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Delaware Political Weekly: May 3-9, 2024
1. Have The Governor’s Races Changed Over The Last Week? On the R side, which doesn’t particularly matter, the answer is a clear yes. On the D side, I think the answer is yes, but it’s less certain. It will become decidedly ‘yes’ if Collin O’Mara can run a campaign that builds on his momentum. […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, May 10, 2024
Let Your Grass Grow. Not that kind of grass. Anybody who’s driven past my yard knows why I draw inspiration from this piece: Your vibrant green lawn may look lush, but it’s actually an ecological wasteland. “The idea for that ideal lawn is that nothing else can live in it,” said David Mizejewski, a naturalist […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., May 9, 2024
Here’s yesterday’s Session Activity Report. You will note that the two bills addressing high school athletics policy cleared committee and were passed in the Senate unanimously. Carney wasted no time in signing the bill naming the ‘Newark Regional Transportation Center after United States Senator Thomas R. Carper’. Today’s House Agenda features HB 200 (Longhurst), which […]
DL Open Thread: Thurs., May 9, 2024
Everything Falls Apart–In The Carney Administration. Another scandal, another attempted cover-up: A former Delaware Department of Labor supervisor embezzled more than $181,000 from the state’s unemployment insurance trust fund in 2023. The state did not reveal the theft publicly until officials were contacted by WHYY News, following a tip that money had been stolen from […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., May 8, 2024
I guess the biggest news is the number of absentees in the House yesterday. Six in all, with several roll calls having at least eight absences. Allergies? Also, the two House bills mandating insurance coverages for certain costs received a large number of R no’s and not votings. I can understand why on HB 274 […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, May 7, 2024
The Big Story: Senate Executive Committee To Consider Hospital Cost Bill Today. Hearing starts at 4 pm. Here’s how you can listen and/or participate. I wonder if the Senate will run this bill on an agenda this week. I wonder whether Carney will sign it. He almost has to, if, for no other reason, to […]
My Sentiments, Exactly
Guest Post By La Somnambula Watching the news media coverage about the college campus protests even by liberal media outlets such as MSNBC, I might be led to believe these young people are responsible for creating a culture of anti-Semitism and that police force is necessary to quash their movement and their misguided views. Yet, […]
The Working Families Party Endorsements
I was there on Saturday to hear from an inspiring array of candidates. And inspiring they were, individually and collectively. But let’s not bury the lede: Collin O’Mara delivered the single most inspiring and visionary speech I’ve ever heard from a Delaware office-seeker. Visionary in that he talked about there has been no fundamental change […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, May 5, 2024
A tease: I was witness to the single most visionary speech I’ve ever heard from a Delaware candidate yesterday. End of tease. More to come. Soon. Trump Dumps Top Campaign Lawyer. His ‘crime’? Thinking for himself and saying it out loud: The top lawyer at the Republican Party is resigning after he cited conflicts with […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, May 4, 2024
Kristi Noem’s at it it again: “I had the chance to travel to many countries to meet with world leaders — some who wanted our help, and some who didn’t,” Ms. Noem writes. “I remember when I met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. I’m sure he underestimated me, having no clue about my […]
BREAKING: Rethug Mike Ramone To Run For Governor
Man, I go out for an hour, and this happens. As Jason mentioned, it is weird in that Julianne Murray claims that she is running because nobody else would step forward. Was that true? If so, will she drop out, or will this be a battle for the ‘heart and soul’ of the Delaware Rethuglican […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, May 3, 2024
The Drowning South: Sea level rise could submerge coastal communities: One of the most rapid sea level surges on Earth is besieging the American South, forcing a reckoning for coastal communities across eight U.S. states, a Washington Post analysis has found. At more than a dozen tide gauges spanning from Texas to North Carolina, sea […]
Delaware Political Weekly: April 26-May 2, 2024
1. Don’t Sleep On RD 9. I haven’t focused on this NCC district that is all south of the canal. But the Working Families Party’s endorsement of Terrell Williams has opened my eyes. Why, you ask, should the result this year be any different than it was in 2022, when Rethug Kevin Hensley won by […]
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