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Back From the Philly March

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on January 21, 2017 23 Comments
Back From the Philly March

Wow.  Just…wow.  We must have had at least 50,000 people there. My wife really wanted to go, and I was more than happy to tag along.  My wife and I got to Philly around 9 and to Logan Square around 9:15.  I’ve never seen so many clever signs.  Many of them employing the vulgarism that […]

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January 21, 2017 Open Thread

Filed in Delaware, Open Thread by on January 21, 2017 4 Comments
January 21, 2017 Open Thread

15th and 16th shootings in Wilmington, Death row inmate freed after acquittal, Delaware State News’ slideshow of welcoming Joe Biden, Unemployment in Delaware holds at 4.3%

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Coalition Formed Among Delaware Civil Rights Groups

Filed in Delaware by on January 20, 2017 5 Comments
Coalition Formed Among Delaware Civil Rights Groups

The formation of a new group called the Delaware Civil Rights Coalition was announced yesterday in Dover. Delaware Public Media says “about a dozen civil rights and religious groups in Delaware banded together on the eve of President-elect Trump’s inauguration to fight discrimination.”

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Cigarette Purchases Are a Reason for Legalizing Marijuana

Filed in Delaware by on January 20, 2017 3 Comments
Cigarette Purchases Are a Reason for Legalizing Marijuana

Updated with Cannabis Bureau of Delaware’s action yesterday.

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January 20, 2017 Open Thread

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January 20, 2017 Open Thread

Tuskeegee Airman dead, flags at half-mast in Delaware, Carl Bonini, Dover, Georgetown’s African-American History

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SD10 Special Election Update

Filed in Delaware, National by on January 19, 2017 29 Comments
SD10 Special Election Update

Democrats:

What is Hansen all about? Is she another co-opted, corporate Dem, or does she have some progressive fire in the belly?

I’m holding off criticizing or praising until I see something from the campaign, which I will get to hear from on Saturday the 28th:

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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., Jan. 19, 2017

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on January 19, 2017 0 Comments

The first set of John Carney’s nominees sailed through the Senate yesterday. Republicans could not contain themselves from raining effusive praise on these nominations.  And why should they? It’s basically the same set of characters with whom they did business during the Markell years.  Which, at first glance, is what the Carney Administration appears hell-bent […]

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Carney Pushing Public-Private Partnerships, But What Are PPPs Really?

Filed in Delaware by on January 19, 2017 14 Comments
Carney Pushing Public-Private Partnerships, But What Are PPPs Really?

PPPs are not a way to provide jobs, it is really a way that conservatives have found to privatize different government functions

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Carney’s appalling lack of leadership and vision laid bare

Filed in Delaware by on January 19, 2017 8 Comments
Carney’s appalling lack of leadership and vision laid bare

This post, by Cassandra at Bluedelaware.com really nails Carney’s utter lack of vision and leadership by catching his most appalling moments from a meeting with Eastern Sussex Democratic Club (which is admirably trying to nudge Carney into a position that looks something (anything) like leadership.)

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Playing It Safe on the Road Well Traveled

Filed in Delaware by on January 19, 2017 2 Comments
Playing It Safe on the Road Well Traveled

We all knew how it was going to play out — this is Delaware after all. Our politicians are raised to find the center path all the time, thinking bi-partisanship is king. But the king is dead, the king has been dead a long time.

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January 19, 2017 Open Thread

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January 19, 2017 Open Thread

Former Governor David Buckson, Alan Dershowitz, Siegel JCC bomb threat, More shootings in Wilmington, Miss Greenville and Miss Hockessin crowned, and Delawareans headed to Women’s March

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Another Bomb Threat at Siegel JCC

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Another Bomb Threat at Siegel JCC

Two weeks, two bomb threats at the Siegel JCC. Welcome to Trump’s America.

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Carney’s Inaugural Address

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Carney’s Inaugural Address

Carney’s Inaugural Speech as written.

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