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DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 26, 2022
Russia’s Economy Is Tanking Due, In Large Part, To Western Sanctions: For months, Putin claimed that the “economic blitzkrieg” against Russia had failed, but Western sanctions imposed over the invasion of Ukraine are digging ever deeper into Russia’s economy, exacerbating equipment shortages for its army and hampering its ability to launch any new ground offensive […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 25, 2022
How Long Could You Survive–In The Quietest Room In The World? Would you literally hear the blood flow through your body? Would your innermost thoughts drive you crazy? From one writer’s semi-hallucinatory experience: Certain people find the promise of such quiet irresistible; it entices them, like a soundless siren call, to visit the building at […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 24, 2022
Something to give thanks for–while ‘other’ political blogs (are there any?) abandon their readers for Thanksgiving, we here at DL give you top-shelf commentary replete with the snark you’ve come to love. Besides, who wants to watch parades when they could be blogging? OK, enough vamping. Georgia Supreme Court Helps Warnock Campaign. No, not on […]
Who Are DL’s MVP’s Of 2022?
The floor is officially open for nominations! Who were those who were the most valuable to the progressive cause in Delaware in 2022? They can be people, they can be organizations, they can even be pot-bellied pigs. It could be someone who in no way is progressive. Christine O’Donnell won one year for handing the […]
Meet NCC’s #1 Collector Of Development $$’s
As you will find out at the reveal down below (no peeking!), this is all the more remarkable when one considers the short period of time it took to collect all this lucre (I’ll even tell you why). Oh, the donors of the lucre itself, all of whom have had business before NCC?: 11/10/2021 A. […]
Ladeez And Gentlemen: The Lobbyists Who Have Bought YOUR New Castle County Council
There are absolutely no checks-and-balances on unfettered development–except perhaps for where the developers themselves live. Before we get into this legalized bribery, let’s first define exactly who are those doing the bribing. These are the names I’ve come across who generally appear before Council and/or their committees and/or before County departments on land use issues. […]
Have Developers Already Corrupted New NCC Council Members?
By ‘developers’, I mean Larry Tarabicos, who is to New Castle County what Bobby Byrd is to Dover. A lobbyist whose campaign $$’s buy legislators. To the detriment of constituents. Here is how Tarabicos bills himself: As the founding partner of Tarabicos Grosso, Larry represents many of the largest land developers, builders, and investors in […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, November 20, 2022
5 Killed, 18 Injured, In Shooting At LBGTQ Club In Colorado Springs. It flat-out has to be a hate crime. I’ll post more as developments warrant. How Sports Gambling Bought Its Way Into Ubiquity. BTW, didja know that the guy who sponsored Delaware’s bills was Charles Potter? Now you do. Also John Viola. Markell and […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 19, 2022
Garland Appoints Special Prosecutor For Trump. Good Idea, Or Bad Idea? I’m with Charles Pierce on this one: Garland seems more concerned about the perception of a political prosecution than he is the perception of a DOJ paralyzed by politesse and standards and norms that the suspects don’t respect in the least. Does Garland think […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 18, 2022
House Dem Leadership To Get A Lot Younger. Gotta say, I think Pelosi was a terrific Speaker, an all-timer, and got more stuff through the House than you would ever expect. An historical and successful figure on the American stage. Also gotta say, this new younger leadership team will almost invariably make mistakes. Having said […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 17, 2022
Musk Demands Pledge Of Love From Twitter Workers. By end of day today: SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk issued an ultimatum to Twitter employees Wednesday morning: Commit to a new “hardcore” Twitter or leave the company with severance pay. Twitter is shifting to an engineer-driven operation — one that “will need to be extremely hardcore” […]
How Pete ‘N Val Snookered Their Caucus–And What It Means
The short answer? They lied. Pete told everyone he was running against Val. Val told everyone she was running against Pete. Then, suddenly, miraculously, on Saturday, they were a team again. It caught most of the caucus flat-footed as there were several scenarios that had been prepared, or at least talked about, to install a […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, November 13, 2022
Terrible Night For Election Deniers. Meaning, it was a good night for democracy: Every election denier who sought to become the top election official in a critical battleground state lost at the polls this year, as voters roundly rejected extreme partisans who promised to restrict voting and overhaul the electoral process. The national repudiation of […]
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