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Weather: Sunny, with a high near 91. Heat index values as high as 105. Light southeast wind becoming east 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 16 mph. Friday NightPartly cloudy, with a low around 75. East wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening.
- 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:
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. See previous podcasts here. On WNZF at 94.9 FM, 1550 AM, and live at Flagler Broadcasting’s YouTube channel.
The Scenic A1A Pride Committee meets at 9 a.m. at the Hammock Community Center, 79 Mala Compra Road, Palm Coast. The meetings are open to the public.
Bowling: 2026 PBA South Region Palm Coast Open Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Palm Coast Lanes, 11 Old Kings Road North. National Title holder Austin Grammer and Sunshine Lanes/Deland title holder Scotty Newell are among the competitors. Pro-ams Friday from 4 p.m. on (practice from 1 to 3 p.m.), qualifying Saturday starting at 8, Final rounds Sunday starting at 9 a.m.
Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock, 2 to 5 p.m., Picnic Shelter behind the Hammock Community Center at 79 Mala Compra Road, Palm Coast. It’s a free event. Bring your Acoustic stringed Instrument (no amplifiers), and a folding chair and join other local amateur musicians for a jam session. Audiences and singers are also welcome. A “Jam Circle” format is where musicians sit around the circle. Each musician in turn gets to call out a song and musical key, and then lead the rest in singing/playing. Then it’s on to the next person in the circle. Depending upon the song, the musicians may take turns playing/improvising a verse and a chorus. It’s lots of Fun! Folks who just want to watch or sing generally sit on the periphery or next to their musician partner. This is a monthly event on the 4th Friday of every month.
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.
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Notably: I like Bill Day and use his cartoons on this page regularly, but I think he misses the mark here. The cartoon seems to me a bit racist (unintentionally on Bill’s part). You would not see Netanyahu’s face in the middle of that isotopic swirl, even though Israel’s stockpile of 90 nukes–according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists–should be the worry (well: any country’s stockpile is a worry). No nuclear power has the moral standing to judge another, or to forbid a country from becoming a nuclear power. The insanity are the nukes themselves, and the embrace of nukes as a form of deterrent. Of course proliferation should be prevented, though not at all costs: the Iran war is not justifiable on that count, again, precisely because we are not warring against Israel for having nukes, or Pakistan, or India–or Montana. Now that an Arab nation is heading that way, the bigotries crawl out of the sand. I think Clay Jones hit the mark much better than Bill Day, putting the idea in context and unraveling the real issue in all its absurdity.
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The doctrine of mutually assured destruction—known as MAD—underpinned deterrence between the United States and the Soviet Union. But then, in May of 1974, the Indian foreign minister received a cryptic phone message: “The Buddha is smiling.” He knew what that code meant; India had just exploded a “peaceful nuclear device” in the Rajasthan Desert, 100 miles from the border with Pakistan. The nuclear monopoly of the five powers had been broken, and the prospect for further proliferation was now very real.
–From Daniel Yergin’s The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World (2011).
Laurel says
The government can seize your land, through eminent domain for private industry for the transmission of power to these data centers. In other states, government is seizing land that has been in families for generations, and there is nothing they can do about it. Not just easements, either. Often acres are taken, and whole properties are taken.
This land seizure is on top of water use, electric use and noise. Y’all better pay attention. Don’t let your representatives get all giddy about it.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/when-can-a-power-company-take-your-land-for-data-center-infrastructure
Pogo says
And it’s still the economy…
…then, now, and forever.
The eternal question: when do we eat? When, what, where, how — and why.
James says
https://www.observerlocalnews.com/news/2026/jul/24/the-constitution-protects-the-church-from-government-not-government-from-faith/
When one feeds the hungry, cares of the sick, mentors children, or helps families in crisis, while acting justly, showing love and mercy, and walking humbly with the knowledge that every person is created in the image of God, than that person is being a light unto the world. One is being a light to the world by their good works, their living example… given freely, without prejudice. As Christ would do.
This is exactly why the Christian faith is applauded.
No one is asking another to hide ones faith if that faith is guided by such principles as described.
But one must also realize that others do share those principles, but not the same faith. If every person is created in the image of God, than this must follow.
I think that it is this that is unwelcomed… not ones personal faith.
Just an opinion.