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Weather: Partly sunny with a slight chance of showers in the morning, then mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent. Monday Night: Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then a slight chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
- Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
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- Tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
Flagler County Government Tax and Budget Hearing: The Flagler County Commission holds the second of two public hearings at b5 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell, on its 2025-26 property tax rate and budget. (The hearing does not include consideration of a special assessment for the barrier island, as incorrectly noted here in an earlier version. That matter was disposed of at a previous hearing.)
Palm Coast Charter Review Committee Meeting: The city’s committee, appointed by the City Council to propose revisions to the city charter, meets at 6 p.m. at City Hall, 160 Lake Ave. The committee is made up of Patrick Miller, Ramon Marrero, Perry Mitrano, Michael Martin and Donald O’Brien. The meeting is moderated by Georgette Dumont, an independent moderator and the Director of the Master of Public Administration program at the University of North Florida. The meeting is open to the public and includes a public-comment segment.
Nar-Anon Family Groups offers hope and help for families and friends of addicts through a 12-step program, 6 p.m. at St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church, 303 Palm Coast Pkwy NE, Palm Coast, Fellowship Hall Entrance. See the website, www.nar-anon.org, or call (800) 477-6291. Find virtual meetings here.
The Bunnell City Commission meets at 7 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell, where the City Commission is holding its meetings until it is able to occupy its own City Hall on Commerce Parkway in 2025. To access meeting agendas, materials and minutes, go here.
Byblos: Last month’s Library of America delivery was Hemingway’s Farewell to Arms and writings related to that period of his, when he predicted this period of ours (“Perhaps wars weren’t won any more. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years’ War.” And: ” “There isn’t always an explanation for everything.”) From the overly famous to the obscure. The latest delivery is of Ernest Gaines, Four Novels. Ernest Gaines? I turn to the Times obituary from Nov. 5, 2019: “Ernest J. Gaines, who wrote of the inner struggle for dignity among Southern black people before the civil rights era in “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” and other acclaimed novels, died on Tuesday at his home in Oscar, La. He was 86.” His University of Louisiana page: “His brilliant portrayals of race, community, and culture in rural south Louisiana –in particular of both dispiriting and triumphal experiences of black personhood–made him a greatly respected and beloved world-renowned author. From The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman to A Lesson Before Dying and The Tragedy of Brady Sims, Gaines’s stories addressed the timeless issues of class, poverty, and race which transcend the American South and which transcend America itself. While his fictional world centers on a small rural place in south Louisiana, his address is to universal challenges, to the human dignity of all peoples, no matter where they come from.” Safe to say, he would not be top of the list on the DeSantis-approved reading lists for Florida schools and colleges. The LOA volume is another thinnish one, just 828 pages. It includes Jane Pittman and Lesson Before Dying, also In My Father’s House (not to be confused with Isaac Singer’s In My Father’s Court) and A Gathering of Old Men. The Autobiography was a 1971 nominee for the Pulitzer Prize, but no fiction prize was awarded that year. Great Books Guy tells us that the jury could not feel strongly enough for Losing Battles by Eudora Welty, Mr. Sammler’s Planet by Saul Bellow, or The Wheel of Love by Joyce Carol Oates. Obama presented him the National medal of Arts in 2013. “Generous, compassionate, and deeply moving,” the four novels gathered in the LOA volume “portray women and men caught in the vortex of race in America, struggling in hope toward hard-won moments of justice and unity,” the Library says.
—P.T.
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October 2025
Palm Coast City Council Workshop
Community Traffic Safety Team Meeting
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry
St. Johns River Water Management District Meeting
Flagler County School Board Workshop: Agenda Items
Flagler Beach Library Book Club
Flagler County Planning Board Meeting
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
Contractor Review Board Meeting
Flagler County’s Technical Review Committee Meeting
Separation Chat: Open Discussion
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.
“Do you know what a myth is, Jefferson?” I asked him. “A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they’re better than anyone else on earth–and that’s a myth. The last thing they ever want is to see a black man stan, and think, and show that common humanity that is in us all. It would destroy their myth. They would no longer have justification of having made us slaves and keeping us in the condition we are in. As long as none of us stand, they’re safe. They’re safe with me. They’re safe with Reverend Ambrose. I don’t want them to feel safe with you anymore.”
