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Bringing The Funny

By nemski March 12, 200910 Comments

Remember this from November.

Breaking: Recovery.Delaware.gov

By nemski March 11, 20099 Comments

Take a look at Delaware's Recovery site. More later.

Thoughts from the Reality Check Town Hall March 9

By cassandra_m March 11, 20095 Comments

This is the one in Wilmington held Monday night. There were perhaps 50 people in attendance and lots of politicians -- Councilwoman Shabazz and Councilman Wright from the City; Representative…

PPP Polling to Post Pleasing Percentages? UPDATED: No.

By Delaware Dem March 10, 200937 Comments

Jason has made an absolute guarantee that Mike Castle will not run for the Senate seat. But what happens if the PPP polling shows Castle close to or beating Biden?…

KWS Wants to Ease Insurance Co Reserve Requirements

By cassandra_m March 10, 200937 Comments

Redwaterlily has the details and good questions: During her campaign, from what I recall, Karen Weldin Stewart often told the audience about the fact that the insurance market is very…

Gov.Markell Reality Check Town Hall in Wilmington Tonight

By cassandra_m March 9, 20095 Comments

For those of you in Wilmington, Gov. Markell will be making a stop on his Reality Check tour this evening to discuss in detail the financial predicament of the State…

Delaware’s Slowness with ARRA

By nemski March 7, 20096 Comments

According to Recovery.org, Delaware is not certified for American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds nor do we have a website for transparency of ARRA funds. The following states are…

Frugal Weekend Blogging — Fix Your Stuff, Don’t Replace It

By cassandra_m March 7, 20094 Comments

redwaterlily has found an interesting project (via the GOOD website) promoting the idea of fixing our stuff, rather than replacing it. That can be a real challenge when so much…

A Week In the Life of a Progressive Governor

By El Somnambulo March 6, 200942 Comments

El Somnambulo is not paranoid (although he can't explain this insidious humming in his ears), so he will not accuse the News-Journal of going all 'Delaware Way' over its failure…

Kavips Resurfaces and We Have A Lot of Homework

By pandora March 6, 20091 Comment

14 chapters (plus an intro and methodology) of homework! Jump Starting America: The kavipsean Plan for Fixing the Economy Chapter 1: Putting Money In The Hands Of Purchasers. Chapter 2:…

Kim Williams of Fix Red Clay Tosses Her Name Into The Ring

By pandora March 6, 20092 Comments

Kim Williams of Fix Red Clay has filed to run for the District E seat on the Red Clay School Board. She is running against incumbent Margurite (Peggy) Vavalla. For…

I went to the one hosted by my New Castle County (NCCo) Council Rep (Jea Street) last Thursday at the Rose Hill Community Center. Turnout wasn’t great — maybe 50 residents — and the room had many county employees on hand to answer questions if need be (and a few of them did).

If you haven’t seen it, the Budget Presentation (entirely presented by County Executive Chris Coons) is on the county’s website. In a fairly detailed presentation, Chris Coons walked through this discussion focused on (mostly) high visibility services, their costs and employees; discussed the revenue shortfalls and the budget hole; talked about options to close that budget hole (relating the typical tax bill to what gets paid for cable or cell phones) and then asked people directly for their comments and input.

Celia Cohen: A Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Delaware Way

By liberalgeek March 6, 200955 Comments

One of the first businesses affected by the downturn in business was Celia Cohen's Grapevine "blog." Perhaps Celia had seen her 401K get large enough that she didn't have to…