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Weather: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 11am, then showers between 11am and 2pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. High near 70. Windy, with a northeast wind 21 to 23 mph, with gusts as high as 32 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. Tuesday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 63. Windy, with a northeast wind 21 to 23 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%.
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- 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:
In Court: Anne Mae Demegillo Arraignment, 8:30 a.m. before Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols in Courtroom 401 at the Flagler County Courthouse. Demegillo faces a charge of aggravated manslaughter in the death of a child. See: “A 20-Year-Old Student Is Accused Of Watching Newborn Die Before Burying Body In Backyard on Florida Park Drive.”
The Palm Coast City Council meets at 6 p.m. at City Hall. For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. For meeting agendas, audio and video, go here.
Flagler Beach’s Planning and Architectural Review Board meets at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall, 105 S 2nd Street. For agendas and minutes, 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]
The Flagler County Library Board of Trustees meets at 4:30 p.m. at the Flagler County Public Library, 2500 Palm Coast Pkwy NW, Palm Coast. The meeting of the seven-member board is open to the public.
Hammock Community Association Meeting, 6:30 p.m. at Hammock Community Center, 79 Malacompra Road. Today: Jen Lomberk, Executive Director of Matanzas Riverkeeper. Everyone is invited. Doors open at 6 p.m. Meetings usually include a featured speaker. Check the month’s speaker at TheHammock.org. See videos from prior meetings at the HCA’s YouTube Channel. Sign up for the Newsletter. Prior newsletters are available here. Membership is $16. Join or renew here.
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’ Group meets at 4 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.
Free Tax Preparation Services in Flagler County: The AARP Foundation’s Tax Aide provides free tax preparation services at six locations in Palm Coast, Flagler Beach and Flagler County through April 15, but you must make an appointment first and fill out paperwork. To do both, go here.
Notably: Here’s the story of the Iran war summed up in three Economist covers so far:
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April 2026
Contractor Review Board Meeting
Free Tax Preparation Services in Flagler County
In Court: Kristopher Henriqson Trial
Flagler County’s Technical Review Committee Meeting
Tourist Development Council Meeting
Conversations in Democracy
Flagler County Industrial Development Authority Meeting
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Bingo Night at Palm Coast Elks Lodge 2709
Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry
Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Story Time with Miss Kim at Flagler Beach Public Library
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Palm Coast Democratic Club Recap Meeting
For the full calendar, go here.
On March 2, President Trump assured Jake Tapper of CNN that the war was “a little ahead of schedule.” On March 9, he revised the estimate, telling CBS News that the war was “very far ahead of schedule.” And in a cabinet meeting on March 26, the president went big, saying the war was “extremely, really, a lot ahead of schedule.” Top officials have also received the calendar invite. Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary, has declared the conflict ahead of schedule. So has Pete Hegseth, the secretary of war memes, who changed things up a bit, saying that the war is “on plan” and “ahead of pace.” After talks with the Group of 7 foreign ministers last week, Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, said that the war was “on or ahead of schedule” (take your pick). Claiming that a war is on schedule, let alone “ahead” of it, is an exercise in illusion, a transparent attempt to project competence, control and success. If there is a schedule, then there must be a master plan, and if we are ahead of the schedule, then the plan is working: The war must be going well. A war going according to schedule means that nothing has surprised us or thwarted our intentions; it means that we are still in charge. […] In Iran, the schedule is our most malleable illusion; in a war with shifting goals, any schedule is as good as any other.
–From Carlos Lozada’s “Trump’s Fixation on This Phrase Reveals Something About the War in Iran,” New York Times, April 1, 2026.
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Dennis C Rathsam says
Looks like IRAN is going down with the ship! The Mullahs, will be no more, if they don’t except TRUMPS deal! His rating are down, but nowhere as low as the Democrats. Now the Jackass party is running away from the radical part of the party, The communist wing of losers, now as they come back to the middle, or so they say. How can you trust them, the cover ups, the lies! TRUMPS on TV everyday telling what’s happening, he brings Generals in to verifie the real truth, & debonk the JACKASS lies! I laugh at these fools who claim America,s losing this war, these are the trouble makers, who hate America, & have lost their minds.
BillC says
No one can “debonk” things like Rathsam can!
Sherry says
@ Bill C. . . LOL! “Bonka! Bonka! Bonka!. . . let’s see, is that a pogo stick shaking those brains loose? Iran “IS” reportedly writing all kinds of “EXCEPTions” to trump’s deal. LOL! LOL! LOL! That trump is not likely to “accept”.
OK, I’m holding my side now from laughing so hard!
Ray W. says
Re: the Economist covers.
