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Today at a Glance:
The Flagler County Canvassing Board meets today at the Flagler County Supervisor of Elections office, Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. The meeting is open to the public. Check the time in the sidebar or in this chart, which includes the full year’s meeting schedule (the pdf schedule does not include the dates and times of required Canvassing Board meetings which may be necessary due to a recount called locally or statewide.) The board is chaired by County Judge Andrea Totten. This Election Year’s board members are Supervisor of Elections Kaiti Lenhart and County Commissioner Dave Sullivan. The alternates are County Judge Melissa Distler and County Commissioner Donald O’Brien. March-April meetings are for the presidential preference primary, such as it is. See all legal notices from the Supervisor of Elections, including updated lists of those ineligible to vote, here.
Drug Court convenes before Circuit Judge Terence Perkins at 10 a.m. in Courtroom 401 at the Flagler County courthouse, Kim C. Hammond Justice Center 1769 E Moody Blvd, Bldg 1, Bunnell. Drug Court is open to the public. See the Drug Court handbook here and the participation agreement here.
Story Time for Preschoolers at Flagler Beach Public Library, 11 to 11:30 a.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach. It’s where the wild things are: Hop on for stories and songs with Miss Doris.
‘Bonnie and Clyde, the Musical,’ at Daytona Playhouse: March 29, 30, April 4, 5, 6, 12, 13 at 7:30pm, March 31, April 7, 14 at 2:00pm. Tickets: $25, $24 and $15 depending on age. Book here. When Bonnie and Clyde meet, their craving for excitement and fame send them chasing their dreams. Forced to stay on the run, the lovers resort to robbery and murder to survive. As the infamous duo’s fame grows bigger, the end draws nearer in this exciting musical.
In Coming Days: April 3: Flagler Cares hosts its quarterly Help Night from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Flagler County Village Community Room, 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite B304, Palm Coast. Help Night is organized and hosted by Flagler Cares and other community partners as a one-stop help event. Representatives from Flagler County Human Services, Early Learning Coalition, EasterSeals, Family Life Center, Florida Legal Services, Lions Club, and many other organizations will be available to provide information and resources. The event is open to the public, free to attend, and will offer assistance with obtaining various services including autism screenings, tablets (low-income qualification), fair housing legal consultations, Marketplace Navigation, childcare services, SNAP and Medicaid application assistance, behavioral health services, and much more. Flagler Cares is a non-profit agency focused on creating a vital, expansive social safety net that addresses virtually all the health and social needs of our community. Flagler Cares works with clients to identify needs and create solutions that address those unique needs. Flagler Cares is proud to have a wide range of community partners who are committed to providing high quality services to those who need them most. Flagler Cares is also passionate about filling gaps and bringing needed services into the county where they did not previously exist. For more information about this event, please call 386-319-9483 ext. 0, or email [email protected]. April 6: Featured Artist Rick de Yampert at Ormond Art Walk: Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens (OMAM), 78 East Granada Boulevard, Ormond Beach. 3 to 7 p.m. Visit OMAM, where a pop-up art exhibit by our featured artist, Rick deYampert–and FlaglerLive’s culture writer–will be on display inside our reception gallery. Meet the artist and enjoy refreshments. Beer, wine and cocktails will be available for purchase on the Rooftop Terrace (weather permitting). Visit all the Ormond Beach Art Walk stops by using the complimentary shuttle, which picks up and drops off at the museum’s south entrance on Halifax Drive. See: “Rick de Yampert, FlaglerLive’s Arts and Culture Writer, Releases ‘Crows and Ravens’ Book.” April 7: AAUW 40th Anniversary Celebration: 3 to 6 p.m. at Uncork’d, 213 South Second Street, Flagler Beach, featuring drinks, music, appetizers and a silent auction. Tickets are $25, a price that includes one glass of wine and one appetizer. Buy tickets here or at Chez Jacqueline, 25 Palm Harbor Village Way, Palm Coast (Cash or Check). For four decades, AAUW–American AAssociation of University Women–has served Flagler County by funding academic scholarships for women and girls and contributing to various local charitable programs including Flagler County Education Foundation’s Stuff the Bus. Since 2013, the organization has supported Tech Trek, a STEM program that offers two summer camps in Florida for 7th grade girls at Stetson University and Florida Atlantic University and, since 2016, it has provided Arts Grants for local students in middle school through 11th grade. April 10: Flagler Tiger Bay Club Guest Speaker: Paul Peterson, Regional Vice President First Trust Portfolios, L.P., 11:30 a.m. at Hammock Dunes Club, 30 Avenue Royale, Palm Coast. Tickets are $35 for members, $40 for non-members. Peterson will discuss the 2024 economic outlook and impacts of the current political landscape on the broader economy. Peterson works with financial professionals to help them implement Unit Investment Trusts, Mutual Funds and Exchange-Traded Funds into their practice. He has over 20 years in the financial services industry and works closely with each financial professional to provide him or her with industry-leading economic and market commentary, portfolio analysis and practice management consulting. Previously, he was at Van Kampen and Invesco where he specialized in Mutual Funds and Unit Investment Trusts. Peterson is a graduate of Loras College where he earned a degree in Mathematics and in Education. April 11: 2024 MedNexus Innovation Challenge, 5 to 7 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE. The University of North Florida, in partnership with the City of Palm Coast and Flagler Schools, is hosting the 2022 MedNexus Innovation Challenge. The pitch competition is open to the public. May 2: National Day of Prayer Protest: Members of the Atlantic Coast Chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State (www.au.org) will gather to protest the National Day of Prayer from noon until 1 p.m. at the northwest corner of Belle Terre and Pine Lake Parkways in Palm Coast. They object to the National Day of Prayer because it involves the government, by Presidential Proclamation and Congressional Action, suggesting when Americans should pray. This event will last an hour and is open to the public: all are welcome. Participants are invited to bring their own signs promoting religious freedom, separation of church and state, and reproductive rights. For further information email [email protected] or call 804-914-4460. |
