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Weather: Patchy fog in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Northeast winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon. Friday Night: Partly cloudy. Patchy fog. Lows in the lower 60s. Southeast winds around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.
- 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:
Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres, an hour-long public affairs radio show featuring local newsmakers, personalities, public health updates and the occasional surprise guest, starts a little after 9 a.m. Today: all about the Food-A-Thon.. See previous podcasts here. On WNZF at 94.9 FM, 1550 AM, and live at Flagler Broadcasting’s YouTube channel.
Sealing and Expungement Clinic for Flagler and Volusia Residents, hosted by Community Legal Services, Friday, Nov. 7, 3 to 7 p.m., Johnson H. Dickerson Community Center, 308 Dr. M.L.K. Jr. Blvd. Daytona Beach. Is an arrest record keeping you from a better job? If so, sign up for our FREE clinic to meet with an attorney who will determine if you are eligible to have your charge sealed or expunged. The attorney will help you fill out the application for the FDLE to review. If your criminal charge is sealed or expunged, you can deny or withhold knowledge of a prior arrest from most job applications. Pre-registration is highly recommended. Walk-ins are welcome. Register online or by calling us at (352) 509-9865. Clinic is open to both residents of Flagler and Volusia counties. For questions or additional information, please contact the CLS Pro Bono Unit at (352) 509-9865.
First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, 6400 North Oceanshore Blvd., Palm Coast, 10 a.m. Join a Ranger the First Friday of every month for a garden walk. Learn about the history of Washington Oaks while exploring the formal gardens. The walk is approximately one hour. No registration required. Walk included with park entry fee. Participants meet in the Garden parking lot. The event is free with paid admission fee to the state park: $5 per vehicle. (Limit 2-8 people per vehicle) $4 per single-occupant vehicle. Call (386) 446-6783 for more information or by email: [email protected].
The Friday Blue Forum, a discussion group organized by local Democrats, meets at 12:15 p.m. at the Flagler Democratic Office at 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite C214 (above Cue Note) at City Marketplace. Come and add your voice to local, state and national political issues.
Notably: Alexis de Tocqueville devoted two chapters to “Causes Mitigating Tyranny in the United States” in his endlessly quoted and never read Democracy in America. Tocqueville was concerned with the tyranny of the majority, as the founders had been. He saw states, counties and cities–local government–as ideally suited to check the federal government’s tyrannous tendencies, though his analysis was a bit faulty: he thought those local governments would be like brakes on mob tendencies. He had not experienced moms for liberty meetings. He also saw lawyers and judges as powerful forces against tyranny. Again, his theory shone brighter than practice, now that a federal judiciary (and in Florida, a state and circuit judiciary) mirror the executive’s worst tendency to the point of sycophancy. Letting it all rip: ICE goons. The military in our streets. Bombing boats. silencing media and law firms. This week’s cover of Le Nouvel Observateur, one of France’s weeklies, rips on Tocqueville and cuts to the chase, as one doubts Newsweek, Time or any other American magazine, save The Nation or Mother Jones, would. American Midnight is back.
—P.T.
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November 2025
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
Friday Blue Forum
Sealing and Expungement Clinic for Flagler and Volusia Residents
First Friday in Flagler Beach
Free Family Art Night at Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens
Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town,’ at Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine
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
Peps Art Walk Near Beachfront Grille
Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town,’ at Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine
For the full calendar, go here.
New York was the scene of an intensified hunt for dissidents, especially in education. Columbia University’s war enthusiast president, Nicholas Murray Butler, engineered the firing of two pacifist faculty members. Meanwhile, the state passed a series of laws affecting schoolteachers: they could now lose their jobs for “treasonable or seditious statements,” they had to be American citizens, and all schools had to give a course in patriotism and citizenship. New York City’s Board of Education went further, requiring all teachers to sign loyalty oaths, and holding hearings at which students testified about what their teachers said in class. Across the country, educators lost their jobs. E. A. Schimmel, a professor of modern languages at Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin, antagonized a local vigilante group, the Knights of Liberty, which tarred and feathered him.
–From Adam Hochschild’s American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis (2022).
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