DE Sports and Video Lottery Commission Recommends Against New Casinos

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...or -- perhaps we should call this Watching the Delaware Legislature Put Their Ninny Hats On. Ginger Gibson at the News Journal documents the atrocities. This is a completely mind-boggling recommendation by this Commission and flies in the face of the recommendations (and data gathered) by their own commissioned study: Several lawmakers insisted that any financial harm to the existing racetracks was unacceptable, even if job losses there were compensated for with new jobs at new venues.

Ginger Gibson Finds the JFC Still Not Open

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Last year's hard won HB 1 victory was supposed to mean that legislature business was to be done in the light of day -- with ample and good notice to the public of meetings and hearings as well as making sure that minutes or recordings of meetings were made and made public.

Vigilantism Justified

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Since when is killing someone performing a legal procedure justified? Via Digby: Before the first juror is selected or witness called, a decision allowing a confessed killer to argue he…