Delaware

Thursday Daily Delawhere [1.3.13]

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on January 3, 2013 • 2 Comments

The Milton Theatre, on Union Street in Milton.

So Tom Carper voted against the Deal?

Filed in Delaware, National by Delaware Dem on January 1, 2013 • 34 Comments

Of the the 8 Senators voting against the Biden-McConnell deal, one of them was our own, very special Tom Carper. What was his chief complaint? It raised taxes on the rich? The deal did not cut spending? The deal did not eliminate or cut Medicare or Social Security. He hates the unemployed and wants to cut all unemployment insurance. I am very curious to hear his reasoning.

In the grand scheme and in context, and considering that I want the sequester cuts to go into affect (because it cuts 500 billion from the Defense budget and unless we let those cuts go into affect automatically, we will never get that much cut from the Pentagon budget ever), it is not a bad deal. It is not a good deal either, as the Democrats caved on indexing the Estate Tax to inflation. Going from 250k to 400k? Meh, I can live with that. Payroll tax holiday not preserved? That’s the bad part of this deal, in my opinion, along with the estate tax indexing.

New Year’s Day Daily Delawhere [1.1.13]

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on January 1, 2013 • 0 Comments

An old stone house on Auburn Mill Road in Yorklyn.

Happy New Year Delaware!

Filed in Delaware by Rob Tornoe on December 31, 2012 • 2 Comments

When it comes to the end of the year, I’ve always preferred to look ahead, and with Governor Markell saying he expects Delaware to take up marriage equality, 2013 is already looking bright and promising.

New Year’s Eve Daily Delawhere [12.31.12]

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on December 31, 2012 • 8 Comments

Mount Cuba, a former DuPont estate on Barley Mill Road in Mount Cuba. The house was built in 1937 as the estate of Lammot DuPont Copeland and Pamela Cunningham Copeland. The estate is now a center of research for Piedmont flora as of 2004.

Sunday Daily Delawhere [12.30.12]

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on December 30, 2012 • 0 Comments

The Wilmington skyline, from the city’s Brandywine Village neighborhood across the Brandywine River.

Blevins Does Superb Job on Senate Committee Assignments.

Filed in Delaware, National by El Somnambulo on December 29, 2012 • 10 Comments

Really. This is not snark. President Pro-Tempore Patti Blevins has served up an almost ideal set of committee chairs/committees. Thank you, Senator.

I have only two caveats before I heap praise on her:

The Bond Bill Committee is too downstate-centric, IMHO.

With the perceived conflict-of-interest on the SEU, Harris McDowell should not chair the Energy/Transit Committee.

That’s it.

Here’s what I like/love (in committee alphabetical order):

Saturday Daily Delawhere [12.29.12]

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on December 29, 2012 • 0 Comments

Houses along the beach in South Bowers.

Chris Coons Does His Job. Tom Carper Doesn’t.

Filed in Delaware, National by Delaware Dem on December 28, 2012 • 12 Comments

I want to thank Senator Coons for voting against the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act extension of warrantless wiretapping, otherwise known as the Repeal of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Senator Carper voted for it like a true red conservative Democrat.