Good Morning Delaware – February 10, 2011
It snowed last night. For like a second. Leaving a small dusting on my car. But apparently that was enough to cause several serious accidents. It looks like it snowed more downstate, as Indian River SD is on a two hour delay. Other districts downstate are also delayed.
The News Journal has FINALLY changed their online web design. Praise Jesus. It looks so much better, easier to navigate, and faster. Bravo News Journal and Delaware Online. You have finally done something right. 😉
As expected with the M&T buyout, Wilmington Trust is cutting 721 jobs. All but three of the jobs that will be cut are in Delaware and most will be in the downtown Wilmington offices off Rodney Square. So it sounds like branch employees are unaffacted, but that really doesn’t make it any better.
More on the four new gun control proposals that Governor Markell announced yesterday.
Rosario DiGirolamo, the New Jersey scumbag who killed his mistress and then abandoned their baby in the Christiana Hospital parking lot, pled guilty to a lesser charge than first degree murder and will only get 25 years. He will be eligible for parole in 21 years under New Jersey law. This, after he intentionally killed his mistress and cut her up into little pieces mafia style. That’s just wrong. That killer should be doing life. But, it’s New Jersey.
Some untoward stuff happening on the New Castle County Council, where they apparently approved the controversial Governors Square III Commercial Center in Bear without even knowing about it. I thought Tom Kovach was going to reform that council. He is off to a horrible start.
The penalty phase of the Powell trial begins today in Georgetown.
State police arrested 21 drivers for DUI on Super Bowl Sunday. Idiots.
Senator Coons visited the Clayton Firehouse over the weekend to recognize and congratulate the efforts of seven-year-old Kaylee Davis of Clayton, who organized a donation drive to help a Texas school that was destroyed by a tornado last fall. Collection boxes were placed at the firehouse and at WSFS Bank and 1st National Bank of Wyoming in Smyrna, to collect school supplies for the Rice, Texas school.
Smiley is a deceitful scumbag, and this action proves that his only constituents are the developers. The two ‘attorneys’, Weiner and Kovach, proved they were ill-equipped to do the job that they have been grandstanding needs to be done. They had the resolution but didn’t read it? It’s at least as plausible that they knew what was going on, didn’t give a bleep, and just wanted to scream bloody murder in the press to protect their BS good government bona fides.
Truly pathetic on all counts.
Maybe our county executive will protect the public’s…oops, I forgot who the current County Executive is.
Regarding the NCC council story, I wonder who is ultimately responsible for reviewing the consent calendar BEFORE it is given to council members. It seems to me that is the person who has primary culpability in the matter.
Kovach could start his reforming, albeit belatedly, by asserting control over the Council’s meeting agenda. I’d start by refusing to put any measure sponsored by Smiley on the consent calendar.
The “old” NJ site didn’t work for me for some reason – most of the links didn’t link, slideshows didn’t slide, and if I wanted to post a comment, the login screen didn’t show a login prompt. Hopefully the new one will be better…
I hope that mousy looking accountant doesn’t get the axe from Wilmington Trust.
She always shared her cheese sandwiches with me.
Someone ‘moved my cheese!’ I’m not happy with DelawareOnline’s new interface and layout. It must be a Gannett News thing. As a long-time reader of the Detroit Free-Press, they changed their Web site too last week.
In the General Assembly, it’s usually the President Pro-Tem or Speaker who is responsible for placing bills on a consent agenda. They can do it at the request of the sponsor if they deem the resolution innocuous.
By that standard, is it really possible that Kovach, as Council President, OK’d the placing of this bill on the County Council Consent Agenda? Seriously, I’d like to know, b/c, if it wasn’t him, then who authorized that it be placed there?
As to Smiley, he misled his own constituents and clearly did something that broke promises he had made with them. Someone that untrustworthy does not deserve to hold public office.
I don’t understand this story at all. Did Kovach get punked? Does any council member have the power to re-zone things just by slipping them in the minutes? I think this story stinks to high heaven. Surely the council can undo this, if they truly feel it was done by trickery.
Newshound is correct: The site redesign is Gannett-wide. Pretty soon all the dead-tree design work will be done off-site, too. The plan is to move all Wilmington page layout (plus other papers in the region from Delaware to New York) to Asbury Park, N.J. Those doing the work at TNJ now will have to reapply for their jobs, as will those at all the other papers. Not all of them will be rehired.
UI: Yes, Kovach got punked. Not only did the “watchdog” fail to bark, he has now voted on a matter about which he had pledged to recuse himself. Guess the odds on that “broken promise” showing up on the anti-Kovach mailers sent out when Kovach runs against Paul Clark in ’12.
Kudos to the young lady from Clayton, Kaylee Davis, for her fundraising efforts. At least someone is looking out for education in Texas. Meanwhile, you can check here — http://www.texasbob.com/stadium/new_index.php — for a list of high school football stadiums built in Texas since 2006.
This is a list of stadiums with video capability: http://www.texasbob.com/stadium/vid_index.php.
The stadium that will open next fall in Allen, Texas, costs $60 million and holds 18,000 spectators. It was part of a $119 million bond issue that also included an auditorium for fine arts.
My aunt and uncle (both in their 50s) lost their jobs yesterday. Thanks WTC. You’d think that maybe they’d have let one of them stay, so they could, i don’t know, survive.
“…new gun control proposals that Governor Markell announced yesterday.”
That is so wrong. I shoot better when I’m hammered.