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Weather: A 20 percent chance of showers before 1pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 56. Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 32.
- 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:
The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at its new location on South 2nd Street, right in front of City Hall, featuring prepared food, fruit, vegetables , handmade products and local arts from more than 30 local merchants. The market is hosted by Flagler Strong, a non-profit.
Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley: Flagler Beach Commission Chairman Scott Spradley hosts his weekly informal town hall with coffee and doughnuts at 9 a.m. at his law office at 301 South Central Avenue, Flagler Beach. All subjects, all interested residents or non-residents welcome. The gatherings usually feature a special guest.
The Rainbow Bridge Dedication at Holland Park: S.M.A.R.T. (Saving Missing Animals Response Team) of Flagler County hosts a ribbon cutting for The Rainbow Bridge at 10:00 a.m. at Holland Park (18 Florida Park Dr N, Palm Coast). The community is invited to attend this event, along with pets, to celebrate the grand opening of a new symbol of love, remembrance, and community spirit in Palm Coast. Created in partnership with East Coast Animal Hospital and the City of Palm Coast, The Rainbow Bridge is designed as a permanent memorial space where families can honor the pets who have crossed the rainbow bridge and reflect on the joy they brought.
Democratic Women’s Club of Flagler County meeting at 9:30 a.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE.
‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,’ the Billie Holiday Story, at City Rep Theatre: at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday Jan. 9-10 and Jan. 16-17, and at 3 p.m. Sunday Jan. 11 and 18. Performances will be in CRT’s black box theater at City Marketplace, 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite B207, Palm Coast. Tickets: $30 adults, $15 students, available online at crtpalmcoast.com, by calling 386-585-9415, or at the venue one-half hour before showtime. The play contains mature language. Set in 1959 a few months before Holiday’s death, Robertson’s semi-fictionalized work imagines one of Lady Day’s last performances, in a seedy South Philadelphia bar, as she’s accompanied by her pianist. With both body and psyche bruised by her tortured, drug-addled life, Lady Day – a nickname given her by her saxophonist friend Lester Young – delivers lengthy, revelatory monologues between performing such songs as “What a Little Moonlight Can Do,” “Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer),” “T’ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do” and the classics “God Bless the Child” and the chilling “Strange Fruit,” about the lynching of Black people in the American South. See FlaglerLive’s preview, “Capturing the Essence: Laniece Fagundes Returns as Billie Holiday at City Rep’s ‘Lady Day’.”
The Drive-in Laser Light Show, Flagler County Fairgrounds, 150 Sawgrass Road, Bunnell, three shows–at 7, 9 and 10:30 p.m. $35 per carload. See details here.
Random Acts of Insanity’s Roundup of Standups from Around Central Florida, 8 p.m. at Cinematique Theater, 242 South Beach Street, Daytona Beach. General admission is $8.50. Every third Saturday RAI hosts Live Standup Comedy with comics from all over Central Florida.
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The food pantry is organized by Pastor Charles Silano and Grace Community Food Pantry, a Disaster Relief Agency in Flagler County. Feeding Northeast Florida helps local children and families, seniors and active and retired military members who struggle to put food on the table. Working with local grocery stores, manufacturers, and farms we rescue high-quality food that would normally be wasted and transform it into meals for those in need. The Flagler County School District provides space for much of the food pantry storage and operations. Call 386-586-2653 to help, volunteer or donate.
Notably: From Statista: Protests continue in Minneapolis following the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on Jan. 8. The killing of the mother of three has raised questions once more on the justifiability of enforcement officers using lethal force. According to media reports, some 2,000 law enforcement officers had been ordered to the city, with the deployment starting on Sunday, as part of Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration. Good’s shooting was not the first of its kind under the second Trump administration. Data detailed and published by The Trace shows how there have been at least 14 incidents of either ICE agents or U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel having shot at civilians, four of which have been fatal. The independent newsroom cites how just one week earlier, on December 31, 2025, Keith Porter Jr. was killed in Northridge, Los Angeles, when an off-duty ICE agent fatally shot him. Witnesses say Porter was firing a rifle into the air to celebrate New Year’s Eve. The Department of Homeland Security claims the agent had responded to an “active shooter” situation. On December 11, a border patrol agent killed a Mexican national, 31, whose name has not yet been released. The man was fleeing capture during an enforcement action near the U.S.-Mexico border in Rio Grande City, Texas, according to the source. Three months earlier, on September 12, Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, 38, was shot and killed by an ICE officer. The agency said he had resisted arrest during a traffic stop. The Trace further lists five incidents where civilians have been shot and wounded since June 14, as well as five additional cases where agents fired shots but no one was injured.
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January 2026
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
Stetson University Concert Choir in Concert with Orlando Philharmonic
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Stetson University Concert Choir in Concert with Orlando Philharmonic
Al-Anon Family Groups
Temple Beth Shalom Blessing of the Pets
Nar-Anon Family Group
Palm Coast Charter Review Committee Meeting
Bunnell City Commission Meeting
For the full calendar, go here.
I speak as a Republican. I speak as a woman. I speak as a United States Senator. I speak as an American…. I think that it is high time that we remembered that we have sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution. I think that it is high time that we remembered that the Constitution, as amended, speaks not only of the freedom of speech but also of trial by jury instead of trial by accusation…. Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations are all too frequently those who, by our own words and acts, ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism: The right to criticize; The right to hold unpopular beliefs; The right to protest; The right of independent thought.
–From Margaret Chase Smith’s “Declaration of Conscience” on the US Senate floor, June 1, 1950.
Dennis C Rathsam says
Back in the day of Jimmy Carter, I work for GM, remember when the auto makers went to front wheel drive? I was laid off for 4 years. I collected my unemployment Benny’s, & got a job, under the hat, as we said in Jersey. $50 bucks a day, no taxes. I barely made it. But my family sevived, we took nothing for granted. We had an old car that I kept running, by the grace of God. It made me a better man, it made my family stronger! When the telegram came to go back to work, at a different location, I took it! I drove from Clark NJ to TARRYTOWN NY every night. If I can do it anyone can…. Put your trust in God, & TRUMP
Republican Dave says
Dennis, you have admitted that you both collected unemployment and worked illegally under the table. Fraud is fraud, Dennis, yet you get mad at anyone else who get subsidized to survive. You used the system for four years, worked under the table and did not pay taxes. Since you can’t blame it on Biden, you blamed it on Carter.
Everyone needs help at some point in their lives.
Jim says
100% nailed it, @Republican Dave says! However, I need to point out that folks like Dennis are fine with committing fraud themselves for their own benefit. They also are fine when their side does it as well. (Anybody know what happened to Tom Homan, border tsar was videoed taking $50,000 to help get contracts in the Trump administration?). (And what about Kristi Noem, who has spent $143M with a company called Safe America Media in a no-bid contract to film her riding horseback, wearing ICE gear and other costumes?). I can go on and on….
What Dennis and his buddies consider fraud is Hunter Biden and his laptop. As a matter of fact, they’re so enraged about that [alleged] fraud that, once Trump got elected, they moved on to other pressing matters.
Anyway, Republican Dave, thanks for the good laugh you gave all of us today!!! (I just wonder if Dennis will get it?)
Sherry says
Right On Jim! For me, you are the one who completely nailed it!
Many Maga members are so greedy and self centered they simply don’t get it that we are “all in this together”! Helping one another out with a compassionate heart and a helping hand lifts us all up!
Instead, too many simply would prefer to spread hate and try to take us all down into that negative place where they live in disgust of everything that surrounds them. How very sad and pitiful!
Sherry says
Thank You for pointing out the obvious Republican Dave! You are right on! Unfortunately, there are so many who will not see the hypocrisy you pointed out.
YankeeExPat says
Dennis C.
Please refrain from putting God and Trump in the same sentence.
It is abomination to any Christian worth a grain of salt.
exasperated says
Dennis you remind me of Craig T. Nelson, the star of the TV series “Coach”, being interviewed:
“I’ve been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No. No.”
Bo Peep says
Where was this cartoon when Joey Biden the creator of the absolute highest inflation in over twenty years was in office?
Tony Mack says
You selectively picked the highest inflation rate while Biden was President. You neglected to mention that it decreased to about 3 percent during his tenure. But then…if the facts don’t fit…
“During Joe Biden’s presidency, inflation peaked at 9.1% in June 2022, largely due to post-pandemic supply disruptions and expansive fiscal stimulus. However, inflation gradually decreased to around 3% by mid-2023, although Biden’s economic approval ratings remained low despite this improvement…”
The dude says
Angry, bitter old MAGA bragging about using the safety net he would see decimated, and begrudge all who came after him the use of, is peak boomer and totally on brand for the most selfish and self centered generation this country has ever seen.
All in the service of a group of rich, white MAGA boomers and oligarchs that will gladly suck the lifeblood of this country dry as they turn it into a MAGA kleptocracy.
Sherry says
@ The Dude. . . From someone who absolutely agrees with 90% of your postings. Your bias against “Boomers” does not become you. Please remember we are most certainly are NOT all the same. Just as Gen Xers, Black people, and Millennials are, etc. are not all the same . Yes, absolutely we could have done better. We could have started much earlier on lowering our carbon footprint, etc.
We are now experiencing the “downside” of capitalism. . . where “GREED” rules the day. Just “Follow The Money” if you want to understand the motivation for “Everything”!
Yes. . . I’m humiliated by the fact that trump and many of his most ignorant and passionate, brainwashed Maga Cult supporters are “Boomers”. But please remember the majority of those passionately protesting are likely Boomers, too! It took more than “Boomers” to put him in the white house and create Maga. It will also take more than “Boomers” to bring our country back to “Fact Based” reality. Will our next generations step up?
The dude says
Please accept my apologies for painting with such a broad brush.
Sherry says
Love you “The Dude”!
Thank you so very much for your understanding and the apology.
I get it! I really do. . . My generation should have and could have done so much better! I’m so incredibly disappointed in the hate filled Maga Boomers that drive around Flagler county in their pickup trucks with vile words flying on flags. That kind of toxic society drove us away from the state when we were born and raised. Saying that, we LOVE gorgeous, highly civilized Sausalito California!
You have shown a great example of the huge difference between we educated, open minded folks and Maga members. trump’s close minded , arrogant Maga members would have just “doubled down”. Just like trump, they can never ever admit that they could be even the tiniest bit in error.
HUGS!
Laurel says
Like Atwp grouping all white people together, Dude loves to group all boomers together. How is that different from maga grouping all Democrats together? It isn’t.
Enjoy.
Ray W. says
According to the WSJ, year-over-year inflation in December was 2.7%, down from 2.9% year-over-year in December 2024. Core inflation, which by definition excludes the more volatile food and energy categories, was 2.6% year-over-year. In December 2024, year-over-year core inflation was 3.2%.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Way too many FlaglerLive commenters have it backwards. The pandemic, unexpected by nearly everyone, severely damaged national economies all over the world, including our own. In response, Congress ordered President Trump to spend $2.9 trillion, mostly into the demand side of our economy. That Trump did. By the time he left office, inflation had begun to tick upwards.
During the Biden years, Congress ordered the spending of another $3 trillion, this time into both the demand and supply sides of our economy and this time spread out over time. Inflation took flight, topping out at 7.1%, year-over-year, in 2022.
Meanwhile, the Federal Open Market Committee voted to lower the lending rate to zero and the Fed made available to lenders an additional $3 trillion to inject into the housing market.
One cannot inject nearly $9 trillion of unfunded spending into an economy without having an economic impact. Two congresses, two presidents, and the Fed each bear responsibility for the many responses to the damage directly caused by the pandemic, including the inflation.
Anyone who blames only one person or entity for the inflation directly caused by the federal responses to the pandemic is a gullible fool. It cannot be stated any other way. Our nation’s economy has not yet completely recovered from the pandemic. Inflation is not gone. The structural damage directly caused by the pandemic was that severe. We are lucky the recession that started and ended in 2020 was not more severe than it turned out to be. We have yet to come to grips with the additional federal debt added by all the spending.
As an aside, former President Biden did not spend all of the Chips Act money approved by Congress because the bill spread the spending out over a term longer than four years.
Earlier this week, groundbreaking occurred on a new microchip factory to be built in a Republican-held New York Congressional district. $6.1 billion of the unspent Chips Act money has been allocated to the project. The Republican congresswoman in whose district it is located had spoken on the House floor against the bill before it passed and she then voted against passage. After the groundbreaking, she posted a picture of herself with a shovel. She claimed responsibility for having supported the bill prior to passage and for having voted for it, plus she claimed all the jobs that would come with the project.
When I comment about the existence of a professional lying class that sits atop one of our two political parties, this type of lying is what proves the point.
Ray W. says
China’s largest carmaker, BYD, per a Cool Down story, just upped its EV battery warranty terms to cover 250,000 kilometers of use, or roughly 155,000 miles. The reporter surmised that other EV manufacturers would soon follow.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
The car making world is rapidly changing. EV batteries and motors are nowhere near their theoretical limits. Internal combustion engines are near the peak of their theoretical limits. This is why Ford’s CEO says that today’s EVs are having their Model T moment. Today’s best EV models are simply better than the best ICE vehicles in cost, reliability, longevity, and maintenance.