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DL Open Thread: Saturday, July 20, 2024
‘Biden And Trump Have Succeeded In Breaking Reality’. If M. Gessen writes it, I read it: (B)oth campaigns are creating a sense of unreality, in presenting politics as formulaic spectacle, abstracted from the actual politics each candidate represents and from people’s lived experiences. To be sure, the two campaigns are telling very different stories. The […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, July 19, 2024
Looks like the biggest story from last night was that an untethered Trump is eminently beatable. Didn’t watch the speech. Did you?: The new tone lasted 17 minutes. Then, he called on state and federal prosecutors to drop all four criminal cases against him, including the one in which he was convicted of 34 felony […]
DL Open Thread: Thurs., July 18, 2024
If you’re looking for convention coverage or ‘Waiting For Biden To Come To His Senses’, look elsewhere. I don’t get paid enough (aka ‘anything’) to inflict either on myself. Biden Cancels More Student Debt. This time, for 35,000 public service workers: How it works: The Education Department said that the relief was made possible via […]
Delaware’s Most Intriguing Primary Races Of 2024: Novelty Division
Yeahyeah, you’ll get yer Top Ten. But I’d be remiss not to mention this race that has some serious comedic possibilities: Colin Bonini vs. Susanne Whitney For Kent County Register Of Wills. No, this isn’t a battle for the heart and soul of the Rethuglican Party (the Party has neither). It’s just an election-year amuse-bouche […]
Presenting: The LEAST Intriguing Delaware Primaries Of 2024
No, I’m not gonna list stuff like row office primaries. Except when I’m snarking them. In some cases, these are primaries that could have been important had at least one of the candidates proven worthy. In other cases, it’s because only one side is running a campaign. And in some, hey, it’s my list, I […]
Delaware Political Weekly: July 5-11, 2024
1. Delaware Democratic Party Marches Towards Irrelevancy. Proving once and for all that Betsy Maron is the John Carney of Party chairs. She learned nothing from her dad’s decision to place the heavy hands of labor on the scales on behalf of then-candidate Carney. Carney’s campaign proved to be as devoid of substance as his […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, July 12, 2024
Karl Baker Deconstructs The Bond Bill. It’s not pretty: Signed into law June 30 by Gov. John Carney, Delaware’s billion-dollar bond bill is sending tens of millions of dollars to downtown Wilmington through a litany of curious appropriations, some buried deep within the epilogue section of the omnibus spending legislation. There’s more than $18 million […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, July 11, 2024
How Texas Kills You. Legally, I mean: The state of Texas, blocked from purchasing lethal injection drugs by major pharmaceutical companies that refuse to participate in executions, bought them instead from an in-state, compounding pharmacy with a history of more than a dozen safety and cleanliness violations, NPR has learned. Rite-Away Pharmacy and Medical Supply […]
‘Bulo And BHL Find Common Ground?
On this? Yes, I think so. From what is purportedly the Berkshire Hathaway ‘business wire’: DOVER, Del.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, Citizens for a New Delaware Way, a new Political Action Committee,announced its plans to spend upwards of $1 million ahead of the coming Delaware Primary Election in September and General Election in November. Aiming to address the […]
A Very Special Edition Of Delaware Political Weekly: Filing Deadline Day
Events, of course, will determine just how special, if at all, today’s edition is. The deadline for candidates to file is 12 noon today. We already have some news!: BREAKING: Last-minute primary challenger to Sarah McBride. One Elias Weir. Ran as an independent in RD 27 back in 2020. Also ran against LBR in the […]
Either BHL Or Kathy Jennings Is Lying. Correction: BHL Is Lying.
Her and her Opioid $$ Operators. If you haven’t already, read Cris Barrish’s story. Some choice excerpts: Delaware prosecutors are investigating how nonprofit Code Purple Kent County spent $290,000 from the state’s opioid settlement windfall, spurring Attorney General Kathy Jennings to call for an immediate halt to grants from the multimillion dollar fund aimed at […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, July 7, 2024
For the purposes of today’s Open Thread, I’m gonna assume that Joe will eventually realize he has no choice but to end his candidacy, so I will discuss it no further today. Breaking From The News-Journal!! Seriously?: University of Delaware researchers discovered a kissing bug found in New Castle County in July 2023 was infected […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, July 6, 2024
I didn’t watch last week’s debate. I dreaded it, and just tried to ignore it. Wasn’t until the next day that I read the virtually 100% consensus that it was a debacle for Biden. I watched last night’s interview. I saw a man unfit to be President. Although some pundits and the D cheerleaders […]
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