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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., March 16, 2011
The return of the Solomonic solons to Dover apparently took Legislative Council by surprise. Either that, or there were some new, very exciting, solitaire games uploaded to their computers. The supposed information and research arm of the General Assembly provides this detailed snapshot of what went on yesterday. That’s right, in legislative time, according to […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, March 15, 2011
They’re ba-a-a-ck, and so am I. The Delaware General Assembly reconvenes this afternoon in Legislative Hall, and they are primed for a run of about a month or so before the Easter break. Two topics will dominate talk in the Hall during that time–money and redistricting. I fully expect all four caucuses to discuss both […]
Time To Make the Districts: Part Deux
In Which We Create Two A Brand New Senate Districts. OK, some simple math. If you create two new senate districts, and if you leave the total number of senate districts at 21, then two existing districts must disappear. In our last, perhaps too much ‘inside baseball’- laced treatise, I identified Senate District 3, currently […]
Time To Make the Districts
OK, kids, time to play the political equivalent of fantasy baseball. Sign up now. This opportunity only comes along once every ten years. The numbers are out and the numbers have been loaded into the Leg Hall computers. John Tobin is likely to go days without sleep. I just can’t wait. To make sure we’re […]
Shared Sacrifice, My Ass
I tried. I really tried. I tried to understand and even rationalize Gov. Jack Markell’s argument that any additional taxation of the wealthy would work against his efforts to create jobs in Delaware. He made this argument in a meeting with Delaware bloggers a couple of weeks ago. He said, and I’m paraphrasing, that ‘these […]
‘Bulo on Al’s Show Tuesday
I’ll be on the Al Mascitti Show Tuesday, March 1 at 10 a. m. We’ll be talking the latest political and governmental issues, including the ongoing controversies facing Tony DeLuca, the bloggers’ meeting with the Governor, and whatever else you want to talk about. Al’s show is on WDEL-1150 AM from 9 am to 12 […]
Some Revisionist Pseudo-History From Tom Carper
I simply could not let this piece of self-aggrandizement from Tom Carper pass following the death of Russell W. Peterson. The News-Journal article noting Peterson’s passing and his many accomplishments featured this quote from Carper: “Just after his 75th birthday, Gov. Peterson came to see me in the governor’s office and said, ‘We ought to […]
The Further Misadventures of Tiny Tony DeLuca
In Which the Napoleonic Martinet Tries to Explain Away the Unexplainable…Not to Mention the Inexplicable. Which He Doesn’t. Let’s all first get on the same page. Please read the Alice in Wonderland News-Journal article which details just how the ever-shrinking Senate Majority Leader had a job created just for him and doubled his salary, courtesy […]
A Buncha Cool Music Hangin’ Around On the Same Blog Together
First in a series of occasional posts…unless it’s the last in the series. I find so much cool stuff cruising the ‘nets that I just have to share sometimes. Old stuff, new stuff, obscure stuff, just stuff that I either really like and/or am intrigued by. Let me know what you like, hate, etc. And […]
Google ‘Santorum’
I’m stealing this directly from Daily Kos b/c I can’t remember the last time I laughed so hard. Click the link and watch Stephen Colbert’s take on the Rick Santorum ‘google problem’. I’m sure that you, just like me, will then want to google ‘Santorum’ and make sure you click the appropriate links. Just do […]
THIS Investment Makes Sense
Buried in the Business Section of today’s News-Journal is, IMHO, a much better economic development engine than the one handed to the DuPont Company: State economic development officials will announce plans today to grant $2.4 million to Johnson Controls Inc. to support a planned expansion in Middletown, where the Wisconsin-based company operates a battery production […]
Holy Bleep! The Two Stephens, Sondheim & Colbert, Together At Last!
How cool is this? My all-time favorite composer, Stephen Sondheim, is gonna have a NYC revival of his groundbreaking musical, Company, featuring Neil Patrick Harris, Patti LuPone and…Stephen Colbert! “Company” was the first Broadway show I ever saw on Broadway, in 1972. I was just blown away and have been a lifelong Sondheim fan ever […]
The Markell Budget: Comfort the Comfortable, Afflict the Afflicted
As the Joint Finance Committee peels back more layers of this rancid budgetary onion, we see the priorities of this administration, and what we see is an ostensibly progressive administration time and time again comforting the comfortable and afflicting the afflicted.
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