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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HB 1 Bill Up for Vote in House This Week
This is from Rebecca at Progressive Dems of Delaware: House Bill 01 of the 145th General Assembly is scheduled to come to the floor for a vote on Thursday, March 19th. An actual floor vote! Wow! That’s as close as we’ve come in over five years. We need to be there to support Speaker Gilligan […]
Municipal Funding of Solar Panels
Now this is innovative and interesting thinking: The goal behind municipal financing is to eliminate perhaps the largest disincentive to installing solar power systems: the enormous initial cost. Although private financing is available through solar companies, homeowners often balk because they worry that they will not stay in the house long enough to have the […]
Revisiting Reserve Requirements
I wrote to highlight a blog post redwaterlily wrote over at her blog discussing the current rule change by KWS to reduce the reserve requirements by life insurers — reserves intended to try to ensure that these companies are adequately funded to pay policyholder claims. The conversation continued over at that post on a number […]
When Words Selectively Matter
Pandora wrote a great post on Friday, looking at Steve Newton’s efforts to minimize concerns that liberals (especially those on this blog) might have about the Hannitys and Becks and whoever of the US airwaves who use their broad reach to try to legitimatize (and manipulate) their listeners’ fears and anxieties and resentments by invoking […]
New Rules
Bill Maher is back and be sure to stick around for the ending where he does a classic takedown of insurance companies:
No One As Irish As Barack Obama
I guess today is the day that St. Patrick’s Day celebrations and parades are starting. Here is something to get you in the mood: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xkw8ip43Vk[/youtube] How cool is it to have a President everyone is proud of? So what’s your St. Patrick’s Day plan?
“The Party of Ideas'” Hit Their Approach to Governing
So while they’re complaining about the fact that Obama is taking on too much (BTW, Tommywonk has a great post on this here.) and not focusing on the economy, here is what the GOP plans to do to help resolve the crisis: “We will lose on legislation. But we will win the message war every […]
Thoughts from the Reality Check Town Hall March 9
This is the one in Wilmington held Monday night. There were perhaps 50 people in attendance and lots of politicians — Councilwoman Shabazz and Councilman Wright from the City; Representative Plant, Representative Johnson, Representative Keeley from the House and Senator Henry. No Senator Marshall, which was really strange. Governor Markell was late, so the pols […]
KWS Wants to Ease Insurance Co Reserve Requirements
Redwaterlily has the details and good questions: During her campaign, from what I recall, Karen Weldin Stewart often told the audience about the fact that the insurance market is very stable and that the insurance companies are solvent because of strong regulations. If that is the case, how is loosening those regulations in the best […]
New York May Repeal Rockefeller Drug Laws
According to the NYT: The Assembly approved legislation, 96 to 46, that would restore judges’ discretion in many lower-level drug-possession crimes that are felonies by eliminating laws that require a prosecutor’s consent before judges can send certain felons to drug treatment instead of prison. In addition, the measure would permit about 2,000 prisoners to apply […]
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