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Weather: A slight chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 11am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 86. Chance of precipitation is 20%. Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 74.
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Today at a Glance:
The three-member East Flagler Mosquito Control District Board meets at 10 a.m. at District Headquarters, 210 Airport Executive Drive, Palm Coast. Agendas are available here. District staff, commissioners and email addresses are here. The meetings are open to the public.
The Flagler County Commission meets at 2 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 E. Moody Boulevard, Building 2, Bunnell. Commissioners will discuss Flagler Estates, the lost colony at the northwestern end of the county.
The Flagler County Commission meets at 5 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 E. Moody Boulevard, Building 2, Bunnell. Commissioners will get a presentation on the Bulow Creek Headwaters Regional Park Master Plan. See: “Future 1,160-acre Bulow Creek Headwaters County Park Would Be Almost as Large as Princess Place.” Access meeting agendas and materials here. The five county commissioners and their email addresses are listed here.
Nar-Anon Family Groups offers hope and help for families and friends of addicts through a 12-step program, 6 p.m. at St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church, 303 Palm Coast Pkwy NE, Palm Coast, Fellowship Hall Entrance. See the website, www.nar-anon.org, or call (800) 477-6291. Find virtual meetings here.
Notably: Andy Smith is a Democratic member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, in office since January 2023. He used to be a conservative who considered himself “pro life,” that lethal misnomer. He has since abandoned the dark side. This clip began appearing this week of his speech against personhood constitutional amendments, which are scurrying across the undersoles of a few state legislatures, but not in Minnesota. I have not been able to figure out why he made the speech from the Minnesota House floor, since there is no such amendment proposed there, but his points are what matters, including this: 70 percent of embryos die after conception. “An estimated 70% to 75% of human conceptions fail to survive to birth. That number includes both embryos that are reabsorbed into the parent’s body before anyone knows an egg has been fertilized and miscarriages that happen later in the pregnancy,” a Conversation piece that ran here four years ago reports. See Smith in full below.
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June 2026
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Watermelon Festival at European Village
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
‘The Battle of Shallowford,’ at Limelight Theatre
Al-Anon Family Groups
County Commission Budget Workshop
Nar-Anon Family Group
Bunnell City Commission Meeting
For the full calendar, go here.
“Berry often writes of trying to nurture a “human economy”—the antithesis of America’s “total economy,” run by latter-day robber barons and the politicians who count on their donations. By his definition, a corporation is “a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.” Objecting to Supreme Court rulings that treat corporations as persons, Berry argues that “the limitless destructiveness of this economy comes about precisely because a corporation is not a person.” In other words, “It can experience no personal hope or remorse, no change of heart. It cannot humble itself. It goes about its business as if it were immortal, with the single purpose of becoming a bigger pile of money.””
–From a profile of Wendell Berry by Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, Feb. 21, 2022.
Pogo says
PT
When you are at your best (like today) I would have the whole world be your audience.
Pierre Tristam says
Thank you Pogo, for this and for last week’s very kind comment about this being a 24/7 operation.
Laurel says
It’s so sad to see Florida being dragged back into the dark ages while the rest of the free world moves forward. It’s incredibly sad, for an old gal, to watch the hatred and bigotry rise its ugly head again, when it should be way, far behind us.
This Byron Donalds fellow’s ads are blasting constantly, meaning he has a lot of specialized, out of state money behind him. Too bad he is just another person looking out for his personal aggrandizement while shutting the door on the rest of us. What are his policies? Nada. Just the same old talking points of Trump with nothing behind it, but money for his wallet. Maga can claim they are not bigots because they’ll chose a black man, while that black man seems to have no problem with gerrymandered rigged elections. Too bad. Some people are slow learners. They are actually losing while believing they are winning.
Ray W. says
Per a Modern Mechanics 24 story, something unusual happened at a Chinese inland waterway port.
