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Rep. Melissa Minor-Brown Challenges The Secrecy State

By El Somnambulo February 26, 201911 Comments

Delaware is the Secrecy State. So much vital information is withheld from citizens who truly need to know. Citizens are often told that there is nothing to worry about, assertions…

Carney Addresses the Statewide Property Tax

By Alby February 20, 201947 Comments

In what has become an annual custom, Mark Brainard, grand poobah of Delaware Technical and Community College, is asking the General Assembly for a new statewide property tax to raise…

An End To Civil Forfeiture? A Decision Kathy Jennings Must Read Right Away

By El Somnambulo February 20, 20198 Comments

Could this be the beginning of the end for civil forfeitures? The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that '...the Constitution’s prohibition on excessive fines applies to state and local…

Monsignor Lavelle Resurfaces: Defrocked, But Not Deloused

By El Somnambulo February 19, 201911 Comments

He reemerges precisely where you'd expect him to reemerge, spewing precisely the Santorumesque creamy froth you'd expect him to spew. If you guessed he'd reemerge with the Caesar Rodney Institute,…

AG Kathy Jennings Comes Out Strong–REAL Strong

By El Somnambulo February 19, 201914 Comments

Maybe, just maybe, we have one statewide elected official worth their salt. It's too early to say for sure, but Attorney General Jennings provided some real hope yesterday. First, she…

What Chris Coons Gets for His Bipartisanship — Trump in His Face

By Alby February 14, 20196 Comments

Politico posted a story yesterday about Donald Trump's supposed growing embrace of Christianist ideals, and chose as its opening anecdote this vignette starring none other than our senator, Fightin' Chris…

Kerri Harris Takes New Job–And It’s Just What We’d Expect

By El Somnambulo February 12, 20194 Comments

From The Intercept: Kerri Harris, the insurgent candidate who lost her primary challenge to Sen. Tom Carper in Delaware, will be taking a new national advocacy director position at Working…

Yet Another Cover-Up From DOC And the State Of Delaware

By El Somnambulo February 7, 20192 Comments

Delaware is the Secrecy State. You don't have the right to know when cops, corrections officers, and/or entire agencies screw up to the max. Or let out their frustrations on…

R. I. P. Steve Amick

By El Somnambulo February 5, 2019

Former Newark legislator Steve Amick, who passed away last week, was one of the finest legislators to serve in the Delaware General Assembly during my time there. Yes, he was…

Here’s How To Deal With Extortionists

By El Somnambulo January 30, 20197 Comments

We start this story with one of the poorest excuses for journalism ever to clear the e-keyboard of Scott Goss, which is saying something. This story. It's all about Delaware…

GGW: Guards Gone Wild

By El Somnambulo January 26, 20198 Comments

Delaware is the Secrecy State. Especially when it comes to actions by so-called enforcement officers of every stripe. Keeping secrets is one way of controlling the narrative, as in blaming…

An Understander’s Guide to Gov. Carney’s Budget

By Alby January 25, 20197 Comments

The budget released by Gov. John Carney doesn't officially mean a thing, because the General Assembly's Joint Finance Committee puts together the state's real budget, starting with hearings next Tuesday.…

General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., Jan. 24, 2019

By El Somnambulo January 24, 20197 Comments

Even the Rethugs knew that they were on the wrong side of yesterday's defeat of HB 3 in the Senate. Serial bloviator Colin Bonini said this: "I will personally write…