Get to know the Wonderfully Wonky Jack Bucchioni

Traffic...Clean Drinking Water...Internet Speeds. Bucchioni keeps it simple, and asks Harbeson, Lewes, and Milton if they want a Rep who will actually do something. In tone, he reminds me of the successful Northern Virginia candidate who made a promise to fix gridlock on state Route 28 centerpiece of her campaign, promoting that issue ceaselessly, even as others wanted bog down the campaign responding to typical Republican obfuscation and bullshit.

Comment Rescue – Student Loan Hell

I know DL has a lot of lurkers and commenters who know a lot more about this than I do. My best suggestion is to declare bancrupty, but we know that is difficult if not impossibe for "goverment backed" student loans. What else? Anyone?

Delaware’s War on Teachers (and other public employees)

Delaware teachers make $4,000 a year less now than that did 15 years ago. Adjusted for inflation, the average teacher pay in Delaware is now $60,214 down from $64,176 in 2003. That's a 6% decline. This has been a steady and uncompromising attack on teachers and teaching initiated by Ruth Ann Minner and happily carried out by Jack Markell and John Carney, all in the name of further enriching the state's wealthiest 1%.

Smyk Shits on Shot Students

Steve Smyk really is the worst kind of NRA asslick.
In recent days, we've seen a disturbing increase in the volume of attacks on the students who spoke at the March For Our Lives rally in Washington, D.C. The hate-the-victim narrative goes something like this: These kids are tools of the left-wing media and others with a left-wing agenda. They are professional actors enjoying their 15 minutes of fame. My favorite, straight from the National Review, is that David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland shooting, is a "useful idiot." These talking points drafted by the NRA and its friends are ill-informed, cynical and heartless. And guess who's repeating them? State Rep. Steve Smyk.

Elegy for the Muskrat

People like what they like. So I have no problem with muskrat trapping, or muskrat eating. I ate one myself once to see if it would turn me into a…

“Death in Wilmington”

This long form journalism from theoutline.com, on Wilmgton's cycle of poverty, neglect and gun violence is worth your careful consideration.
On the night of December 16, 2017, Allen “Duffy” Samuels and his family were celebrating his daughter’s sweet sixteen at a hotel in Wilmington, Delaware, when his sister, Arica Samuels, received a call. “She screamed and ran out to the lobby,” he said. “The next thing we knew, we were at the hospital.” Her son, Keanan, a freshman at Benedict College in South Carolina, was home for Christmas break. That night he had gone to a vigil for a friend, 19-year-old Barry White, who had been shot and killed that September on Wilmington’s north side. After Keanan left the vigil, a still-unidentified assailant opened fire sometime around 7:45 p.m. and hit Samuels in the neck and face area, according to the police. He died at the hospital later that night. He was 20 years old, and the 32nd and final gun-homicide victim of the year in the city of just over 70,000.