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Weather: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 90. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Monday Night: Showers and thunderstorms likely. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 74. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
- 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:
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.
Notably: Dumb and dumber. Choose your poison as the United States joins the British Empire on the ash heap of debt. From Statista: According to estimates from the Congressional Budget Office, the latest version of the bill the president calls big and beautiful would add $3.3 trillion to the already ballooning federal debt. Compared to the version of the bill that was passed by the House on May 22, the Senate bill includes even steeper tax cuts, resulting in more than $800 billion in additional debt by 2034. The latest version of the landmark bill includes an extension of existing tax cuts plus new ones amounting to nearly $4.5 trillion over the next decade. The foregone tax revenue would partly be offset by deep cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and Obamacare and rollbacks of clean energy programs, but the funding gap remains too big for the taste of House Republicans, who had been adamant to limit the funding gap to $2.5 trillion over ten years. Exceeding that benchmark by such a wide margin, puts serious question marks over the bill’s prospects in the narrowly divided House, where Republicans cannot afford many defectors for the bill to pass before the July 4 deadline set by President Trump.
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July 2025
Monday, Jul 07
Flagler County Commission Morning Meeting
Government Services Building
Monday, Jul 07
Beverly Beach Town Commission meeting
Monday, Jul 07
Nar-Anon Family Group
St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church
Tuesday, Jul 08
Palm Coast City Council Workshop
Tuesday, Jul 08
Community Traffic Safety Team Meeting
Third Floor Conference Room, Government Services Building
Tuesday, Jul 08
St. Johns River Water Management District Meeting
St. Johns River Water Management District
Tuesday, Jul 08
In Court: Zachary Tuohey Status Hearing
Flagler County courthouse
Tuesday, Jul 08
Flagler County School Board Workshop: Agenda Items
Government Services Building
Tuesday, Jul 08
Flagler Beach Library Book Club
315 South 7th Street, Flagler Beach
Tuesday, Jul 08
Flagler County Planning Board Meeting
Tuesday, Jul 08
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
Cinematique of Daytona Beach
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But for those who grew up, like me, in disaster-stricken countries, where the aspiration to progress, to development, to democracy, to dignity, was constantly hampered, lost opportunities are not just unfortunate events. History does not always offer catch-up sessions, and if we do not react at the right time in the right way, countries can find themselves destroyed, entire civilizations can sink into regression, countless populations end up bathed in despair, in resentment, in hatred of others and in self-hatred. By saying this, I am only describing a reality that I have contemplated with sadness since I opened my eyes to the world. Namely that in many regions of the planet, from Central Europe to Eastern Asia, including my native Levant, the damage caused by the treaties signed in the aftermath of the First War was massive, lasting and often impossible to repair.
–From Amin Maalouf’s The Labyrinth of the Lost (2023).
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