Delaware
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, March 9, 2023
“This amendment makes technical corrections and clarifications requested by the Office of the Governor.” Yeah (you’re asking)? So what? The ‘so what’ is that this is HA2/HB 2. HB 2 ‘regulates and taxes marijuana for recreational use in much the same manner as alcohol. It creates a framework for production, manufacture, and sale in a […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., March 8, 2023
Hate to be THAT guy, but I told you that yesterday’s pot legalization bill vote was a freebie. Far too many Pete acolytes voted for the bill. There’s hope only if you don’t think that Lumpy Carson, Bill Bush, Stephanie Bolden, Mike Ramone, Michael Smith, Sean Matthews, and/or others will revert to form and bow […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, March 7, 2023
It’s ba-a-a-ck. Polished to a diamond gleam by Rep. Osienski. We’re talking HB 1, which: …removes all penalties for use or possession of a personal use quantity of marijuana and marijuana accessories. It further specifies that the adult sharing of a personal use quantity or less of marijuana is legal activity for those 21 years […]
Song of the Day 2/24: Damien Rice, “Cannonball”
The wanderings of the Lewes Cannonball have come to a happy end. Whoever pried it loose from the Cannonball House apparently thought better of it and placed it on the sidewalk outside the nearby Zwaanendael Museum. Irish folksinger Damien Rice released “Cannonball” as a single in Ireland in spring 2002 as the second single from […]
News Journal’s Pro-Cop Bias Is Showing
Meredith Newman didn’t just bury the lede in her story about Delaware’s highest-paid employees, she left it out entirely. The story, based on data from 2021, focuses on the high pay rate of some of the top officials at Delaware State University. It never mentions that nobody from the University of Delaware is on the […]
Song of the Day 2/23: The Business, “Drinking and Driving”
Would-be politician Scott Walker, the guy who runs for office by setting up home-painted campaign signs along Delaware roads, has never come close to being elected, but his odd behavior makes it obvious that isn’t his goal. Like the guy who fell into a lens grinding machine, he’s making a spectacle of himself. He’s in […]
Defeat These Three Candidates For School Board
There will no doubt be others who join the fray before the filing deadline, which is Friday, March 4. In at least one race, there had better be. For now, these three will suffice. We have two ‘parental rights’ anti-vaxxers/maskers running in Milford: Ashlee Connell is running for an At-Large seat in Milford. If you […]
Confederacy-Loving Delaware Man Gets Three Years in Union Prison
Kevin Seefried, the Laurel drywall hanger who paraded a huge Confederate battle flag through the Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection and menaced a Capitol cop with it, was handed a three-year prison sentence yesterday by a Trump-appointed federal judge. His lawyers had asked for a 12-month sentence, and argued that Seefried, 53, lacked “even […]
News-Journal FINALLY Wakes Up To Ft. DuPont Boondoggle
9 years too late. Maybe someone, anyone, from the News-Journal could have read our coverage dating back to 2014? I’ll only link to one article this time. You can find the others. While a lot of the skulduggery is omitted, this is a great look into what happens when the Delaware Way, especially Jack Markell, […]
Let Joe Drive!
I never thought about this until I saw some stray comment on some automotive web site: Once someone is elected president, he never drives again. While he’s president he’s driven by Secret Service agents — that’s why Donald Trump never reached the Capitol on Jan. 6. Ex-presidents also have security details, of course, but I […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., January 26, 2023
Today’s all about ‘pass the stuff we’ve gotta pass, then get outta town’. For six weeks of JFC hearings. Here’s yesterday’s Session Activity Report. Law-abiding Laurel residents can breathe easier now that nominations for Town Alderman and Assistant Town Alderman have been confirmed by the Senate. Today’s Senate Agenda features one ‘must pass before the […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., January 25, 2023
It WAS a pretty interesting day yesterday. I listened to the entire Senate debate on the Community Workforce Agreement section of SB 35 (Walsh), and it’s still as clear as mud to me. Will it benefit minority workers and contractors, or will it provide further protection to the predominantly white construction trades? Not a word […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, January 24, 2023
ALERT! ALERT! Dirty Delaware Way dealings being rushed through the Senate today! In the form of the so-called ‘Mini-Bond Bill’, SB 35 (Walsh). I spot three items that should be excised. Can you spot even more?: 1. “Section 187. Redevelopment of Strategic Sites (Fort DuPont). Notwithstanding the provisions of any other state law to the […]
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