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New Castle County Democrats Won’t Rest On Laurels

By nemski November 12, 20098 Comments

New Castle County Democratic Party Chairman Erik Schramm spends a few minutes with The Community News' Jesse Chadderdon to talk about past successes of the New Castle County Democrats as…

Day 285 of Mike Castle’s Betrayal of Delaware

By nemski November 8, 20096 Comments

Last night Mike Castle continued illustrious career of representing the Republican Party and not the State of Delaware by voting against The Affordable Health Care for America Act. You can…

Day 284 of Mike Castle’s Betrayal of Delaware

By nemski November 7, 200944 Comments

Bet you thought I forgot. Today the House is voting on its version of Health Care Reform and it looks like Representative Mike Castle (Republican-Delaware) will be voting against it.…

Breaking: Sen. Venables Injured in Boating Accident

By nemski October 30, 20095 Comments

According to The News Journal, Sen. Robert Venables (D-Laurel) along with another man was injured in a boating accident. Senate Assistant Bonnie Wood said Venables had a cut over his…

Delaware Budget Hearing Dates Announced

By nemski October 29, 20093 Comments

State officials have announced November hearing dates for the FY 2011 budget cycle reports The Community News.

Fisker Media Round Up

By nemski October 28, 200910 Comments

Media wrap up of the Fisker Announcement yesterday in Delaware.

The 3% Quandry

By nemski October 24, 20091 Comment

According to The News Journal, the state of Delaware has been allocated some 520,000 vaccines, but as of October 23, the Blue Hen state has only been shipped 15,700 vaccines…

Breaking: Delaware Legislative Travel

By nemski October 18, 200954 Comments

Update: The News Journal published Ginger Gibson's article today, "Legislator' travel tabs often missing". State lawmakers can travel when and where they want on the taxpayer's tab. snip Getting into…

State of Delaware/Walgreen’s: Can This Marriage Be Saved?

By El Somnambulo June 30, 200911 Comments

It can and it should. In fact, there is no earthly reason why this war of words should have escalated this far. First, allow the Beast Who Slumbers to stipulate…

Joint Finance Committee Cuts Higher Ed Salaries…Or Not

By El Somnambulo June 16, 20096 Comments

J. L. Miller and Rachel Kipp report in today's News-Journal that the Joint Finance Committee has cut the salaries of employees at the University of Delaware, Delaware State University, and…

Legislative Wrapup and Preview-June 11, 2009

By El Somnambulo June 11, 20095 Comments

Yesterday's Activity. As you can see, most of the action was in the committee meetings, both House and Senate. Lots of interesting bills were reported out, including the Presidential Popular…

Delaware Legislative Roundup & Preview-June 10, 2009

By El Somnambulo June 10, 200934 Comments

Here's what happened in Dover yesterday. Highlights: In addition to the House passing HB 117, which would move school board elections from May to Election Day, the Senate passed SB…

Tweeting, First State Style

By nemski June 8, 200916 Comments

Twitter is making some big news of late, so big in fact it has made the most recent cover of Time magazine Before I get started, I'm not a twitter…