Delaware Liberal

DL Open Thread for Nov. 1, 2019

All these investigations have Trump on the run — literally. In another of an endless series of petulant wee-hours tweets, Trump announced he is leaving New York to make Florida his permanent home, which lots of well-off people do to dodge taxes. That doesn’t seem to be Donnie Two Scoops’ reason, though, given that he doesn’t pay taxes in the first place. David Cay Johnston recaps.

With the economy sputtering along and impeachment and elections looming, Trump wants to apply the standard GOP solution to any problem: another tax cut! It’s the shiniest object in their firmament. Trump also is mulling a fireside chat broadcast of him reading the “transcript” of his Ukraine call. The man’s a geyser of great messaging ideas, they say.

Worried that Elizabeth Warren would walk into the trap being set for her by demands to know how she’d pay for universal health care? She’s got a plan to pay for that, and she released it this morning.

The Delaware State News, in its last days as a free site, covers the Kent County lodging tax/DE Turf controversy, along with the news that Levy Court has postponed its hearing on the proposal.

TNJ’s Matt Albright blames the Delaware Way for the state’s public education problems and cites the disparity in teacher pay and experience between suburban schools and those in Wilmington as an example of situations nobody in Dover wants to tackle.

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