your soul….You choose…. safty,clean city streets, no murder, no looting, no car jacking no crime! Or do you want the Biden look the other way aproach?
Laurel says
It is absolutely a war on the American people!
Charlie Kirk went to university campuses to indoctrinate the youth on far right issues. That was his right to do so. It’s called free speech. It is incredibly sad that Kirk was killed.
Just as there are commenters here, now, trying to cool down this rhetoric, the very Vice President of the United States, JD Vance, has called for people to turn in anyone who criticizes Kirk. ““When you see someone celebrating Charlie’s murder, call them out,” Vance urged listeners on the slain activist’s podcast Monday. “And hell, call their employer.”” – AP
Call their employer? Is that making America Great Again? Is that protecting free speech?
Steven Miller, White House Deputy Chief for Policy and Homeland Security told Sean Hannity on Fox “And when you see online, Sean, as we’ve seen for the last few days, tape after tape after tape of federal workers, bureaucrats, staffers in the Pentagon, educators, professors, healthcare workers, nurses celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk — these are radicalized people. There is a domestic terrorism movement in this country.”
Domestic terrorism? Opinion is “domestic terrorism?” Free speech, that may not agree with him is “domestic terrorism?”
Miller also said “My message is to all of the domestic terrorists in this country spreading this evil hate, you want us to live in fear — we will not live in fear,” Miller told Hannity. “But you will live in exile. Because the power of law enforcement under President Trump’s leadership will be used to find you, will use to take away your money, take away your power, and if you’ve broken the law, to take away your freedom.”
So, Miller is calling for the ruining of lives of “federal workers, bureaucrats, staffers in the Pentagon, educators, professors, healthcare workers, nurses…” Law enforcement under Trump.
Trump has referred to half of Americans as “radical leftists” on multiple occasions. Those who do not agree with him are the problem. U.S. citizens. Ruin their lives. Americans. Call their employers, Vance said. The government will find you. The government will take all your money, Miller said. Right, smack out of the novel “1984.”
This is what y’all voted for. I’m guessing, and hoping, that you didn’t ask for this. So it is up to you, Republicans, to impeach these Orwellian, dystopian people in charge right now, and expel them from our government. These people are exactly what our country founders tried to protect us from.
In my opinion, Trump, Vance and Miller are incomplete, incompetent, malformed individuals, who really want to grab the power and spread their misery around. These are not well adjusted, confident people. If they were, they would not be calling for such action. They would be working at bringing us up, and bringing us together, not tearing us down with threats of ruining us.
I’m sorry Kirk was killed. He did not deserve it, and I feel for his wife and babies. What was wrong was, his death did not warrant a flag at half staff shared with the 911 tragedy. His body should not have been shipped on Air Force II. He had a belief system; he was not a hero. We desperately need to get back to normalcy and balance. This is what happens when one side of the political system is wholly in charge.
Sherry says
Maga, Did you vote for massive cutbacks in Cancer Research?
Following directives from President Donald Trump, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has withheld billions of dollars in funding for research and terminated grants that were funding studies across the country — moves that have negatively impacted researchers studying cancer and other diseases.
Between February and June of this year, the NIH terminated more than 1800 grants and obligated $8 billion less toward new and existing grants than in the same time period in fiscal year 2024, according to the US Government Accountability Office.1
Ray W. says
According to a HuffPost story, Vice President J.D. Vance hosted “The Charlie Kirk Show” yesterday. During the show, Vance claimed, in the reporter’s words, that “the far-left is more prone to political violence than right-wing extremists, …” Vance went on “to vow retribution against ‘the lunatics in American politics.'”
From the story, the Anti-Defamation League published a 2023 report that established that between 2013 and 2022, 444 people were killed by extremists. 75% of the killings were by right-wing extremists.
And, also from the story, a study conducted by University of Maryland found that between 1948 and 2018, “right-wing extremists were more likely to carry out violence than left-wing extremists.”
Finally, a 2024 article published by the National Institute of Justice confirmed that right-wing extremists commit a majority of violent terrorist acts. That article has been removed from the agency’s website, with a notice posted by the Department of Justice claiming that the DOJ is “reviewing its websites and materials in accordance with recent Executive Orders.”
Make of this what you will.
Me?
The killing of Charlie Kirk is an individual event. The alleged killer may have had a motive or multiple motives that are unique and known only to him.
For all we know right now, he was not influenced by any political philosophy.
For all we know, his motive or motives come more from a desire to be known than from any other motive, a desire behind enough of a number of murders through time that news outlets on occasion announce that the names of such murderers will no longer be published.
That said, I have been arguing to the FlaglerLive community for nearly five years that America is in the early stages of a wave of political violence that may last for decades before the wave dissipates. My position is that the disaffected among us are, whatever their motives, giving themselves permission to kill others.
Ray W. says
Multiple news outlets report that some 20 Russian drones were launched not along a Russian border path on the way to the Ukraine but on a path across the Russian border directly into Poland.
