cassandra_m
"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas." -Shirley Chisholm
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That Didn’t Take Long
New Jersey files a lawsuit today to overturn a sports-betting ban: A group representing gaming and horse-racing industries in New Jersey filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking to overturn a federal law that bans sports betting in New Jersey and most other U.S. states. The suit filed against the federal government claims the Professional and […]
Trading Local School Control for More Federal Money
According to this CNN Poll, Americans would cede some control of their school systems for more Federal funds: A new national poll indicates that most Americans would be willing to give up some control of their public schools to the federal government in return for more money from Washington for those schools. Fifty-six percent of […]
BSG Goes to the UN
I’ve never seen the new show, but I know people really love it. Edward James Olmos makes an appearance at the UN deconstructing the social construction of the idea of race: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSFDrOxWCXY[/youtube]
Bracket of Evil
More March Madness from CREDO: “Use the bracket below to vote for the most malevolent forces in American politics – we’ll let you know when the results are in for each round so that you can see your evil favorites all the way through to the championship. Just click on the people/corporations you want to […]
HB1 Update
Heard from Rebecca who is in Dover with her band of Green Shirts and she says that the House went into session right at 2PM, but promptly recessed for caucus meetings. She hears that they ought to emerge from these meetings between 3:30 and 4PM to take up HB1. Rebecca speculates that they went to […]
Bailout Companies Owe Federal Taxes
This is choice: Some top recipients of U.S. bailout money owe the federal government more than $220 million in unpaid taxes, a U.S. lawmaker said on Thursday. Representative John Lewis, a Democrat who heads the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means oversight subcommittee, said 13 bailed-out companies owe the federal government taxes. Two of […]
Chris Dodd As Fall Guy?
Over the weekend, the story began to bubble up that Chris Dodd may have neutered the Stimulus Bill language restricting the bonus payouts of firms getting bailout funds. I gather that this is the thing on cable news this week, though it wasn’t much on NPR this evening. I was pretty pissed at this when […]
Reminder — Budget and HB1 Events Today
Today is going to be a busy one. Governor Markell is presenting his FY2010 budget today (addressing the massive shortfalls) in a press conference at 1PM in Dover. Not sure whether this will be televised or broadcast on the radio, but will update as I hear it. And this would have been a good opportunity […]
Tea Bag The White House
Jon Stewart provides the appropriate ridicule: The Daily Show With Jon StewartM – Th 11p / 10c IndigNation! Populist Uprising ’09 – The Enragening Daily Show Full EpisodesImportant Things w/ Demetri Martin Political HumorJim Cramer
NCCo Budget 2010
Yesterday evening, County Executive Chris Coons delivered his budget address. He took about 40 minutes to deliver this, including an extensive setup of his Listening Tour (which rhetorically at least) looks like the approval cycle and then he got to a summary of the bad news: Property taxes will increase an average of $8.00/month (I […]
Comment Rescue: WDEL Interviews Nominee for DNREC Secretary
This is a heads up from Allan Loudell for an event many of us are vitally interested in: I have to run off after 5 p.m. to cover County Executive Chris Coons’ budget-address at 6, but I’ve set-up our Frank Gerace to interview Collin O’Mara LIVE on our airwaves at @ 5:35 this afternoon. Allan […]
Pre-filed Legislative Business II
(I am bumping this up since we closed out old business earlier this AM and wanted folks to have a chance to comment on these items.) ************************ The General Assembly gets back to work today, with a few items pre-filed in the House: HB 4 sponsored by Hudson and Lavelle — Requires that all cash […]
NCCo Budget Address
NCCo Executive Chris Coons rolls out his budget for FY 2010 tomorrow night, Tuesday 17 March 2009 in the Council Chambers of the Redding City/County Building in Wilmington. No idea how well attended this will be, but this room isn’t all that big, so I imagine that if you want a seat you will need […]
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