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At 8:30 a.m., the City of Palm Coast will have a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Wastewater Treatment Plant 2, located at 400 Peavey Grade off US1, to commemorate the completion of the expansion project. Members of the Palm Coast City Council, the administration, project stakeholders, and the city’s utility department will all be present during the ribbon cutting. The public can use it.
The Government Services Building, 1769 E. Moody Boulevard, Building 2, Bunnell, is the location of the Flagler County Commission meeting, which begins at 9 a.m. Agendas and materials for meetings are available here. Here is a list of the five county commissioners along with their email addresses. Live streaming of meetings is available on the Flagler County YouTube channel.
The meeting hall building behind the Town Hall, located at 2735 North Oceanshore Boulevard (State Road A1A) in Beverly Beach, is where the Beverly Beach Town Commission meets at 6 p.m. See the announcements for the meeting here.
Notably: Color tariffs’ economic death and geopolitical racism. From Statista: The Trump administration said Thursday that a 10-percent tariff rate on the majority of the rest of the globe will remain in place, while so-called reciprocal duties of 15 to 50 percent on nations worldwide will return in a week. Almost immediately after introducing the tariffs on April 2, Trump halted everything but the 10-percent global rate for ninety days. Trump changed several rates last night, following adjustments in early July. In recent months, the UK and seven Asian countries struck trade agreements or frameworks with the EU, which also altered tariff rates for the impacted countries. In general, tariffs have decreased since their first announcement. The one exception is Brazil, where Trump is attempting to intimidate the nation into ceasing to prosecute Trump supporter former President Jair Bolsonaro by imposing a 50% tax. Otherwise, Syria has the highest percentage at 41%, followed by Laos, Myanmar, and Switzerland. While Mexico has another ninety days to negotiate and avoid a rate higher than the existing 25 percent on items not covered by the trade agreement, Canada was smacked with a 35 percent tax on commodities not covered by the US-Mexico-Canada trade accord. However, there are other countries with some exceptions besides the two neighbors of the United States. Due to exceptions that other nations also have, the EU, which is now subject to a 15 percent tariff rate, is believed to be paying the levy on about 70 percent of its goods sent to the U.S. Certain products are currently (or will soon be) subject to separate duties, even though they are typically excluded from Trump’s reciprocal tariffs.
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On the American landscape, the term “New South” could be the most overused and worthless regional description. When it was first used in the 1880s by Henry Grady, a regional promoter and newspaper editor in Atlanta, it represented a South that was ready to move on from the Civil War and was looking to the North for capital and investment by presenting a let-bygones-be-bygones perspective of the late unpleasantness in the service of economic advancement. Grady’s plan was predicated on the notion that Southerners would be happy to supply Northern capitalists with inexpensive labor in exchange for the Yankees essentially letting the South do whatever it pleased with regard to race. This arrangement proved to be acceptable to the North. Over time, the phrase has evolved into a general, somewhat patronizing term of praise that refers to a South where people don’t go barefoot, join the Klan, or lynch others. The author Walker Percy once complained that it was a cliche. My idea of a new South would be one where no one ever thought to refer to it as such.
From Dixie Rising (1996), Peter Applebome.
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