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‘Stop DE Corruption’: DNREC Must Be Regulator Of Fort DuPont Project, NOT Facilitator Of Environmental Degradation
YES! Finally! Folks, please read this letter in its entirety. Hello Mr. Garvin, I’m contacting you based on your dual role as Secretary of DNREC and Board Secretary of the Fort Dupont Redevelopment and Preservation Corporation (FDRPC). You are one of seven state officials on the FDRPC Board along with Laura Lee who is a […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, October 22, 2021
How Do You Replant A Billion Trees? With Drones: While many think of drones as a toy or, in battle, a lethally precise military tool, Flash Forest has gone a new route: It’s deploying drones to nourish life. The 20-person Toronto company is using a fleet of unmanned vehicles to seed the ground with trees […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 21, 2021
Bleepin’ Joe Manchin: His pathological need to be the center of attention is the only way in which he can be described as a ‘centrist’. A total dick. Of course he’d float the idea of leaving the D Caucus. After killing key climate change legislation. Yet More Rollbacks Of Popular Proposed Policies In Biden Package. […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, October 20, 2021
How Much More Popular Stuff Will D’s Excise From Package To Satisfy The Two Bomb-Throwers In The Caucus? Lots more: The potential new price range marks a significant reduction from the $3.5 trillion that some Democrats initially pursued under a budget agreement chiefly brokered by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) earlier this year. But it is […]
Senate Redistricting Hearing: Comments On The Comments
I’m annoyed. I’m annoyed at some of tonight’s speakers, including those from the ACLU and the League Of Women Voters. Even though…we are members of the Delaware Chapter of the ACLU. Virtually all of tonight’s hearing focused on a few districts in Sussex County. Three speakers complained that the beachfront community of Slaughter Beach was […]
Delaware House Of Representatives Public Hearing: Comments On The Comments
Well, first and foremost, the R’s are not happy with Mike Ramone being placed in Paul Baumbach’s district. House Minority Leader Danny Short spoke to that, as did several of Ramone’s constituents. Schwartzkopf gave some mumbo-jumbo about the numbers and how they had no choice. Except–Ramone is right on the district boundary. Both the ACLU […]
Final Call For–Sierra Hull!! Queue Up For–The Claudettes!!
This coming Saturday night. Ordinarily this concert would have sold out long ago. But COVID has impacted ticket sales all across the country. However, this show will likely still sell out as we only have about 50 tickets remaining. Her music starts with bluegrass and then takes off from there. Here is what Sierra is […]
Anybody Here Live In Delaware City?
If so, you might want to check out Monday evening’s Public Hearing to get public comment on the proposed House of Representatives redistricting maps. Here’s the notice: https://legis.delaware.gov/TaskForceMeetingDetail?taskForceMeetingId=10517 Oh, and you might want to comment on whether it’s appropriate for the incumbent representative to saddle Delaware City with a highly-dubious ‘development’ project, and then skedaddle […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, October 17, 2021
“Their (Black Christians) voices contradicted the proposition that America is the story of the gradual expansion of freedom and opportunity to a wider and wider group of people,. The moral claim laid upon us by their ancestors’ insistent voices is continual awareness that racial inequity was interwoven into the fabric of our society from the […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 16, 2021
Kathy McGuiness Has No Shame. Of course, that’s a ‘dog bites man’ headline. But this isn’t: Delaware Auditor Kathy McGuiness has asked a local judge to make taxpayers foot the bill for her legal defense as she fights criminal corruption charges. A seven-page motion filed by her private attorney, Steve Wood, on Thursday cites a Delaware […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, October 15, 2021
BREAKING: Rep. Paul Baumbach Running For Reelection. I wrote a speculative piece, turns out it was fiction. At least in part: I am running for re-election, to continue to serve the residents of the 23rd RD https://secure.actblue.com/donate/committee-to-elect-paul-baumbach-1 I do not know Rep Ramone’s plans. That National Ecumenical And Non-Partisan Prayer Breakfast? Not so non-partisan or […]
Who Is Retiring? Paul Baumbach Or Mike Ramone?
If what DD wrote over at Blue Delaware is accurate–that Mike Ramone has been drawn into the 23rd District, currently represented by Baumbach, then the maps tell me that one of the two is retiring. Otherwise, you’ve taken Ramone out of the 21st District, and placed him in the same district as Baumbach. So, yes, […]
BREAKING: All Of House D Leadership Calls For McGuiness To Take Leave Of Absence
Yes, even Speaker Pete, who may just be trying to scoop himself out of electoral quicksand. Here’s the story. Some excerpts: A joint-statement from Delaware Senate President Pro Tempore Dave Sokola, Majority Leader Bryan Townsend, and Majority Whip Elizabeth Lockman issued Wednesday night notes the auditor plays a “paramount” role in protecting the public’s interest […]
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