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Delaware Facilitates Money Laundering To Balance Its Budget

By El Somnambulo November 1, 20179 Comments

First, go read the News Journal article on how Paul Manafort used Delaware's LLC and corporate law to launder tens of millions of dollars from the Ukraine. Yep, we balance…

Song Of The Day: Nov. 1, 2017

By El Somnambulo November 1, 2017

I told you this was gonna be free-association. When Paul mentioned Pink Floyd's 'Grantchester Meadows' yesterday, I immediately thought of one of my fave British folk rock songs of all…

RIP: Roger A. Martin

By El Somnambulo October 31, 20174 Comments

Noted author/historian and perhaps less-noted State Senator Roger A. Martin passed away last Thursday. He has been hailed as an historian who traced the history of Delaware through the succession…

Song Of The Day: Oct. 31, 2017

By El Somnambulo October 31, 20173 Comments

So, I'm listening to the vaguely ominous jamming, perhaps while under the influence of Jamaican herb, barely paying attention, when...well, you either know, or don't know, what comes next. A…

Network Delaware Flexes Its Political Muscles In SD3

By El Somnambulo October 30, 201720 Comments

Elizabeth 'Tizzy' Lockman. Remember the name. She is running for Bob Marshall's seat in SD 3. She is the first candidate to emerge from Network Delaware's grassroots efforts. She is…

Song Of The Day: Oct. 30, 2017

By El Somnambulo October 30, 20171 Comment

When Walter Becker died, I sampled a lot of his and Donald Fagen's solo stuff and, of course, listened to a lot of Steely Dan. While this song was on…

Song Of The Day: Oct. 29, 2017

By El Somnambulo October 29, 20176 Comments

A great lost (IMHO) Paul Simon classic. From a not-well-received album, Hearts And Bones, released in 1983. Talia Schlanger played it on the World Cafe a couple days ago, first…

Song Of The Day: Oct. 28, 2017

By El Somnambulo October 28, 2017

A new free-association musical treat brought to you daily. I first saw Buckwheat Zydeco do this at a festival the day before I hopped a plane to a conference in…

Delaware Political Weekly: October 20-26, 2017

By El Somnambulo October 27, 20171 Comment

1. Rachel Blumenfeld To Challenge Deborah Hudson in RD 12. She's a great candidate. An English Special Education Teacher in Delaware's public schools. Here is a Delaware Voices piece she…

Mo’ Better Democrats: RD 7

By El Somnambulo October 26, 201722 Comments

The incumbent: Bryon Short. The district: The 7th RD encompasses some of the more Democratic areas of Brandywine Hundred. The district includes the Ardens, much of Claymont, Radnor Green, Ashbourne…

Open Thread For October 25, 2017

By El Somnambulo October 25, 201710 Comments

Taxpayer-Funded Police Slush Fund Under Investigation. Talk about a bare-bones story. Maybe it's all that Randall Chase could glean from the cops. Which would be par for the course. Guess…

BREAKING: Arizona Senator Jeff Flake Announces He Will Not Seek Reelection, Torches Trump

By El Somnambulo October 24, 201713 Comments

Alby broke the story as follows: BREAKING: Jeff Flake apparently taken up Jason’s offer, announcing Tuesday he will not seek re-election. Part of his statement: “Here’s the bottom line: The…

Jazz Master Brings Creole Soul To Arden Gild Hall

By El Somnambulo October 24, 2017

No, I'm not the producer, but this Etienne Charles is damn impressive. The Guggenheim Fellow brings his 'Creole Soul' project to the Arden Gild Hall this Friday night at 8…