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Weather: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 8am, then a chance of showers between 8am and 11am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 11am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 80. Windy, with a northeast wind 18 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Wednesday NightMostly cloudy, with a low around 68. Breezy.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
- 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: Docket sounding–the last step before trial– is scheduled at 8:30 a.m. before Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols in the case of Jermaine Williams, 52, who faces the death penalty for the stabbing death of his wife, Yolonda Williams, in the driveway of the couple’s Bunnell house in August 2024.
The Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board meets at 10 a.m. every first Wednesday of the month at City Hall. For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. For details about the city’s code enforcement regulations, go here.
The Flagler Beach Parks Ad Hoc Committee meets at 6 p.m. at City Hall, 105 S 2nd St, Flagler Beach. The Committee’s six members, appointed by the City Commission, provide recommendations related to the maintenance of existing parks and equipment and recommendations for new or replacement equipment and other duties as assigned by the City Commission.
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.
Bingo Night at Palm Coast Elks Lodge 2709, 53 Old Kings Road North, Palm Coast. Doors open at 4:30 p.m., first draw at 6 p.m.
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.
The Flagler Beach Library Book Club meets at 1 p.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach.
The Flagler County Republican Club holds its monthly meeting starting with a social hour at 5 and the business meeting at 6 p.m. at the Hilton Garden Inn, 55 Town Center Blvd., Palm Coast. The club is the social arm of the Republican Party of Flagler County, which represents over 40,000 registered Republicans. Meetings are open to Republicans only.
Notably: From Statista: Electric vehicle adoption continues to accelerate worldwide, reaching new milestones in 2025. According to the IEA Global EV Outlook 2026, published on May 20, global sales of electric cars, including plug-in hybrids, surpassed 21 million units last year, more than doubling since 2022, when annual sales first exceeded 10 million. As our chart shows, EVs now account for roughly one in four passenger car sales globally, meaning their market share climbed to 25 percent in 2025, up from just 2 percent in 2018. This rapid growth has been driven largely by China, which remains by far the largest market. With more than 13 million electric vehicles sold in 2025, the country alone accounted for around 60 percent of global sales. While adoption has also increased steadily in the rest of the world, with nearly 8 million units sold – largely in Europe and the United States – the data highlight China’s dominant role in shaping the global EV market.
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June 2026
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry
Flagler County School Board Information Workshop
Flagler County Affordable Housing Committee Meeting
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 10-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club
NAACP Flagler Branch General Membership Meeting
Flagler County School Board Meeting
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) Meeting
Conversations in Democracy
For the full calendar, go here.
Cato’s recent study on the fiscal effects of immigrants details how much immigrants increase government revenues. From 1994 to 2023, immigrants generated roughly $100,000 more in taxes per capita than the average US-born person—about 17 percent more over the entire period. In 2023 alone, immigrants paid $1.3 trillion in taxes while receiving $761 billion in benefits—a net fiscal surplus of over half a trillion dollars in a single year. America’s tax revenues would suffer severely from banning immigration. The primary reason that immigrants pay more in taxes than the average person is that they are far more likely to be employed than the average person. This means that even though they earn lower hourly wages, they work more total hours, so an immigrant’s per-capita earned income is higher than an American’s.
–From Cato’s “Immigrants Pay More In Taxes Than the Average Person,” April 15, 2026
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Dennis C Rathsam says
Cant wait to buy the TRUMP $ 250.00 bill. I LL buy one for each of my grand kids. Sure fire collectors piece.
The dude says
Much like Confederate dollars are today… to be sure.
If you can’t afford your water bill, how can you afford trump clown bills?
Skibum says
So far, all I can tell from you is that you seem to enjoy being an amateurish clown on parade for all to see and laugh at. I pity your grand kids, who will unfortunately have to learn the truth about the definition of ignorance, and maybe, just maybe, how important to their future success actual critical thinking skills are.
YankeeExPat says
collectors piece ?
P.O.S. more accurately !
Stop drinking the MAGA Koo-Aid Dennis an Ken
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Remember what happened to those folks in Jonestown back in 1978
James says
Are you sure Wrathsam?…Save your money.
I mean save your money for the estate sale, where all the real one-of-a-kind Trump collectibles and prescious family airlooms will be found.
Like his McDonald’s hairnet… by the way, it marked such a rare occasion that they had it bronzed. Who knows how high the bidding will go for that piece of historic ephemera.
Just say’n… save those merch dollers for the truly rare items that you can proudly hand down to your appreciative grandchildren one day.
Laurel says
Found in thrift stores, next to the bread makers.
Ken says
can’t wait to get mine
The Geode says
I’m DEFINITELY getting 1 or 2 of them.
Laurel says
Such a conceited ass. What a waste of space, at our expense.
Pogo says
That’s what we need — everyday.
Brilliant.
Thank you.
The dude says
We’ll need this new $250 denomination sooner rather than later so we can purchase things like eggs and gas… as the MAGA morons and the Epstein class drive inflation to Zimbabwe levels.
Pogo says
Very commonly, “military intelligence” is derided as an oxymoron; has Trump’s quest to be the GOAT fuckup reached the next level?
As stated
https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+new+dni
Aren’t trump’s boys Uday and Ali, and his SVR issued bride bad enough?