Polish forces claim to have shot most of the drones down.
Since that time, NATO countries have offered air-defense equipment to Poland. The question of NATO forces receiving authority to shoot down Russian drones is under discussion.
Russia’s Security Council head, Dmitry Medvedev, recently stated:
“The implementation of the provocative idea of Kyiv and others to create a ‘no-fly zone’ and the possibility for NATO countries to shoot down our UAVs will mean only one thing – war between NATO and Russia. We must call a spade a spade.”
Make of this what you will.
Ray W. says
The Independent reports that during a recent conference presentation in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed what the reporter wrote was a “growing alarm” that Israel was, in Netanyahu’s words, “in a sort of isolation” due to its military actions in Gaza and due to the unraveling humanitarian condition of the Palestinian people.
His comments followed last week’s announcement by a call by European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen “for a suspension of free trade and bilateral support for Israel. …”
Norway intimated that it would follow the European Commission’s lead should the EC freeze its trade agreement with Israel.
Mr. Netanyahu also said to the conference attendees:
“We [Israel] will increasingly need to adapt to an economy with autarkic characteristics [without foreign trade], the word I most hate. … I am a supporter of the free market, but we may find ourselves in a situation where our arms industries are blocked. … We will need to develop arms industries here — not only research and development, but also the ability to produce what we need. … We have no choice. At least in the coming years, we will have to deal with these attempts at isolation. What worked until now will not work from now on.”
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Mr. Netanyahu describes dealing with the effects of isolation in the framework of “the coming years”, not weeks or months. There seems to be no sign of negotiation or compromise in those words. Then again, who knows what the future brings?
Ray W. says
This from a Raw Story article:
During FBI Director Kash Patel’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this morning, Sen. Thom Tillis (R. NC) stated during the time allotted to him to question Director Patel:
“Within 24 hours of Mr. Kirk’s shooting we had the guy that does the podcast for the War Room and another guy who’s denied the Sandy Hook shootings say ‘we’re at war. … How on earth are we deescalating the situation? And with the tensions as high as they were last week, with going out and saying ‘we’re at war — I’m not asking you to respond to this question I’m just say that there are people out there on our side of the aisle that still need to look in the mirror. … That kind of rhetoric and that kind of mobilization makes your job more difficult and puts us in a position where we’re not being as productive as you want the FBI and state and local law enforcement to be.”
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Amidst the passions heightened by the shooting of Charlie Kirk, a significant number of FlaglerLive commenters are claiming that left-wing agitators incited Mr. Robinson to allegedly shoot Mr. Kirk, forgetting that individuals can decide for themselves what they intend to do. Yes, there are right wing factions that incite political hatred, just as their are left-wing factions that do the same. But the intent necessary for a person to act in a depraved manner is not necessarily driven by political hatreds. People can hate on their own. Placing such people in a situation where a judge could hold them responsible for their actions was my job for many years.
There are lots of reasons for people to do things. Not all of those reasons are political.
Sherry says
More of trump’s BS. . . He only lowers the flags for people who kowtow to him:
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday that he would have ordered flags lowered to half-staff following the assassination of a Minnesota Democratic state lawmaker this summer had he been asked by the state’s governor. But Trump at the time refused to even call Democratic Gov. Tim Walz to express his condolences, saying it would only “waste time.”
The president made the remark during an unrelated Oval Office event as he defended his decision to lower U.S. flags after last week’s slaying of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
After announcing that he was deploying the National Guard to Memphis, Trump was asked why he signed an order lowering flags nationwide after Kirk’s killing during an event in Utah, but didn’t do so after former Democratic state House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed in June.
Skibum says
Dennis distracts with more disinformation: “There is no war, against the people of the USA!”
Then he continues to peer about, clueless as to why everything appears to be so beautiful, so vibrant! Everything he sees has a strange, yet unknown rose colored tint to it. He knows not why. He cares not why. He just smiles like a newborn child in complete awe and wonderment, laying there looking about.
What a beautiful thing it would be to be able to lay in Dennis’ crib, not a care in the world, waiting for his next spoon feeding.
Sunny says
I’m appalled that so called republicans are meeting to mourn a man who spread hate, racism, & violence ! Pushed his white superiority & when I was a kid those people wore hoods & carried torches!
Laurel says
Sunny: You are so correct! Trump has normalized bigots, and gave them permission to crawl out from under their rocks. Misinformation, and far right commenters, promote this sad ideology.
I really didn’t know who Kirk was, until he was murdered. Recently, I watched a couple of his debates. All I saw was, a man who could talk really fast, but was focused on bigotry, and not much more substance. One debate showed a really intelligent female student, who crushed him. Who is he, or anyone else, to determine my happiness by his narrow way of thinking? Thanks, Charlie, but I’ll decide whether I want children or not, or cats as pets, or a career. My happiness cannot be boxed and labeled by you, or anyone else. My brainpower sees right through Charlie’s narrow vision in a heartbeat. He was no hero. Move on.