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Today at a Glance:
In Court: Circuit Judge Terence Perkins holds arraignments, takes please and issues sentences in low-profile cases for much of the day, and at 2:30 p.m. hears a motion to modify Jayden Jackson’s bond conditions: Jackson was arrested on April 29 and charged with hit and run with a death of a woman, a first degree felony. (See: “Jayden Jackson, 21, a Sheriff’s Deputy’s Son, Is Arrested in Hit-and-Run Death of Shaunta Cain on U.S. 1.”) His bond conditions include a ban on driving. His attorney, Josh Davis, will ask the court to allow Jackson to drive to and from work. Assistant State Attorney Jason Lewis objects.
The Flagler County Commission meets in workshop at 1 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. The commission will discuss health insurance costs for county employees, a cost of living raise, and infrastructure issues at Daytona North, also known as the Mondex.
The Flagler County Commission meets at 5 p.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.
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.
| In Coming Days: May 18: Free Housing Fair and Financial Wellness Clinic, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway. Attendees can expect vendors representing insurance companies, home inspection companies, and title companies, as well as builders and realtors. The fair caters to everyone: Home Buyers, Homeowners, and Renters alike. Free credit reports will be available for all attendees. Throughout the day, mini workshops will cover topics such as Financial Literacy, Home Buying, and Heir Property Issues. Industry professionals will be on hand to provide insights into the home-buying process, offer free credit reports, consult with HUD Housing Counselors, and discuss new mortgage loan products, down payment assistance programs, affordable housing initiatives, and rehab programs and loan options for homeowners. May 22: Stormwater Community Workshop for Flagler Beach Residents: 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Building Department, Wickline Center, 800 South Daytona Avenue, Flagler Beach. The city administration and engineers from McKim and Creed invite the public to a workshop to collect information and data about their properties and their stormwater concerns. Bring supporting documents and photographs. Call Chris Novak or Dale Martin at 386/517-2000 with questions. May 23: The Flagler County Association of Realtors hosts its 16th annual Meet the Mayors Q&A at 11:30 p.m. at the FCAR building, 4101 East Moody Boulevard. The session will include, by order of seniority in office, Bunnell Mayor Catherine Robinson, Beverly Beach Mayor Steve Emmett, Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin, and Flagler Beach Mayor Patti King. The session will also likely include a county representative. The invitation is open to the public, seats are limited register through eventbrite. Register Here. Through June 22: Three Exceptional Artists: Art Show presented by Expressions Art Gallery on Colbert at Expressions Art Gallery inside Grand Living Realty, 2298 Colbert Lane, Palm Coast. Artwork created by three exceptional artists. Each with her own unique style and each using different materials: Kathy Duffy, Gina-Marie Hammer and Deborah Hildinger. The show is on display from May 9 through June 22, 2024. |
Notably: When Fortune reported on the nation’s wealthiest people in 1968, there were just 153 people with a net worth of more than $100 million, with just two billionaires: J. Paul Getty and Howard Hughes. Six men had a net worth of more than $500 million, among them H.L. Hunt, the oil executive, and Edwin Land, inventor of the Polaroid camera, porn’s most fortunate slingshot. Forbes that year noted that when it had made its list in 1957, it had used the $50 million benchmark to determine the year’s wealthiest people (155 people were over that line then). A little contrast: Oxfam in 2016 released a study on privilege, power and inequality, summing it up with this abstract: “The global inequality crisis is reaching new extremes. The richest 1% now have more wealth than the rest of the world combined. Power and privilege is being used to skew the economic system to increase the gap between the richest and the rest. A global network of tax havens further enables the richest individuals to hide $7.6 trillion. The fight against poverty will not be won until the inequality crisis is tackled.”
—P.T.
Now this: Robert Reich: Should billionaires exist?
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The greatest factors making for communism, socialism, or anarchy among a free people are the excesses of capital…. It is certain that among a free people every excess of capital must in time be repaid by the excessive demands of those who have not capital. Every act of injustice on the part of the rich will be met by another act or many acts of injustice on the part of the people.
—Louis Brandeis, quoted in Lewis Paper’s Brandeis (1983).
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