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Weather: Sunny, with a high near 74. East wind 5 to 8 mph. Tuesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 54. Light and variable wind.
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Today at a Glance:
Schools are off all week.
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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.
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center: Nightly from 6 to 9 p.m. at Palm Coast’s Central Park, with 57 lighted displays you can enjoy with a leisurely stroll around the pond in the park. Admission to Fantasy Lights is free, but donations to support Rotary’s service work are gladly accepted. Holiday music will pipe through the speaker system throughout the park, Santa’s Village, which has several elf houses for the kids to explore, will be open, with Santa’s Merry Train Ride nightly (weather permitting), and Santa will be there every Sunday night until Christmas, plus snow on weekends! On certain nights, live musical performances will be held on the stage.
Notably: Sunday’s News-Journal ran an item that read, in part: “Waving posters of his mugshot and chanting ‘You’re a scumbag,’ Seabreeze High School students and parents ‘welcomed’ a travel agent accused of scamming them out of hundreds of thousands of dollars on his arrival in handcuffs at Daytona Beach International Airport. Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood invited anyone who lost money to meet travel agent Robert Safford Goodwin, as deputies brought him back to face charges in Volusia County.”
A friend reacted: “While I have little sympathy for this toad, if he’s guilty, this use of performance justice seems more intended to score social media likes for Mike Chitwood than advance society’s real interest in deterring those who prey upon it. When our sheriff seems to slide in that direction, it gives me a queasy feeling I’ve slipped into a Scarlet Letter time warp, where self-righteous citizens are invited to stone the adulteress (never the adulterer) in the public square.”
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January 2026
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Democratic Women’s Club
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
The Rainbow Bridge Dedication at Holland Park
‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,’ the Billie Holiday Story, at City Rep Theatre
Random Acts of Insanity’s Roundup of Standups from Around Central Florida
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
For the full calendar, go here.
To the extent that language provides cues for behavior, the orders that American governors, mayors, police chiefs and block association presidents have been giving cops on the beat in big cities over the past few years are unambiguous. Tension on the street: Police hunt for clues to an officer’s shooting in 1997 in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan. As James Alan Fox, dean of the College of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University, notes, these officers have been told that they form the front line in a “war” on crime and a “war” on drugs, that they have been enlisted in special “operations” and drafted for bold new “offensives.” “We use all these paramilitary terms,” Fox said, “and we have promoted somewhat of a siege mentality among police: The enemy is out there, and there are more of them than we thought.” Fox paused, sighed and added, “When you have this sort of mentality, excessive brutality and improper actions are more likely to occur.” Fox’s comments root out what is indisputably a dirty little secret embedded in the public angst over police brutality: many Americans have come not only to tolerate a degree of it from their police officers but also, in ways subtle and unsubtle, to encourage it.
–From “Behind Police Brutality: Public Assent,” by Frank Bruni, The New York Times, Feb. 21, 1999.
Dennis C Rathsam says
As TRUMPS APRUVAL RATING jumps to 50%{ Insider Advantage Poll Monday} with 41 % disapprove. The cartoon shows no traffic, no crime & no litter.This my friends is a better city, than the communist take over of NYC! Sadly, as I wait, for the Lord to call me home I feel so bad this once great city. I remember the night my band played CBGB in the heart of NYC. We had our parents, relatives, & many friends, attending as we hoping for a record deal. We finished up at 3am, as we loaded the truck to take our equipment back to Jersey we notice nothing. We all felt save. No bums in the streets. Americas mayor Ruddy Guilliani cleaned up NY…. Now its turned into a shithole again, and its only gonna get worse with MAMDANI!
The dude says
Baghdad Bob is alive and well…
It’s no wonder you never got that record deal as you sound like a broken record.
Endless dark money says
Haha Dennis do you smoke crack or just drank too much kkkool aid? Most layoff since 1993! And they won’t even release their cooked numbers on inflation . The global Republican pedophile ring is an embarrassing terrorist organization that murders people and violates human rights and their own constitution.. we get you love domestic terror and pedophillia but you should seek help maybe in a banned book or something. Your devotion syndrome is showing…
Pogo says
P.T.
100% A+
Sherry says
As usual the Maga Indoctrinated are WRONG! Here are the actual latest poll numbers from several different polls showing trump’s approval rating in the “dumper’. . . even by 12 points in the Fox pool! Take a gander for the “FACTS”:
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump/approval-rating
Jim says
@Sherry says, I’m sorry but you’re wrong about polls. In MAGAland, you sift through all the polls until you find one that has the results you want to see! While 99% of polls show Trump in deep [shit] water, there is always at least one far right poll that will show Trump walking “on water (easier for him to design Trump battleships….).
Anyway, hang on for the Epstein files…. I see the DOJ has issued a “warning” about the new releases. From FOX news:
“The Department of Justice warned Tuesday that some documents in the latest batch of files it published related to Jeffrey Epstein included false and unverified information about President Donald Trump.
The DOJ wrote in a statement that the material included “untrue and sensationalist claims” about the president that the FBI received ahead of the 2020 election.
“To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already,” the DOJ wrote on social media, adding that it published the documents because of its “commitment to the law and transparency.”
As I would expect, there has been no “untrue and sensationalist claims” about anyone else, just Trump. Poor guy just can’t catch a break…..
Jim says
I wish Trump would design a toilet and put his name and image at the bottom of the bowl. I’d buy one….
Skibum says
Well, Jim… considering his abysmal record of business failures, bankruptcies, and only being able to marginally keep the remaining ones above water other people’s money and talent, I wouldn’t trust one with a 10 foot pole! You might finish your business on a trump toilet, flush the damn thing only to have it shoot all of the shit out the bowl’s big opening and all over your bathroom – and you – with his ugly orange face at the bottom of the bowl smirking at you for being just another one of his many victims to be conned by the fraudster-in-chief once again. No thanks!
Sherry says
Watch this 60 Minutes Video that trump doesn’t want you to see! Then “boycott” CBS for yanking it at the last minute! Watch it quickly before it is taken down! US INHUMANITY! Please forward this link and spread the word about “boycotting” CBS!
https://www.youtube.com/live/2E4kZkaXPcY
Laurel says
Again, Trump relies on cruelty and fear. Anyone who calls himself, or herself, a Christian and backs this guy, is complicit in this cruelty and fear mongering. There is no excuse. They do their so called religion a dishonorable disgrace.
Laurel says
They do their country a disgrace as well.