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Weather: Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent. Friday Night: Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
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Today at a Glance:
Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres, an hour-long public affairs radio show featuring local newsmakers, personalities, public health updates and the occasional surprise guest, starts a little after 9 a.m. after FlaglerLive Editor Pierre Tristam’s Reality Check. Today’s guests include Flagler County Commissioner Leann Pennington. See previous podcasts here. On WNZF at 94.9 FM, 1550 AM, and live at Flagler Broadcasting’s YouTube channel.
Volusia County Drug Court Celebrates 100th Graduation, 10 a.m. in Courtroom 1 at the Volusia County Courthouse, 101 N. Alabama Ave., DeLand. Established in 1997, the Volusia County Drug Court was the first program of its kind in the Seventh Judicial Circuit and remains its longest-standing problem-solving court. Since its inception, the court has supported individuals on the path to recovery, with 1,354 participants successfully completing the program. At this milestone event, judges Elizabeth Blackburn and Kathleen McNeilly will graduate 14 participants from Drug Court. The ceremony will also recognize several former Drug Court judges who helped shape the program’s legacy, along with the many community partners who have contributed to the program’s success. Graduates are expected to share personal stories that highlight the impact of accountability, treatment, and peer support —core values of the Drug Court model. Media are encouraged to attend and witness the transformative power of these programs firsthand.
The Friday Blue Forum, a discussion group organized by local Democrats, meets at 12:15 p.m. at the Flagler Democratic Office at 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite C214 (above Cue Note) at City Marketplace. Come and add your voice to local, state and national political issues.
Notably: The goons are now targeting journalists. Not just the goons in the streets. The goons in corporate suites. Terry Moran’s tweets when he was still an ABC News reporter may have been foolish to post for a straight-news reporter at a principal network already in the shah’s crosshairs. ABC had already caved and settled a lawsuit after George Stephanopoulos paraphrased a judge’s words calling Trump a rapist. Moran maybe should have known better than to tempt the goons again in the blogosphere. Calling the shah and his junta “world-class haters” isn’t news, and his description of Stephen Miller was dead-on: “Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. He’s a world-class hater. You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate.” His editor might have suggested he tone it down. But a firing offense? That’s where we are. Meanwhile, they’re shooting at journalists in Los Angeles. Of course they are. What do you think is ABC’s message, firing a reporter for telling truths on his own social media platform? It’s open season. From every angle. Reporters Without Borders is weeping as the United States’ ranking on its press-freedom index continues to collapse.
—P.T.
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June 2025
Friday, Jun 13
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Friday, Jun 13
Volusia County Drug Court Celebrates 100th Graduation
Volusia County Courthouse
Friday, Jun 13
Friday Blue Forum
Flagler County Democratic Party HQ
Saturday, Jun 14
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
315 South 7th Street, Flagler Beach
Saturday, Jun 14
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Law Office of Scott Spradley
Saturday, Jun 14
Enrollment Day at Daytona State College
Saturday, Jun 14
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Flagler School District Bus Depot
Saturday, Jun 14
Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
Saturday, Jun 14
American Association of University Women (AAUW) Meeting
Cypress Knoll Golf and Country Club
Saturday, Jun 14
Four No Kings Rally in Palm Coast and Flagler Beach
Saturday, Jun 14
Peps Art Walk Near Beachfront Grille
Saturday, Jun 14
A Legacy of Care: Flagler Cares’ 10-Year Celebration
Palm Coast Community Center
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I wondered if I should press him. That’s what journalists do. We’re worse than the media haters can imagine. We leave a message and when we don’t get an answer, we leave another and sometimes we just knock on a door on the other side of which, we know, is fear, or grief, or anger that does not want our questions. Our measuring gaze. But we want it. Their fear, their grief, their anger. Our measuring gaze. So we soothe, we cajole. We seek “access.” Open, sesame. Give us your story. Every journalist, the guilty ones, at least, knows what Janet Malcolm wrote in The Journalist and the Mur-derer. “Every journalist who is not too stupid or full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people’s vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.” Since we know what Malcolm wrote we think our readers do too. Some do. Sneddon didn’t. Was he lying about his father’s memorial? Had he simply thought better of talking to a reporter? He should have. But I thought he was telling the truth, and I didn’t have the stomach anymore-I should say the heart-for that kind of story, so I offered my condolences and hung up. I wanted to follow rather than to find, to let the strange wind of the singing smelter set my course.”
–From Jeff Sharlet’s The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War (2023).
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