Delaware
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., Jan. 21, 2026
I’m approaching today’s piece with the same ambition that the General Assembly is demonstrating for this three-week start of session: Next to none. Other than the weakening of the Hospital Cost Review Board, which unanimously passed the Senate yesterday, I don’t see any must-pass bills on the horizon. I believe that the General Assembly should pass […]
BREAKING: Three Council Members Unveil An Affordability Agenda For Wilmington
Wilmington City Council members Coby Owens (District 1), Shané Darby (District 2) and Christian Willauer (District 5) today announced a proposed legislative affordability agenda for Wilmington at a morning press conference. Councilman Coby Owens stated that ‘our city is struggling and…many people in our city are struggling’. Shané Darby emphasized that rent stabilization alone won’t […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending January 15, 2026
Had to rewrite this due to this late-breaking news: 1. President Pro-Tem Dave Sokola Will Not Seek Reelection. I flat-out can’t believe he’s been there for 36 years. I really am old. I was one of the people at his very first Sunday evening kitchen campaign meetings. Some people govern through fear, Dave governed with kindness. In my […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, January 15, 2026
The big news, such as it is, took place in the committee meetings yesterday. I also guess it’s worth noting that SB 27 (Brown), which creates the Office Of New Americans, unanimously passed the Senate. Perhaps of interest only to me is that an amendment was added to the bill calling for a Sunset review […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Wednesday, January 14, 2026
There were no surprises in either the House or Senate today. The House unanimously passed SB 106 (Buckson), which requires school districts to craft cell phone policies for students. Because the bill didn’t pass the House last year, an amendment changing the effective date was added to the bill. The Senate will no doubt pass […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, January 13, 2026
This is the hors d’oeuvre portion of the legislative session–in for just three weeks, get those few ‘must-pass’ bills done by the end of the month, listen to the Governor’s State Of The State Address, then clear out for six weeks of Joint Finance Committee hearings. We’ll soon learn what those ‘must-pass’ bills are. There’s usually […]
Remember Lymond Moses
The Trump cabal rightfully is catching shit for maintaining that Renee Good was driving at ICE agent Jonathan Ross despite multiple videos showing that’s not true. That unimaginative response has been the LEO standard for decades. Anytime they shoot someone in a vehicle, they claim the officer feared for his life because the victim was […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending January 8, 2026
“We are kings of our bikes. So, we are again really lucky to live in Rehoboth, when we park a car, we have to get back into the car. We can hop on our bikes and our ritual is that we are always biking from our home to L(ewe)s. We do a little bit of […]
DL’s Most-Viewed Stories, 2025
People love Top 10 lists, so to wrap up the holiday weekend – you didn’t pretend to work Friday, did you? – here, in descending order, are the Top 10 most-viewed Delaware Liberal stories for 2025. No. 10: Wrap-up of a busy third-to-last day of General Assembly. General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, June 26, […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending Jan. 1, 2026
“We are kings of our bikes. So, we are again really lucky to live in Rehoboth, when we park a car, we have to get back into the car. We can hop on our bikes and our ritual is that we are always biking from our home to L(ewe)s. We do a little bit of […]
Delaware 2025: The Good, The Bad, The Ridiculous
THE GOOD: Jan. 17: Gov. Meyer commits to scaling back windfalls to large corporations. Says he will focus on small business development instead. March 5: Gov. Meyer proposes energy reforms, including more power to challenge rate increases. Both the Governor and the General Assembly ultimately follow through on these proposals. March 7: Delaware Supreme Court […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending December 18, 2025
We start with the inevitable announcement that ‘The Other Mike Smith’ is running for yet another office. This time, State Treasurer. You may recall that, in 2024, His PAL Val Longhurst granted him leave from his legislative job to primary Frank Burns in RD 21, a Newark-area district. Burns had come oh-so-close to defeating Mike […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending December 11, 2025
“We are kings of our bikes. So, we are again really lucky to live in Rehoboth, when we park a car, we have to get back into the car. We can hop on our bikes and our ritual is that we are always biking from our home to L(ewe)s. We do a little bit of […]
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