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Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on January 28, 2026 13 Comments

(Author’s Note: I originally wrote the first part of this on Monday evening. I’ve saved it for posterity because, well, I’m lazy.) I’m writing this under the assumption that the General Assembly will actually meet today. Were Terry Spence still the Speaker Of The House, session would already be canceled.  Terry was legendary for calling […]

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El Somnambulo Goes Over The Campaign Finance Reports So That You Don’t Have To

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on January 23, 2026 17 Comments

As usual, this will be a post-in-progress.  I will continue to update is as the finance reports roll in, the deadline for submissions being January 20. I will post the most recent updates at the top as I see new ones. Kevin Hensley closed out 2025 with $49K in his campaign account.  He will not go gently […]

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Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending January 22, 2026

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on January 23, 2026 6 Comments

“We are kings of our bikes. So, we are again really lucky to live in Rehoboth, when we park a car, we have to get back into the car. We can hop on our bikes and our ritual is that we are always biking from our home to L(ewe)s. We do a little bit of […]

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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, January 22, 2026

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on January 22, 2026 0 Comments

I was wrong. The Hospital Cost Containment Board legislation is not the only bill that the leaders have decided must pass by the end of next week. Two bills designed to give NCC tools to address inequities in the New Castle County reassessment project are on today’s Senate Agenda, and are certain to be fast-tracked […]

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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., Jan. 21, 2026

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on January 21, 2026 0 Comments

I’m approaching today’s piece with the same ambition that the General Assembly is demonstrating for this three-week start of session: Next to none. Other than the weakening of the Hospital Cost Review Board, which unanimously passed the Senate yesterday, I don’t see any must-pass bills on the horizon.  I believe that the General Assembly should pass […]

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BREAKING: Three Council Members Unveil An Affordability Agenda For Wilmington

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on January 19, 2026 10 Comments

Wilmington City Council members Coby Owens (District 1), Shané Darby (District 2) and Christian Willauer (District 5) today announced a proposed legislative affordability agenda for Wilmington at a morning press conference. Councilman Coby Owens stated that ‘our city is struggling and…many people in our city are struggling’. Shané Darby emphasized that rent stabilization alone won’t […]

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Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending January 15, 2026

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on January 16, 2026 5 Comments

Had to rewrite this due to this late-breaking news: 1.  President Pro-Tem Dave Sokola Will Not Seek Reelection.  I flat-out can’t believe he’s been there for 36 years.  I really am old. I was one of the people at his very first Sunday evening kitchen campaign meetings.  Some people govern through fear, Dave governed with kindness. In my […]

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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, January 15, 2026

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on January 15, 2026 0 Comments

The big news, such as it is, took place in the committee meetings yesterday.  I also guess it’s worth noting that SB 27 (Brown), which creates the Office Of New Americans, unanimously passed the Senate.  Perhaps of interest only to me is that an amendment was added to the bill calling for a Sunset review […]

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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on January 14, 2026 10 Comments

There were no surprises in either the House or Senate today.  The House unanimously passed SB 106 (Buckson), which requires school districts to craft cell phone policies for students. Because the bill didn’t pass the House last year, an amendment changing the effective date was added to the bill.  The Senate will no doubt pass […]

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Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on January 13, 2026 2 Comments

This is the hors d’oeuvre portion of the legislative session–in for just three weeks, get those few ‘must-pass’ bills done by the end of the month, listen to the Governor’s State Of The State Address, then clear out for six weeks of Joint Finance Committee hearings.  We’ll soon learn what those ‘must-pass’ bills are.  There’s usually […]

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Remember Lymond Moses

Filed in Delaware, National by on January 10, 2026 5 Comments

The Trump cabal rightfully is catching shit for maintaining that Renee Good was driving at ICE agent Jonathan Ross despite multiple videos showing that’s not true. That unimaginative response has been the LEO standard for decades. Anytime they shoot someone in a vehicle, they claim the officer feared for his life because the victim was […]

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Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending January 8, 2026

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on January 9, 2026 14 Comments

“We are kings of our bikes. So, we are again really lucky to live in Rehoboth, when we park a car, we have to get back into the car. We can hop on our bikes and our ritual is that we are always biking from our home to L(ewe)s. We do a little bit of […]

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DL’s Most-Viewed Stories, 2025

Filed in Delaware by on January 4, 2026 2 Comments

People love Top 10 lists, so to wrap up the holiday weekend – you didn’t pretend to work Friday, did you? – here, in descending order, are the Top 10 most-viewed Delaware Liberal stories for 2025. No. 10: Wrap-up of a busy third-to-last day of General Assembly. General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, June 26, […]

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