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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Governor Jack Markell Inaugural Address
If you did not get a chance to hear or see Governor Jack Markell today give his inaugural address, it has been posted on the new Delaware.gov website in this section, and reprinted below. Governor Markell seems clear here about the magnitude of the financial difficulties we face and that there will be some pain […]
Today’s Markell/Denn Inaugural Event
This has been a great Inaugural Week so far, with the midnight swearing in (links goes to video of that event) of Governor Jack Markell and Lt. Governor Matt Denn Tuesday morning and the awe-inspiring Presidential swearing in events yesterday. Today, Jack and Matt get to Part 2 of their Inauguration Ceremonies today, which includes […]
BushCo Retrospective in Political Cartoons
Ben Sargent is a political cartoonist at the Austin American-Statesman, and his paper put together a select group of Sargent’s work over the past 8 years that is meant to be a summing up of what we’ve had to live through. And it is just about brilliant. Make sure you go see them, there are […]
Marches and MLK Day
The NJ reports that Councilman Kevin Kelley, Councilman Sam Prado, Father Mike Tyson of St. Paul Church and Reverend Christopher Bullock, pastor of Canaan Baptist Church have organized a march on Wilmington’s West Side to honor Dr. King and to “promote racial harmony and nonviolence in the city” today. I have alot of respect for […]
Watching Delaware State Government with Requests
Or more precisely, the Legislature. I’ve been looking at ways to keep track of what goes on in Dover, which means looking beyond the NJ. The State’s website actually provides some useful tools that were new to me, so I thought I would share some of these for the (probably very few of you) who […]
Markell/Denn Inaugural Events
By now you’ve got your Presidential Inaugural plans done — where you’ll be for the train stop, how many layers of clothes you’ll wear, the parties you’ll go to and where you’ll be for the formalities of the 20th. We can’t forget, though, that right here we have just as important and exciting Inaugural events […]
Classy
Obama will honor John McCain at a pre-Inaugural dinner — one of three bipartisan dinners given that night in honor of McCain, Colin Powell and Joe Biden. Each dinner has its bipartisan hosts: McCain’s dinner hosted by Sen. Lindsey Graham, and Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick; Powell’s dinner hosted by Senator Claire McCaskill, and retired Senator […]
Governor Minner’s Last Budget
Gov. Minner released her final budget today, recommending an operating budget total of $3.06 billion for FY10. This budget is a 8.9% decrease from FY10, but doesn’t close all of the projected $556.8 million revenue gap. This budget included $190 million worth of cuts leaving $366.8 million of additional cuts to close the projected gap […]
BoA Bailout Funds Update
The WSJ reports that BoA is close to getting its new bailout funding: Reeling from previously undisclosed losses from its Merrill Lynch & Co. acquisition, Bank of America Corp. is expected to receive an emergency capital injection of $15 billion from the Treasury, which will also backstop as much as $120 billion of assets at […]
SB 7 — Eminent Domain
Senator Venables’ bill is introduced and synopsized as follows: This Bill requires state, county, or municipal governments, or State agencies or other condemning entities to use their eminent domain authority solely for “public use” and defines that term. The Bill specifically states that benefits derived from economic development do not constitute a public use. The […]
Summary of the Stimulus Plan
Democrats released a summary of the stimulus plan this AM (link takes you to Talking Points Memo who reproduce the entire document). The basics: $550B in spending and $275B in tax cuts. See a brief summary (taken directly from the Plan) after the jump, and tell us what you think.
End of an Error — Very Weak Economic Growth
In an effort to do some counterprogramming against the BushCo legacy tour, we’ll look at the real legacy — from the Washington Post:
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