Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, January 28, 2025
The Big Story: Can Matt Meyer And Bryan Townsend Smoke A Peace Pipe (preferably filled with homegrown Delaware herb)? They're gonna have to. Looks like Meyer will have a pretty…
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, January 23, 2025
Spotlight Delaware has today's Big Story--aka Bethany Hall Long proves herself to be a political hack to the very end. I had seen the nominations to the Wilmington Port Corporation…
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., January 22, 2025
The Big News: Senate Executive Committee Starts Three Days Of Hearings On Gov. Meyer's Nominees. I'll link to the schedules for the nominees later in this article. But, first, yesterday's…
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, January 21, 2025
The Big News takes place outside of Leg Hall today as Matt Meyer takes the oath of office as Governor, and Kyle Evans Gay takes the oath of office as…
Monique Johns Doesn’t Seem To Stand For Anything
Guest Post By Accende Lucem: On November 5, 2024, I walked into the polls and voted for Monique Johns for New Castle County Council President. As an old school Democrat…
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, January 16, 2025
Joseph Heller was acclaimed for his novel 'Catch-22', which enjoyed ca(t)che with anti-war protestors in the '60's. Gotta admit, started it, didn't like it, didn't finish it. Have no desire…
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., January 15, 2025
The Big Story: Speaker Minor-Brown Seems Determined To Restore Collegiality To The House. After well over a decade of iron-fisted rule by Pete Schwartzkopf and Val Longhurst, the newly-installed Speaker…
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Spoiler Alert: The first two paragraphs of this article have been cut-and-pasted from 2023. With, of course, the dates changed to reflect this year's legislative calendar. Today’s Opening Session is…
The Final Legislative Pre-File*
*Before the new General Assembly is sworn in tomorrow. They consist of bills filed on January 9 and 10. You can find them all here. The highlight, of course, is…
RIP: John Daniello
I think I first met him in my parents' living room circa 1964. I would have been thirteen at the time. He was running for a spot on New Castle…
Over-Analyzing The First Legislative Pre-File
It's what I do, and it's what I like to do. Here are all the bills that have been introduced so far. The Senate pre-file is mostly the Darius Brown…
In What Universe Is This Not A Police Cover-Up?
Here's the story: An Odessa state representative is facing DUI and vehicular assault charges after Delaware State Police say he drove while intoxicated and caused a crash, injuring another driver.…
Why Matt Meyer Vetoed The Impact Fees Increases, And How Councilmembers Feel About It
GUEST POST BY VAL GOULD: On December 10th, New Castle County Council passed Substitute 1 for Ordinance 24-008, which calls for an update to the county’s impact fees for the…