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Today at a Glance:
Flagler County’s Technical Review Committee Meeting at 9 a.m., first floor Conference Room, at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. The Technical Review Committee (TRC) is a quality control committee that provides technical review of project plans. Staff Liaison is Simone Kenny, 386-313-4067.
The Flagler County Contractor Review Board meets at 5 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. Staff liaison is Bo Snowden, Chief Building Official, who may be reached at (386) 313-4027. For agendas and details go here.
The Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board meets at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall.
The Flagler County Industrial Development Authority meets at 2 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell.
Conversations in Democracy: An open, freewheeling discussion on topics here in our community, around Florida and throughout the United States, noon to 1 p.m. at Pine Lakes Golf Club Clubhouse Pub & Grillroom (no purchase is necessary), 400 Pine Lakes Pkwy, Palm Coast (0.7 miles from Belle Terre Parkway). Call (386) 445-0852 for best directions. All are welcome! Everyone’s voice is important. For further information email [email protected] or call Merrill at 804-914-4460.
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The Circle of Light Course in Miracles study group meets at a private residence in Palm Coast every Wednesday at 1:20 PM. There is a $2 love donation that goes to the store for the use of their room. If you have your own book, please bring it. All students of the Course are welcome. There is also an introductory group at 1:00 PM. The group is facilitated by Aynne McAvoy, who can be reached at [email protected] for location and information.
U.S. Re. Randy Fine Tele-Town Hall: Congressman Randy Fine, the Republican representing Flagler County and the 6th Congressional District, hosts a tele-town hall meeting with House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan at 5 p.m. The telephone-based event is open to all residents of Florida’s 6th Congressional District. To join, call 833-946-1538. Constituents may join the live conversation and submit questions.
Notably: “Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us?” Thomas Carlyle asked in one of his nineteenth century lectures on heroes and hero worship. Music is “a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite.” As J. Bottum wrote in the March 2000 Atlantic, “That, of course, is the problem. There aren’t any words for it, because there really isn’t any it: no intellectual content, no idea in the melody. Even in, say, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons–in, that is, a deliberate effort to make music express something rational–the ideas it takes forty-five minutes to convey amount to little more than winter is cold and summer hot, in spring things grow and in fall they don’t.” A bit simplistic really, but he’s trying to make a point, or maybe missing it if, as Kerouac put it when listening to Billie Holiday, who had words to help, “It’s not the words so much as the great harmonic tune and the way Billie sings it, like a woman stroking her man’s hair in soft lamplight.” Words about music, the old music critic Bernard Holland once wrote, “should try to share its beauty, not look for elusive ‘meaning’.” Anyway, I still marvel at the scene in “Amadeus” where Antonio Salieri looks at the Mozart score of Mozart’s “Grand Partita” serenade, particularly the way Salieri describes the music. It is enough. No further meanings necessary than the music itself. Below, the scene, and the full serenade.
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June 2026
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Coffee and Conversation with Palm Coast City Manager Michael McGlothlin
Friday Blue Forum
Food Truck Friday on the Farm: At the Ag Museum
‘The Battle of Shallowford,’ at Limelight Theatre
Phoenix Crossings Charity Golf Tournament
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
American Association of University Women (AAUW) Meeting
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
‘The Battle of Shallowford,’ at Limelight Theatre
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Nowadays, I see schoolkids bustling along the sidewalk, their large instrument cases strapped to them like diligent coffins, and I know their weight of obedience. Happy obedience, too: that cello or French horn brings lasting joy, and a repertoire more demanding and subtle than rock music’s. But fuck the laudable ideologies, as Roth’s Mickey Sabbath puts it: subtlety is not rebellion, and subtlety is not freedom, and sometimes it is rebellious freedom that one wants, and only rock music can deliver it. And sometimes one despises oneself, in near middle age, for still being such a merely good student.
–From —James Wood’s The Fun Stuff (2012).
Jim says
From PBS: “The Justice Department said it is creating a nearly $1.8 billion fund that could compensate Trump supporters who say they were wrongly investigated or prosecuted by previous administrations. The announcement came as part of a settlement with President Trump to drop a $10 billion lawsuit he filed against the IRS over the leak of his tax returns in 2019.” Actually, the fund is “$1.776B” because Trump wants it to appear patriotic.
Tack on the minimum of $220M that Trump invested in stocks earlier this year. Coincidentally, these stocks were tied to decisions that would be announced soon after his purchases which boosted the stocks considerably. Of course, this isn’t insider trading…
Not to mention his $1B ballroom that we taxpayers will be paying for after being told “no tax dollars” would be spent.
