GGW: Guards Gone Wild
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…
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., Jan. 24, 2019
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…
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., Jan. 23, 2019
Richard Collins. Shannon Morris. Bryan Shupe. Jesse Vanderwende. Remember those names. Yesterday, the Delaware House Of Representatives enacted emergency legislation designed to lessen the burden of federal workers who have…
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tues., Jan. 22, 2019
Man, that Carney State Of The State was downright sad. Read it for yourself if you don't believe me. Half-measures on everything except tilting the playing field to the advantage…
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., Jan. 17, 2019
The Delaware ERA is now part of the Constitution, with the only opponents being the endangered species, aka The Angry White Guys From Lower Slower. That's pretty much all that…
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…
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…