Bookmarked Jobs for Delaware Legislators by .
Delaware tolerates a General Assembly with an ethics crisis which rivals our national Supreme Court… Speaker of the House Valerie Longhurst’s PAL has benefited from a 1300% increase in public appropriations under her tenure.
Happy Delaware Day! I’m celebrating by looking at the Delaware state flag and asking “is this the banner we want to represent our state’s values?” Read it in The Delaware Call.
Perhaps the perfect encapsulation of Delaware Way politics: Delaware Democrats, who held the Governorship and both houses of the General Assembly, ran an “inadequately transparent” process in which “incumbent protection appeared to trump protecting communities of interest or consideration of public testimony” and still managed to gift Republicans a district (the new RD 4, which moved from Wilmington to Sussex County).
I absolutely tore through this book. Partially out of personal interest in McBride’s story, as she is my state senator and has a really good change to be the first out transgender member of the US House of Representatives, but mostly because she’s an engaging storyteller with an incredible story to tell. This is pretty…
Here’s Representative Eric Morrison on his controversial vote on HS 1 for HB 121 (the Seaford LLC voting bill): Governing is not easy, and things are not always as they appear on the surface. As happens time and again, we as Democrats had to do the responsible and right thing for Delawareans. We do not…
When Delaware Governor John Carney announced that he would allow House Bill 1 and House Bill 2 to become law without his signature, he declared that it was “time to move on” from the debate around recreational marijuana. However, by appointing former Delaware State Trooper Robert Coupe to oversee the rollout of the recreational marijuana…
Before calling for a vote, Cooke spent ~10 mins doing what I can only describe as scolding everyone in the room who had the temerity to suggest the bill wasn’t good enough. Wish we could give specifics but his scolding blew out the mic; all we know for sure is that he was Big Mad.
Publishing a story on the impact of legalization on the drug-sniffing dogs before publishing a story on the impact of legalization on the communities ravaged for decades by the racist war on drugs is certainly one way to communicate editorial priorities.
I’ve been taking part in community listening sessions for Delaware’s Senate Bill 149, which would amend the state’s Law Enforcement Officer’s Bill of Rights (LEOBOR). There’s another one today at 3 PM, but I can’t make it. You can (sign up here). This is my public comment from the last session, published here for posterity:…
Bookmarked What Does Climate Change Look Like in Delaware? by .
If sea levels increase a little under 2 feet by 2100, Delaware (the nation’s lowest-lying state) will lose roughly 8% of its land area, including nearly all of the state’s protected wetlands.