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Weather:
- 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:
Story Time on the Farm at the Florida Agriculture Museum, 7900 Old Kings Road North, Palm Coast (386/446-7630), from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., $7 per person, free for children under 3. Farm-themed children’s stories, visit with the animals, enjoy a tractor-pulled wagon ride.
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students: 9:30 to 10:25 a.m. at Grace Presbyterian Church, 1225 Royal Palms Parkway, Palm Coast. Improve your English skills while studying the Bible. This study is geared toward intermediate and advanced level English Language Learners.
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village: The city’s only farmers’ market is open every Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. at European Village, 101 Palm Harbor Pkwy, Palm Coast. With fruit, veggies, other goodies and live music. For Vendor Information email PalmCoastFarmersMarket386@gmail.com
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from noon to 3 p.m. The food pantry is organized by Pastor Charles Silano and Grace Community Food Pantry, a Disaster Relief Agency in Flagler County. Feeding Northeast Florida helps local children and families, seniors and active and retired military members who struggle to put food on the table. Working with local grocery stores, manufacturers, and farms we rescue high-quality food that would normally be wasted and transform it into meals for those in need. The Flagler County School District provides space for much of the food pantry storage and operations. Call 386-586-2653 to help, volunteer or donate.
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Notably: Can a husband divorce his wife for not cooking? The answer was glimpsed recently in the Times of India in a dispatch from New Delhi: “In a ruling on marriage, gender roles and maintenance rights, the Bombay high court has said that a wife cannot be treated as a “deemed maid” and should not be expected to compulsorily perform household chores. The high court ordered a chartered accountant (CA) husband to pay his estranged wife with Rs 20,000 every month ($210) as a maintenance, after quashing the family court’s divorce order and rejecting his claims that she was cruel because she allegedly failed to cook, clean and obey his parents, as per a report by Economic Times. “Mere failure of wife to do chores such as cooking cleaning does not automatically amount to cruelty as mariage is a partnership of equals and not a service contract and the wives are not deemed maids,” the court added.” Clearly, India has gotten past Britain’s Marriage Act of 1753. The court did not quote from a Chekhov story: “Life is stifling for a girl and stifling when one is married.”
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“… those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives.”
–From Octavio Paz’s The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950).
Dennis C Rathsam says
Lots of folks here on Flagler Live have short memories! When Biden was elected, your taxes went up. When TRUMP was elected taxes went down. Just like he said they would before the election. He also promised he would clean up the crime & murder. Just as he promised, the murder rate now is the lowest in many yrs. He also promised to go after the crooks & fraud in our government, uncovering millions of theft, from day care to medicaid…. Yup he did that too. As the radical left, continues to fight his policies, TRUMP stands tall & doesn’t wave. Your income check, after all was said & done, many received more money back then his predisesor! Sure we are paying more for gas now…. That’s the cost of freedom! TRUMP has promised a no nuclear Iran. For the world now & for the future, so our kids can grow up safe, & you can live a long retirement like I have. New pipelines are being built at record speeds to make oil flow like never before. TRUMPS blockaid has done a great job making the Irainians suffer. Yet they still vow death to TRUMP & America! With that in mind there are no reasoning with religious madmen. They lie,they cheat & theirs hands are covered in American blood! How many presidents didn’t have the cohones to keep us safe! Two fools threw millions of dollars at this regime, & all we got was more terror, more bombings. All that Obama & Biden cash went to terrorists, & to speed up their desire to obtain a nuclear bomb! Personally, Ive had enough, & so have many other Americans & veterans. Now is the time to eliminate Iran once & for all! My kids & my grandchildren deserve to life a good life like when they grew up, & like I had. AMERICA has fought like hell for 250 yrs for capitalism, the back bone of our society. We wont stop now!
The dude says
As always with Dennis, our very own version of “Baghdad Bob”… none of this is actually true…
Skibum says
More delusional diatribe from the demented one, but I needed a good morning chuckle to start off my day here in the REAL world. Not the fantasy one seen in hallucinations like the one above.
Pogo says
Angie Fails to Save the Universe Again
https://www.google.com/search?q=US+Equal+Rights+Amendment
And so it goes.
— Sen. Moody
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Laurel says
Trump should have been arrested, and hauled off to jail, the first moment he started demolition of the East Wing, for destruction of public property! His lawyers said it’s too late to stop now. Sure, I can rob a bank, and when caught, state it’s too late now, the job is done, and I already got the cash! That should work, right?
Instead, he and his pitiful admin won’t let up on a man sticking his hand in the water of the already spoiled reflection pool.
Different laws for different people?
BobAnonAnon says
“… those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives.”
