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Delaware’s Legislators Of The Week: March 18-20
Four legislators deserved mention for their work this week. We’ll list the Honorable Mentions alphabetically: Sen. Stephanie Hansen: Successfully shepherded a package of bills through the Senate designed to provide relief for rate payers. Her expertise in this particular policy area played a key role in developing the bills. Sen. Marie Pinkney: I wish more legislators had […]
Song of the Day 3/20: Steely Dan, “The Second Arrangement”
Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, initially the leaders and eventually the only two permanent members of Steely Dan, were rather obsessive. Known for fussing endlessly over their recordings, they stopped touring in 1974, after their third album, to concentrate on chasing studio perfection. And it was perfection they sought, to the point of having players […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, March 20, 2025
Let’s address the two big issues that surfaced yesterday. The Musk-Pass corporate law bill made it through the House Judiciary Committee yesterday. As Xerxes Wilson pointed out in this comprehensive piece, Wednesday’s three-hour hearing in the House Judiciary Committee was the first time full-throated opposition was raised in Legislative Hall. Dozens of attorneys, as well […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, March 20, 2025
Tesla Assets ‘Appear To Have Gone Astray’. To the tune of $1.4 billion: Tesla’s (TSLA) accounting practices are raising red flags as a new report from the Financial Times shows that $1.4 billion is missing. Many Tesla shorts and detractors have questioned Tesla’s accounting for years, but they have never gained much traction – until […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Wednesday, March 19, 2025
So much to unpack from yesterday’s passage of HB 140 (Morrison), the ‘end of life options’ bill. I had predicted somewhere around 25 votes for passage yesterday. Instead, the bill passed with the bare majority of 21 votes. Why? Because the entire Wilmington delegation and Rep. Deb Heffernan, all of whom were absent for the […]
Song of the Day 3/19: Matthew Sweet, “Farther Down”
Given the volume of bad news over the past six months, it’s inevitable that some of it slipped by without much notice. So I was surprised the other day when I learned that singer-songwriter Matthew Sweet suffered a serious stroke last October. He’s been in rehab in his native Nebraska since. Sweet moved to Athens, […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Courts To Trump: Pretty Much Everything You’re Doing Is Illegal. Transgender Troops Ban. Dismantling Of USAID. Trump Rope-A-Dope On Deportations. We’ve learned that Democrats aren’t coming to the rescue, the courts are all we have left. Trump And Putin Still Can’t Agree On What They Get To Rip Off From Ukraine: A “no” is not […]
Song of the Day 3/18: The Youngbloods, “Darkness, Darkness”
Jesse Colin Young, the folk-rock singer-songwriter best known for his recording of the hippie anthem “Get Together,” died Sunday. He was 83. Born Perry Miller, he adopted his stage name when he started out in the Greenwich Village folk scene in the early ’60s. In 1966 he joined with guitarist Jerry Corbitt to start the […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday March 18, 2025
The Big Story: House To Consider Death-With Dignity bill today. HB 140 (Morrison) is virtually the same bill that both houses passed last year, only to be vetoed by Delaware’s Worst Governor Ever, John Carney. The bill: …permits a terminally ill individual who is an adult resident of Delaware to request and self-administer medication to […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Israel Does It Again. The Carnage Quotient had apparently fallen below acceptable genocidal standards: Israeli forces launched large aerial attacks across the Gaza Strip early Tuesday morning, in the first major strikes on the territory since Israel’s cease-fire with Hamas began roughly two months ago. Gaza’s health ministry said more than 400 people had been […]
Song of the Day 3/17: Paddy Reilly, “The Fields of Athenry”
Nobody writes more heart-rending ballads than the Irish, which is fitting given the litany of tragedies they’ve suffered, mostly at the hands of the British. None has had a greater effect on the national psyche than the Great Famine of 1845-52. Most people think the calamity was the result of the potato blight, and that […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, March 17, 2025
In Amerika, You Can’t Be A Black Man And A Military Hero: The US defense department webpage celebrating an army general who served in the Vietnam war and was awarded the country’s highest military decoration has been removed and the letters “DEI” added to the site’s address. On Saturday, US army Maj Gen Charles Calvin Rogers’s […]
Song of the Day 3/16: Magnolia Electric Co., “The Dark Don’t Hide It”
The best Americana singer-songwriter you never heard of, Jason Molina, died 12 years ago today of alcohol-induced organ failure at age 39. He was revered by his peers in the alt-country scene, many of whom, like Bonny “Prince” Billy, the Avett Brothers and My Morning Jacket, went on to the greater fame and fortune that […]
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