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DL Open Thread: Friday, March 20, 2026
Wilmington Senior Center Closes. Won’t Say Why: Days after posting their March lunch menu onto social media, officials from the Wilmington Senior Center closed the doors of the 70-year-old facility. According to multiple sources, including residents and elected officials, the senior center’s abrupt closure is now sparking conversations in Delaware’s largest city about what led […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, March 19, 2026
Like commenter Paula (who really should be writing for us), I received the mailer from the Delaware Healthcare Association yesterday. Had I been inclined to oppose SB 1 before I received it, I would now lean in the opposite direction. The premise is absurd–a bunch of legislators got together and said ‘Let’s destroy the finest […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, March 18, 2026
I Told You From The Very Beginning That the Underwater City At Ft. DuPont Was A Scam. Here’s more proof: Land that was once publicly owned and later became the focus of plans for a private RV park within the state’s Fort DuPont redevelopment project could now be headed for a sheriff’s sale. In 2021, […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, March 17, 2026
‘America Is No Longer A Democracy.’ Just thought you’d like to know: The US is no longer a democracy. One of the most credible global sources on the health of democratic nations now says this outright. The Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at Gothenburg University reaches the alarming conclusion in its annual report, that the […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, March 16, 2026
ChristianaCare Gears Up To Fight Healthcare Cost Containment Bill: Delawareans with private insurance pay some of the highest prices in the nation for hospital services. Research also shows the state’s hospitals generally have higher profits than the national average. New legislation sponsored by Senate Majority leader Bryan Townsend, D-Newark, aims to invest more in primary […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Morning Magazine: March 15, 2026
‘My Year As A Degenerate Gambler’: State-sponsored thievery: On a Thursday evening in September, I excused myself from the family dinner table and slipped into my bedroom. I didn’t want my kids to see what I was about to do. With the door locked behind me, I pulled out my phone and downloaded the DraftKings […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, March 14, 2026
A Charade Is A Charade Is A Charade: Republican politicians don’t have much of a chance in Wilmington elections. Residents of Delaware’s largest city, where Democrats hold a nearly 9-1 voter registration advantage over Republicans, haven’t elected a mayor or treasurer from the GOP for more than 50 years. Republicans have only held that one […]
DL Open Thread: Friday March 13, 2026
Allen Harim’s Excuse For Pollution Violations? ‘It’s too cold.’: The Allen Harim poultry processing facility in Harbeson was cited by DNREC for “exceeding effluent limitations of nitrogen”, meaning the site exceeded nitrogen levels permissible in the plant’s wastewater by state law. DNREC’s violation notice, issued earlier this month, says the plant has been violating that […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, March 12, 2026
Hope You Recently Filled Up Your Tank: Iraq and Oman closed oil terminals on Thursday after two tankers were attacked and left burning off Iraq’s coast, as the International Energy Agency warned that the war in the Middle East had caused “the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market.” Oil prices […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, March 11, 2026
How Trump Miscalculated On The War: On Feb. 18, as President Trump weighed whether to launch military attacks on Iran, Chris Wright, the energy secretary, told an interviewer he was not concerned that the looming war might disrupt oil supplies in the Middle East and wreak havoc in energy markets. Even during the Israeli and […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, March 10, 2026
Trump Plays Wall Street Nitwits For Fools. Because, who else believes anything he says?: Yesterday UN Ambassador Mike Waltz announced that the US was moving ahead rapidly to achieve all its war objectives which he listed as 1) destroying Iran’s missiles, 2) eliminating its nuclear program and 3) ending its ability to do terrorism. So […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, March 9, 2026
Oil Prices Soar Due To Trump’s War. Who could possibly have foreseen this?: Oil prices spiked near $120 per barrel before falling back Monday as the Iran war intensified, threatening production and shipping in the Middle East and pummeling financial markets. The price for a barrel of Brent crude, the international standard, surged to $119.50 […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: March 8, 2026
McMeh. CEO grudgingly nibbles at McDonald’s new sandwich: Social media can be so cruel…: “When the CEO calls it product instead of food you know its got less nutritional value than the napkin.” (Well, those are whole grain napkins…) “Watching the McDonald’s CEO tentatively nibble on the Big Arch like it’s a radioactive artifact from the dollar […]
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