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DL Open Thread: Sunday, October 31, 2021
How/Why Cops Turn Traffic Stops Into Deadly Confrontations. Short take–Because they’re trained that way. And because they can get away with it: The deaths are among a series of seemingly avoidable killings across the United States. Over the past five years, a New York Times investigation found, police officers have killed more than 400 drivers […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 30, 2021
Final Call For The Claudettes. Tonight. Prices are incredibly affordable: $20 for the general public. Tickets available at the box office. Here’s how Downbeat described them: “The Claudettes hit listeners upside the head with a mash-up of Otis Spann blues, Albert Ammons boogie-woogie, Ray Charles soul and “Fess” Longhair New Orleans R&B.” My Hallowe’en costume?: […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, October 29, 2021
Biden’s Agenda: How Not To Negotiate. Cut it in half, then beg: “The House and Senate majorities and my presidency will be determined by what happens in the next week,” Mr. Biden told the lawmakers during the hourlong session, according to a person who was at the meeting. Mr. Biden and his aides gambled on […]
Judge To McGuiness: ‘State Will Not Pay For High-Priced Lawyer For You’
For the first time, Kathy McGuiness will save the taxpayers some money. Just not of her own volition: McGuiness hired Steve Wood, a former state prosecutor, who’s now a partner at McCarter & English LLP, a month before she was indicted. He petitioned the court to represent her in the case for $550 per hour […]
The FINAL House Maps Are Here!
Here they are: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1sUzubRE9FsMcORurIfVl_-3B9XqevKLN&ll=39.1487474501171%2C-75.386594&z=9 At a quick first glance, it looks like Mike Ramone has been put back into the 21st. Val Longhurst (15th RD) is still not gonna have to justify what she did to the residents of Delaware City. As a result, Melissa Minor-Brown’s district (17th) is blatantly gerrymandered b/c she’s picking up […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 28, 2021
Silly Russians, Don’t You Know The NRA Is Bankrupt? Russian hackers allegedly post NRA stuff on dark web: The gang behind the attack—which calls itself “Grief”—recently began sharing images of the reputed files to a site on the dark web. It is unclear just how much data is supposed to have been stolen, though members […]
Here Are The Final Senate Maps
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1cEm-nZCQSQW5-mpUzOTs-8xPiy7jlSCf&ll=39.1487474501171%2C-75.386594&z=9 Let’s see what changes I can find… Slaughter Beach residents got their wish. They’re back in the 18th SD (Wilson) and out of Bonini’s district, meaning the 18th now runs from Sussex’s westernmost boundary out into the Delaware Bay. Hey, it’s what the residents who spoke at the hearing said they wanted. It doesn’t […]
‘Stop DE Corruption’: DNREC Must Be Regulator Of Fort DuPont Project, NOT Facilitator Of Environmental Degradation
YES! Finally! Folks, please read this letter in its entirety. Hello Mr. Garvin, I’m contacting you based on your dual role as Secretary of DNREC and Board Secretary of the Fort Dupont Redevelopment and Preservation Corporation (FDRPC). You are one of seven state officials on the FDRPC Board along with Laura Lee who is a […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, October 22, 2021
How Do You Replant A Billion Trees? With Drones: While many think of drones as a toy or, in battle, a lethally precise military tool, Flash Forest has gone a new route: It’s deploying drones to nourish life. The 20-person Toronto company is using a fleet of unmanned vehicles to seed the ground with trees […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 21, 2021
Bleepin’ Joe Manchin: His pathological need to be the center of attention is the only way in which he can be described as a ‘centrist’. A total dick. Of course he’d float the idea of leaving the D Caucus. After killing key climate change legislation. Yet More Rollbacks Of Popular Proposed Policies In Biden Package. […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, October 20, 2021
How Much More Popular Stuff Will D’s Excise From Package To Satisfy The Two Bomb-Throwers In The Caucus? Lots more: The potential new price range marks a significant reduction from the $3.5 trillion that some Democrats initially pursued under a budget agreement chiefly brokered by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) earlier this year. But it is […]
Senate Redistricting Hearing: Comments On The Comments
I’m annoyed. I’m annoyed at some of tonight’s speakers, including those from the ACLU and the League Of Women Voters. Even though…we are members of the Delaware Chapter of the ACLU. Virtually all of tonight’s hearing focused on a few districts in Sussex County. Three speakers complained that the beachfront community of Slaughter Beach was […]
Delaware House Of Representatives Public Hearing: Comments On The Comments
Well, first and foremost, the R’s are not happy with Mike Ramone being placed in Paul Baumbach’s district. House Minority Leader Danny Short spoke to that, as did several of Ramone’s constituents. Schwartzkopf gave some mumbo-jumbo about the numbers and how they had no choice. Except–Ramone is right on the district boundary. Both the ACLU […]
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