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Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, March 8, 2021
The initial Joint Finance Committee hearings are over (budget mark-up will come later), so the General Assembly will be working up until an Easter break. The House will not officially reconvene until Thursday. However, House committees will meet both today and tomorrow. The Senate will convene today. Perhaps the biggest news is the imminent introduction […]
Join Today’s Press Conference On Behalf Of A $15 Delaware Minimum Wage
Here’s the information: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 8, 2021 CONTACT: Jonathan Williams, UFCW Local 27, jonathanclarkewilliams@gmail.com Coalition of Delaware WFP, Labor, and Business Groups Hosting Press Conference to Support $15 Minimum Wage DOVER, DE (March 8, 2021) – A coalition of labor and business groups will hold a virtual press […]
Senate Passes COVID Relief Package
50-49. Republican Senator Sullivan from Alaska missed the vote for a family emergency: https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/stimulus-update-us-relief-bill-03-06-21/index.html The House must vote on the Senate version before President Biden can sign it. They will do so on Tuesday.
DL Open Thread: Saturday, March 6, 2021
Manchin Has Mini-Snit, Holds Covid Relief Hostage For Nine Hours. He may not be President, but he sure exercises power–against Democratic constituencies. Biden Dumps Another Trump Appointee. Good: The White House fired the general counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Friday, continuing a push to oust controversial Trump appointees viewed as hostile to […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, March 5, 2021
Cuomo Aides Rewrote Report On Nursing Home Covid Deaths To Hide The Scope Of The Tragedy. You know, so he could go on TV and pretend to be the Anti-Trump, the Competent One: Top aides to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo were alarmed: A report written by state health officials had just landed, and it included […]
An Era Of Good Feelings?
It was more like 24 hours, but it was a good 24 hours. On Tuesday evening, Larry Lambert, Kyle Evans Gay, and Sarah McBride hosted a Zoom meeting with DELDOT officials to discuss traffic issues impacting their and my districts. Larry convened the meeting, and asked a series of questions about issues impacting his district. […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, March 2, 2021
Biden Goes To Bat For Amazon Warehouse Workers. Issues strong support for unionization: For a few minutes on Sunday night, President Biden sounded a little like a union leader. “Unions put power in the hands of workers,” he said in a video statement of support for the union drive at an Amazon fulfillment center in […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: February 2021
OK, I’ll admit it. Last month, I might have reached for a song or two that otherwise did not meet my demanding musical standards. You need have no such concerns this month. On a more incongruous note, I believe that this is the first month where I’ve had two songs by artists whose names begin […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, February 27, 2021
House Passes Stimulus Bill. All Rethugs voted against it. So did two ‘moderate’ D’s–Jared Golden of Maine and Kurt Schrader of Oregon. The D’s don’t have the votes, even if we overturn the filibuster, to pass the $15 minimum wage bill in the Senate. So can we just pass this bleeping thing and get the […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, February 26, 2021
Not All Suicides Are Unfortunate. Serial exploiter of female gymnasts commits suicide after being charged. I really think the entire sport of female gymnastics needs to be reconsidered. Sexual abuse, delaying of puberty, anorexia, mental manipulation. Too many horrible bi-products. Is it ultimately good for the participants? I mean, besides the parents with stars and […]
The Time For Paid Medical And Family Leave Is NOW!
It could happen, thanks in large part to the influx of progressive legislators over the past couple of election cycles. And the expansion of grassroots organizing. As WDEL reports, the legislation is coming, and is supported by a coalition of organizations: AAUW Delaware ACLU Delaware AFL-CIO AFSCME Black Mothers in Power Brandywine Buzz Building People […]
Supreme Court To Trump: ‘You’re Busted’
FINALLY: The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a plea from former President Trump to block New York state prosecutors from accessing his tax returns. The decision allows Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance to gain copies of Trump’s personal financial records from lenders and accountants used by the former president for his business. A New York […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021
State Rethugs Push Voting Restrictions To Protect Fantasies Of Angry White Guys: GOP state lawmakers across the country have proposed a flurry of voting restrictions that they say are needed to restore confidence in U.S. elections, an effort intended to placate supporters of former president Donald Trump who believe his false claims that the 2020 […]
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