If callers to our talk shows (on both 1150 A.M.-WDEL & Delaware 105.9 F.M.) and those commenting on this blog could vote on the matter, Governor Markell's 8-Million-dollar casino bail-out plan would go down in flames...
A Bulgarian journalist I know now covering the clashes in Istanbul e-mailed me this video of anti-government protesters going after tear gas cannisters, almost as if playing a game...
Facing increased competition and still a tough economic climate, Delaware's three casinos have been pleading for a tax break. The Markell Administration - facing revenue constraints of its own - has resisted...
An Iranian-American professor I've known for more than a quarter of century knows new Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Is Rouhani a reformer? Well, sort of...
So what's on your mind this weekend?
Delaware lawmakers appear to be balking at Governor Markell's plan to hike taxes and fees for various projects up & down the state...
I confess to being surprised by this one:
The U.S. Supreme Court - which so often has taken the side of Corporate America, with Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission as the ultimate example - has ruled that human genes cannot be patented...
Ex-President Clinton signals his impatience with President Obama's reluctance to get too involved in Syria, by aiding the rebels.
So Bill Clinton joins Senator John McCain in pressing for a more forceful U...
The DAILY MAIL on line carries some haunting photographs from Philadelphia photographer Matthew Christopher (whom I've interviewed in the past) of crumbling structures:
"Abandoned America: Haunting images of the crumbling schools, decaying churches, and rusting prisons that have been lost in time"
I guess we all realize that such decaying structures exist, but it's sobering to see them all together, one after another after another...
Delaware suffered damage and power outages, to be sure, but we got off easier Thursday than initial forecasts suggested.
For many of us, I suspect the meteorological term, "derecho", entered our vocabularies last year when a devastating storm hit the Chicago area, then, the Washington, DC--Baltimore corridor...
The battle lines seem to have hardened among U.S. politicians:
"Establishment" senators and representatives - whether Republicans or Democrats - defend the massive surveillance; civil libertarians of all stripes decry such surveillance...
Shortly before the National Weather Service issued a tornado warning in northern New Castle County, and shortly before we received the first reports of uprooted trees and damaged homes in the south Newark/Glasgow area, a sort of judicial twister struck...
Governor Markell has a published piece in The WASHINGTON POST defending Common Core state standards against the critics.
The headline: "The Tea party is wrong on the Common Core curriculum"...
For those of us above a certain age, the fury over the leaking of the NSA surveillance story parallels Daniel Ellsberg's role in the release of the Pentagon Papers...
So, which stories / topics / issues grab your attention this weekend?
Legislation designed to protect transgender people against discrimination in employment, housing, insurance, and public accomodations narrowly clears the state Senate, now headed to the Delaware House of Representatives...
Predictably, conservative Republicans are blasting New Jersey's Governor Chris Christie for calling an early election to fill that Senate seat...
http://therun2016...
As reported elsewhere, voters in the Colonial school district barely passed the district's property tax increase.
You can hear my interview with Colonial school district superintendent Dorothy Linn...
The death of New Jersey's Democratic U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg puts Republican Governor Chris Christie in a box, because of the conflict between his gubernatorial re-election needs and his presumed 2016 Presidential ambitions...
It's not the lead story from the Associated Press or the networks but one could argue that this story has greater, longer-term implications than many others:
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Voters in the Colonial school district head to the polls Tuesday to cast judgment on a property tax increase which would hike taxes by 35 cents for each 100 dollars of assessed property value...
So what's on your mind this weekend?
As expected, Wilmington City Council members overrode Mayor Dennis Williams' veto of the amended budget, with a vote to spare...