For some 30 years, I heard my father occasionally proclaim: Never underestimate the ability of a perfectly good prosecutor to [screw] up a perfectly good case! So many times in my 30-plus years in courtrooms, I watched from the beginning of a case a prosecutor compounding the mistake of thinking that defendants think about crime the same way that prosecutors think about crime, when so few prosecutors have barely the slightest clue about the human condition of true despair. Some understood; they were the good ones.
All of us wear blinders of one type or another. For some, the condition is occasional and fixable. Others, habitual and thoughtless. For the vengeful and hateful and dishonest among us, the blinders are malicious and perpetual.
Skibum says
After the F-bomb laced vulgar tirade on Easter of all days, now this morning he ups his maniacal threats to say that after the deadline of 8 pm tonight, “a whole civilization” will be killed!!! He has surpassed the insanity and murderous fervor of even Putin, and is more akin to N. Korea’s dictator who has murdered even his own family members.
These are the utterances of a MAD MAN! And he has this nation’s nuclear codes! When will the members of Congress decide, belatedly if at all, that he has gone too far and realize this maniac in the WH is unfit for office???
After giddily accepting a make believe “FIFA peace prize”, after campaigning on “America first” and “no new wars”, after so much criticism of his predecessors who dabbled in military adventurism, this insane man who is seen more and more to be on the verge of dementia wants to kill off an entire civilization, including women and children, because of the price of oil???
And THAT seems logical and perfectly okay with the complicit maga mush brains who have already approved and allowed the partial dismantling of our government, our social safety net, our intelligence apparatus that protects this nation???
Wake the hell up before he uleashes nuclear holocaust on his enemies! Invoke the 25th Amendment already!!!
Ed P says
Hello Skibum,
I would encourage you to conduct a triangulation to move your comments toward the political middle much like President Bill Clinton adopted to ensure his reelection. It’s not surrendering or bending of knee.
Your unyielding disdain for President Trump, amplifies your chronic nonsensical rhetoric. You are drifting so far left into a radical posture that it’s becoming cringe.
You possess the intellect and capacity to effectively debate policies but your recent approach has been purely based on character bashing and name calling. It doesn’t lend credibility.
Your feigning of outrage over any language or verbiage is laughable.
There is zero indication that United States will use nuclear.
Take Trump seriously not literally.
The Iranian regime only understands strength and will prioritize ideological defiances over concessions. My god, they are convincing children to encircle power plants and have lined them up as human shields.
The Iranian leaders are true Zealots.
Skibum says
Hello Ed P. It may surprise you to hear that I am not a democrat, but an independent. Like many other American voters of various ideological views, I find it easy to have disdain for a man so bereft of ethics, morality or compassion for others – especially those of modest means who are in dire need of the vary federal services that he gleefully withholds from them while enriching himself and redirecting billions of taxpayer dollars to other wealthy individuals and corporations who support him.
Not only does he have many serious, obvious character flaws that should have prevented him from being elected to the highest office in the land the first time and certainly again the second time, he is a convicted felon, a serial liar, an adjudicated sex abuser, a tax cheat and fraudster, and just not a likable individual.
I am positive that I am not the only middle of the road independent with the same viewpoint. If I were a far left wing voter, I’m sure I would have even more extreme, probably vulgar and non-printable descriptions that would also be appropriate to describe the most unfit and despicable example of humanity ever to occupy the WH.
It has become far beyond debating policies. You make it seem as if an uninvolved spectator could stand between Jesus and the devil himself and arbitrate fairly, bringing up both good and bad points for both. I dare say this man has NO redeeming qualities whatsoever! Debate closed.
I just want him GONE!
Ed P says
Hello Skibum,
My observation was that a moderation in your tone would deliver your message to a broader audience.
Regardless of our political title/political affiliation, in the voting booth, everyone is able to vote their conscience. An independent label doesn’t tell me that you or anyone else vote down a party line or spend the time and effort to research every candidates or individual issues and vote strictly on their merits. Most people probably do not. I suspect the majority of people don’t cross party lines as often as they boast.
You say you are a “middle of the road independent”, but your posts on anything other than law enforcement send a different message.
Allowing one’s emotions like “hate” to engulf everything Trump eliminates that your critical review will be intellectually honest. You start from a negative posture on every single issue.
Setting aside the rhetoric/ name calling while focusing on the policies/results based on reality instead of emotions for the next 3 years may ease the pain of the journey.
Finally, the reality is the Democratic Party is adrift. They are the primary reason President Trump was elected-twice- and you still don’t understand.
As strident as you are that a reprobate shouldn’t be elected twice, I could not allow myself to vote for the totally flawed and incompetent choices provided.
Survival of America was my underlying motivation.
You see him as a narcissist/bully. I see him as an alpha- the antithesis of the bully.
Skibum says
That’s one of the things that makes America great… we all can have differing views. I thank you for your input. I will try my best to moderate my tone, even in the face of complete moral decay and insanity from the one individual who wields so much power and control over this nation and our futures.
