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Tornoe’s Toon: Kaufman’s Baton

By Rob Tornoe April 21, 201023 Comments

If you’d like to contact me, feel free to drop me a line at robtornoe@delawareliberal.net. You can also follow me on twitter @RobTornoe. And make sure you pick up The…

BREAKING NOW: Delaware Awarded Race To The Top Funding

By Unstable Isotope March 29, 201019 Comments

It's just been announced - Delaware and Tennessee are the first awardees of the Department of Education's "Race To The Top" Grant. Update: The New York Times has a story…

State Republicans Defend The Employee Pay Scandal

By Unstable Isotope March 7, 20109 Comments

Last week, the News Journal published an article on the abuse of legislative perks by the GOP in the General Assembly. Among the revelations were that the GOP majority paid…

Delaware A Finalist in Race to Top Grant Process

By cassandra_m March 5, 201019 Comments

The Secretary of Education announced the first round of finalists for the Race to the Top Grants:

Delawareans Hate Their Jobs

By cassandra_m February 18, 20101 Comment

That is according to a recently released survey called the State of Well-Being (pdf) that has surveyed Americans and presented state-by-state reports on how people in that state view their lives. This is part of a long-term eefort being produced by Gallup to provide some measure of American's health and well-being. And according to this study, Delaware ranks dead last among states for Work Environment, going down from last year's ranking of 38th among the states. Here's a summary of the data:

Dredging the Delaware

By cassandra_m February 15, 201016 Comments

The News Journal had an article on Sunday that tries to describe the current state of local environmental concerns about dredging this river. And this is a good article --…

Delaware Green Matters Forum

By cassandra_m February 1, 20102 Comments

This Wednesday begins a 5-week forum series focusing on multiple environmental topics at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Newark (www.uufn.org) from 7-9pm. The first topic is:

February 3: Environmental Policy and You

Governor Markell’s State of the State Address

By cassandra_m January 22, 20104 Comments

First, I should apologize to readers for not getting something up on this earlier -- I've been completely slammed by work this week and missed alot of news and activity…

Stars and Bars

By nemski January 20, 201041 Comments

Close to 150 years ago, the United States quelled a rebellion which cost the lives of 500,000 men and boys but which also led to the freedom of some 4,000,000…

Delaware To Appeal Sports Betting To SCOTUS

By Unstable Isotope January 15, 20102 Comments

In what I would call a surprise decision, the Markell administration has announced that it plans to appeal the sports betting decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. Gov. Jack Markell…

Vote For Me, I Want To Do Nothing

By Unstable Isotope January 4, 20108 Comments

Mike Castle wants to be a Senator. By all measures, he's a great Republican recruiting victory, he's a popular former governor and popular multi-term Representative. He has high name recognition…

DE Casinos Have A Bad Tell

By nemski January 2, 201014 Comments

The three Delaware casinos released a survey in December that states that Delaware voters think three casinos is just about right for the First State reports The News Journal. Dover…

2010: Prediction Thread

By nemski January 1, 201058 Comments

So, what's going to happen this year in politics, sports, government, Delaware, etc. Do get things started, here are my predictions. Politics The Dems will lose a handful of seats…