Job Fair in Dover Tomorrow

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Delaware's Congressional Delegation -- Senator Coons, Senator Carper and Representative Carney -- are hosting a job fair tomorrow at the Delaware Technical and Community College in Dover from 9AM to 2PM.

Memorial Day Open Thread

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Welcome to your Memorial Day Open Thread. Hope that you all have been contributing to Delaware's economy by going to the beach with your family or getting your friends together to help you build an outdoor kitchen to your house.

On Deficits and Debts; or Don’t Believe the Entitlements Hype

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The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities continues its yeoman work on documenting where the federal Government's deficits AND Debts come from. Even though most of the readers here likely get this story, it has yet to make much of a dent in the media narrative, which continues to flog the business about entitlement spending being the thing that is running our fiscal futures off of the rails.

How To Create a Job

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This is the title of this week's This American Life episode, where they turned over the program to NPR's simply amazing Planet Money Team. What is fantastic about this bit of financial reporting, is that Planet Money listens to the platitudes and Conventional Wisdom about job creation and goes off to see if any of it is true.

We Don’t Need No Stinking Ethics Commission!

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NCCo County Executive Paul Clark wants us to believe that cutting back on the County's Ethics Commission budget is somehow good fiscal responsibility. When in fact -- and certainly given his own "ethics" history -- it is utterly irresponsible to cut back the ability of this Commission to watch over the doings and interactions of individuals in County government.