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Weather: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly between 1pm and 3pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 88. Calm wind becoming northeast 5 to 9 mph in the afternoon. Tuesday Night: A 10 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 73. Light and variable wind.
- 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:
It’s Rosh Hashanah–Shanah Tovah!–and courts are closed today, but apparently Flagler County’s other governments don’t care to recognize the Jewish New Year and one of the most important Jewish holidays on the calendar. Then again, the indifference is even worse regarding Muslim holidays. Either celebrate them all, or none, but this cherry-picking looks suspicious.
The Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop 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.
The Flagler County School Board meets at 1 p.m. in an information workshop. The board meets in the training room on the third floor of the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. Board meeting documents are available here.
The Flagler County Affordable Housing Committee meets at 3 p.m. at the Emergency Operations Center (EOC), 1769 E Moody Blvd, Bldg 3, Bunnell. Eduardo Diaz Cordero is the Housing Program Coordinator.
The Flagler County School Board meets at 6 p.m. in Board Chambers on the first floor of the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. Board meeting documents are available here. The meeting is open to the public and includes public speaking segments.
Budgeting by Values: A Free, Virtual Class to Learn Budgeting Skills, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. every fourth Tuesday of the month organized by Flagler Cares and Truist Bank, and presented by Financial Inclusion Leader Vladimir Rodriguez. To sign up or get information, call 386/319-9483, text 386/986-0107, or email [email protected].
The NAACP Flagler Branch’s General Membership Meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. at the African American Cultural Society, 4422 North U.S. Highway 1, Palm Coast (just north of Whiteview Parkway). The meeting is open to the public, including non-members. To become a member, go here.
Book Dragons, the Kids’ Book Club at the Flagler Beach Public Library 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.
Diary: When I first saw it three, maybe four weeks ago, it scared me. It was just below eye level on the door frame outside, next to the doorbell. I was carrying something outside and reached to close the door. There it was, inches from my hand. I reared back. It was frighteningly ugly, its face all fangs, its legs as hairy as its eyes, its back as if backpacked in armor. I’m not EB White and our property in the P Section is no farmhouse in Allen Cove, so I had no idea what it was (I’d love it if a reader informed us). I couldn’t bring myself to shoo it away, let alone spray it with that can of killer bug spray gathering dust in the garage–not because I was frightened. I’d calmed down. But because I didn’t see why I should, why I would. It wasn’t hurting anyone, except maybe a general sense of aesthetics we so often wrongly associate with nature, or rather, our anthropomorphic self does. Every time I thought up a rationale, like this remark on aesthetics, I could hear its antithesis: aesthetics according to whom? Who am I to judge a creature’s aesthetics, however ugly it may seem to me? I let it be. It had startled Chery too, but she didn’t bother it, nor did Luka, nor have, thankfully, the droves of Amazon and other package droppers. It stayed there. And stayed. It’s still there. I’m now wondering whether it’s alive. I suspect it may not be. I would have preferred it to fly off on its own. As it is, it has become part of the household’s ecosystem, if not quite part of the family, like the oaks on the property, in smaller, and not exactly like the ants, whose crawls, when spotted on a kitchen counter, I don’t hesitate to smash: I’m a jain only so far. If it has died, I’d not be indifferent. I’ve come to expect seeing it hanging there, hanging out in as literal a sense as there is really, giving the door frame a touch of shaggy exoticism, reminding us that even ugliness is relative. We need the reminder just now. We don’t have to welcome it in our home. Nor do we have to smash it to pieces. And with a little time, we can accommodate it, even as a close neighbor, even as part of our ecosystem.
—P.T.
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November 2025
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn
Al-Anon Family Groups
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
December 2025
Flagler County Commission Morning Meeting
Holiday Plant Class Series
Beverly Beach Town Commission meeting
Nar-Anon Family Group
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Palm Coast Charter Review Committee Meeting
For the full calendar, go here.
“The news is the privilege which the customer enjoys, but it is also the crossword puzzle which he alone must solve.”
–From E.B. White, Harper’s, April 1942.
Pogo says
@Something is cooking
… perhaps it’s time to consider: the constitution; fill-in-a-name — and compare and contrast with our own, e.g.:
As stated
We the People of the United States…
https://www.google.com/search?q=constitution+of+the+united+states
As stated
In the Name of God, the Merciful and the Compassionate…
https://www.google.com/search?q=constitution+of+palestine
etc.
AI Overview
Israel does not have a single, formal written constitution, but instead uses a series of “Basic Laws” that function as a constitutional foundation for its parliamentary democracy. The idea for a formal constitution was proposed in Israel’s 1948 Declaration of Independence, but was never fully adopted due to political disagreements and practical challenges…
https://www.google.com/search?q=constitution+of+israel
What’s for dinner? And peace be upon us — if WE are willing.
Pogo says
@Tickets On Sale
A long walk on a short pier…
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo.php?basin=atlc&fdays=7
Fear not, you’re in the good claws of Ron, Rick, Ashley, and Capt. Don — a roll of paper towels divided by the population of Flagler county…
Arrr, shiver yer timbers!
