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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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September 2025
Palm Coast City Council Meeting
Flagler County Industrial Development Authority Meeting
Food Truck Tuesday
Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club
Kiwanis Community Open House
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
Contractor Review Board Meeting
Flagler County’s Technical Review Committee Meeting
Flagler Tiger Bay Club Guest Speaker: Former U.S. Prosecutor Roger B. Handberg
Separation Chat: Open Discussion
“Conversations in American Democracy” Celebrates Constitution Day
Flagler County Industrial Development Authority Meeting
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
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