A General Assembly task force put together to study merging some of Delaware’s 19 school districts in search of savings couldn’t find any — the best they could do was save $1.1 million on a six-district combination that would have spanned from Middletown to Dover. They did, however, recommend that it’s way past time to reassess properties in each county. Overall, the panel found, Delaware’s property is assessed at about 20% of its real value.
WDEL is reporting that Meredith Chapman, the GOP candidate for Sen. Dave Sokola’s seat in 2016, has been killed in a murder-suicide in Radnor, Pa. Details are sketchy at this point.
The New Yorker profile of H.R. McMaster includes the news that Trump wanted to put the U.S. on a “war footing” with North Korea, including the withdrawal of American civilians from South Korea, before McMaster and James Mattis talked him out of it.
Turns out Dr. Ronny Jackson, the one who gave Trump his physical and listed him at a height and weight that belong to someone else, is a heavy drinker who presides over a hostile work environment. On point one, no wonder he couldn’t get Trump’s weight right. On point two, no wonder Trump likes him. This has led to postponement of hearings to confirm him as head of Veterans Affairs.
This one’s just sad. The GOP of Morris County, N.J., threw a fund-raising banquet at Trump’s New Jersey golf course and lost money doing it. They tried to bullshit people that Trump would show up, but it didn’t help. They raised $54,000 and spent $60,000 doing it, which nicely sums up Republican economic thinking.