Tag: City of Wilmington

New Wilmington City Administration Starts Today

Filed in National by on January 8, 2013 16 Comments

Dennis Williams is being sworn in this morning as the new Mayor of Wilmington. As the NJ notes this morning, Williams’ is behind the curve in filling out leadership positions (he started in August) and a handful of folks I know working for the city don’t know what jobs they are expected to do.

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Wilmington Mayor’s Race — Gloves Coming Off Edition

Filed in Delaware by on August 29, 2012 87 Comments
Wilmington Mayor’s Race — Gloves Coming Off Edition

There is a crazy amount of campaign material that is coming in my mail on a daily basis and I probably shouldn’t admit that I look at all of it. Mainly to assess campaign strategies and wonder at the fact that I sometimes hear more from candidates who are supposed to represent me via these crazy mailings than I do in RL (*cough* Bob Marshall *cough*). Anyway, yesterday’s mail produced the first real hit piece I’ve seen for the Mayor’s race — there may be others that I don’t get, but this one made me chuckle.

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Metropolitan Government and Why The NJ Is Wrong About It

Filed in National by on June 7, 2012 44 Comments

The editorial page of the NJ features a piece from John Sweeney that attempts to advocate for Metropolitan Government for Wilmington and New Castle County. He also takes the opportunity to blame the public sector unions and Democrats for why it won’t work here. Let’s take this apart abit so we can see how Delaware’s newspaper of record is failing its readers again.

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It’s Raining Charter Schools!

Filed in National by on March 6, 2012 84 Comments

Odyssey Charter has been working on a deal for the old Wanamaker’s building and is planning to open a Charter High School in that location.  I had heard about this week and was emailing everyone to find out if this was true.  Kilroy, as usual, finds the answer: Application to Modify an Exsiting Charter – Odyssey […]

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Wilmington City Council vs. Newark Charter School

Filed in Delaware by on March 2, 2012 80 Comments

Anyone else get the feeling that education in Delaware is about to explode?

Personally, I’d like to slow the entire Charter (and Choice) train down. I can’t keep up, and can’t shake the feeling that these Charters and our legislators are privy to information that the rest of read only after the deal is done. Basically, I’m not supposed to keep up or catch up. Meanwhile, things are moving forward in City government.

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