However, having spent an entirety in the law enforcement profession where having a type A personality was necessary in order to be effective as well as for safety and survival, I can’t promise that my zeal and assertiveness will not continue to show through my written comments when there is an issue that I feel strongly about. All I can do is try.
Ed P says
Hello Skibum,
Now if we can “nudge” Dennis.
Even Ray W has tried.
Thanks.
Ps. Dennis are you reading?
Sherry says
Thank you Skibum! I couldn’t agree ore!
Ray W. says
This from an ABC NEWS story.
On April 1st, the Indianapolis city-county council approved a proposed data center project.
On April 6th, someone fired 13 rounds through the front door of a council member’s home, as he and his young son slept inside. A note was left under the front doormat. “No Data Centers”, it read.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
There is a sickness upon the land. We are giving ourselves permission to kill or harm or terrorize others. Lying and lie laundering is thought by some virtuous. Seemingly, every position on every issue, however slight the issue, is worthy of mortal response. Recently, American religious extremists openly suggested during an podcast assassination of the Texas Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate.
I am reminded of a story about the entirely human propensity for making mountains out of molehills.
During return by liner from a meeting with President Eisenhower, the British delegation enjoyed a jovial dinner on the evening of July 4, 1954, according to a diary entry made that night by an aide. But a “blood row” between Winston Churchill and his eventual successor, Anthony Eden, blew up upon receipt of news of an American Senator telling reporters that Great Britain, by policy, would accept “Red China” into the UN prior to cessation of Chinese hostilities with South Korea and the United States.
On hearing the news, which was the opposite of Great Britain’s actual China policy, at least in Churchill’s mind, Eden argued that entry into the UN ought to be held out as a reward to China for good behavior. Churchill realized that Eden opposed British government policy and that, by inference, Eden was likely the source behind the Senator’s comment.
The aide wrote that there ensued a “disagreeable scene” between the two. He added to his diary entry that just before retiring for the night, Churchill commented that, in the aide’s diary entry, “Anthony was totally incapable of differentiating great points and small points [a criticism that has an element of truth in it.]”
The great point was the importance of the appearance of complete policy unity between Great Britain and the United States. A policy of admitting China to the UN, whatever the reason, would never be, in Churchill’s mind, anything bigger than a small point, and always subordinate to the big point.
To a pestilential partisan member of faction, there are no small points. Every partisan political disagreement is a disaster of the highest magnitude. That America has been repeatedly destroyed by Democrats is the clarion call to action.
The Chicago Tribune, on passage of the Social Security Act, famously proclaimed the legislation an act of communism that portended the end of America.
Laurel says
I’m disheartened by the story about the podcast suggesting the assassination of the Democrat running for the Texas senate seat. That young man is a devout Christian, and is the real deal. Organized religion is often about controlling the masses. The young man in question is about practicing the true teachings of Christ, and therefore a threat to those who want to control.
I’ve said here, more than once, that if Jesus came back to Earth, it would be his so called followers who would crucify him the second time.
Pogo says
Today’s cartoon: 100%
Carlos Lozada’s “Trump’s Fixation on This Phrase Reveals Something About the War in Iran,”
That it pulled it out of its ass, like everything else that spurts out of its face?
Ray W. says
ABC NEWS reports that two decades ago a 20-month-old Honduran infant entered the country with her parents. When her parents did not bring her to a hearing scheduled for April 2005, meaning the parents registered her with the government and they received notice on her behalf of the hearing, the immigration judge ordered her removal from the country.
On April 2nd, 2026, a few days after she married a 23-year-old U.S. Army staff sergeant, the 22-year-old bride and her husband , along with members of her family, applied for married housing and for her military ID. An ICE official entered the base and detained her.
Reportedly, the bride is mere months away from earning a biochemistry degree. She has never been accused of a crime.
Her father-in-law said that “[she] is everything you would hope for in a daughter-in-law. … She is kind, smart and dedicated: she teaches Sunday school, and she loves my son with her whole heart, we absolutely adore her.”
Make of this what you will.
Me?
There are a number of deeply entrenched lies about immigrants. Many immigrants are conservative at heart. Immigrants love their families. Many believe in education. They are respectful and dutiful members of their church homes. They help their neighbors. They work. They create jobs. They commit crimes at rates significantly lower than the native-born. If naturalized and given the lawful chance to vote, many immigrants vote Republican.
Is this 22-year-old newlywed one of the worst of the worst? Is this what we are as a nation? Why are we allowing so many of the worst among us, the vengeful, the hateful, the dishonest, to harm so many of the best among us?
And, finally, this is for the more gullibly stupid who wander among us. Even though it appears from the story that her parents properly registered her on entry, a 20-month-old infant cannot form the intent needed to prove commission of the minor misdemeanor charge of improper entry. And it is not a crime for the undocumented to live in the U.S.