For the first time, an inland waterway electric freighter, with a capacity of 3,000 deadweight tons, swapped its six standardized batteries at a dockside automated battery recharging and swapping station. Each of the ship’s batteries can be swapped out with a fresh battery in about five minutes, meaning that the entire depleted battery set can be refreshed in 30 minutes or less.
The first of its kind electric vessel, named Hefu Elian 01, after attaining operational certification, carried 49 standardized shipping containers between Wuhu port and Chaohu port. Speed of the electric vessel is rated at about 8 miles per hour.
The vessel’s standardized batteries fit into port forklifts, port transport trucks and heavy roadway trucks.
The reporter wrote:
“The goal is to create one shared energy network across ports and transport sectors.”
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Innovation abounds. Ingenuity amazes. Step by step, change intrudes on long-held beliefs.
The competition so necessary to the capitalist concept of “creative destruction” is driving the world toward dominance of renewable electrification over the fading relevance of fossil fuels. At one time not so long ago, renewables and electrification needed governmental subsidies to compete with fossil fuels. Not so anymore.
Over a century ago, hydropower ruled the spotty electricity utility industry. Then, coal surpassed hydropower in nationwide efficiency. Around 2005, advances in natural gas power generation surpassed coal in efficiency. Within the past decade, advances in solar and wind power surpassed natural gas in efficiency. Creative destruction theory commands the rise of more efficient technologies and the decline of less efficient technologies.
I fully expect coal and natural gas to slowly continue decline in comparative economic viability. I fully expect the current administration to continue to throw more and more taxpayer dollars at the fossil fuel industry in its effort to slow that industry’s natural decline.
Laurel says
Yeah, we’re stuck with running on dinosaurs, literally.
Ray W. says
Oil Price US reports that a new Alaskan North Shore oil field was discovered. The Pika field discovery, near Prudhoe Bay, is expected to “plateau” at 80,000 barrels of crude oil production output per day. Provable field reserves are set at 177 million barrels, though further exploration may increase that estimate.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
I have long argued that the lowest hanging American oil industry fruit was picked long ago. New supplies of crude oil are almost certainly going to be smaller in size and harder to find.
On average, prior to the outbreak of war, worldwide demand for crude oil was just over 100 million barrels per day. Finding 177 million barrels of new crude oil reserves means that less than two days of crude oil supply was just added to the world’s proven reserves.
If the Alaska pipeline coming south out of Prudhoe Bay that was finished in the 1970’s never existed, does any FlaglerLive reader believe that oil companies would be looking for such small amounts of crude oil in remote Alaskan North Shore regions? Existing infrastructure capacity can be a very persuasive investment incentive.
Arthur Fonzerellii says
If Florida is depicted as “Jim Crow” what is California PT? Aye!
Former Repukian says
Question for the effeminate guy from Minnesota mansplaining etopic pregancies…What is a woman?
Ray W. says
As of May 14, 2026, per a CDC report titled “Measles Cases and Outbreaks”, there have been 27 new outbreaks of measles cases, and 1,893 confirmed new measles patients. Many of the new patients were associated with 2025 outbreaks. 97% of the 2026 measles patients were associated with 2025 or 2026 measles outbreaks.
In all of 2025, there were 48 outbreaks of measles cases, and 2,288 new patients.
In 2000, measles as a disease was deemed eradicated from the United States.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
In a world of international travel, there can be zero measles incidents that meet the medical definition of an outbreak in the United States in any given year, but an international traveler can still bring the virus in from abroad. A deadly and highly virulent disease can be detected after arrival in the country, but never cause an outbreak, due to herd immunity. But we no longer have complete herd immunity against the measles virus anymore. Domestic outbreaks are on the rise. Individuals presenting with the disease are on the rise.
In 1962, the year prior to the issuance of the first license for a measles vaccine, and among a much smaller population base then compared to today, 481,530 confirmed measles cases were recorded in the United States, a number considered far too small to confer natural herd immunity in the American populace.
I went to a different CDC database. Between 400 and 500 people died from the measles virus in 1962, and some 100,000 of the infected experienced symptoms of encephalitis. Three people died in 2025.