Delaware
Cigarette Purchases Are a Reason for Legalizing Marijuana
Updated with Cannabis Bureau of Delaware’s action yesterday.
January 20, 2017 Open Thread
Tuskeegee Airman dead, flags at half-mast in Delaware, Carl Bonini, Dover, Georgetown’s African-American History
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:
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., Jan. 19, 2017
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 […]
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
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.)
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.
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
Another Bomb Threat at Siegel JCC
Two weeks, two bomb threats at the Siegel JCC. Welcome to Trump’s America.
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., Jan. 18, 2017
OK, kids, this gets a little tricky. Yesterday morning dawned with Jack Markell as Governor. Today, John Carney is Governor. There are only two weeks until the General Assembly breaks for budget hearings. Gov. Carney wants to have his cabinet in place by then. What to do? Well, last week President Pro-Tem David McBride announced […]
Call Lisa Blunt Rochester
Your job today is to call Lisa Blunt Rochester and tell her that you would like her to boycott Trump’s Inauguration. Call her office at (202) 225-4165.
UD President Absent from Presidents’ Letter to Trump
A letter from college and university presidents to President-Elect Trump asks Trump “to condemn and work to prevent the harassment, hate, and acts of violence that are being perpetrated across our nation”.
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