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DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: May 10, 2026
The Right-Wing Magazine’s “Sex Issue”: Every few years or so, the Christian right takes another pass at the impossible task of making fundamentalism look sexy or cool. These efforts tend to end in failure: Dorky youth ministers wearing clothes that are 10 years out of date while assuring their young charges that sex is better […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, May 9, 2026
Trump ‘Bored’ With Iran War? Yep, just like FDR was ‘bored’ with WW II: Patience is not Trump’s strength. One outside adviser, who speaks with him regularly, told me the president is “bored” with the war. Others believe he is frustrated at Iran’s intransigence. And while Trump at times feels detached from the political concerns […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, May 8, 2026
That Fucking Refinery. In order to ‘fix a problem’, they apparently have no choice but to emit toxic sulfur dioxide for several weeks. I’m with Speaker Minor-Brown on this one: Delaware City Refining Company will be emitting significantly higher-than-normal amounts of sulfur dioxide for several weeks. The Department of Natural Resources said Thursday that […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending May 7, 2026
Conventional wisdom holds that the later one’s campaign starts, the less likely it is to be a winning campaign. I mean, it only makes sense, right? A finite number of days to prevail over a presumably better-known incumbent with financial resources already at-hand. This week, however, marked the start of two campaigns which, for reasons […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, May 7, 2026
Very happy to see that HS2/HB 151 (Gorman) unanimously passed the Senate yesterday, and now heads to the Governor. No private prisons for Delaware! If you look at the bills that Rep. Gorman has introduced this session, you will see a true commitment to civil liberties. Too bad that Speaker Mimi Minor-Brown refuses to place […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 7, 2026
Dover’s House Of Hope Facing Possible Closure: A Delaware emergency shelter that has served nearly 100 women in the past year — many fleeing violence, battling untreated mental health conditions or facing homelessness — is now at risk of shutting its doors. At House of Hope in Kent County, leaders say funding shortfalls could force […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Looks like a ‘Just the facts, Ma’am’ edition today. But I’ll try to toss in a little snark to make it, if not interesting, at least readable. Here is yesterday’s Session Activity Report. Other than a stray ‘Not Voting’ by Sen. Lockman, with which I agree, not much else caught my eye–unless you count Rethugs […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Rep. Spiegelman Tries To Justify Free Trips By Introducing Legislation To ‘Clarify’ What Is Already The Law. Hey, as long as it brings more public scrutiny to these junkets, I’m all for the introduction of the bill, if not its passage: The revelation by WHYY News last month that several Delaware lawmakers have failed to […]
Did Deb Heffernan, Ed Mulvihill, and Peco Liquors Violate Delaware Campaign Finance Laws?
Signs point to ‘yes’. Let’s take a trip in the Not-So-Wayback Machine to December of 2021. December 30, to be specific. Progressive candidate Becca Cotto is running an insurgent campaign against longtime Rep. Heffernan (Heffernan ultimately had both Sarah McBride and Matt Meyer come to her rescue just in time for the primary, but, I […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, May 5, 2026
Delaware Cops Doing Delaware Cops Things. Utterly disgraceful: Delaware Pastor Tony Neal said he turned his life around in the early 1990s after leaving prison. But his criminal record prevented him from being allowed to attend his son’s U.S. Air Force graduation ceremony in 2014. “That was hurtful,” the Georgetown resident said. “One of the […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, May 5, 2026
Let’s start with two bills whose fates remain uncertain: SB 1(Townsend) was released to great fanfare, and promised to limit increased costs of primary health care. The bill cleared its final Senate committee hurdle on April 14, and is ready for Senate consideration. I remain skeptical of the bill’s final chances based on the success […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, May 4, 2026
Melanie Ross Levin Owes Us An Apology. Kids, here’s what the State Rep wrote on her Facebook: What is it like being a Democratic Jewish legislator? It means dealing with antisemitism on a regular basis from the left. And EVERYONE who has done this to me in Delaware is associated with the Delaware Working Families Party. […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: May 3, 2026
How The Tech World Turned Evil. Some pieces lend themselves to judicious excerpting. This is not such a piece. It’s a perfect long-form Sunday morning read. Read it, you’ll learn a lot. BTW, this was recommended by one of our favorite readers. Feel free to make similar recommendations. The NYTimes ’30 Greatest Living American Songwriters’ […]
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