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Song Of The Day: Jan. 25, 2018
Mike Dinsmore brings you a point-of-view you don’t often get in a song, but should:
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., Jan. 24, 2018
Yo, Kevin Hensley: 1972 called, and it wants its Cadillac-drivin’, steak-eatin’, Welfare Queen racist stereotype back. Yo, Sen. Pettyjohn: Why don’t you wander over to Gerald ‘Loogy’ Hocker‘s store to see all the displays hawking empty calorie products? Maybe call him out on it. We all know that Rethuglicans peddle race as their primary political […]
Song Of The Day: Jan. 24, 2018
We briefly interrupt Mike Dinsmore Week to bring you a song that, I hope, Mike Dinsmore would embrace and endorse. The South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela (‘Grazing In The Grass’) passed away yesterday. Here, from Paul Simon’s Graceland tour, is Masakela calling to bring Nelson Mandela back home to the streets of Johannesburg. Political folk […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Jan. 23, 2018
If you’re looking for quality day-to-day coverage of the General Assembly, Matt Bittle of the Delaware State News is doing the best job in Delaware. What a revolutionary idea for a paper–have someone cover the legislature as a beat. Get to know the issues and the people who populate Leg Hall. Report on what you […]
Song Of The Day: Jan. 23, 2018
I’ve worked most my life at a prison nearby And I’ve raised two sons and a daughter I knew all along, as I watched them grow strong They had a need for adventure Nothing could quell the longing they felt From the back of our lonesome holler Still I hoped somehow, they could find […]
Song Of The Day: Jan. 22, 2018
Mike Dinsmore Week commences. Listening to Mike’s choices, it’s clear that he favors folk music of a political bent. A broad palette of such songs. We head north to Quebec for a taste from ‘Quebec separatist and environmental hero’ Richard desJardins:
Song Of The Day: Jan. 21, 2018
A great band you never heard of: Coming next week: Mike Dinsmore gets his musical closeup!
Song Of The Day: Jan. 20, 2018
Needed a shot of adrenaline after an amazing show by Tinsley Ellis at the Arden Gild Hall last night. Paging the Blasters:
Delaware, Shell Corporations, Donald Trump’s Lawyer, And The Porn Star
The Wall Street Journal reports tonight that Donald Trump’s lawyer established a Delaware LLC, ‘Essential Consultants’, for the specific purpose of paying off actress Stormy Daniels to keep her from talking about her alleged affair with Donald Trump, and hiding the transactions from the public. The lawyer in question, Michael Cohen, reportedly chose the Delaware […]
It’s Official. Bernard Brady To Retire
The finest public servant I’ve ever known is retiring after 39 years. He has served as the Secretary Of The Senate for something like 30 of those years. He did the job even though he didn’t have the title before that. Anyone who knows Bernard knows that he is one of the kindest and most […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs. Jan. 18, 2018
Neither the House nor the Senate have agendas today. At 2 p.m. , we’ll find out whether Gov. Carney has an agenda for this session and, if so, whether there’s any substance to it. We know what he has to address–the disaster that is the state’s corrections system, the mess that is our state’s public […]
Song Of The Day: Jan. 18, 2018
Shoulda known that, once I took that detour to Muscle Shoals, I’d want to spend some more musical time there. The Swampers ( Barry Beckett, keys; Roger Hawkins, drums; David Hood, bass; and Jimmy Johnson, guitar) could make anything sound soulful. Real soulful. Like this:
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