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DL Open Thread: Tuesday, January 20, 2026
No Peace Prize? No Peace: President Trump is now claiming that one reason he is pushing to acquire Greenland is that he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize, according to a text message he sent to Norway’s prime minister over the weekend. Jonas Gahr Store, Norway’s leader, received the text message on Sunday, an official […]
BREAKING: Three Council Members Unveil An Affordability Agenda For Wilmington
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 […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, January 19, 2026
Wilmington Land Bank Halts Plan To Gift Gibraltar To Mayor Mike’s Non-Profit–For Now. No doubt that both Mike Purzycki and Bud Freel have an end-game scenario in mind, but it will have to wait, thanks to public scrutiny of this scheme: Wilmington has paused its plans to transfer the deed of a historic mansion, renovated […]
DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: January 18, 2026
Can We Treat The Oceans’ Tummy Aches With Antacids–And Help Slow Global Warming?: Since the advent of the industrial age, the oceans have absorbed about one-third of humanity’s heat-trapping carbon emissions. Were it not for that immense buffer, the planet would be substantially warmer and more tempestuous than it is today. As carbon dioxide from […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, January 17, 2026
Finally, The Story Of Trooper Snook’s Killer. A paranoid guy who thought he was being followed by police ‘gangs’: Delaware State Police said Friday that Corporal Grade-One Ty Snook was the victim of a targeted attack against law enforcement when he was gunned down while on overtime duty at the Hessler Boulevard DMV December 23rd. […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, January 16, 2026
Laurel Police Shared Haitian Immigrants’ Addresses With FBI. In a seemingly unprecedented move in Delaware, a local police department in Sussex County created a list last year of where officers believe Haitian immigrants spend their time, and then sent it to federal officials. During the early days of the Trump administration, the Laurel Police Department […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending January 15, 2026
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 […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, January 15, 2026
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 […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, January 15, 2026
Anybody Missing From This Obituary? Let me rephrase: Anybody Missing From The Obituary For Linda Stevenson?: Passed away unexpectedly on December 29, 2025. She was born on April 29, 1961. Linda was preceded in death by her beloved parents Charles and Bernice Barnes. She is survived by her daughter, Christina (Jeremy); her granddaughter, Ciara (Madison […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, January 14, 2026
Suxco Council Rejects Mega-Development. I did not expect this: The Sussex County Council voted unanimously Tuesday to deny a rezoning needed for Atlantic Fields, a major retail project that would have brought a Costco, Target and Whole Foods to Delaware’s beach corridor, but has also raised concerns over traffic. The shopping center, proposed by Baltimore-based […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Wednesday, January 14, 2026
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 […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, January 13, 2026
Another Day, More Trump Shit You Never Thought Would Happen. Like: Yet Another War Crime: The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first attack on a boat that the Trump administration said was smuggling drugs, killing 11 people last September, according to officials briefed on the matter. […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, January 13, 2026
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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