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Today at a Glance:
In Court: The sentencing of Angel Marie Sexton, 27, is scheduled for 9 a.m. before Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols at the Flagler County courthouse. Sexton pleaded on Dec. 17 to the statutory rape of a 13-year-old boy, a second degree felony with a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison. See: “26-Year-Old Palm Coast Woman Charged with Molesting 13-Year-Old Boy During Family Christmas.”
In Court: A hearing in the case of Kristopher Henriqson is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. before Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols for Henriqson, who is representing himself, to argue a motion to suppress DNA evidence ahead of a February trial. Henriqson is a 48-year-old state and federal felon and Palm Coast resident facing accusations of having routinely raped and abused his stepdaughter since she was 9. See: “Facing Life in Prison, Man Wants to Represent Himself and Depose Step-Daughter Accusing Him of Rape.”
The Palm Coast City Council meets at 9 a.m. at City Hall. For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. For meeting agendas, audio and video, go here.
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 10-18, 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 Tuesday from 4:30 to 6 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]
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry: Flagler Beach United Methodist Church‘s food pantry is open today from 9:30 a.m. to noon at 1500 S. Daytona Ave, Flagler Beach. The church’s mission is to provide nourishment and support in a welcoming, respectful environment. To find us, please turn at the corner of 15 Street and S. Daytona Ave, pull into the grass parking area and enter the green door.
The Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club meets at 5 p.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach.
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.
Notably: You have got to be shitting me. It’s only been a year.
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April 2026
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Democratic Women’s Club
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Flagler Schools Jon Fair for Teachers
Chess Meet-Up At the Flagler Beach Public Library
“The Sound of Music,” at Athens Theatre
“Godspell,” at the Limelight Theatre
“The Sound of Music,” at Athens 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
The Gallery of Local Art’s Bloom and Sip English Tea Party
Al-Anon Family Groups
For the full calendar, go here.
If you are truly convinced of your despair, you must act as if you still have hope – or kill yourself. Suffering does not grant any rights.
–From Albert Camus’ Notebooks, May 1935-February 1942 .
Dennis C Rathsam says
Tell me why, the people that live in Minn. cant follow directions? Is it so cold there that their ears don’t work…. Speaking of work, do any of these paid protesters have a real job? Yes is sad, this girl was killed, but when a federal agent tells you to stop you stop! She was clearly blocking traffic, & her lover was harassing Ice agents. When she was told to stop, her lover yelled “drive baby drive”! She made a bad choice, as a woman & a mother. Why is it when ICE goes to other cities, there’s no problem, they get the perps and take off…. No problems, Washington DC.or Elvis,s home town? These agitaters in MINN, are protesting ICE cleaning out illegal invaders. They’ve discovered over 9 million in FRAUDE abuse by the Somali,s maybe more! Why is it they are protecting the very same people that ripped them off???? PRICELESS
Janet K Jividen says
Why has Trump caused all of this chaos in Minnesota? He loves all of the attention it is causing. He has no respect for the citizens of America. He only wants his ego fed. I don’t understand why his followers don’t see his lies that appear daily in the news. why they aren’t upset that he is trying to take over another country, why he is making enemies of our country???? He is only interested in the money he can make off of his policies and pleasing the billionaires in this country. He has no respect for our Constitution and no knowledge of it. I am scared of what he is doing to this country.
Skibum says
Here is the ONLY reply you need to hear, from a news conference today by several Minn. police chiefs who’s police officers, all U.S. citizens, have been targeted, unconstitutionally stopped and harassed for their “papers” by masked ICE agents while off duty and in civilian clothes. This is what is happening on American streets, to U.S. citizens… demands for masked thugs to see their papers! Que the gestapo from Nazi Germany, right here among us.
Laurel says
Thank you Skibum. I think I just posted the same video, and it’s very important that people watch it. They only know what they are told by the biased stories fed to them.
Pogo says
@Voters chose the worst
https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+insane
… everyone, and their children’s children, will pay the price.
Skibum says
In nearly three decades of law enforcement, starting in southern CA where I had enumerable occasions to work hand in hand with and see how border patrol as well as customs and immigration officers worked to handle undocumented aliens that went through our county jail, my experience with and feelings about federal immigration authorities were always professional and I felt they were competent and appropriate in their behavior with detainees. I would have never imagined in a thousand years that I would be witness to such extreme aggression, unnecessary violence against U.S. citizens and immigrants alike, thuggish behavior and incompetence by hordes of masked federal immigration agents unleashed upon American cities by an American president.
