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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, June 13, 2024
SB 313 (Townsend) is on today’s Senate Agenda. Wanna know why it’s gonna pass?: Why does this matter? Money. In fiscal year 2023, corporations and other entities such as limited liability corporations paid Delaware about $1.86 billion in franchise taxes and fees. This amounts to nearly 30% of state revenues for last year, more than […]
DL Open Thread: Thurs., June 13, 2024
Cop Predators-State By State: They served in police departments big and small. They were new recruits and seasoned veterans, patrol officers and chiefs of police. They understood the power of their guns and badges. In many cases, they used that very power to find and silence their victims. A Washington Post investigation has found that […]
BREAKING: Eugene Young Drops Out!
Story broken by that bleeping BLT in the comments section. Got lots to say about this, but I’ve got to run our for awhile. Bet you’ve got lots to say as well. So SAY it!
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Wednesday, June 12, 2024
A good day yesterday. All of the good bills passed. None of them ran into trouble. Only weird vote yesterday was on a bill moving Delaware’s fleet of vehicles to an all-EV standard by 2040. All the R’s voted no, all the D’s voted yes–except for Sean Matthews, who voted no. He is spending his […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, June 11, 2024
No tiptoeing back into session. We’ve got two agendas chockful of key bills today. Starting in the House: HS 2/HB 125 (S. Moore) ‘requires all public schools to offer only students who qualify for a reduced-price meal, under the federal School Breakfast Program and National School Lunch Program, a free breakfast and lunch every school […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, June 9, 2024
4 Hostages Rescued. At Least 274 Palestinians Killed: The death toll from an Israeli raid on the Nuseirat refugee camp has risen to 274 Palestinians, Gaza’s Health Ministry said Sunday. Israel’s Saturday raid, one of the bloodiest in the war, on the central Gazan camp freed four hostages. Visuals from Gaza showed roads strewn with […]
DL Open Thread: Sat., June 8, 2024
Trump’s ‘Post-Constitutional’ Agenda. As framed by one Russell Vought: A battle-tested D.C. bureaucrat and self-described Christian nationalist is drawing up detailed plans for a sweeping expansion of presidential power in a second Trump administration. Russ Vought, who served as the former president’sbudget chief, calls his political strategy for razing long-standing guardrails “radical constitutionalism.” Hehas helped […]
Delaware Political Weekly: May 31 To June 6, 2024
I am El Somnambulo, and I am a political junkie. This is my kind of week. 1. State Rep. Rae Moore Draws Primary Challenger. Well, it’s a candidate from the past. One Matthew Powell. He ran in a three-way primary to succeed DINO Quin Johnson in 2020. Despite having Johnson’s endorsement, Powell finished behind both […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, June 7, 2024
When A Former US Solicitor General in the Obama Administration Litigates In Delaware–you can bet that the case is of some import. It is. He’s arguing on behalf of the State against Rethug attempts to make it more difficult to vote. The case is The Honorable Anthony J. Albence and State of Delaware Department of […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, June 6, 2024
Some Guy Clear-Cut Around Silver Lake Because…: A legally questionable land deed and government agencies’ failure to act quickly on complaints may have led to the illegal filling of wetlands on Silver Lake in Rehoboth Beach. Silver Lake and the adjacent Lake Comegys are glacial remnants, the Delaware Public Archives website says, as well as […]
Implicated In Philly Ethics Probe, Now Starting PAC For Bethany Hall-Long
Is this even legal? I don’t know, but let’s just lay it out there. There’s this Philly guy, see? His name is Jimmy Cauley. Dis Cauley guy was involved in the campaign of one Jeff Brown, a Shop-Rite owner who spent a bleepload of money on advertising in his run for Mayor of Philadelphia: Brown’s […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, June 2, 2024
Shout-Out To The Portland Fruit Tree Project! My daughter has volunteered here. Come to think of it, even I spent a day there pulling up weeds. Seems to me that something similar could work right here in our heat deserts and food deserts: A group aiming to battle food waste planted 162 fruit trees in […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, June 1, 2024
Yo, Joe: It’s Time To Throw Netanyahu Under The Bus. He’s playing you for a fool, and you’re playing the part of the fool perfectly: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said Saturday that Israel would not agree to a permanent cease-fire before the destruction of Hamas’s “military and governing capabilities,” a day after President […]
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