If You Think the News Journal Is Bad Now, Just Wait
Here's a bit of national business-page news you won't see in your local upstate daily paper: Gannett, which owns the News Journal, has become the target of a hostile takeover…
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., Jan. 16, 2019
Can we start with John Carney's Group Hug? Trying to stay one step ahead of the posse, er, courts, John Carney announced a commitment to provide $60 mill in funding…
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tues., Jan. 15, 2019
Didn't take long for one of the most dubious deals in recent legislative history to resurface. Featuring, at the least, the ethically-bankrupt trio of Val Longhurst, Nicole Poore, and Dick…
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., Jan. 10, 2019
Everything is in place to pass the Delaware Equal Rights Amendment by next Wednesday. HB 1 was released from the House Administration Committee yesterday. It will be considered in the…
John Carney To Prisoners: “Drop Dead!”
Literally. That's what happened when Vermont did what Delaware is now doing: Sending prisoners to the Camp Hill facility in Pennsylvania. Esteban Parra, in an excellent piece in today's News…
Big Announcement From Sen. McBride?
Yes, according to the News Journal's Scott Goss: Scott Goss ✔ @ScottGossDel Being told Senate President David McBride is going to make "a big announcement" around 4:30 p.m. today.…
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., Jan. 9, 2019
Yesterday was All Ceremony. Congratulations to all. Let's get down to business. According to press reports, the General Assembly has two must-pass bills for January: The second leg of Delaware's…
BREAKING: Laura Sturgeon To Chair Senate Education Committee
Of course, Exceptional Delaware had it first: https://exceptionaldelaware.wordpress.com/2019/01/08/sokola-out-as-chair-of-senate-education-committee-sturgeon-will-be-chair/ Dave will still be on the committee, but, as chair, Sturgeon will have a lot of influence on the state's education agenda. …
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tues., January 8, 2019
Please excuse me while I jump into the Wayback Machine to pay a visit to January 2017 in order to do a cut-n paste. Be back in a jif... ...I'm…
House Committee Assignments: The Good, The Bad, The Ridiculous
Guess Speaker Pete decided that Sunday afternoon was a good time to release the House Committee assignments. As if we wouldn't notice. The short story: This is decidedly the handiwork…
Mike Ramone’s Term Limits Bill Is A Bleeping Joke
Folks, you just gotta read this bill. Introduced yesterday, along with another Ramone bill that is a bleeping joke, HB 33 purports to be a constitutional amendment creating term limits,…
Delaware Elections 2020: Race-By-Race-Part 2
OK, I'm not gonna run through all 41 house races. I'm not that sadistic, and I would hope that you're not that masochistic. I'll just cover the ones that interest…
Melanie George Smith Even Phonier Than I Thought
I knew her 'sustainability' bill stunk to high heaven. I couldn't figure out what the purpose was for this bill. Now I know. It was a bill designed to create…