But then again, I also never would have imagined that anyone in their right mind would have supported and voted for someone so unqualified, so undignified, so corrupt, so uncaring, or so pro-Vladimir Putin as we currently have at the helm of our government today. And the maga sheeple who are adherents of white “Christian” nationalist churches hold onto the crosses around their necks as if that symbol makes them appear more Christ like while spewing vile, nonsensical and racist falsehoods about minorities and immigrants to this country. They watch with apparent glee when masked, unidentified federal thugs beat people, break into their homes without warrants, and shoot protesters.
Make no mistake… THIS is the violence that the convicted felon in the WH wants in every state in the union as we approach the midterm elections that he knows full well will be a blowout for republi-cons. He is looking for an excuse to use the Insurrection Act for his own political and immoral purposes, potentially to cancel the election he knows full well would be the beginning of his end as the most evil and corrupt president in the history of our nation.
It is an embarrassment to many, many current and retired law enforcement professionals how federal law enforcement has devolved into more of an occupying force with tactics designed and intended to harass, intimidate and sow violence on anyone who dares get in their way or stand up to the gestapo-like behavior that is condoned and directed from this corrupt administration and it’s officials. American protesters are NOT the enemy as they claim! They should not be beaten, pummeled or shot for standing up for the U.S. Constitution! They are the last line of defense, apparently, because congressional republi-cons are too weak, too timid, and too scared of a presidential bully to obey their oaths and fulfill their constitutional responsibilities as an equal branch of government and hold him criminally responsible for all of the damage that he has done previously and continues to do to our nation and the international community.
Janet K Jividen says
Very well said. I agree whole heartedly.
DontYouWishYouKnew says
ICE is a domestic terror organization and its members are all armed, violent terrorists. Treat them how you would treat any armed, masked man committing violence.
Ray W. says
From a site self-described as focusing on producing electricity pricing information, Electric Choice, the average national residential price paid per kilowatt-hour of electricity in 2025 was 18.07 cents, up 7.4% from 2024. FP&L residential customers paid on average 15.39 cents per kilowatt-hour in 2025, up 2.7% from 2024.
If the site’s data is accurate, then perhaps the next question ought to be why American electricity prices are rising as fast as they are?
One common explanation is that after nearly a decade of electricity demand stagnation a sudden rise in construction of data centers is driving a sudden rise in demand for new sources of electricity and that construction of new power plants has not kept up with the suddenly rising demand.
I found a recent Texas Tribune article about the proliferation of data centers being constructed in the state. In 2025, peak Texas power generation was 94 gigawatts, meaning the theoretical maximum power production should every last power plant in the state operate at full capacity at one time was 94 gigawatts of power.
Of that 94 gigawatts, in 2025, data centers consumed 8. But by 2028 , if every planned data center is built and operational, demand will quintuple from 8 gigawatts of power demand to 40. For perspective, one gigawatt of capacity can power 700,000 homes for a year.
So here is the rub. Land in West Texas is comparatively inexpensive. Natural gas emanating from thousands of remote oil wells is flared into the atmosphere, because it is too expensive to capture the natural gas and pipe it to Houston.
The early data centers were built without much consideration paid to where the needed power to run them would come from. Now, certain data center owners are building their own power plants next to their new data centers so as to better manage electricity costs. Texas, with tens of thousands of existing wells flaring off the natural gas, offers a cheap supply of natural gas to those certain data center owners.
The answer right now seems to be to build a data center in the middle of an ample number of remote oil wells and construct a power plant next to the data center, using the flaring natural gas to power the plant.
But the economic model that drives such a decision requires a sufficient supply of natural gas for the 25 to 30 years that such a power plant is expected to last without major renovation. If the natural gas supply fades over time it is not a certainty the supply will easily be replaced. And the economic model does not always allow for the costs of power plant maintenance or replacement. Natural gas turbine blades do not last forever. Today’s turbines spin at a rate where the outer edges of the blades approach the speed of sound and the heat generated approaches the melting point of the ceramic-coated composite metals. It is not rare for replacement of entire gas turbine frames during the life of the power plant.
And what happens if competing power plant types become widely available and more cost efficient? What if 10 years from now, the natural gas power plant becomes a “stranded” asset? Many of today’s few remaining coal-fired power plants are designated as “peaker” plants, fired up only as a last resort during summer heat waves and winter storms. For most of each year, these inefficient coal-fired power plants are nothing more than stranded assets.
This raises the idea of current overall costs of operating different types of power plants.
Lazard is, in part, a research group devoted to estimating the total lifetime costs of operating different types of power plants per kilowatt-hour of electricity produced. The estimates, called the levelized cost of energy, or LCOE, cover the costs of permitting, financing, constructing and then operating a plant over the planned lifetime of the facility. Lazard studies hundreds of power plants located all over the world. If 10 years from now, natural gas costs more than projected, a plant’s LCOE will rise and vice versa.