And let’s not forget the “Arch de Trump” that no one wants but Trump is building – as he’s said – “for me”.
This is corruption at a level “no one has seen before” to quote one of the president’s go to lines.
Meanwhile, there’s a shrinking number of die-hard MAGA morons that still cling to Trump because they think he’s been sent by God Himself to save them from all the evils of this world. Isn’t it just beyond amazing that they can’t see the evil taking place out in the open in front of them?
I pray that the Republicans will see a massive upheaval in November and this will be the biggest shift from one party to the other in American history. I fear if that doesn’t happen, the great American experiment will be effectively over.
A note to Democrats. If you are successful in taking control of the House and (hopefully) the Senate, we expect you to hit the ground running. You MUST have a plan to counter-act all the illegal and unethical actions Trump has taken to that point in time. You MUST have a plan to get the economy back on track. You MUST have a plan to start the process of bringing America’s reputation back on the world stage and repairing our relationships with our allies. You MUST have a plan for minimalizing Trump for the balance of his term. Whether he’s impeached isn’t the main concern. He must be stopped. I expect the Democrats to move quickly on all fronts to push Trump’s agenda into the sea. And, Democrats, keep in mind, we, the electorate, will be watching. Fail and I really think there will be an uprising of a third party that hopefully will displace both parties.
For you MAGA folks, please address the slush fund, the stock trades, the ballroom and the arch. I’d love to see you all justify each and every one of these items. I notice that, for the most part, you are silent on such items, preferring to concentrate of illegal immigrants, LGBTQ, culture issues and conveniently ignore these other things. Please, tell us all why this is okay to you.
Laurel says
Jim: They can’t. Trump has so backed them into a corner, they can’t give up or they feel they will lose face.
Look at it this way: You know that a child sexual predator grooms a child where the child participates, then feels guilty. The exploitation contains. Then the child is in deep.
Trump has pushed so much unreasonable bs for his followers to swallow that they are going to roll the dice one more time in hopes of a win. If he wins, maga feels it’s worth it, and they beat the “libs.” Damned the logic, and damned the consequences.
The last stand of the Confederacy.
Pogo says
Good morning Mr. Tristam (and Mr. Woods)
Dennis C Rathsam says
Democrats wanted redistricting…..they got it
The dude says
Can you support this statement with facts? Like any, at all?
Right Turn Clyde says
See California.
The dude says
Before looking at Texas or after?
Sherry says
@right turn. . . I’m calling “Complete BS” on your comment!
“We ALL KNOW” that trump pressured the Texas governor back in June of 2025 to change the voting map “in Favor of the Republicans”, with “NO” input from Texans!
Only after that complete attempt at “Election Rigging” in Texas, did the governor of California call for a “referendum” ASKING the California voters if they wanted to redraw their mapsto help “balance” out what trump did in Texas. The California voters said “YES” in November of 2025!
Texas Tribune June 11, 2025:
WASHINGTON — Before he called lawmakers back to Austin to redraw Texas’ congressional maps, Gov. Greg Abbott was initially resistant to the plan pushed by President Donald Trump’s political team to pick up new GOP seats through a rare mid-decade redistricting, according to two people who have spoken to Abbott and the White House about the behind-the-scenes discussions.
The majority of Texas’ GOP congressional delegation was also wary of the idea, with many members concerned that Republican map-drawers could miscalculate and spread their voters too thin — thus putting their jobs in jeopardy — while trying to flip Democratic seats, six people involved in internal delegation discussions told The Texas Tribune.
Abbott told House Republicans from Texas that he was reluctant to take up the issue in Austin, where state lawmakers approve the new lines, if it would pit him against the delegation. In discussions with Abbott’s office, White House staffers attempted to assuage his worries but were unsuccessful, according to two people with direct knowledge of the developments.
Then, Trump placed a call to Abbott during which they discussed redistricting. The governor subsequently agreed to put it on his agenda for the special session, according to two people who spoke with White House officials about the call, one of whom also discussed the matter with Abbott’s office.
Trump’s involvement underscores the immense power he holds over Texas Republicans and shows how far the president will go to protect his Washington trifecta that has handed him sweeping legislative wins, even if that means irritating those who are voting to approve his agenda in Congress.
If Republicans lose control of the House in next year’s midterms, Trump’s agenda would be stalled and his remaining two lame-duck years in the White House would likely be replete with Democratic-led investigations.
