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My Conversation With City Council Candidate Coby Owens
Coby Owens is running for Wilmington City Council in the 1st District. Many of you know him from his work on Kerri Harris’ campaign and from his community activities. He is a community organizer, a civil rights activist, and a member of the Democratic State Committee. He has committed to accepting no corporate donations to […]
Seeking Nominations For Delaware’s MVP Of The Year For 2019
I’m strongly inclined towards anointing one person the MVP (Most Valuable To The Progressive Cause) this year, although I’m open to persuasion. Who else belongs on the list? Remember the criteria. If you nominate someone, you must give a reason why they deserve consideration for this year’s list. The nominee doesn’t even have to be […]
What’s Stephanie Hansen Up To?
There’s a fine line between skepticism and cynicism, and I’m right on the line when I read something like this: Days before the Delaware General Assembly reconvenes in January, a Democratic senator plans to host a gun violence forum in Wilmington. “This forum is not slated toward gun control or gun rights,” said Sen. Stephanie Hansen, […]
Joe Van Winkle: “No Legal Weed”
Doddering loudmouth Joe Biden threw off his Blue Hens lap blanket and escaped his rocking chair to hold a town hall in Las Vegas on Saturday, and the only headline he managed to generate made him seem older and further out of touch than we already reckoned. Vice’s headline captured the right amount of snark […]
DL Open Thread for Nov. 1, 2019
All these investigations have Trump on the run — literally. In another of an endless series of petulant wee-hours tweets, Trump announced he is leaving New York to make Florida his permanent home, which lots of well-off people do to dodge taxes. That doesn’t seem to be Donnie Two Scoops’ reason, though, given that he […]
Whose Government IS It, Anyway?
The Paradee Family’s, apparently. Government by, of, and for the Paradee family. The Paradee name has been big in D circles for decades. The old man was chair of the Kent County Democratic Party. John got a job as a staff attorney when I worked for the Senate. While we had some excellent staff attorneys […]
DL Open Thread 10/25/19
In the best Donald Trump “I’m rubber, you’re glue” tradition, AG Bill Barr is now running a criminal investigation into the origins of the investigation of Donald Trump by intelligence agencies during the 2016 election. I can save them a lot of trouble: Mothafucka was acting like a Russian agent — and so are you, […]
Highlands Bunker – E37 – One for the Wonks
Highlands Bunker presents Episode 37. It’s a treat for fans of data-driven journalism, as Karl the Producer joins RE Vanella in the bunker for an in-depth discussion of his research into poverty in the suburbs using local examples from New Castle County census tract data. He also explains how suburban poverty has been affecting Delaware. […]
Sonia Sloan, A Great Democrat, Has Passed Away
Any Delaware Democrat knows that putting ‘A Great Democrat’ in the title of this piece is redundant. She and husband Gil were especially close to Joe Biden. The last time I saw her, probably about two months ago, she told me that she ‘still had one campaign’ left in her. Sincerity and integrity are terms […]
BREAKING: Poppiti To Challenge Karen Hartley-Nagle For NCC Council President
Ciro Poppiti III tonight announced that he would primary the embarrassing Karen Hartley-Nagle for the D nomination for New Castle County President. He made the announcement at the NCC Democratic Executive Committee meeting. Poppiti has served as the NCC Register Of Wills since 2010. He ran for Lt. Governor in 2016, and finished 4th in […]
The Delaware Political Hot Stove: October, 2019
1. It’s Official: Hugg vs. Lawson. David Lawson has filed for reelection for the 15th SD seat. Hugg will announce in early November. The ‘old guard’ in Kent County is Hugg’s ‘braintrust’. By that, I mean Nancy Cook and her hangers-on. (BTW, I heard a rumor about Nancy Cook that I pray is not true. […]
The Delaware Political Hot Stove: Sept., 2019
There’s a subscribers’ only News-Journal article up today and, while it mostly recounts what we already knew, they broke some news. News that I had not printed b/c I was told off-the-record. But it could be a pretty big deal for the composition of the Delaware State Senate. We’ll start with that: 1. Jaci Hugg, […]
Delaware Has a Lot to Fear From Elizabeth Warren
Maybe you saw the story about CNBC shouter Jim Cramer saying Wall Street was freaking out about the possibility of a President Elizabeth Warren, claiming he’s heard a lot of people saying “She’s got to be stopped.” According to this article previewing tonight’s debate, it’s not just Wall Street that should be worried. She’s got […]
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