Delaware

Since the Dem primary will settle the issue for many of the races in Delaware, election day is effectively just over a month out.

September 11, 2012 Primary Election

• Insurance Commissioner - Weldin Stewart/Crane/Others - Crane plus 1
• Wilmington Mayoral Race - Williams/Kelley - No line yet
• SD 1 McDowell/Brady/Martin - McDowell plus 2
• SD 6 Miller/Frederick/Staton - Staton plus 6
• SD 11 DeLuca/Townsend - even money
• RD 15 Longhurst/Burton - Longhurst plus 3
• RD 19 Dunn/Williams - even money
• RD 23 Baumbach/Bock/Grant - No line yet
• RD 32 McGlumphey/Bennett- even money

How far do you walk? 1/2 mile, 1/4 mile, 6 minutes, 30 minutes? What is distance you will walk before you start to think that maybe driving or taking a bus makes more sense? It turns out that walking distance has more to do with what you are looking at, and less to do with how far you need to go.

Walk Appeal promises to be a major new tool for understanding and building walkable places, and it explains several things that were heretofore either contradictory or mysterious. It begins with the assertion that the quarter-mile radius (or 5-minute walk,) which has been held up for a century as the distance Americans will walk before driving, is actually a myth.

On Wednesday, August 1, 2012, we have State Representative John Kowalko announcing his reelection bid at the Newark Senior Center, 200 White Chapel Drive in Newark. It starts at 11 a.m. Later Wednesday night at 7 pm we have the monthly meeting of the Progressive Democrats for Delaware at the Delaware Democratic Party HQ’s, 19 E. Commons Blvd, in New Castle. Kathleen MacRae, the Executive Director of the ACLU of Delaware, will be speaking about efforts to repeal the death penalty in Delaware; and Erik Raser-Schramm, the director of the 2012 Coordinated Campaign, will speak on their efforts in the upcoming election. On Thursday, August 2 at Timothy's of Newark from 7 pm to 10 pm, there will be a fundraiser for Democrat Paul Baumbach for his race to succeed Terry Schooley in the 23rd RD. Here is a like to the Facebook site for the event.