The details of the redistricting dynamics were relayed through almost a dozen people, many of whom were granted anonymity to discuss internal deliberations that could have legal implications. Any new map passed by the Legislature would almost certainly be challenged in court.
Ray W. says
Characterizing the accomplishment as an engineering “breakthrough”, an Interesting Engineering reporter writes of Ford having developed a process for the recycling of used electric motor magnets that matches in quality magnets made from rare earth metals derived solely from the mining and refining of virgin ore.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Step by step, breakthrough after breakthrough, EVs are having their Model T moment. Innovation abounds. Ingenuity amazes.
Economists speak of marketplace “tipping points”, i.e., the point in time when one technology gives way to another. In my youth, V-8 engines predominated. Now, Jeep has an ad campaign focused on the sound of its 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine.
Gasoline engines are nearing the end of their more than century-long development cycle, with efficiency gains now being measured in tiny increments. EV motors and batteries are at or near the beginning of their development cycles, with engineering breakthroughs coming fast and furious.
Manufacturing costs for electric motors and EV batteries will continue to fall. Efficiencies will continue to rise. Weight will drop. Scale will beckon. The future of personal transport is electric. The past is gasoline.
Yes, the two personal transport technologies, gasoline and electric, can coexist, at least for a time, just as telegraph and telephone technologies coexisted for nearly a century. But even Ford now calls the introduction of Chinese EVs into the American marketplace an “extinction level event”; its CEO openly says that Ford and all other legacy carmakers will cease to exist if they don’t adapt and innovate. Honda’s CEO recently visited an advanced Chinese EV manufacturing plant; on his return, he opined that Honda lacked the current capacity to compete.
I have commented about this on a number of occasions.
In 1982, China manufactured some 2,500 cars. The government announced a long-term plan for its car industry to learn how to compete with the rest of the world in car making.
In 2008, the Chinese government announced that it could not catch up in the gasoline-powered vehicle sector; it announced that electric vehicle dominance was the new target. At that time, America was at or near the forefront of EV technology. That same year, BYD produced its first EV.
Eighteen years later, BYD has grown to become the fourth largest carmaker by production volume in the world. China’s car industry will produce some 31 million personal transport vehicles this year, with more than half of them being either electric or hybrid models.
The Chinese government recently ended a number of subsidies and incentives for EV products. The question to be asked is whether the Chinese EV manufacturing sector has reached its own tipping point, meaning can EVs now stand on their own?
As an aside, since 2013, up to as many as 750 BYD employees have been building electric city and school buses at its California assembly plant. Long-range versions of BYD’s buses offer up to 400 miles on a single charge.
James says
Oh no… GODZILLA!!!!
https://www.motor1.com/news/795640/ford-super-duty-bigger-engine-standard/
James says
The gaslighting Republicans claim widespread voter fraud, and cry out that the 2020 election was stolen.
All while they effectively rob thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of voters of ALL affiliations (even some of their own) their voice… their vote.
Including my own.
https://flaglerlive.com/wp-content/uploads/redistricting-florida-1.jpg
We will remember.
Ray W. says
According to reporting from The Independent, the Pentagon has “paused” its participation in the “Permanent Joint Board on Defense” with Canada, an agreement dating back to 1940, based on an allegation that Canada is not doing enough to justify continuation of the board.
Per the reporter, this year, Canada will meet its defense spending goal of 2% of GDP and by 2035 it will meet its defense spending goal of 5% of GDP.
Nebraska Senator Don Bacon (R) posted this to X:
“Cooler and wiser brains are needed to preserve a close alliance w/ our neighbor. … This all started with taunts of ‘Canada will be the 51st state’ & ‘their Prime Minister will be the 51st governor.’ … The insults gained us nothing but animosity that cost us economically and now militarily.”
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Every FlaglerLive reader ought to know by now that Canada forms part of our early warning radar network; in this way, it is crucial to our ability to more completely defend ourselves from any foreign ICBM threat. If a Republican Senator thinks we need wiser brains in the Pentagon than those we currently have, should we consider what he is posting?
Pogo says
Putin’s bitch at 1600 tilts the scale every time.
Where are they now?
https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+kim+jong+un+love+letters
Laurel says
Start with Texas, where Trump called on the governor to get him more seats, and the governor puckered up and gave it to him. Pure, blatant rigging. California reacted. At least, California asked the people if that’s what they wanted to do. Texas did not.
It’s all wrong, but if you’re going to complain, stop skipping over the facts, and maga needs to stop lying stating that the blue states started it. They did not. If your shows are telling you this, they are lying and you need to change the channel.