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.