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Weather: Sunny, with a high near 84. North wind 5 to 10 mph becoming east in the afternoon. Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 69. Southeast wind 3 to 6 mph.
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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’s guests: Superintendent LaShakia Moore and other top district officials. See previous podcasts here. On WNZF at 94.9 FM, 1550 AM, and live at Flagler Broadcasting’s YouTube channel.
A Disaster Preparedness Expo is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway, with several vendors and speakers and lined up, including Emergency Management Director Jonathan Lord, Sheriff Rick Staly, and the county’s fire chiefs. The event is free and open to the public.
The Flagler County Cultural Council (FC3) meets at 11 a.m. at the Tourism Development Office, 120 Airport Road, Palm Coast, in the 3rd-floor conference room. The meetings are open to the public. Contact [email protected] for additional information. See: “Over Mayor’s Objections, Palm Coast Signals It’ll Extend Agreement with Cultural Council to Manage $100,000 in Grants,” and “How Peter Johnson’s ‘Bullshit’ Trespass Led to Sunshine on FC3 Cultural Board and Its Accountability to Palm Coast.”
‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,’ an FPC Production of the musical, 7 p.m. (with an additional 2 p.m. matinee May 16) at the Fitzgerald Performing Arts Center (Flagler Auditorium), 5500 State Road 100, Palm Coast. Call the box office at (386) 437-7547 Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., or book online here.
‘The Curious Savage” at Daytona Playhouse, 100 Jessamine Blvd., Daytona Beach. Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m., with an extra Saturday matinee on May 16 at 2 p.m. A recent widow has hidden $10 million in bonds and her grown-up stepchildren want to get their hands on it. They commit her to a sanatorium hoping to “bring her to her senses.” Tickets $15-$25. Box office: (386) 255-2431.
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: “Another facet of growing anti-immigrant fervor,” Adam Hochschild writes in American Midnight, his 2022 history of the Red Scare and the early 1920s in the United States, toward which we are so eagerly slouching back, “was a deep suspicion of foreign languages. After all, if you couldn’t understand what people were saying, it might be something un-American. An Iowa senator called for “a one-language nation.” The American Legion Weekly demanded that this one language be called “American.” In New York, the most multilingual city on earth, an alderman introduced a bill banning meetings held in “alien tongues.” In Oregon, a member of the board of the Portland Public Library urged it to get rid of all foreign-language newspapers. In Kentucky, the Citizens Patriotic League, the vigilantes whose hidden microphone had brought prison sentences for the men in Charles Schoberg’s cobbler’s shop, called for a ban on the teaching of any modern foreign language in American elementary schools. Even the august and sober New York Times was swept along by this linguistic crusade. On June 8, 1919, it devoted almost an entire page to a story headlined “Official Translations of Our Bolshevist Papers.” This contained thousands of words of calls for revolution and attacks on “bankers and merchants” from the country’s foreign-language press. All this “hatred of the American Government” was being quoted by agitators “in hidden and secret halls.” In New York City, the breathless reporter told readers, “half of a floor in one of the important Federal buildings has been set aside for the work of the official Government translators.”” And now this from Statista: “According to the National K-12 Foreign Language Enrollment Survey conducted by the Americans Councils for International Education, less than 20 percent of K-12 students in the U.S. were enrolled in foreign language classes in 2014/15, the latest available data. This is a far cry from the enrollment rates seen across Europe, as Eurostat data shows. Many European countries have enrollment rates close to 100 percent, with an average of 91 percent of primary and secondary school students learning at least one foreign language across the European Union. More than one in three students in the EU even study two or more foreign languages, showing that many student learn more than “just” English. While English is by far the most widely taught foreign language across Europe, Spanish is the most popular second language in the U.S. Of the 10.6 million students enrolled in a foreign language class in 2014/2015, 7.4 million studied Spanish and 1.3 million learned French.”
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May 2026
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Disaster Preparedness Expo
Flagler County Cultural Council (FC3) Meeting
Friday Blue Forum
‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,’ an FPC Production
‘The Curious Savage” at Daytona Playhouse
“Once on This Island,” At Limelight Theatre
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Democratic Women’s Club
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Unity in the Community
Chess Meet-Up At the Flagler Beach Public Library
‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,’ an FPC Production
‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,’ an FPC Production
For the full calendar, go here.
“The word “immigrant,” an Americanism introduced around 1789, was described by an early English traveler as “perhaps the only new word, of which the circum-stances of the United States has in any degree demanded the addition to the English language.” But official statistics on immigration were not kept before 1820. Only gradually. during the nineteenth century, did Americans become statistically conscious of the immigrant. Shattuck boasted that his pioneer Boston census of 1845 had first distinguished “the native from the foreign population.” In 1850 the federal census began to classify the white population into “native” and “foreign born.” As the flood of immigrants widened and deepened, and as these immigrants clustered in large en-claves, many of the most respectable, and even of the re form-minded “native” Americans became alarmed. The Im-migration Restriction League, founded in Boston in 1894 under Harvard Brahmin leadership, soon received support from many leading figures in New England literature and public life-including Henry Cabot Lodge, John Fiske, Albert Bushnell Hart, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Barrett Wen-dell, and Abbott Lawrence Lowell.”
–Daniel J. Boorstin, The Decline of Radicalism: Reflections on America Today (1969).
Dennis C Rathsam says
Looks to me, the Irainians would rather die then serender ! Very soon TRUMP will grant them what they asked for. No more peace deals, no more cease firings, time & time again they play games. The waiting is over. Time to take IRAN, like GRANT took Richmond.
Pogo says
Today’s cartoon: a picture worth a billion words.
Brain drippings: the story of hungry predators, challenging the old alpha male or looking for a new territory to call their own, continues; the rest of life waits for the outcomes — lives as it’s able, and hopes, or not, to see another day.
Please, pass the jelly; who do I have to kiss to get another cup of coffee?
Koyote says
Wondering if the whole point of the China visit was to secure a manufacturing site for the “Made In America” …. errr .. “Made With American Values” … Trump Phones ? Maybe make them with a Trump Brand and no identifying marks?