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Today at a Glance:
The Flagler County Commission meets at 9 a.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 E. Moody Boulevard, Building 2, Bunnell. Access meeting agendas and materials here. The five county commissioners and their email addresses are listed here. Meetings stream live on the Flagler County YouTube page.
The Flagler County Commission meets in workshop at at 1 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 E. Moody Boulevard, Building 2, Bunnell. It will discuss its short-listed candidates for county administrator, and it will discuss the budget. Access meeting agendas and materials here. The five county commissioners and their email addresses are listed here. Meetings stream live on the Flagler County YouTube page.
The Beverly Beach Town Commission meets at 6 p.m. at the meeting hall building behind the Town Hall, 2735 North Oceanshore Boulevard (State Road A1A) in Beverly Beach. See meeting announcements 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.
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Notably: Yesterday was Andy Dance’s 63rd birthday. There he is above in a 2010 portrait with his mother Nancy, who had not a little something to do that August Friday in 1963, an unremarkable news day but for Sen. William Fulbright, then chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (yes, the Fulbright Scholarships are named for him), calling Sen. Barry Goldwater a sponsor of “co-annihilation.” Goldwater was running for president, and was famously the subject of LBJ’s TV ad showing a little girl counting daisy petals to the sound of a countdown, then a nuclear explosion. The aid aired on labor Day in 1964 and was so controversial that it never aired again. Anyway, Andy Dance has bene having a slightly rough time of it, unfairly, so you can wish him the best by email here. Below, Andy in 2010, when his wardrobe was more varied.
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August 2026
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Primary Election Early Voting in Flagler County
Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
American Association of University Women (AAUW) Meeting
Randy Fine Press Conference/Campaign Stop at Beverly Beach Town Hall
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Primary Election Early Voting in Flagler County
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Al-Anon Family Groups
Primary Election Early Voting in Flagler County
Nar-Anon Family Group
For the full calendar, go here.
The Senator from Arizona is opposed to coexistence; so are the Chinese Communists. The Senator is opposed to the nuclear test ban treaty; so are the Chinese Communists. The Senator thinks it is cowardly to try to avoid nuclear war; so do the Chinese Communists. I am confident that no fairminded American will misinterpret the interesting parallel between the Senator’s views on these matters and those of the Chinese Communists. The Senator, without doubt, is a loyal and patriotic American. I was particularly interested in two themes that run through the Senator’s remarks: his views on liberalism and on coexistence. The Senator is foursquare in his opposition to liberalism, which he regards as feeble and exhausted and at the same time-somehow-dangerously aggressive and predatory. Liberalism, in the Senator’s view, represents a whole category of evils that the Democratic administrations of the last 30 years have invented to destroy the freedom of the American people. Liberalism stands for such wickedness as social security, which has destroyed the freedom of the aged to be destitute or dependent; rural electrification and farm price supports, which have destroyed the freedom of the farm- er to live in poverty and deprivation-by candlelight; public housing and urban renewal. which have destroyed the freedom of many of our people to live in rural shacks and urban slums; public works and Government fiscal policy, which have destroyed the freedom of most-but not all-of our people to be blissfully unemployed; and Federal aid to education-the most diabolical plot of all-which threatens to destroy our freedom to be ignorant and unemployable. […] As intriguing as the Senator’s opinion. of “liberalism” are his views on “coexistence.” “To coexist,” according to Webster, .1s “to exist together or at the same time:” The Senator.. as we all know, 1s unalterably opposed to such an arrangement between the Communist countries and the free world. It would seem to follow that the Senator considers it essential for one side or the other–presumably the Communist side–to stop existing at once. The problem of course–which the Senator has not yet seen fit to comment on–is precisely how the Communists can be persuaded or coerced to terminate their existence. It seems reasonable to suppose that they will not do so voluntarily, so the problem is really one of compulsion. It is precisely at this interesting point that the Senator leaves us in suspense. He is absolutely clear, however, in his conviction that “coexistence” is craven, cowardly and tin-American. It is, in fact, a Communist idea, based on Khrushchev’s apparent confidence that if the two sides engage in peaceful competition for the allegiance of mankind, his side will win. For an American to favor co- existence, he would have to believe that democracy is far stronger than communism, that a free society can create a far better life for the individual than a totalitarian society, that freedom ‘bas a magnetism and promise for mankind that communism can never hope to match.
–From Sen. William Fulbright’s speech on Senate floor, Aug. 2, 1963.
Pogo says
Wednesday, when you recover from your hangover from celebrating Michigan — will you also send congratulation to Trump on becoming a hereditary monarch?
“Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can’t and won’t compromise. I know, I’ve tried to deal with them.”
― Barry Goldwater
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Joe D says
Pierre…THANK YOU!