My mother had nothing sinister about her. She grew up in Jacksonville, surrounded by bigots; Yet the first time I saw a person with black skin, about age 5 (we lived in Ft Lauderdale), I asked her about them. She simply said they are people just like us, but their skin is black. I took that at face value, and then as I grew up, realized it’s generallity the same way she always had.
But what really gets under my skin is the ignorance of the significance of probability distributions in systems of many independent variables. We exercise that ignorance every day when we take the easy road of chopping off the arms of our conceptual categories within two standard deviations, and in doing so, let our amputated arms rot.
Ray W. says
According to an Interesting Engineering article, American utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) capacity grew by 8.3 megawatts, from 43.6 megawatts to 51.9 megawatts. 14 more megawatts of BESS are on track to come online by the end of 2026. All told, as projected by the EIA, 54 megawatts of new utility-scale BESS capacity is expected to be added by grid operators to the national grid over the next 30 months, effectively doubling today’s utility-scale BESS capacity.
According to the reporter, since solar farms produce most of their electricity in the hours around noontime, a time when electricity demand is comparatively low, and since stationary storage batteries can discharge stored energy into a grid when demand rises each evening, a “lucrative business model” is emerging across the country, at least in those legislatively-deregulated energy grids that permit “market arbitrage.”
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Startups trying to make money in the wholesale energy marketplace are blooming across the country.
I have already commented about an Austin-based startup that just started offering to place home-based batteries in subscribers’ home at a low one-time price. The company’s business model is to sell electricity to homeowners at a guaranteed nine cents per kilowatt-hour, a price far lower than the average price of around 16 cents per kilowatt-hour being charged to other Texas homeowners on the deregulated ERCOT grid.
The business model posits that the company makes money if it can buy wholesale electricity from solar farms during the noon hours at a cost less than 9 cents per kilowatt-hour to charge the home batteries linked to its mini-grid. The company plans to then sell the stored electricity from all of the home batteries during evening hours at prices higher than nine cents per kilowatt-hour. The city of Austin is trying to do the same thing. A Virginia-based company is trying to do the same thing, using company-linked EV batteries to form its own mini-grid. “Community solar” programs allow people to buy credits from solar farms, enabling them to receive low-cost solar-generated electricity without having to buy rooftop panels.
Is it reasonable to argue that the overall cost of generating electricity from solar farms and storing that energy in batteries for later use is so far below the overall cost of generating electricity from fossil-fueled power plants that the emerging business model just might be spectacularly profitable?
Base Power, the company at issue, was formed in 2023; it has raised $4 billion in private investment money thus far. It is now valued an around $13 billion. When I first read a story about Base Power earlier this month, its homeowner subscriber base was reported as 17,000. I told my elder daughter about the company. She checked and later told me that the homeowner base had jumped to over 30,000.
As an aside, Base Power is reportedly buying some of its home batteries from an Austin-based startup battery manufacturing company that makes its batteries in its brand-new Austin-based factory.
Is the argument over renewables changing?
Is the politically divisive language of climate change becoming less and less relevant to the energy argument?
Why engage in a divisive and never-ending political argument over renewables versus fossil fuels when renewables are dominating the economic argument? Just eliminate the political argument and renewables win!
Just what does it say about the political argument in favor of new fossil fuel power plants when the current administration has had to increase subsidies for fossil fuels at taxpayer expense at the same time that it is reducing subsidies for renewables, yet new renewable power generating systems continue to rapidly grow just as new natural gas and coal electricity generating systems continue to contract.
Since 2008, not one company has applied for permits to build an American coal-fired power plant. The reason for that change had nothing to do with renewables, which were virtually non-existent in 2008. The argument against coal had everything to do with the 2007 onset of the Shale Revolution, which Revolution eventually unlocked so much natural gas that coal decisively lost the economic argument to natural gas. Now, renewables have become so inexpensive that natural gas can no longer compete with new renewables without government aid.
Imagine for a moment. Should many American electricity consumers have to pay more for the electricity they consume so that coal-mine owners can make money from taxpayer-supported government subsidies by selling coal to inefficient and obsolete coal-fired power plants that are kept open beyond long-scheduled retirement dates by executive orders?
Ray W. says
Grew by 8.3 megawatts (during the first half of 2026). My apologies for leaving out the time frame. I need a better editor.
VibPost says
Putting the food pantry schedule next to weather, tides, and local events makes the briefing genuinely usable rather than just a link roundup. One practical addition would be a small “last verified” date beside recurring listings, especially the Sunday farmers’ market and pantry hours, so readers can distinguish standing schedules from same-day confirmations.