The Year End Chip Flowers Fingerpointing

The Year End Chip Flowers Fingerpointing

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This is a comment rescue, from a piece that John Manifold linked to for us from Delaware State News, where Chip Flowers is still trying to avoid taking responsibility for the basic management of his office. This time, he wants you to know that the OMB is responsible for terminating an exempt employee that he hired. And "politics" is at fault for the OMB leaving him with the Personnel bag, as it were, even though the employee has already resigned and is done with her medical leave:
Income Inequality

Income Inequality

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You know income inequality is getting to be a big topic when even Joe Scarborough of Morning Joe talks about it fervently this morning. Of course, he falls back on the tried and true conservative position that we can't raise taxes ever on anything, and the expert guest agreed. Um, why can't we? New data from the IRS shows that the wealthiest Americans have seen their share of taxes decline rather significantly under Obama.
Festivus Open Thread [12.23.13]

Festivus Open Thread [12.23.13]

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Governor Jack Markell is Kavip's Delawarean of the Year. He did some good things, like this:
He proposed and pushed through requiring background checks for all gun sales. He proposed and was able to get mandated reporting of lost or stolen firearms. He signed the Gay Marriage Bill. He signed transgender equality into law.
But he also did some inexplicable things, for a Democrat:
He tried to give away the Port of Wilmington to an oil company. He killed Minimum Wage in 2013. He rammed through SB51 which permanently weakens teacher education programs. He created an Illegal Star Chamber to draw up HB 165 charter school beneficial legislation, in secret without public input. He rammed through HG 165 which gives private for profit charter schools access to public school capital financing. He tried to lower taxes for the top 1%. And not for anyone else.
2013: The Good, The Bad, the Ridiculous

2013: The Good, The Bad, the Ridiculous

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I am El Somnambulo, and I'm a listaholic. Today, one of my faves, my Delaware year-end review. I went back to January, and chronologically went through our Delaware Liberal archives. Man, our bloggers were en fuego this year. Incredible work from all corners. Cassandra on Wilmington and loads of other stuff, Pandora on education, Jason330 on the suckitude that is our congressional delegation, our beloved leader DelDem liveblogging from the Hall and covering national politics like no other, great Rob Tornoe cartoons. And, next year, ProgressivePopulist will have loads of great entries. Anyway, y'all could do a lot worse than to go back to January and enjoy the journey like I did. You can just click on 'archives' at the bottom of the page, and enjoy the journey. Would it surprise you to learn that I considered only 12 possible entries for the Good? Didn't think so. I had lots more to choose from in the other two categories, but I'm kind-of a negative person.  So, here we go, have at it!