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Weather: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 92. Southwest wind 7 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 16 mph. Wednesday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 76.
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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.
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.
World Cup:
- Portugal v Congo 1 p.m. FOX Telemundo Peacock NRG Stadium, Houston, Texas
- England v Croatia 4 p.m. FOX Telemundo AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas
- Ghana v Panama 7 p.m. FS1 Telemundo BMO Field, Toronto.
- Uzbekistan v Colombia 10 p.m. FS1 Telemundo Estadio Banorte, Mexico City.
Readings: Simon Kuper, the Finacial Times reporter and author of the just-released World Cup Fever, a sort of memoir of the nine World Cups he’s attended or covered since the 1978 edition in then-fascist Argentina (which Argentina won, unfortunately, beating the Netherlands 3-1 in overtime, to our Dutch priest’s and our own great sorrow: we watched it live from our mountain home in Lebanon). He writes with bewilderment in a recent New York Times column of the way this year’s World Cup is shaping up, now that the United States is the hated country where many foreigners don’t want to tread: “The United States’ basic message to foreigners seems to be: We hate you. The feeling is mutual. Many of the world’s soccer fans are dreading a tournament in a country that a growing number of foreigners are afraid even to visit. Happily, the Democratic cities that are hosting almost all games in the United States can seize the opportunity to show the world an alternative, a better, America. […] I’ve never known Europeans — or a world — as anti-American as they are today. International opinions of the country have cratered since President Trump returned to office, and in Europe they have hit record lows, according to the pollster YouGov. […] Many visitors worry about being deported, or even locked up, based on the whims of a border official. Accounts of weekslong detentions of apparently blameless visitors have circulated widely, worsening the “Trump slump” in tourism.” Most of the matches will take place in blue cities. Kuper is hoping those cities’ mayors will champion the games and turn their backs to Trump: “Why not let your mayor, instead of Mr. Trump, speak for the United States, or have your street throw a party for visiting fans?” Seattle has gone one better, branding “the hoped-for upcoming Egypt-Iran game at Lumen Field the Pride Match, a centerpiece of the city’s L.G.B.T.Q. celebrations, to the dismay of the federations of both teams. It’s a gesture that says: “This is also who we are.” The World Cup could help the world love the United States again — or parts of it, anyway.”
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July 2026
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
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Al-Anon Family Groups
For the full calendar, go here.
Every team is simply trying to score goals while preventing its opponent from doing the same. But they all seem to go about it in distinct ways, don’t they? To understand what is happening on the fields in Brazil at the World Cup, one must learn a bit about each country’s history, and literature, and music, and regionalism, and economy – not to mention bicycles and pottery. If you look closely enough at the X’s and O’s, you just might find a national poem.”
–From the introduction to a special section on the 2014 World Cup, New York Times, June 15, 2014.
Pogo says
100%
“Conversations in Democracy…” A+
Dennis C Rathsam says
How much lower can these cartoons picked out by Pierre? MUSK was blamed for him waving months ago….They said he gave the Natzi hand up in the air….. Since then we have seen many democrates, with their hand & arms in the same position. HAKEEM JEFFERIES was on the house floor using the same salute as Musk in the cartoon!!!! Funny, thier are no members of the GOP with a Natzi tatto on his chest, then covered it up, then lying he didn’t know what it meant….. I say POPPYCOCK! DEMOCRATES have thier heads up there asses, turning the party into socialistic policy’s & wing nuts for candidates. American will not stand for socialism, we see what happened in NY. We see the billionaires leaving, & taking thier money with them….. 1/2 moved here to Fl.
Liam says
Hahahahahaha.
The clown car is circling the block waiting for you to hop on in. Such bootlicking it’s almost x-rated. Lol. 😂
Ray W. says
At the APAC Wind Energy Summit 2026, according to an Intellinews story, Vietnam just announced a development plan to add to its electricity grid between 26 and 38 gigawatts of onshore wind power and 6 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2030.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Of what value energy independence?
Is it becoming apparent to many that nations all over the world are suddenly and simultaneously taking significant renewable energy steps to insulate themselves from future fossil fuel energy supply disruptions?
Locally Matt says
Graham Platner had a literal nazi tattoo on his chest for 18 years.
Platner’s Maine-based oyster business received the funds from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation – Spyros Niarchos, a board member of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, was named in several unsealed U.S. Justice Department files related to Jeffrey Epstein.
Pierre Tristam says
Locally, according to Bill Bryson, “We are each so atomically numerous and so vigorously recycled at death that a significant number of our atoms—up to a billion for each of us, it has been suggested—probably once belonged to Shakespeare. A billion more each came from Buddha and Genghis Khan and Beethoven, and any other historical figure you care to name.” Imagine how many hundreds of millions of atoms that once belonged to Hitler are coursing through Platner’s body. Or yours. How can you live with yourself? (Clearly Einstein’s atoms haven’t left a mark. I’d also venture to say that had you seen that tattoo you wouldn’t have been able to explain its origins or meaning even if you tried for 18 years.)
