ChristianaCare Aims To Expand Expand Expand:
ChristianaCare announced Monday it is building a new $75 million inpatient rehabilitation facility for patients in need of physical, speech and occupational therapy near its Newark hospital.
Monday’s announcement comes as part of the hospital’s $865 million investment into health facilities across the state, and more than a month and a half after announcing a new $65 million campus in Georgetown.
Last month, the health care giant announced it aims to open a new $65 million campus in Georgetown. Months before that, it said it was building a health center dedicated to treating cancer in Middletown.
In Delaware, the prospect of an out-of-state merger was met with skepticism from Gov. Matt Meyer, who challenged the move when asked about it at a press conference in July.
“I think when any medical practice in Delaware, and especially nonprofit hospitals, get some positive return from serving Delawareans’ health, that money should be reinvested in Delaware, not in another state,” Meyer said.
If I remember correctly, there used to be a ‘certification of need’ program in Delaware to determine whether such expansions were necessary. Pretty sure that Jack Markell deep-sixed that program.
So. Are these expansions necessary and/or warranted? Matt Meyer is literally in bed with one of ChristianaCare’s primary advocates. Is there someone with expertise in the field who can respond? Someone impartial, I mean?
Good Courts/Bad Courts. Quite the day in jurisprudence.
Good Courts:
Trump Acted Illegally On Homeless Grants. Hey, they’re homeless. Trump will make sure they can’t vote.
Trump Illegally Destroyed The East Wing. In his defense, when has he ever sought permits before going ahead with destruction? Gotta say, though, this was truly insane.
Trump Illegally Cut Funds For Public Media. By now, of course, much of the damage may be irreversible.
Bad Courts:
‘Show Us Your Jews’. Hitler would approve.
How Trump’s War Has Impacted The World In Ways Both Great And Small. BTW, one reason why the NYTimes is thriving is due to their creative displays of the news. As in this piece. Check it out.
In related news, Bondi Dropped 23,000 Cases Because Of War Against Immigrants:
In the first days after Pam Bondi was appointed attorney general last year, the Department of Justice began shutting down pending criminal cases at a record pace.
The cases included an investigation into a Virginia nursing home with a recent record of patient abuse; probes of fraud involving several New Jersey labor unions, including one opened after a top official of a national union was accused of embezzlement; and an investigation into a cryptocurrency company suspected of cheating investors.
In total, the DOJ quietly closed more than 23,000 criminal cases in the first six months of President Donald Trump’s administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases, according to an analysis by ProPublica.
In February 2025 alone, which included the first weeks of Bondi’s tenure, nearly 11,000 cases were declined, the most in a month since at least 2004. The previous high was just over 6,500 cases in September 2019, during Trump’s first administration.
Some of the cases shut down were the result of yearslong investigations by federal agencies such as the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration. For complex cases, the DOJ can take years before deciding whether to bring charges.
The shift comes as the DOJ has undergone an extraordinary overhaul under the Trump administration, with entire units shuttered, directives to abandon pursuit of certain crimes and thousands of lawyers quitting or, in some cases, being forced out of the agency.
In doing so, the DOJ is retreating from its mission to impartially uphold the rule of law, keep the country safe and protect civil rights, according to interviews with a dozen prosecutors and an open letter from nearly 300 DOJ employees who have left the department under Trump. The Trump DOJ, the employees wrote, is “taking a sledgehammer” to long-standing work to “protect communities and the rule of law.”
In fairness, I’m sure many of these no-longer-under-investigation ne’er-do-wells will ante up for Trump’s magnificent Library Without Books, coming eventually to Miami.
Trump To Declare Victory And To Leave It To Others To Clean Up His Mess? He’s on TV tonight. I won’t be watching. You know, anger management issues.
President Trump is set to address the nation on the Iran war at 9 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday night, with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt saying he would be providing “an important update,” without providing further details.
On Tuesday, Trump said he expected the conflict to be over in two to three weeks, adding, “we’ll be leaving very soon,” and promising gas prices would then “come tumbling down.”
Trump shrugged off what would happen to the blockaded Strait of Hormuz – which has cut off one fifth of the world’s oil supply – saying, “we’re not going to have anything to do with it.” He said that it wouldn’t affect the U.S. and would be something for other countries to deal with.
“They’ll be able to fend for themselves,” he said, having previously told European allies who have refused to enter the war to “go get your own oil!”
The assertion to wrap up the war quickly comes just days after Trump threatened to up the ante if there was no deal and Tehran didn’t reopen the strait. He said he could seize Iran’s oil and blow up all of their Electric Generating Plants and desalinization plants. He also said he was considering an invasion of Iran’s key oil export terminal, Kharg Island.
Sounds like he’s beating a hasty retreat. What will be his next attempted diversion from the Epstein Files? Betcha we won’t have to wait long. Cuba’s looking attractive…
Hegseth Carries Kid Rock’s Water:
Defense secretary Pete Hegseth said the crews of two US army AH-64 Apache helicopters that hovered next to the singer Kid Rock’s swimming pool while he clapped and saluted on Saturday are no longer suspended.
“No punishment. No investigation,” Hegseth wrote on social media. “Carry on, patriots.”
Are they available for birthday parties? I know they’re not available for Bar/Bat Mitzvahs. You know, Because Jews have no place in Hegseth’s Army Of Christian Soldiers. Which reminds me–a few days back, I asked if anyone knew who wrote the music to ‘Onward, Christian Soldiers’. Nobody responded. Turns out it was Sir Arthur Sullivan of Gilbert & Sullivan fame. I didn’t know, either.
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