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Weather: Sunny, with a high near 74. Light north wind increasing to 5 to 9 mph in the morning. Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 55. Northeast wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
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- 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. after FlaglerLive Editor Pierre Tristam’s Reality Check. Today, it’s all about Flagler Schools’ college and career fair. The broadcast will be live from the Community Center. See previous podcasts here. On WNZF at 94.9 FM, 1550 AM, and live at Flagler Broadcasting’s YouTube channel.
Flagler Schools College and Career Fair, 2 to 5 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE. Hosted by the Flagler County Education Foundation. Open to the public.
‘Around the World in 80 Days’ at City Rep Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday. Adults, $25, youth, $15. Buckle up for a whirlwind journey with CRT’s revival of Around the World in 80 Days! This high-energy adaptation of the Jules Verne classic follows fearless Phileas Fogg as he races across the globe. With clever staging, quick-changing characters, and nonstop laughs, it’s a theatrical adventure full of heart, hilarity, and wonder. A fast-paced, fantastical adventure for the whole family.
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: I don’t often have the desire to cover New York City Council meetings. This week I do. The council on Wednesday unanimously approved rezoning a 54-block swath of Long Island City in Queens to build 15,000 apartments. For the seven years that I lived in Queens, I took the 7 line every day in and out of Manhattan, passing by the Queensboro Bridge station, from where that picture above was taken, as the elevated line passed over Long Island City, the neighborhood at the far west end of Long Island, and Queens, and that edges to the East River, with its fantastic views on Manhattan. Back in my 1980s, there were none of those skinny skyscrapers for the obscenely rich, and Lower Manhattan, not visible in the picture, was still graced by the angular immensity of the Twin Towers, our lost twins. I never thought of Long Island City as needing a lift. We almost lived there, I remember, though I’m glad we stayed in Sunnyside, then Woodside. It was the other side of the tracks, where the Sunnyside Yards sprawl over untold acreage with what seemd like forever unused rail lines, that I always thought redevelopment would strike. Amazon a few years ago tried to redevelop Long Island City, but was thwarted when the company’s plan looked like more gentrification than revitalization, and I’m glad. The new plan would be more like the apartment boom that followed World War II, with all those red-bricked buildings that sprang up all over Queens and Brooklyn and the Bronx, but more expensive, like everything. “The new plan, with its focus on housing and community amenities instead of huge public subsidies for a wealthy company like Amazon, has earned the support of the local councilwoman, Julie Won, and other politicians who did not want the headquarters,” the New York Times reports. “The proposal includes nearly hundreds of millions of dollars for parks, public housing, schools, sewers and more. About 30 percent of the housing must be affordable to people of lower or moderate incomes. […] City officials have increasingly come to see neighborhood-specific development proposals as valuable ways to confront a housing shortage that is at its worst point in nearly 60 years. The city has approved plans in Midtown Manhattan, the east Bronx, Jamaica in Queens, SoHo in Manhattan and Gowanus in Brooklyn in recent years.”If only Palm Coast could take a lesson from that. But no. We still treat apartment complexes like ghettoes, never realizing that it’s our soulless, lifeless subdivisions that are the ghettoes. We are “those awful cemetery cities,” as Kerouac once called suburbia beyond Queens.
—P.T.
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January 2026
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Al-Anon Family Groups
‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,’ the Billie Holiday Story, at City Rep Theatre
East Flagler Mosquito Control District Board Meeting
Nar-Anon Family Group
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“… the absolute madness and fantastic hooray of New York with its millions and millions hustling forever for a buck among themselves, the mad dream — grabbing, taking, giving, sighing, dying, just so they could be buried in those awful cemetery cities beyond Long Island City. The high towers of the land — the other end of the land, the place where Paper America is born.”
–From Jack Kerouac’s On the Road (1957).
Dennis C Rathsam says
Who woulid have though, Fedderman would emerge as the smartest man in the Jackass party?
Laurel says
Yeah, who wouldid though that about Fedderman?
OMG
Laurel says
Oh, I’m sorry, it’s “woulid.” Thank goodness we have a Republican to set us straight.
Pogo says
@Thank you, numbskulls
… who saved us from the genocidal Democrat Party, and wallow in your ingratitude and spite.
Enjoy your show and the entropy — eternity is a long time.
Laurel says
It’s all an act. When people of reason get elected, they are often shown the door. It happened on Palm Coast’s commission not long ago.
Laurel says
The chickenshits have their healthcare. Why worry?
Pogo says
@Hello Mr. Kerouac
… please, speak to us from the void: enthrall the inhabitants of New Atlantis (glowing in the prosperity of Jesus/Grok Aerospace, Halitosis Tobacco, Speedway Noise, Burp Spirits & Bottling, Duh Charter School for Dummies, Kingdom Comm Holding Co., Ltd.) about 50 year home mortgages, air and water available on alternate days, 24 hour diapers, and graves rented by the hour — for eternal rest.
The floor, sir, is yours.
Yeah, good idea — right?
https://www.google.com/search?q=50+year+mortgage+trump
Pogo says
@Smell this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwTE9APwW88
Ya got problems — tough shit.
Laurel says
Trump’s monument to himself, and excess.
I wonder how many American kids could be fed with this money.
I wonder who will pay for all the balls, power, water and maintenance.
Sherry says
Some encouraging news from the Huffington Post and the “Run For Something” organization:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-backlash-progressives-run-for-something_n_691160c5e4b003bdc184ebf0?utm_source=cordial&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hp-us-reg-politics_2025-11-14&utm_term=us-politics&email_hash=8d52b67c469164bf410e1e32810ac10846ce6ab3#comments
BillC says
Whack job Fetterman needs to go to rehab. Schumer is like a high school teacher standing there boring students to tears, reading notes to them in a monotone voice with his hands behind his back and glasses on the tip of his nose. He needs to go in favor of someone more passionate and dynamic.
Pogo says
@Or may be less cowbell, camp flouncing, mating dances by virgins, bovine scatology
…and a little, even a lot, more of this:
“Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson II
https://www.google.com/search?q=Adlai+E.+Stevenson+II
Instead of shitting on the walking wounded of your own fucking team — kick the living shit out of the amoral, immoral, depraved, craven, grotesque, monsters appropriating the imprimatur of duty, sacrifice, honor, tradition — faith — and all the rest that they pollute, bastardize, corrupt, and destroy with their handling with their dirty hands, and chewing on, and speaking from their unworthy mouths.
Endless dark money says
Those 8 people giving up cost 20 million people affordable insurance. The country orange just gave 40 billion too has universal healthcare on your dime lol! End the republican terror!