Ray W. says
Per Windward’s Daily Dashboard, shipping volume through the Strait of Hormuz is picking up. On the 15th, six vessels were reported as entering the Strait. Yesterday, 16 incoming vessels were tracked. On the 15th, six vessels exited the Strait. Yesterday, eight sailed out.
Both June 12th and 13th witnessed the lowest recent daily traffic count, at two ships transmitting the Strait per day.
Make of this what you will.
Ray W. says
New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh just announced that after 19 designated Fed members debated and considered current economic trends, the 12-member FOMC panel unanimously voted to keep lending rates steady and to maintain ample financial reserves.
Make of this what you will.
Ray W. says
The Daily Mail reports that, due to what is described as an “unpredictable security environment”, Finland’s legislature voted to repeal its prior legislative ban on allowing nuclear weapons to be positioned on its soil. The action does not authorize Finland to develop nuclear weapons, only to deploy such weapons.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
This is no small step.
Finland’s government leaders have long argued that the only acceptable outcome in the Russian war on the Ukrainian people is for Russia to withdraw its forces completely from all of Ukraine’s sovereign soil. The Finns know what it’s like to be invaded by Russians and they more than likely want the Soviet-annexed Karelian Isthmus back. Now that the war’s tide is slowly turning against the Russians and that the cards held by Ukrainian forces are getting stronger, several of Putin’s media mouthpieces and government officials are more and more threatening use of nuclear weapons against NATO members. These things, plus the fact of surreptitious attacks on undersea infrastructure linking Finland to Estonia, and there may be good reason for Finland’s legislature to act as it has.
Ray W. says
This is for all the short-sighted and gullibly stupid Trump followers who attacked former President Obama for returning Iranian assets seized during the Carter administration, plus interest. The current headline of the New York Post accuses the Trump administration of “showering” Iran’s mullahs with cash. “LOVEBOMB”, it leads.
More specifically, the Trump administration has released the terms set forth in the Memorandum of Understanding that is, if signed this Friday, to serve as the impetus to open the Strait of Hormuz to unlimited shipping traffic. Iran is to receive in reconstruction aid some $300 billion and its seized assets are to be returned. Yes, the $300 billion is to be funded by the Gulf states. And, Iranian assets seized from from banking institutions are to be returned. Right now, that has been described as $24 billion over and above the $300 billion in promised reconstruction aid. Yes, the Qatari government holds the $24 billion. But neither the Gulf states nor the Qatari government will sign the MOU. President Trump is responsible for the terms of the deal.
FlaglerLive readers need to understand that the lead Omani government mediator during talks between the U.S. and Iran appeared on Meet The Press the day before onset of war. He told the host that the Iranians were offering to dilute their 400-kilogram stockpile of enriched uranium down from 60% purity (90% purity is needed to make a nuclear bomb) to less than 3.67% purity, which is a level of purity needed for medical uses such as radiation therapy for cancer patients. No more near-weapons-grade uranium in Iranian hands was actually on the table. Maybe the offer would have been snatched away. Maybe not.
Ed P says
Hello Ray W,
Take a beat.
Don’t fall into the gullible category with such early negative analysis of the Iranian deal.
Of course the left is immediately condemning the settlement. That’s not news.
Are you even suggesting that after 47 years, we should have expected the Iranians to voluntarily disband their mission of nuclear armament?
The deal is never the deal with Trump. It will change.
His tunnel vision of monetizing everything and presenting the Iranian regime with an economic alternative reality to being the world’s number one sponsor of terrorism is worth a shot.
Will the IRG and Iranian leaders be smart enough to understand what opportunities await their people? Do they even care enough about the people to explore an alternative?
What’s the point in defending Obamas Iranian deal?
Ray W. says
A specialty news outlet, Electric Aircraft 2026, reports that Governor DeSantis recently signed into law a bill that will eventually authorize development of an initial 18 “vertiport” network spread across the state.
Apparently, federal funding is available for the venture, but where it isn’t, Florida may step in to fund up to 80% of the cost of the vertiports. According to an FAA site, federal vertiport funding is available through a Biden-era bi-partisan funding bill, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which Act was passed in late 2021.
Electric passenger aircraft will have access to new charging stations. Landing pads and suitable passenger terminals will be built.
30 parcels of land, selected from 239,000 available parcels, have been identified as suitable for the initial development. More vertiports can be added to the planned 18.
I checked. While Palm Coast ranks 26th among Florida cities by population, the county is not on the initial list of 30 suitable parcels.
Make of this what you will.