Ray W. says
Newsweek reports that Beth Hammack, the Cleveland Fed regional president, told an AP reporter:
“I can foresee scenarios where we would need to reduce rates … if the labor market deteriorates significantly. Or I could see where we might need to raise rates if inflation stays persistently above our target.”
According to the story, Cleveland Fed inflation projections have March inflation at 3.5%, up from 2.4% in February. The actual CPI report for March drops this coming Friday.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
I interpret President Hammack’s comment as a reflection of a measure of confliction existing in her economic thinking. Too many significant things may be happening all at once. Tested modeling, by definition informed by looking backwards, may not have caught up with changes from on-and-off, big-and-small tariff actions. The Iran War remains unpredictable. The Trump administration is asking for an additional $200 billion in unfunded defense spending for the remainder of this fiscal year and another unfunded increase of roughly $500 billion in military spending for FY 2027.
Skibum says
I just watched the short clip from the WH easter egg activity last Sunday where the orange faced idiot is sitting with the rest of the kids, coloring… and he is looking for a white crayon, saying they don’t have a white crayon, he guesses he will just have to leave the white paper white!!! What a f***ing moron! Just before that, another video clip from Sunday shows the world how he is surrounded by little kids and instead of enjoying the easter activity with the kids, he is bashing Biden, again, telling these little kids that Biden used an autopen, and they are all looking confused, wondering what in the hell he is talking about!
Can we please, for God’s sake, NOW enact the 25th Amendment on this ASSHOLE?!? He needs to be in a straight jacket and escorted to a rubber room, NOT sitting in the white house and in possession of the nuclear codes!
Laurel says
The boy ain’t right.
Ray W. says
An energy project monitoring site, Cleanview, claims that as of April 2026, 94 Texas-based solar power projects will start operations over the next 12 months, as will 29 wind projects. 155 battery storage sites, too, will start operations over the coming 12 months.
Make of this what you will.
Sherry says
The Majority of those polled support the Democrats calling to remove Trump from office using the 25th amendment! This survey from “The Hill”:
To what extent do you approve or disapprove of Democrats’ calls for President Trump to be removed from office over his handling of the Iran conflict?
Strongly approve
60%
Somewhat approve
5%
Somewhat disapprove
1%
Strongly disapprove
33%
Other / No opinion
2%
Ed P says
Yep, the left talking heads told you 8 hours earlier, he’s a mad man. He needs to be impeached, 25th article time. He’s going to wipe out 94 million Iranians.
Fast forward, now it’s the biggest taco Tuesday ever. He can’t make a decision.
Rich. The left talking heads are idiots.
It’s never the outcome or results. Criticism is always about the “Trump Style”
Ray W. says
According to a story published by The Independent, last year Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins approached President Trump about the need to permit more immigrants to enter the country to work in the agriculture sector.
On January 1, 2026, new administrative rules for H-2A workers were adopted, including a rule that permits farmers to pay lower wages to incoming immigrant workers.
Secretary Rollins announced:
“We are working to make a very quick change as quickly as we can to basically open up the market so that these labor questions can be resolved.”
A different federal agency, the Department of Labor, issued this statement drawn from within a report:
“The near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens combined with the lack of an available legal workforce results in significant disruptions to production costs and threatening the stability of food production and prices for U.S. consumers.”
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Visuals of crops rotting unpicked in fields tends to motivate certain presidents to allow more immigrants to enter the country. Hearing from farmers who traditionally vote Republican tends to motivate certain presidents, too.
Quite a few FlaglerLive commenters engage in magical thinking on the issue of immigration. Very few Americans are willing to work as farm laborers. It is dangerous work on the best of days, and often too hot to ensure the barest of safe conditions. Immigrants have long filled the void. According to the reporter, 40% of farm laborers are undocumented. We need these workers. Only the magical thinkers among us argue that removal of 40% of a labor force will not affect food availability or price stability.
Dennis C Rathsam says
SKIDBUM, I,LL buy you a white crayon….hell I.ll buy you the whole box!
Skibum says
Well it figures… Dennis is also looking for a white crayon! Color me surprised, LOL!
Laurel says
Heck, when I was a kid, I got the 64 color box. That’s why I’m a liberal, DEI supporting, leftist, Independent! LOL! My two favorite colors were “Seafoam Green” and “Burnt Sienna.” The far right’s favorite color was “Flesh.” See how that works?
Ray W. says
The news outlet Seeking Alpha writes that earlier today Iran struck Saudi Arabia’s Jubail petrochemical complex with medium-range missiles and “suicide” drones. No confirmation on potential damage to the site.
Make of this what you will.
Ray W. says
News has it that, Monday, three commercial vessels entered the Strait of Hormuz from the Gulf of Oman located to the west and eight entered from the Persian Gulf side of the Strait.
Make of this what you will.
Sherry says
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