Downstate, in the race to replace Sussex County GOP Chairman Glen Urquhart, whose resignation becomes official on February 13, Executive Committee Members Jerry Wood and Michael Triglia have sent letters of their intent to run for the chairmanship. Thoughts, downstaters? Which one is more insane?
Wilmington City Council President Norman D. Griffiths announced today he will not seek reelection, thus ending his 20 years on the council.
Congressman John Carney has introduced the “Drug Shortage Prevention Act,” which obviously seeks to prevent shortages of prescription drugs.
During a press conference Tuesday at Christiana Care’s Helen F. Graham Cancer Center in Wilmington, Carney said that since 2005, the number of drug shortages in the United States has quadrupled and cancer patients have been disproportionately impacted by the troubling trend. Carney pointed out that in 2005, there were 61 different drug shortages; in 2010, that number was 178 and in 2011, there were more than 230 different drug shortages.
Dover Mayor Carleton Carey will be unopposed for reelection this year, because no one filed to run against him in the April 7th elecction.
Last week, the Delaware House voted 37-3 to allow farmers to kill deer on their properties with hand guns rather than shotguns. The bill moves to the Senate. I didn’t realize that this was a problem needing action, and who knew Delaware farmers did not like shotguns.
Delaware’s Controller General Russ Larson is retiring. He has served in that position sine 1996.