Year: 2011

The New Castle County Council is scheduled to vote tonight whether to rezone 40 percent of the Barley Mill Plaza office complex to allow for a 1.6 million square foot commercial complex that will include a 450,000-square-foot shopping center. This rezoning is a "compromise plan" and is "necessary" to prevent an even larger mixed use complex from being built on the former duPont complex by Pam Scott's Stoltz Real Estate Partners. Some say Stoltz buffled with the threat of a larger complex, and Kovach fell hook, line and sinker for it.

An Elizabeth Warren money bomb and new poll numbers. Skynet is self aware. And are we in the great era of peace?

I would like to send a shout out to the Delaware Democratic Party for finally updating their website and adopting the the national Democratic logo. Good job Joe Aronson and Sarah Rivin!

A new Gallup poll finds Mitt Romney barely leading Herman Cain for the GOP presidential nomination, 20% to 18%, with Rick Perry at 15%, Ron Paul at 8%, Newt Gingrich at 7% and Michele Bachmann at 5%. The Republicans usually don't have an actually competitive primary race. Usually, at this point in the election calendar, the national polls show the eventual nominee leading the race by 20 or more points. So Romney is weak, and a new ad by the Perry camp will really hurt....

Monday October 10th, - 7:48pm What a day... Huge thank you's to everyone! Too many to list right now. My first reactions... Everything you've heard about the gentle-spiritedness of this is true. I witnessed a bunch of Americans being the civic minded Americans that we are meant to be. Protesters, cops, journalists, all American patriots doing their thing. Everything you heard about this being anti-capitalist is a bunch of hooey. Everyone I saw seemed to be expressing a desire to return to the kind prosperity that was built on the notion that we are all in this together. A prosperity that does not simply materially enrich a few - but on a much deeper level enriches us all. More tomorrow. Thanks again.

Congrats Aaron. I kept waiting for it, but it never came. Fraudulent Academic "Dr" John Stapleford was not quoted in this morning's front page Bloom energy story which concentrated on a recent consultant's report. Markell's front page block quote is a classic: "The surest way to fail is to not pursue the jobs in the first place."

Who didn't see this coming?

“I think Mitt Romney’s a good, moral man, but I think those of us who are born-again followers of Christ should always prefer a competent Christian to a competent - to a competent non-Christian like Mitt Romney,”