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Song of the Day 5/14: Jimmy Webb and Willie Nelson, “If You See Me Getting Smaller”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona The New York Times has published a list of who it considers the 30 greatest living American songwriters. Many of the names make sense – Bob Dylan, Carole King, Paul Simon, Dolly Parton and so on. But there was a lot of furor about who was left off. If you […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, May 14, 2026
One notable bill passed the Senate yesterday. SB 22 (Townsend), which aims to increase affordable access to mental health care services in Delaware, unanimously passed and now heads to the House. Here is yesterday’s Session Activity Report. Happy to see that SS1/SB 23 (Huxtable) cleared committee despite some opposition from local governments. Today’s Senate Agenda […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 14, 2026
Who’s The Boss?: China’s leader, Xi Jinping, delivered a warning on Taiwan to President Trump as they met for a summit in Beijing on Thursday, saying that the issue, if handled poorly, could lead to conflict and “an extremely dangerous situation.” The summit, the first U.S. presidential visit to China in nearly a decade, could […]
Song of the Day 5/13: The Faces, “Ooh La La”
Some rock stars wear their opposition to Donald Trump on their sleeves. Rod Stewart is not one of them. Yet Sir Rod has made clear his opinion of his erstwhile Florida neighbor. Back in January, when Trump’s blustering ignorance led him to say NATO troops had “stayed a little back, little off the front lines” […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Wednesday, May 13, 2026
Marie Pinkney and Matt Meyer With A Legit Healthcare Proposal. I’ve come to the conclusion that all the posturing against ChristianaCare will amount to nothing because legislators have no intention to allow it to amount to anything.. But this I like: Delaware lawmakers introduced a bill Tuesday that would greatly increase the number of patients […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, May 13, 2026
Appo & Red Clay Voters Sweep Out School Board Incumbents. Including the presidents of each board: Three prominent school board members will not return to their seats for next school year. Appoquinimink School Board President Richard Forsten, who has served on the Appo panel since 2011, finished last (362) in a six-way race that was […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, May 12, 2026
It was bound to happen. I forgot all about writing this post–until now. So, whatever I spew out will probably be a bit truncated. Looks like Michael Dell is skipping town before the multi-billionaire has to spend less than a pittance for licensing renewal fees. HB 400, which has already passed the House, is on […]
Song of the Day 5/12: R.E.M., “Daysleeper”
Weird contradiction about Trump: He loves being on camera, but he often wants you to not believe what you see. Yesterday people saw him catch 40 winks in an Oval Office meeting, hardly the first time notorious night bird Trump has nodded off in a meeting when other people are talking. Yet when shown a […]
BREAKING: Kevin Hensley Will Not Seek Reelection
According to one of my best spies, he dropped the news at a constituent coffee this morning.
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, May 12, 2026
So, John, Where Are The Homeless Gonna Go? He has no soul: People living in a city-sanctioned homeless tent village at a local Wilmington park woke up on Monday morning to eviction notices from Mayor John Carney’s office. Residents said several police officers and representatives of the Friendship House, the site manager, moved through the […]
Song of the Day 5/11: Electric Light Orchestra, “Telephone Line”
I don’t know how widespread this trend is, but for months now I’ve been seeing articles about a so-called flip-phone (or sometimes dumb phone) revolution – people giving up their smart phones in an effort to break their cell-phone addiction. It certainly doesn’t seem widespread yet. People staring at their tiny screens regardless of where […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, May 11, 2026
It’s Not A ‘Race To The Bottom’ On Redistricting: What we have seen over recent months is that Democrats have largely abandoned the mode of the last decade plus in which with one hand they fought the partisan battles of the day and with the other assume the mantle of defending the political norms Republicans […]
Song of the Day 5/10: Earth, Wind & Fire, “Mom”
The paean to his mother that Maurice White wrote tugs a little harder on the heartstrings when you realize that she didn’t raise him. He was a boy when his mother remarried and moved to Chicago, leaving him with his grandmother in South Memphis, where Booker T. Jones was a high school friend. Maurice saw […]
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