Germany And Switzerland to Shut Down Their Nuclear Power Plants

Some months ago, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced a decision to try to extend the working life of Germany's oldest nuclear power plants. Yesterday, Chancellor Merkel flip-flopped on that unpopular decision and -- announced that Germany's ruling coalition has decided to shut down its nuclear power plants by 2022

Job Fair in Dover Tomorrow

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

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.

Chris Coons Votes Against the Patriot Act Extension

Senator Coons asked the Senate to limit the extension of the Patriot Act to one month so that the Senate could seriously review and revise the law to reflect current lessons learned to scale back some of the broad authorities granted to government under the original Patriot Act.

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

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

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!

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.