Tag: Delaware
Tornoe’s Toon: Kaufman’s Baton
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BREAKING NOW: Delaware Awarded Race To The Top Funding
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 up now. There’s not much more detail on how much the grant is and what it’s going to be used for. Delaware and Tennessee beat […]
State Republicans Defend The Employee Pay Scandal
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 political consultants out of taxpayer funds, including one consultant who never showed up for work. Today in a letter to the editor, House Minority Leader […]
Delaware A Finalist in Race to Top Grant Process
The Secretary of Education announced the first round of finalists for the Race to the Top Grants:
Delawareans Hate Their Jobs
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
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 — to the extent that it provides a summary of the arguments against the dredge. I’ve still not seen any evidence provided — either in the […]
Delaware Green Matters Forum
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
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 here as a result. Governor Markell gave his State of the State address yesterday. Just from reading this, the Governor still sees plenty of fiscal […]
Stars and Bars
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 African Americans from the shackles of slavery. (Note that the number of slaves does not include the generations of African Americans who died in slavery’s […]
Delaware To Appeal Sports Betting To SCOTUS
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 says Delaware will appeal restrictions on it sports betting lottery to the U.S. Supreme Court. Markell and his aides said Thursday that the state expects […]
Vote For Me, I Want To Do Nothing
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 and is considered a moderate which is probably a good fit for an overwhelmingly Democratic state like Delaware. So, he’s invincible right? Yesterday’s News Journal […]
DE Casinos Have A Bad Tell
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 Downs, Delaware Park and Harrington Raceway have launched a public relations campaign — including a Web site and a self-commissioned study — condemning the idea […]
2010: Prediction Thread
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 in the House of Representatives and two in the Senate. There will actually be Tea Party candidates running for several federal offices. Delaware Christine O’Donnell […]
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