Let’s Talk: A Discussion About Mental Health and Addiction Sponsored by Delaware United

Let’s Talk: A Discussion About Mental Health and Addiction Sponsored by Delaware United

Delaware United is sponsoring a meeting to discuss the correlation between Mental Health and Addiction, with some discussion of strategies to help. This looks like a very interesting and on point discussion, especially as multiple groups and agencies are working to address the needs around both. Here's the details:
This will be a meeting hosted by Delaware United to expand the discussion about the correlation between Mental Health and Addiction, and what we can do to help in Delaware. Our list of guests speakers include: Trinidad Navarro, Democratic Candidate for Insurance Commissioner Matthew Meyer, Democratic Candidate for County Executive Dave Humes, Board Member atTAcK addiction Denise Bowers, Candidate for Senate District 5 This will be a forum style meeting, where speakers will get to answer questions about mental health and addiction in Delaware, and discuss different positions and ideas that they have for the future.
Every Single State Legislative Race*

Every Single State Legislative Race*

The asterisk means that I'm only looking at races with one D and one R on the ballot.  Per usual, the real story is the paucity of those races.  It's even more pathetic than usual this year. Of the 11 Senate seats up this year, 5 are uncontested.  It's worse in the House. Of the 41 seats, 23 candidates are running unopposed.  Well more than half. Just. Awful.
The Vance Phillips Civil Suit Comes to an End With No Justice for the Woman He Assaulted

The Vance Phillips Civil Suit Comes to an End With No Justice for the Woman He Assaulted

It has been awhile since we heard anything about the lawsuit brought by Katelynn Dunlap against Vance Phillips seeking some accountability for raping her. We talked about this multiple times here at DL, but see here, here, here and here for a good recap.) Updating the story, Ms Dunlap has filed a stipulation of dismissal for the civil action filed against Phillips in Kent County court. This isn't quite the end of the story though. Ms. Dunlap took to the airwaves Wednesday to talk about this and released a statement about her decision to both the media and her Facebook page. This is what she published to Facebook:
Arson, Murder, Assault Charges for Resident of Wilmington Rowhome

Arson, Murder, Assault Charges for Resident of Wilmington Rowhome

I'll let the Delaware Online story speak for itself, because I know what else to say. This is just so sad all the way around. I know I speak for the entire Delaware Liberal community when I say our condolences, thoughts, and prayers are with the families of Lt. Christopher Leach and Senior Firefighter Jerry Fickes, as our collective hope and encouragement for continued strength and recovery is with Ardythe Hope and Brad Speakman.
234

234

That was the number of votes that separated Mike Purzycki and Eugene Young for Wilmington Mayor by the end of the night on Tuesday. The difference between Purzycki and Kevin Kelley was 415 votes. 12,578 votes for Mayor were cast. But at the end of the day, there were 2,734 votes cast for Eugene Young who made me proud to be a small part of his campaign everyday. Everyday. A quick reminder of where we started -- a year or so back, as Eugene started talking with people to gather up support, the leadership of this city (and its pundits) told him that no one knew him, then that he needed to wait his turn for Mayor, then that he couldn't raise any money. Eugene did, of course, overcome every bit of that and ignored the wait your turn crowd. With is smart and fiercely competitive management team, he ran a citywide campaign with more than 200 volunteers (91 volunteers showed up and volunteered on Tuesday. 91!) and ended up knocking on more than 50,000 Wilmington doors. He ran an honorable and progressive campaign and completely avoided the sideshows that were being run by the more establishment candidates. Eugene Young, his vision for the city and his crackerjack campaign team caught the attention of the News Journal who endorsed a genuine progressive for Mayor. It was a real heartbreaker to come up short by 234 votes.
What Are You Seeing/Hearing This Election Day?

What Are You Seeing/Hearing This Election Day?

I'll start. Was putting up a Townsend sign at my polling place and saw that Karen Hartley-Nagle had signs reading 'This sign replaces one stolen sign'.  Professionally-made signs, too.  She's running on allegedly stolen signs. Over 200, she says. We know of one.  It's a setup, but a cynically effective one, IMHO.

The Delaware Voters’ Guide

From the News-Journal: http://data.delawareonline.com/webapps/Voters_Guide/ A couple of things I found interesting.  Contrast Don Peterson's responses with the non-responses of Pete Schwartzkopf. Arrogance personified. While Carney's responses weren't too bad on…

Primary Campaign Literature — Tell Us the Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Everyday when I come home, I have a foyer full of campaign literature from candidates and most days I also have pieces that are left on the door. This season also seems to be the one where Delaware candidates really have embraced social media and some of them are doing really well there. All of you are seeing it all -- and plenty I don't-- so tell us what you think. Tell us about the good pieces, the bad pieces and the just plain ugly pieces. Feel free to include scans of what you are looking at.