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Weather: Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. North winds 10 to 15 mph. Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
- 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:
The Flagler County Contractor Review Board meets at 5 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. Staff liaison is Bo Snowden, Chief Building Official, who may be reached at (386) 313-4027. For agendas and details go here.
Flagler County’s Technical Review Committee Meeting at 9 a.m., first floor Conference Room, at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. The Technical Review Committee (TRC) is a quality control committee that provides technical review of project plans. Staff Liaison is Simone Kenny, 386-313-4067.
The Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board meets at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall.
The Flagler County Industrial Development Authority meets at 2 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell.
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.
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]
Notably: I took my first drive down Commerce Parkway, the new, 1.7-mile road that cut through what used to be untouched pine forest and scrubland and marshland and a mini undisturbed animal kingdom on the east side of Bunnell. I’d guess that most people east of Belle Terre have no idea it’s there. Going toward Bunnell, Commerce Parkway is the road to the left at Wendy’s. It used to curve around the Sheriff’s Operations Center, and now, on the other side of the road, the new Nexus library. Now it cuts right through to U.S. 1. Once I got past the shock of the environmental razing it took to cut the road (“I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction,” Steinbeck writes in Travels with Charley. Because there are no such things as “tranquil certainties,” J.M Coetzee might reply) the drive reminded me of that feeling I got, even on foot, when I’d go from the streets of Manhattan into Central park, or when we’d drive through it, at those few points when you could, going from sheer urbanism to a sudden blast of greenery–a true parkway. It won’t last of course. Bunnell’s city manager, Alvin Jackson, likes the smell of concrete or asphalt in the morning, as a friend put it, so the trees you see on either side of the road, and they are uninterrupted for now, are their own memorial. I remember Palm Coast’s Town Center 15 years ago. It didn’t have the same feel. The trees and scrub had all been razed., But it was a desert of plats, and it was oddly pleasant driving through, as few cars did back then. So it will be with Commerce Parkway. It’s in the name. If Bunnell could make it a spur as busy as U.S. 1, it will.
—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
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town,’ at Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine
Al-Anon Family Groups
Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town,’ at Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine
Flagler County Library Board of Trustees
Flagler County’s Cold-Weather Shelter Opens
Nar-Anon Family Group
Bunnell City Commission Meeting
For the full calendar, go here.
Beware in time. This is a breed which has changed little in thousands of years. The cave dweller who wielded a stone club and the man who will soon wield an interstellar missile are terribly alike. Earth’s creatures feed upon each other, but this is the only one which kills on a large scale, for pleasure, adventure and even–so perverse is the species–for supposed reasons of morality.
–From I.F. Stone, The Haunted Fifties, 1953-1963 (1963).
Ray W. says
Business Insider reports that during the month of September, worldwide EV sales of all types (battery EVs, hybrid EVs, plug-in hybrid EVs, extended range hybrid EVs) topped a record 2.1 million, up more than 25% over September 2024.
In China, 2025 NEV (new electric vehicles of all types) annual sales are expected to overtake annual sales of gasoline-powered vehicles.
U.S. EV sales, while still rising, are expected to rise more slowly or perhaps even drop, for a variety of reasons.
Make of this what you will.
Ray W. says
The Washington Post covered the release of a new documentary about lies rendered by the military and the several presidential administrations during the Afghanistan War, based in large part on a 2019 in-depth Post investigation called “The Afghanistan Papers”.
The reporter interviewed the documentary’s director, Dan Krauss.
Here is an except from the interview:
– Krauss talks of Post reporter Craig Whitlock, who “asks in the film, how do you prove that someone’s not telling the truth? Well, in the case of the reporting, you get the receipts.”
Whitlock then asks Krauss: “Right, and then how do you prove that the person isn’t just self-deluded, but is actively telling you something they know to be untrue.”
Krauss: “There was a certain degree of self-delusion that went into the lies, and there was also this very American brand of can-do optimism — that if you say something out loud, you will bring it into being. We are going to win. We are going to create a democracy in Afghanistan. You have to say it out loud in order for it to happen — and if you say it out loud then it puts an enormous amount of pressure and responsibility on the people beneath you.”
Whitlock: “By that token, do you think the Biden administration deserves more credit for, in some sense, dispensing with theses illusions? The U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan within his first year in office, at some political cost.”
Krauss: “I don’t know. I think what’s not discussed, and what I felt was important to include in the film, is the fact that the Trump administration negotiated an agreement with the Taliban, essentially in secret, without input from the U.S. Congress or the Afghan government. Biden inherited that agreement. So there’s certainly a legitimate debate to be had about whether the withdrawal was accomplished as effectively as it would’ve been under another government — who’s to say? Certainly there are strong feelings on all sides of that. But what’s not acknowledged as much is the agreement that led to the withdrawal.”
Whitlock: “I ask because while watching this documentary, I imagined some theoretical young person who might be getting their first real education about the war. They learn about the lies that got us into, and prolonged the conflict — then all of a sudden it’s over, and that’s also a calamity. But at some point there must have been a pivot. Some leaders, somewhere, — during either the Trump or Biden administrations — took a different course of action and dropped the illusion that we should stay in Afghanistan.”
Krauss: “The war ended so disastrously that giving credit to anybody seems really daunting. It’s less about giving credit than reminding people how the end of the war came about: that it was not Biden deciding on his own, unilaterally, to end the war, and it was not Trump actually going through the difficult task of logistically pulling our military out of the country, which is a very, very difficult and dangerous thing to do.”
Make of this what you will.
Pogo says
@Hello Ray W
I make this: Trump couldn’t have done more to destroy Ford and GM — unless he literally attacked them with our armed forces. The aforementioned must own their errors, but Trump has all but guaranteed China’s global hegemony in every sphere of human endeavor. Each day of Trump begets a new necessity for the rest of humanity to choose between Trump and survival.
October is only half over…