Oh, well — FAFO.
Laurel says
LMAO!
Ray W. says
The Houston Chronicle recently constructed an article around a newly-released ERCOT projection that this coming summer’s grid demand could set electricity consumption records, perhaps records as high as 92 megawatts at one time, due in large part to a rise in the number of operating “large electricity users” such as data centers. The previous record for electricity grid demand is 85.5 megawatts, set in August 2023 during an extended heat dome event.
During that summer of 2023 extended heat dome event, according to the reporter, ERCOT issued one “grid emergency” and nearly a dozen grid “alerts”.
However, since the summer of 2025, writes the reporter, nearly 11 new gigawatts of electricity generating capacity have been added to the ERCOT grid. More than nine of those new 11 gigawatts of electricity supply come from new solar farms and new battery energy storage systems (BESS), with approximately 1.5 gigawatts of new generating capacity coming from a natural gas power plant funded in part by a low-interest loan from a pot of nearly $10 billion in state taxpayer money set aside by the Texas legislature to subsidize natural gas power production. Another similarly subsidized natural gas power plant will soon open.
Per the story, ERCOT does not anticipate having to issue either “grid emergencies” or “alerts”; it assesses the risk of electricity blackout this month at 0.04%, with the risk in July of an electricity blackout at 0.11%.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
ERCOT is, for all intents and purposes, an energy island sitting in the middle of the country. With rare instances in its Texas panhandle, due to a paucity of interconnecting high-voltage transmission lines, ERCOT neither imports nor exports electricity.
Since pricing of electricity generation in Texas has long been deregulated, a supply and demand marketplace now self-regulates most of Texas’ energy sector.
Right now, the vast majority of supply additions to the ERCOT grid come from renewables, except for those few natural gas power companies that finagle taxpayer-subsidized low-interest loans from that legislatively-created trough of money established by Texas legislators.
ERCOT maintains a Supply and Demand chart. As I type, grid demand is 67,680 megawatts of power. If all of ERCOT’s more than 1,460 electricity generating plants were ever to operate at full capacity at the same time, the chart reflects that 190,619 megawatts of electricity could be produced, more than double the projected new record consumption amount. But generating plants do not operate at full power all the time. Every plant has an optimum operating efficiency. And coal- and gas-fired power plants are commonly off-line, either due to “forced” outages or due to planned maintenance and repair outages.
Think of a car. If it breaks down on the interstate, it is a “forced” outage. If it is out of service for a tire change or an oil change, it is a planned outage. Both situations mean that the car is unavailable for use for a period of time, sometimes for longer than anticipated because a part has to be ordered.
There exists a fiction in the minds of many that only windmills or solar farms intermittently produce energy. Nuclear plants shut down for routine maintenance. Hydropower output fluctuates during drought years. Fossil fuel power plants blow up more often than some people think.
In his early years with Mitsubishi Heavy Power, my elder daughter’s husband, a mechanical engineer, traveled with engineering teams to forced or planned natural gas power plant outages in locales ranging from Argentina to Canada. He tells of meeting with another team during a shift change at a west-coast Mexican power plant. One of several close-by operating natural gas plants exploded, close-by enough to singe hair. The engineering team was working on a closed power plant. A number of plant workers who were at the operating power plant that exploded were killed. In 2010, a Connecticut gas-powered plant exploded, killing six and injuring 50. I recently commented about a coal-fired power plant in Uttar Pradesh, India, that exploded while workers were cleaning an ash-pit, killing 32 workers.
As fossil fuel power plants age, they become less and less efficient. Every power generating source, no matter the type, intermittently operates.
Ray W. says
According to a New York Post story, Iran just claimed that U.S. forces struck a tanker heading for Iran, setting fire to the tanker’s engine room. Then, American sources claimed that Iran launched rockets and drones toward facilities in Bahrain and Kuwait. None of the projectiles struck targets. U.S. forces then allegedly struck an Iranian military facility. In turn, Iran then targeted Kuwait’s international airport with a number of drones, killing one and seriously injuring many. One concourse was heavily damaged. All commercial air traffic has been suspended.
Make of this what you will.
Pogo says
Worth repeating
https://news.va.gov/147164/the-2026-hurricane-season-begins/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
Laurel says
Yes, Trump is removing $380,000,000 of equipment from the ocean that helps predict weather and ocean conditions. The current administration doesn’t want us to know about climate change. As he removes FEMA help, he also removes weather and ocean data, already built, bought and paid for.
Just watching out for us, I guess.
Skibum says
Well, it does kind of make sense because he already demonstrated to the experts in the scientific community that the most important piece of equipment in the presidential arsenal to measure (and move) hurricanes is a $2 sharpie pen!
The dude says
Jan 6 rioters and seditionists need to get paid yo…
Those bags of cash gotta come from somewhere.
Dennis C Rathsam says
I have no problem paying my water bill, even though the water is not clear, & smells funny….I don’t drink it, neither do I give it to bird, cat, & dog! Im bitching about making us pay for water we don’t use! Maybe you should read a little better, instead of trying to make fun of me.Personally, I don’t give a RATTS ass what you say about me, it shows your intelligence !
Laurel says
rat’s
Skibum says
Edumacation obviously was never one of his strong points
James says
Cue the violins. 🎻🎻🎻😢