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Home Is Where You Make It

By Alby November 2, 201715 Comments

Rumors have swirled about state Rep. Melanie George Smith's residence for more than a year now, ever since she bought a new home west of Newark and moved her family…

Open Thread for Thursday, November 2, 2017

By Alby November 2, 20173 Comments

Oh, that pesky tax reform plan, always getting yelled at. Now some Republicans are upset because -- brace yourself -- they're worried it will be portrayed as helping the rich…

Open Thread for Wednesday, November 1, 2017

By Alby November 1, 20174 Comments

Remember that GOP tax plan that was going to be released today? Whoops. They're still fighting over the details, so now it will be unveiled tomorrow. Definitely tomorrow. James Fallows…

Criminals, Communists, Crackheads and Weirdos: Which Are You?

By Alby November 1, 20175 Comments

According to Corey Stewart, who narrowly lost the Republican gubernatorial primary to Ed Gillespie and is now running for US Senate, all Democrats fall into one of the four categories…

Won’t Someone Think of the Children?

By Alby October 31, 201711 Comments

Wilmington City Council has been a backwater of favoritism and incompetence for so long that most of us ignore it, so it was easy to think it would molder out…

The Lost Cause Is a Lost Cause

By Alby October 31, 201714 Comments

The Civil War is back in the news, and it reminds us of what TrumpMerica's counter-reformation is all about: Rewriting history. Yes, I know that's a loaded phrase, because it's…

Open Thread for Tuesday, October 31, 2017

By Alby October 31, 20173 Comments

How bad are things for Donald Trump? So bad that this morning he tried to use the GOP tax plan as a distraction from his bigger problems. As is common…

Open Thread for Monday, October 30, 2017

By Alby October 30, 20177 Comments

For the first time in 51 weeks, today seems a little better than yesterday. Anybody who claims to know how all this will end is just guessing. We can't know…

Open Thread for Sunday, October 29, 2017

By Alby October 29, 20171 Comment

Everybody waiting for Mueller's Monday reveal, but writing about it is difficult because nobody knows anything more than the bare bones. I'm skipping all the prediction stories -- Mueller will…

Open Thread for Saturday, October 28, 2017

By Alby October 28, 20178 Comments

The big news of the day is, of course, the first indictment from Robert Mueller's election probe. Today's chatter revolves around who will get the knock on the door just…

Mueller Drops Really Big Shoe

By Alby October 28, 20174 Comments

CNN is reporting that the grand jury in Robert Mueller's probe of Russian involvement in the election has filed its first charges. It's been sealed by a judge so we…

Open Thread for Friday, October 27, 2017

By Alby October 27, 201712 Comments

Sorry for the delayed open thread. Three reasons: 1) I'm still figuring out how to code this, 2) my gout is acting up and 3) I got sidetracked by a…

Open Thread for Thursday Oct. 26, 2017

By Alby October 26, 20179 Comments

You don't need ESP to sense there's a much deeper story here. Kathleen Davies, Tom Wagner's chief administrative auditor, has been on administrative leave for more than a year. Now she…