Archive for May 17th, 2011
House R Redistricting Plan Not A Serious Plan
Where was the largest proportion of population growth during the past decade? If you said lower NCC, you’d be correct. The area around Middletown and its environs have exploded. No serious redistricting plan could avoid this development, yet somehow the House Rethug redistricting plan manages to reapportion without even providing one new district in this area, let alone the two that the population shift calls for.
How To Create a Job
This is the title of this week’s This American Life episode, where they turned over the program to NPR’s simply amazing Planet Money Team. What is fantastic about this bit of financial reporting, is that Planet Money listens to the platitudes and Conventional Wisdom about job creation and goes off to see if any of it is true.
Quote of the Day 5/17/11
“Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be maintained.” – President James A. Garfield
Mean And Nasty Simply To Be Mean And Nasty
Gov. Scott Walker believes a new law that gives gay couples hospital visitation rights violates the state constitution and has asked a judge to allow the state to stop defending it.
I Love My Delaware Workplace – Number 1
Go ahead and read it over at TownsquareDelaware.com while I am still not fired. Better yet, read my contribution and leave a comment about how much you love or hate your Delaware workplace.
Uhhhh…Thanks? Donald Trump
Washington Post‘s Greg Sargent hypothesizes that Trumop’s humiliation has changed the narrative about Obama and his supposed weakness.
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