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City of Wilmington Mayoral Race Cattle Call — Spring 2010 Edition

By cassandra_m April 26, 20109 Comments

Adam Taylor of the News Journal does the work of rounding up the declared and the rumored, so I can do this without appearing to betray any confidences. This list fairly humorous, especially if looking a this field in its entirety. But many kudos to Adam for doing this and for having this story picked up everywhere -- I first heard it this AM on WHYY.

City of Wilmington to Live Stream City Council Meetings

By cassandra_m April 18, 20107 Comments

I was at City Council last Thursday where Bud Freel brought up an ordnance (pdf) that would allow the City to sign a contract with a firm that would take he video recorded by WITN of Council Meetings and live stream them over the internet.

Wilmington City Council Approves Protester Buffer Zone for Health Facilities

By cassandra_m January 23, 201013 Comments

John Manifold noted this in the Open Thread yesterday, but it is worth its own post. And this is good news too -- the ordinance that the Wilmington City Council…

PSA Press Release: Lake is Exonerated

By liberalgeek November 22, 20094 Comments

Nancy Willing sent me this press release sent out by Frank Murphy today:

The Board of the Peoples Settlement Association today announced that Keith Lake, its Executive Director of 16 years, has been cleared of all allegations of misconduct. After a special investigation lasting more than one year, the State Auditor of Accounts provided Peoples Settlement with a report finding no evidence of illegal conduct or missing state funds. Representatives of Peoples Settlement recently met with the Auditor’s Office, and confirmed that Mr. Lake was exonerated of any wrongdoing.

It is funny how the same people keep popping up at all of these McDowell influenced organizations.

UPDATED: Of Cops and Recovery Funds

By cassandra_m July 29, 20093 Comments

Yesterday, VP Joe Biden traveled to Philly to announce the awardees of grants from the Recovery bill designed to bolster funding for law enforcement in states, counties and cities. These funds, as I understand it, are meant to be a backstop for governments facing cuts in law enforcement due to budget shortfalls. Delaware was awarded $5M in these grants yesterday. UPDATED with info from a Community Advisory from the mayor's office.

Silly Stimulus Games — Wilmington Edition

By cassandra_m June 5, 20091 Comment

The NJ reported the other day on the award of $11M of Recovery money to the state for public safety projects -- of which both NCCo and the City of…

Two Delaware Programs Included in Harvard Top 50 Innovation List

By cassandra_m April 2, 20093 Comments

Two Programs from Delaware — the City of Wilmington’s Instant Ticketing Program and the State of Delaware’s K-5 Early Intervention Program — have made it to Harvard’s Top 50 Government Innovation List for 2009. The list is developed by the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. The Top 50 was selected from more than 600 applicants from city, county, state, federal, and tribal government agencies. These 50 are in competition for the Innovations in Government Awards that will be announced in September. The two Delaware programs in competition:

Instant Ticket Program; City of Wilmington, DE — The Instant Ticket Program allows Code Enforcement Inspectors in Wilmington to issue instant $50 fines, similar to parking tickets, upon property owners who violate sanitation laws.

K-5 Early Intervention Program; State of Delaware — Delaware’s K-5 Early Intervention Program provides intensive school and home-based services to at-risk children and families, preventing the future need for more expensive interventions by removing barriers to academic and social success. (This program is also shortlisted for a Annie E. Casey Innovations Award in Children and Family System Reform.)

This is good news for these two programs, but if you look at the entire list (pdf file), it is chock full of good ideas that you could imagine being really good for us too:

Let My People Know Coalition Meeting – Thursday, March 5th

By pandora March 4, 20092 Comments

Let My People Know Coalition Agenda
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2009
6:30pm -7:30pm
ING Direct Cafe
Ground Floor at ING Direct Building
802 Delaware Ave

PARKING: Between Jefferson and 12th Behind Artisan Bank

This meeting is to discuss the up coming (in 3 wks.) city Budget Hearings and will be most interesting to city residents, however, all are welcome – Susan Regis Collins