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HB1 Signing Today

By Unstable Isotope June 12, 2009

At 2 p.m. Governor Markell will be signing the HB1 Open Government bill at the Old New Castle Courthouse. At least one Delaware Liberal blogger will be there. Stop by…

Legislative Wrapup and Preview-June 11, 2009

By El Somnambulo June 11, 20095 Comments

Yesterday's Activity. As you can see, most of the action was in the committee meetings, both House and Senate. Lots of interesting bills were reported out, including the Presidential Popular…

You’re Invited!

By Unstable Isotope June 11, 200915 Comments

A message from Rebecca Young: Gov. Markell will sign HB01 into law on Friday, June 12, at 2:00 PM at the Old New Castle Courthouse Museum. All DL'ers are invited…

AFSCME Urges Members to Boycott Walgreens? Maybe

By liberalgeek June 10, 200915 Comments

A source told me that AFSCME Council 81 which represents State of Delaware employees, is urging its members to boycott Walgreens in the wake of the announcement that Walgreens is…

Vote on this hotly debated bill really did happen this afternoon and the results just got posted. Vote was 23 YES, 17 NO and 1 Absent. Follow after the jump for the vote detail. Apologies in advance for the formatting.

Today’s Legislative Agendas-Tuesday, June 9

By El Somnambulo June 9, 20093 Comments

Delaware State Senate Agenda. Delaware State House of Representatives Agenda. You can click on each of the above links, and you can then click on the individual bill numbers to…

JFC Closed

By cassandra_m June 8, 200931 Comments

See details here. The JFC is meeting today and Rep. Dennis Williams asked the media to leave. Apparently, they are doing a "work to rule" deal today -- since HB1…

BIG NEWS! Bill Ending Discrimination Against Gays Likely to Pass Soon

By El Somnambulo June 8, 200930 Comments

This is not a dream, this is real. Although many have dreamed of this day for a long time. It now appears a virtual certainty that legislation banning discrimination based…

Tweeting, First State Style

By nemski June 8, 200916 Comments

Twitter is making some big news of late, so big in fact it has made the most recent cover of Time magazine Before I get started, I'm not a twitter…

Comment Rescue: Who the heck is Mike Protack anyway?

By nemski June 7, 200926 Comments

After another Protackian comment in the Don't Ask Don't Tell thread, Rod asked Who the heck is Mike Protack anyway? Please use the comments below to fill Rod in.

Call Carper’s Office

By Unstable Isotope June 6, 200914 Comments

Getting good healthcare reform is going to be one helluva fight. The "public option" is one of the most difficult parts of the plan. A good public option will help…

Summer Concert Charity needed…

By Donviti June 5, 20098 Comments

We need a charity for the concert DL is putting on 8/15. I would like to throw it out to you the readers. I don't want recommendations or you to…

Supermarket Beer/Wine Sales: A Solution in Search of a Problem

By El Somnambulo June 5, 200940 Comments

For some reason (El Somnambulo suspects just the Usual Poor Editorial Judgement), the News-Journal decided to make today's lead story the introduction of legislation to permit beer and wine sales…