Bill Moyers on Real Time

Bill Moyers is always great to listen to. He is especially interesting on the relationship of Progressives to the Democratic Party and the relationships of he Party to health insurance issues.

Annual Sussex County Jamboree!

Sussex County Dems and friends -- make sure you get to the annual Sussex County Jamboree at Cape Henlopen State Park Pavilion (street address for your GPS units: 42 Cape Henlopen Drive, Lewes DE 19958). Tickets are $20 and I presume can be had at the door.

NCCo Tries to Make Ethics Reports Harder to Get

According to the NJ, the NCCo Council is looking to provide itself some cover from having to release some of its ethics reports. You read that right. Paul Clark and Georgie Smiley are working at a bank shot with this bill -- trying to pretend that the work of the Commission doesn't count with the public unless they find a problem:

UPDATE — Comment Rescue: Open Questions on Ramifications of Sports Betting

This is from RSmitty, who inexplicably wasn't going to comment today:
Sports gambling in DE aside, this really has me burning. How did an injunction hearing before a panel of three circuit court judges suddenly turn into a legal decision on the entire case, that was supposed to be heard later? I obviously don’t have a legal background, so how in the hell did that happen? [...]