Ed P says
Google admits to censorship pushed by Biden….
Isn’t suppression of free speech a fundamental characteristic of fascism?
X publicity acknowledged that twitter removed content and complied with Biden Administration requests to do so.
Zuckerberg said Meta was also pressured and capitulated.
Ed P says
Is there any credible democratic plan for:
economy
Immigration
Crime
Continuous demonization of the right is demonstratively easier than providing solutions.
The poisonous narrative has to end before discussions can begin. Just because a policy is not an idea you agree with, doesn’t mean it fascist.
And Trumps blunt UN General Assembly speech, face to face, was long over do.
He’s correct that the United Nation is an impotent body of leaders who continue the Ukrainian war by purchasing Russian energy and not putting their own sanctions on Putin.
Sherry says
After trump’s DOGE took an absolute “Wrecking Ball”. . . with ZERO thought. . . to the Federal Government. . . now that the GSA is “crippled” hundreds of skilled experts are being requested to return. Which means we taxpayers foot the bill! Take a good read:
MIAMI (AP) — Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work.
The General Services Administration has given the employees — who managed government workspaces — until the end of the week to accept or decline reinstatement, according to an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press. Those who accept must report for duty on Oct. 6 after what amounts to a seven-month paid vacation, during which time the GSA in some cases racked up high costs — passed along to taxpayers — to stay in dozens of properties whose leases it had slated for termination or were allowed to expire.
“Ultimately, the outcome was the agency was left broken and understaffed,” said Chad Becker, a former GSA real estate official. “They didn’t have the people they needed to carry out basic functions.”
Becker, who represents owners with government leases at Arco Real Estate Solutions, said GSA has been in a “triage mode” for months. He said the sudden reversal of the downsizing reflects how Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency had gone too far, too fast.
Rehiring of purged federal employees
GSA was established in the 1940s to centralize the acquisition and management of thousands of federal workplaces. Its return to work request mirrors rehiring efforts at in several agencies targeted by DOGE. Last month, the IRS said it would allow some employees who took a resignation offer to remain on the job. The Labor Department has also brought back some employees who took buyouts, while the National Park Service earlier reinstated a number of purged employees.
Critical to the work of such agencies is the GSA, which manages many of the buildings. Starting in March, thousands of GSA employees left the agency as part of programs that encouraged them to resign or take early retirement. Hundreds of others — those subject to the recall notice — were dismissed as part of an aggressive push to reduce the size of the federal workforce. Though those employees did not show up for work, they were to be paid through the end of this month.
GSA representatives didn’t respond to detailed questions about the return-to-work notice, which the agency issued Friday. They also declined to discuss the agency’s headcount, staffing decisions or the potential cost overruns generated by reversing its plans to terminate leases.
“GSA’s leadership team has reviewed workforce actions and is making adjustments in the best interest of the customer agencies we serve and the American taxpayers,” an agency spokesman said in an email.
Democrats have assailed the Trump administration’s indiscriminate approach to slashing costs and jobs. Rep. Greg Stanton of Arizona, the top Democrat on the subcommittee overseeing the GSA, told AP there is no evidence that reductions at the agency “delivered ANY savings.”
“It’s created costly confusion while undermining the very services taxpayers depend on,” he said.
DOGE identified the agency, which had about 12,000 employees at the start of the Trump administration, as a chief target of its campaign to reduce fraud, waste and abuse in the federal government.
Sherry says
AND. . . for the “Actual TRUTH” about trump’s UN speech. . . Let’s take a look at all the misinformation (AKA Lies) trump spouted. . . this from Politifact:
https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/sep/22/live-fact-checking-donald-trumps-speech-to-un-gene/
Mark says
“The poisonous narrative has to end before discussions can begin.”
If you feel the narrative lies totally on the left or totally on the right, you are part of the problem. Both sides have serious issues with respect for each other and it shows in the tone of their messages. “The lunatic left”, “the crazy right”. Where are you? In the middle? I think not when you publish words like this.
Stop being part of the problem.
Sherry says
THE LATEST POLLS:
Tuesday, September 23
President Trump Job Approval
Quinnipiac
Approve 38, Disapprove 54
Disapprove
+16
President Trump Job Approval
Rasmussen Reports
Approve 48, Disapprove 50
Disapprove
+2
President Trump Job Approval
Reuters/Ipsos
Approve 41, Disapprove 58
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+17
President Trump Job Approval
Gallup
Approve 40, Disapprove 56
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+16
Congressional Job Approval
Gallup
Approve 26, Disapprove 71
Disapprove
+45
Monday, September 22
President Trump Job Approval
Morning Consult
Approve 46, Disapprove 52
Disapprove
+6
President Trump Job Approval
Economist/YouGov
Approve 43, Disapprove 55
Disapprove
+12
2026 Generic Congressional Vote
Economist/YouGov
Democrats 45, Republicans 42
Democrats
+3
Direction of Country
Economist/YouGov
Right Direction 35, Wrong Track 59
Wrong Track
+24