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DL Open Thread: Friday, March 29, 2024

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Trump And Christianity: Why So Much Blood?: The exhibition, which opened in late February, doesn’t take up the proliferating use of blood as political metaphor in the rhetoric of Donald Trump, but it explores the deep historical reservoirs of meaning that make the former president’s invocation of blood so disturbing. Christianity was a particularly blood-obsessed […]

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Delaware Political Weekly: March 22-28, 2024

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1. Matt Meyer Files For Governor.  He’s now on the primary ballot. So is Collin O’Mara. So is–that’s it, so far.  Will Bethany file?  If so, when? I’m calling it–that campaign has money problems.  Along with candidate problems.  Think I saw somewhere that Trey Paradee is hosting a fundraiser for her.  If her campaign was […]

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Song of the Day 3/28: World Party, “Sweet Soul Dream”

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Karl Wallinger, the multi-instrumentalist best known as the leader, and frequently the only member, of World Party, died at his home in England two weeks ago of a stroke. He was 66. Wallinger first gained attention in 1983 when he joined the Waterboys, where his keyboards set the mood of that band’s biggest hit, “The […]

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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, March 28, 2024

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The Big Story is:  “There’s (Figurative) Blood On The Floor At Leg Hall”.  You (and I) just knew that the Hall would be swarming with hospital execs and healthcare providers of all stripes to hyperventilate over HB 350 (Longhurst).  And it was: Longhurst said in 2018 the state established the health care spending benchmark as […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, March 28, 2024

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This Election Was A BFD.  A 25% point win in a race that the same D challenger lost by 7% two years ago?  Gee, I wonder what could have made the difference.  You know, it’s quite possible that Trump’s standing in the polls has already peaked.  Abortion rights is gonna drive turnout.  Could this end […]

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COMMENT RESCUE: State Auditor Determines That The Finances Of The Division Of Unemployment Insurance Are…

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on March 27, 2024 13 Comments

UNAUDITABLE.  Liberal Geek posted the following: Auditor York is gettin’ stuff done. And WTF is going on at the Unemployment Insurance office at DOL. Sheesh. https://auditor.delaware.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/209/2024/03/DOLUI-Final-Report.pdf WTF, indeed.  As in: This year, the Independent Auditors’ Report includes an unprecedented disclaimer of opinion related to the Delaware Unemployment Compensation Fund (DUCF). To my office’s knowledge, the […]

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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., March 27, 2024

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Today’s Big Story is:  We gotta whole lot of great bills scheduled for committee hearings today!  Yes, worthy of that explanation point.  One of the best groups of bills in committee that I can recall. However,  you’re gonna have to wait until we wrap up yesterday’s session.  Other than the mysterious Rethug opposition to bringing […]

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Song of the Day 3/27: John Cougar Mellencamp, “Crumblin’ Down”

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Richard Serra, whose massive steel sculptures – the less artistically inclined among us would describe them as walls – were the source of controversy and a federal lawsuit, has died at age 85. Serra gained widespread notoriety in the ’80s when he used a commission from the federal government for a public sculpture in a […]

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DL Open Thread Wednesday, March 27, 2024

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Six members of a construction crew are missing and presumed dead in the Baltimore bridge collapse, but it could have been a lot worse. Alex Jones and his ilk spun lots of conspiracy theories, and that’s before they knew the workers who died were immigrants from Central America and Mexico. Ever since the Supreme Court’s […]

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Song of the Day 3/26: Counting Crows, “Raining in Baltimore”

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From Counting Crows’ debut album, “August and Everything After,” released in 1993.

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Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, March 25, 2024

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Today’s Big Story is the introduction of a package of bills seeking to make affordable housing more available to those who need it.  The prime sponsor of all seven bills is Sen. Russ Huxtable, who…: …is a leader in affordable housing and community development in Delaware and in the coastal community. For the last 18+ […]

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DL Open Thread Tuesday, March 26, 2024

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Move over, Donald. The top story on cable news today will be the rescue efforts at Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, which collapsed after a cargo ship rammed it about 1:30 this morning. It’s being treated as a mass casualty event; nobody is sure how many workers and vehicles were on the steel structure. Another […]

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Song of the Day 3/25: Barenaked Ladies, “If I Had $1000000”

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Dedicated to Donald Trump, with all the sympathy he deserves. Barenaked Ladies wrote about what they’d do with a million dollars even before the band formed in 1988. Frontmen Steven Page and Ed Robertson were working as counselors at a summer music camp, and they would sing this to the campers on the bus, filling […]

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