In 2025, according to a story by a news outlet called SOLARTECH, the LCOE of a coal-fired power plant starting the permitting process in 2025 will be 11.2 cents per kilowatt-hour over the operating lifetime of the plant. A natural gas power plant’s LCOE is 8.9 cents per kilowatt-hour over the lifetime of the power plant. Off-shore wind power will cost 7.8 cents per kilowatt-hour. Hydropower? 4.7 cents per kilowatt-hour. Utility-scale solar? 4.4 cents per kilowatt-hour, down 12% from 2022. On-shore wind power? 3.3 cents per kilowatt-hour, down 3% from 2022.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
If the LCOE numbers are accurate, and I concede that costs can change depending on location and other conic factors, then it may be true that any natural gas power plant starting the construction process in 2025 in Texas might be a stranded asset in 10 or 15 years, because the EIA has predicted for some time now that too many liquefied natural gas plants are currently under construction in the US. Once the new liquefaction trains all come online and begin exporting natural gas, the possibility exists that natural gas prices will rise unless supply rises, too, making the data center plants comparatively more and more expensive to operate.
Who knows what the future holds?
Sherry says
This is the country you now live in! This from the AP. . . trump’s “Gestapo” is now breaking down the doors to homes and arresting “American Citizens” at gunpoint with “NO WARRANT”! Take a read of this horror story:
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Federal immigration agents bashed open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press.
ChongLy “Scott” Thao told the AP that his daughter-in-law alerted him on Sunday afternoon that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were banging at the door of his residence in St. Paul. He told her not to open it. Masked agents then forced their way in and pointed guns at the family, yelling at them, Thao recalled.
“I was shaking,” he said. “They didn’t show any warrant; they just broke down the door.”
Amid a massive surge of federal agents into the Twin Cities, immigration authorities are facing backlash from residents and the local leaders for warrantless arrests, aggressive clashes with protestors and the fatal shooting of mother of three Renee Good.
“ICE is not doing what they say they’re doing,” St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her, a Hmong American, said in a statement about Thao’s arrest. “They’re not going after hardened criminals. They’re going after anyone and everyone in their path. It is unacceptable and un-American.”
Encounter is caught on video
Thao, who has been a U.S. citizen for decades, said that as he was being detained he asked his daughter-in-law to find his identification but the agents told him they didn’t want to see it.
Instead, as his 4-year-old grandson watched and cried, Thao was led out in handcuffs wearing only sandals and underwear with just a blanket wrapped around his shoulders.
Videos captured the scene, which included people blowing whistles and horns and neighbors screaming at the more than a dozen gun-toting agents to leave Thao’s family alone.
Thao said agents drove him “to the middle of nowhere” and made him get out of the car in the frigid weather so they could photograph him. He said he feared they would beat him. He was asked for his ID, which agents earlier prevented him from retrieving.
Agents eventually realized that he was a U.S. citizen with no criminal record, Thao said, and an hour or two later, they brought him back to his house. There they made him show his ID and then left without apologizing for detaining him or breaking his door, Thao said.
Land of no turn signals says says
Hard for me to wrap my head around deporting people here ILLEGALLY is a bad thing.The liberals will will try put a bad spin on the cure for cancer.
Laurel says
Land of no turn signals: No they won’t. You need to start looking at what is really happening, instead of what you want to believe is happening. It hasn’t been like this in this country since the fight against civil rights.
Dare yourself, to look for information brought forward on sites other than Fox, Newsmax and other right wing outlets, or left wing outlets for that matter. They are not telling you all you need to know, and they are making money keeping you on their sites. They care not what happens to our country, as long as the cash rolls in. It’s disgusting.
Sherry says
@land. . . So you are OK with mothers who are married to US citizens living here peacefully for over 10 years and working hard cleaning your hotel rooms with ZERO illegal actions having their front door bashed in and being arrested at gun point by heavily armed, unidentified mask men with NO WARRANT ? You are OK with those mothers ripped from their American citizen children and thrown into detention centers where Congresspersons are not allowed to inspect the conditions although there are rumors of rape, starvation and beatings. You are OK with all that?
Oh, that’s right, those things are NOT reported on Fox/Newsmax, etc.
Please realize you are being completely “Duped” into becoming a “Monster”!
Watch the BBC, look up stories on the Associated Press. Come back to “factual reality”! Otherwise, you are lost to all decent society. Your choice. . .
Laurel says
Trump is getting rid of all the brown boogeymen, boogeywomen and boogeybabies while making millions on his Kryto Koins, and avoiding the Epstein files.