Notably: Last May an Axios-Ipsos poll found that gun violence tied opioids as Americas’ top concern. Naturally, Congress responds by renewing the ban on any gun-violence research at the Centers for Disease Control, a ban in effect since 1996, when the Newt Leroy Gingrich Congress threatened to end the CDC altogether if it continued research. The NRA, America’s own white-collar terrorist organization, ramped up its war on the CDC in 1995, when its propaganda framed CDC gun research as “terrifically biased,” in the words of an emergency room physician called Edgar Suter, an NRA mercenary who was part of Doctors for Integrity in Policy Research, the Frontline Doctors of its day. (In the dismal devolution of American politics we go from Doctors without Borders to Frontline Doctors, from Walter Cronkite to Steve Bannon, and of course from Obama to Trump). “These studies exaggerate the risks of guns and underestimate the deterrence effect of guns. And we have taxpayers’ money being used to subvert peoples’ natural right to self-defense,” Suter was quoted as saying in a 1995 New York Times article, using NRA terminology that subverts two centuries of constitutional law, and that led in 2008 to the ridiculous Heller decision, in which Antonin Scalia proved himself abler than Jayson Blair to fabricate history cloaked in “natural right” theology. The “natural right” school of law is a pernicious conservative movement favored by the Federalist Society–whose judges now occupy a plurality of federal benches–that’s a cousin of the “intelligent design” school of theology, itself a kin to attempts to supplant the secular Constitution with allegedly and prevailing god-given rights. All of that places law in a subordinate position to the invented conceits of what, yet again, will gush into the Heller decision, all the while continuing the ban on gun research. From an American Journal of Public Health paper in 2018: “The Dickey Amendment arose in response to efforts made in the early 1990s to begin treating gun violence as a public health issue. In 1992, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) converted its violence prevention division into a center that would lead federal efforts to reduce deaths and injuries resulting from violence. Soon, studies funded by the center began to draw attention to the gun issue. In particular, a 1993 study by Arthur Kellermann and his colleagues revealed an increased risk of homicide associated with presence of a firearm in a home.1 The Kellermann study and other similar investigations struck a nerve and began to receive widespread attention in newspapers and other media. The National Rifle Association (NRA) accused the CDC of being biased against guns and began lobbying for the elimination of the injury prevention center. Although the center survived, the NRA persuaded its allies in Congress to take action. Led by Representative Jay Dickey of Arkansas, they added a provision to a 1996 spending bill declaring that “[n]one of the funds made available in this title may be used, in whole or in part, to advocate or promote gun control.”2 Congress also stipulated that $2.6 million of the CDC’s budget, which was the amount spent on firearm injury research during the previous year, would be specifically earmarked for research on traumatic brain injuries.” Onto the next mass shooting.
—P.T.
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April 2024
Thursday, Apr 04
Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Flagler County courthouse
Thursday, Apr 04
Flagler County Canvassing Board Meeting
Flagler County Supervisor of Elections Office
Thursday, Apr 04
Story Time for Preschoolers at Flagler Beach Public Library
315 South 7th Street, Flagler Beach
Thursday, Apr 04
‘Bonnie and Clyde, the Musical,’ at Daytona Playhouse
Friday, Apr 05
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Friday, Apr 05
Blue 24 Forum
Palm Coast Community Center
Friday, Apr 05
First Friday in Flagler Beach
Friday, Apr 05
Free Family Art Night: “Textured Turtles”
Ormond Memorial Art Museum & Gardens
Friday, Apr 05
‘Bonnie and Clyde, the Musical,’ at Daytona Playhouse
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Rihard Nixon did not like guns, and he despised the NRA. “I don’t know why any individual should have a right to have a revolver in his house,” he said in a taped conversation in the Oval Office in 1972. Never mind licensing; why couldn’t they go after handguns, period? He knew the National Rifle Association would be against it, and so would the gun makers. But “people should not have hand-guns,” he insisted, with the usual flood of expletives. A version of the conversation took place several times during his presidency, typically ending with an aide reminding him that gun control was a losing issue for the party. But Nixon persisted. When White House special counsel Charles Colson told him that the House of Representatives had stalled on a bill to curb the sale of cheap handguns known as “Saturday night specials,” Nixon was enraged. “Goddamn it!” he said.” That ought to be passed.” Years later, in that special freedom of disgraced retirement, he repeated his conviction: “Guns are an abomination.”
–From —From Dominic Erdozain’s One Nation Under Guns (2024).
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