–From Ernest Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying (1993).
Pogo says
@P.T.
You make a wonderful sound when you sing, like you did this morning.
P.S.
The caption: Press Freedom Day in America, by Marian Kamensky, Austria. Truth wrapped in irony.
Pogo says
@Signs and omens
Donald Trump is losing ground with one of his most reliable constituencies: the wealthiest Americans.
A new YouGov/Economist poll shows that Trump’s net approval rating among voters with incomes over $100,000 stands at -4 points, with 47 percent approving and 51 percent disapproving.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/donald-trump-s-approval-rating-suddenly-shifts-with-richest-americans/ar-AA1MZOR7?ocid=nl_article_link
Oliver Twist, revised for the age of Trump
https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+ends+food+insecurity+reporting
Dennis C Rathsam says
[Disallowed. Do not use this site to spread disinformation. Thanks.–FL]
Sherry says
Take just a couple of minutes to watch this Disney/trump parody from our dear friends in the Netherlands:
https://dutchreview.com/news/disney-satire-at-trump/
Laurel says
So, if the Trump administration ends reports on hunger in this country, then, no one is hungry, right? Big Beautiful Bill, for those who do not worry about their next meal.
Trump kills truth.
Just like the “Democratic Epstein hoax” he ran his election campaign on. Just close your eyes and dream of the promised land.
Skibum says
Thanks for sharing that, Sherry! Now our regularly scheduled reality show will be right back.
Jason says
Remind me again which former POTUS administration actually went after journalists using the DOJ? And which administration used some of our 3 letter organizations capabilities to infected the electronic devices of journalists with state sponsored spyware to spy on them?
Surely, the author of this graphic knows this? They also likely are well aware that the overwhelming majority of all government employees are not elected officials and have their own vested interests and motivations. The entire government doesn’t suddenly become Republican or Democrat just because the POTUS is from either party.
How naive do and ignorant do you think we are?
https://apnews.com/general-news-dbba6eaf984a4be08cc235f66fd36a8d
Laurel says
For you thin skinned people on the right, political cartoons have been in news sources from the get go.
Pogo says
@MAGA fanatics
“… As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly…” Proverbs 26:11 KJV
Eat up, it’s all you bought, and all ya got.
The record is clear
https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+record+on+1st+amendment
Jason says
@Laurel
Political cartoons do have a lengthy history. But how much history does Intellectual Honesty have? Fact is the Trump administration hasn’t killed a journalist. The last journalist that was individually targeted and assassinated was Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 by Saudi Arabia. Many journalists have been killed in warzones but to my knowledge they were collateral deaths and not the intended targets (correct me if I am wrong). So this cartoon lacks any intellectual honesty and is just spreading disinformation and lies and calling that out doesn’t mean you have thin skin…
Ed P says
Trump Rehired Jimmy Kimmel?
Will any of the media talking heads admit their phony free speech analysis?
FlaglerLive says
@ Jason is grossly wrong in all regards but one (Trump has not personally killed a journalist yet, but has silenced many: it helps to know cartooning metaphors). Journalists are routinely targeted, and in Gaza have been systematically murdered. Do not use this site to spread disinformation–while claiming it.
Laurel says
Jason: You wrote “The last journalist that was individually targeted and assassinated was Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 by Saudi Arabia.”
The Saudis gave Jarod Kushner and Ivonka Trump $2billion to *invest*. They then high tailed it to Miami and built a very lavish home, and were no longer needed as “Senior Presidential Advisors” to Daddy. Yet, no Trump supporter seems to be bothered by any of this, and apparently, it’s not worth investigating.
“”The Emperor Wears No Clothes” refers to the idea of exposing a truth that others are unwilling to acknowledge, often due to fear or social pressure. It highlights how people may pretend to believe in something false to avoid looking foolish, similar to the story of the emperor who parades in invisible clothes that only the wise can see.”
AI Search Assist adrieltrott.com Wikipedia
Does seem applicable here.