February 2, 2017 Open Thread
Trump makes unannounced trip to Dover Air Force Base (link)
After criticism, overhaul at housing authority board (link)
Candidates for 10th District state Senate seat face off in WDEL debate (link)
Lawmakers discuss merging school districts, pay hike for new teachers (link)
Dover police chief search committee takes first cautious steps (link)
Delaware Civil Rights Coalition speaks out against Trump (link)
There is a major high density development proposed for the Burton pond area off of Rt 24.
County council member I.G. Burton was on the radio this morning, and a caller phoned in expressing concern over the development, and the impact it will have on the already stressed RT24….The standard answer was given…The roads are DelDOT’s responsibility.
The county and state have no intention of curtailing the out of control growth… The transfer tax is too important.
It’s 1/2 way to Spring today
Yeah, unless the state takes local control or puts the screws to the county, this will just be an unmitigated disaster. I’ve spoke to the reps and senators who feel it’s a local zoning issue and have little concern about the coastal region being a state wide and regional resource.
With the state running on a deficit , I don’t think they want to give up revenues from the transfer tax….We will continue to get the same song and dance…”It’s the responsibility of the county”, the state will say..”.No, it’s the responsibility of the state”, the county will say.
The state controls the county’s portion of the tax. They could take it away
There needs to be some control of huge new developments on farm fields. Standard zoning alone allows 2 units per acre which if you do the math is ugly density and most of these real estate development companies want even more density
Fearlessly the idiot faced the crowd, smiling
Merciless, the magistrate turns ’round, frowning
And who’s the fool who wears the crown
(I listened to Meddle last night. Great Pink Floyd record. And I’m not even a huge fan.)
Did anybody really think that voting in a county council member with the last name of “Burton”, would mean anything else besides a rubber stamp for developers.
@Our Sussex County commenters:
The problem for people who would like to slow the growth in SuxCo is that the money flows in from people without votes — vacation-home owners. Meanwhile the permanent residents are, in large measure, people who owe their livelihoods to that economic activity in one form or another, or retirees who vote conservative out of habit.
I can’t think of a way out of this until the carrying capacity of infrastructure reaches its tipping point, by which point there will be nothing worth saving, unless a true ecological disaster comes to pass. One potential source — those thousands of tons of coal ash from the Indian River power plant that sit at the edge of the bay, leaching heaven knows what into the water.
News of the resistance is starting to seep into the mainstream press. Keep calling!
From USAToday via today’s News Journal:
Not even the briefest offer of Condolence for the Correctional Officer Murdered today. What a sad lot of “caring” Liberals. Keep fixating on Trump.
I was on Rehoboth Bay last night. It’s full of turbid sediment and stinks of anoxic sulfur. There are signs everywhere warning not to swim or eat the shellfish due to dangerous bacteria. The ecological disaster already happened and no one has noticed. Thousands of acres of deforestation continually occurring with streams once full of diverse wildlife that are now nothing more than runoff culverts for the effluent from $350K beige plastic generic houses for cheapskate transplant retirees looking to escape taxes. It sickens me. The only hope is for people update to pressure legislators.
Nothing like a little opportunistic empathy from our conservative friends. You people care for nothing that isn’t symbolically supporting your sordid primitive petty resentments
@Gerry: As empty a gesture as “praying hard” is. To address it in any meaningful way we would have to have far more information than we do.
I seriously, very seriously, doubt that someone at this site saying “condolences to his family” would bring even the tiniest jot, the most minute iota of solace to his loved ones.
Meanwhile, instead of tributes to his bravery after his death, why didn’t conservatives push for higher wages for guards and better staffing for the prison, instead of their usual priorities? That, not prayers, might make a difference.
More street protests in NYC. This time it’s bodega owners on strike: