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Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending April 23, 2026
1. Deb Heffernan Announces Retirement. This is big. Big big. I had learned while campaigning for Becca Cotto back in 2022 that Heffernan had a lot of residual goodwill in that district. Cotto ran a great race, far exceeded her projected ‘win’ number (the number of votes the ‘calculus’ suggested she needed to reach to win), […]
BREAKING: Rep. Deb Heffernan Announces Retirement!
You know what to do. Here’s where you do it: https://www.raefordelaware.com/ You just know that the Finnigans and the Byrds will be looking for an easily-malleable insider to try to fill that seat. Time to really rally around Rae!
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, April 23, 2026
It’s more challenging writing an interesting legislative piece on Thursdays. Little, other than committee hearings, happens on Wednesdays. And there are no committee meetings on Thursdays. Basically, the agendas are pretty much the only items worth discussing today. Here is yesterday’s Session Activity Report. Thankfully, there are some substantive (if not universally desirable) bills for […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, April 23, 2026
Carney To Kill Roberto Clemente League? All because of $30,000? That’s–Carneyesque: “We don’t even know if our league can survive, just paying the fees to pay for the policing.” That’s the warning from Roberto Clemente Baseball League Vice President Iz Balleto to Wilmington leadership, saying that the estimated $30,000 in police costs due to rules […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., April 22, 2026
Oops, I missed something yesterday and, for the newbies, this will (very narrowly) expand your knowledge base. The House ran a Consent Agenda on Tuesday. A consent agenda consists of non-controversial and often inconsequential legislation. Several bills, in other words, to be approved by a single roll call. At the request of any legislator, an […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Virginia Voters Approve Congressional Redistricting: Democrats maintained their electoral momentum on Tuesday by securing the passage of an aggressively gerrymandered House map in Virginia, which could deliver the party up to four extra seats as it tries to win back control of Congress. Democrats sought to focus the campaign on President Trump, who instigated the […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, April 21, 2026
Meyer’s Choice For Inspector General Looks Like A Home Run Pick: Gov. Matt Meyer nominates Robert Storch to be Delaware’s first Inspector General. Storch has been the IG of federal agencies like the National Security Agency and the Department of Defense, appointed to those positions by former Presidents Obama and Biden respectively. Storch remained in […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, April 21, 2026
One of this session’s key bills highlights today’s House Agenda. HB 400 (Harris) increases business licensing fees assessed by the Department of State. In other words, modest increases for LLC’s and corporations who choose to make Delaware their official home. We’re not talking about mom-and-pop businesses, and we’re mostly not talking about business entities who […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, April 20, 2026
Looks Like Debbie Hudson Capano Screwed Yorklyn Real Good. A small northern Delaware community is looking to stop a luxury townhome development through any means necessary — including a lawsuit. Yorklyn residents for years have opposed developments on former industrial land in the Auburn Valley redevelopment district, which did not go through the county’s land […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: April 19, 2026
The Most Replaceable BY AI? Corporate Bosses: In March, The Wall Street Journal’s Meghan Bobrowsky broke the news that Mark Zuckerberg was “building a CEO agent to help him do his job.” The purpose of AI Zuck was to help flesh-and-blood Zuck “get information faster—for instance, by retrieving answers for him that he would typically […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending April 16, 2026
1. Rep. Ronald Gray Announces Retirement, Suggests Successor: State Rep. Ron Gray (R-38th) is not running for an eighth two-year term, but is instead supporting Fenwick Island businesswoman Carlie Carey — former owner of One Coastal restaurant — to succeed him. “We talked to some different people, and someone suggested her name. We asked her, […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, April 16, 2026
Spotlight Delaware on The Plummer Center: A month after state officials shut down Wilmington’s only prison work release program, the transition to a Smyrna substance abuse treatment center has garnered mixed reactions from lawmakers and inmates. On Tuesday, the Senate Corrections & Public Safety Committee held a hearing to understand the current state of the […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, April 16, 2026
Here is yesterday’s Session Activity Report. Pretty much the only thing I noticed was that a lot of bills with lengthy synopses (enough to fry my synapses) cleared committee. YMMV. Oh, and ‘Christian’ Sen. Richardson has introduced yet another ‘pro-life’ bill called ‘The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act’. Well, actually, it’s a Senate Substitute, but […]
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