Fulbright’s 1963 speech could have been delivered last week with only a few tweaks in WORDING! HOW FRIGHTENING…HOW SAD…at how little we have learned in all those years!
Thank you for SHARING! But I’ll bet the people currently in charge couldn’t CARE LESS about social improvements over the years to improve the lives of AVERAGE CITIZENS. Less taxes for the Rich and Corporations is more important than providing all those so called “LAZY BUMS” at the bottom of the financial ladder, just “looking for a hand out,” with the BASIC opportunities for food, education, safe housing, basic medical care and chance for job training to improve their lives.
I’m all for some basic job or volunteer work for some beneficiaries (remember the Federal Conservation Corps after WWII that put in roads and some national parks?). But have you gone into detail, to see exactly how, where and how often people need to document PROOF of those working/volunteer hours? How is a homeless person supposed to gain frequent internet access (“free libraries” won’t be able to handle the volume of lines), get the needed PROOF from their “employer(s),” in a timely manner, especially when there will be as many system crashes and “network unavailable” messages as there were during unemployment applications during Covid. Add to that the social workers who ( with little to no additional funding), now have to track, monitor and approve in a timely manner all these benefits (with no
mistakes), so the recipient can continue qualifying for the FEDERAL “hand out” for Medicaid or Food Stamps.
If you are going to force this service requirement, then you need to fund the back up systems to make sure it WORKS as intended…but those funds are entirely lacking. I think ( in my opinion) THAT WAS INTENTIONAL!
Laurel says
What a lot of Republican voters don’t yet realize is Medicaid is available to low income seniors who need help paying for extreme nursing home prices. They’ll learn soon enough.
The Democrats were moving in the preferred direction of help to seniors in their homes. It’s cheaper, and people want to stay home. Now, I don’t hear any of this other major cuts to Medicaid after the election.
Sherry says
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Skibum says
All of Florida’s sharks that residents and visitors alike need to be wary of are not in our ocean’s waters. Beware those maga GOP sharks who are in complete control in the statehouse in Tallahassee, because they are much more dangerous to our very existence and livelihoods.
Sherry says
On how the terrible “Citizens United” decision blasted open the door to “MASSIVE CORRUPTION”, by both parties, in our political system!
Citizens United was the worst court decision in modern American history.
Jon Ossoff Jul 23, 2026
See, I get why some folks voted for Trump.
He promised to attack a broken system. And it’s a ripe target.
Even before Trump came on the scene, America had one of the most corrupt political systems in the Western world.
It’s been running on corporate money, secret money, billionaire money.
And it’s worse than ever now.
Citizens United was the worst court decision in modern American history.
When members of Congress aren’t begging for money from Washington lobbyists, they’re trying to dodge getting carpet-bombed by super PACs.
Senators get threatened with millions of dollars of attack ads over the votes they take.
And see, that is why things don’t work for ordinary people.
It’s because the people’s elected representatives don’t represent the people. They represent the big donors!
That corruption is why they defunded nursing homes to cut taxes for the rich.
Corruption is why you pay a fortune for prescriptions.
Corruption is why your insurance claim keeps getting denied.
Corruption is why hedge funds get to buy up all the houses in your neighborhood, and then your corporate landlord ignores your calls during a gas leak.
Corruption is why that ambulance costs $3,000 after you just had to get your choking toddler to the hospital.
Yes, the system really is rigged.
But, Trump’s not unrigging it. He’s re-rigging it for himself!
He’s a crook and a con man, and he wants to be a king.
You can’t claim to be for ordinary men and women when you defund their hospitals and nursing homes.
You can’t claim to be for ordinary men and women when you defund school lunch programs to help feed little boys and little girls whose hard-working parents are struggling to fill the fridge.
You can’t claim to be for ordinary men and women when you do these things so you can cut taxes for the richest people in the country while you and your family business rake in massive sums from around the world.
Donald Trump’s second term has already done unfathomable damage to our country and the lives of millions of people.
And the people are beginning to see it.
But only by regaining Congressional power can we stop him.
Really.
The upcoming 2026 midterms are our last chance to restore checks and balances.
And my Senate race in Georgia is the single most critical contest: I’m the only Democratic Senator up for reelection in 2026 in a state Trump carried in 2024.
So if you’re outraged by what’s happening to our country — and you’re ready to fight for the future of this Republic — please don’t wait until 2028: Rush $5 to my reelection campaign in Georgia right now.
Here’s the link to donate: https://act.electjon.com/go/donate
Laurel says
Thank you, Sherry. You are absolutely correct. There are no excuses for the costs to the citizens of the United States of America. It’s all smoke and mirrors to enrich the already rich, and if we all don’t wake up, it will get worse.
I have been watching, on YouTube, a young Finnish man explaining why his country is the happiest in the world, and the mentality is so, so different than here. We have clearly gone down the wrong road.