All Posts Tagged With: "General Assembly"
New State Budget Proposal
The General Assembly and the Governor’s office have released their plan on state worker benefits and pensions.
24Mar2011 | Unstable Isotope | 10 comments | Continued
It’s Official: Libertarians Kicked Off the Republican and Democratic Primaries
A ruling by the Attorney General’s office has determined that the Libertarian candidates Will McVay and Brent Wangen can not run in multiple parties at the same time unless they are nominated by that party.
15Jul2010 | Unstable Isotope | 15 comments | Continued
Who’s Running – Republican Primary Edition
A summary of the Republican primaries in Delaware.
14Jul2010 | Unstable Isotope | 49 comments | Continued
Filing Deadline Passes – State of the Races
The filing deadline has passed. What’s changed since Monday?
13Jul2010 | Unstable Isotope | 9 comments | Continued
2 More Days To File – Who’s Unchallenged
Next entry in our Who’s Running series, Who’s Unchallenged
12Jul2010 | Unstable Isotope | 25 comments | Continued
What’s Happening In The 32nd District?
In the 32nd district William McVay is now running as a Republican, Democrat and Libertarian.
9Jul2010 | Unstable Isotope | 48 comments | Continued
Who’s Running – One Week To Go!
One week to go before the filing deadline – update on who’s running and who’s still AWOL.
7Jul2010 | Unstable Isotope | 64 comments | Continued
Dick Cathcart Announces Retirement
House Minority Leader Dick Cathcart announced his retirement from the General Assembly today.
6Jul2010 | Unstable Isotope | 9 comments | Continued
Delaware Is Different
Delaware is defying the trends of other states. Delaware has avoided state worker layoffs, painful education cuts and budget impasses. Why is Delaware so different?
2Jul2010 | Unstable Isotope | 9 comments | Continued
State Republicans Defend The Employee Pay Scandal
Last week, the News Journal published an article on the abuse of legislative perks by the GOP in the General Assembly. Among the revelations were that the GOP majority paid political consultants out of taxpayer funds, including one consultant who never showed up for work.
Today in a letter to the editor, House Minority Leader [...]
Lie Of the Year?
We have our first nominee, and it’ll be hard to beat.
Ginger Gibson, in today’s News-Journal, reported on how Delaware Park maxed out on political contributions to well over half the members of the Delaware General Assembly. Many of those contributions came right around the time that the existing racinos “beat back proposals to increase the [...]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show-June, 23,2009
Presumably Dick Cathcart has spent the past four days reading all the fine print in the Governor’s budget proposal, and presumably he’ll be prepared to provide his Mindless Minions with their marching orders in Caucus today. Not a bad idea with only a week to go in the legislative session and an $800 million budgetary [...]
23Jun2009 | El Somnambulo | 12 comments | Continued
General Assembly June 18 Post-Game Show: “Everything Else” Edition
Lots more noteworthy stuff happened and didn’t happen yesterday in Dover. First, here’s the whole enchilada:
Now here’s that Spicy Somnambulo Salsa that turns an otherwise bland meal into a taste sensation:
Highlights from the Senate:
HCR 7(Oberle), discussed here yesterday, passed the Senate w/o opposition but with a Senate Amendment, which supporters had sought to discourage. Having [...]
Legislative Wrapup and Preview-June 11, 2009
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 Vote Compact Bill discussed here. Also, in the spirit of bipartisanship, and on behalf of gastronomic equality, not only was Gerald Hocker’s (R) bill making the [...]
BIG NEWS! Bill Ending Discrimination Against Gays Likely to Pass Soon
This is not a dream, this is real. Although many have dreamed of this day for a long time.
It now appears a virtual certainty that legislation banning discrimination based on sexual orientation in Delaware will pass both houses of the Delaware General Assembly, and will be signed by the Governor this month.
In a little-noticed, but [...]
Delaware Ready for Medical Marijuana?
State Sen. Margaret Rose Henry has introduced legislation to provide for the controlled distribution of marijuana to relieve chronic pain in people suffering from serious medical conditions. Ginger Gibson writes in today’s News-Journal article:
Under Senate Bill 94, residents would be allowed to have up to 6 ounces of marijuana, considered a month’s supply, Henry said, [...]
Breaking: Markell to Address Joint Session of General Assembly
When the Governor speaks to a joint session of the General Assembly in late April, you can bet it isn’t to swap Easter/Passover stories.
In fact, ‘bulo can’t remember the last time that a Governor addressed the GA so late in session before.
However, that is precisely what’s going to happen on Tuesday, April 28 at 2 [...]
HB 17 Passes the House
From the GA website:
This Act is the first leg of a Constitutional Amendment which eliminates the existing five-year waiting period before eligible felons who have fully discharged their sentences may have their voting rights restored.
The vote was 32-8. Rep. Hazel Plant was the sponsor of this bill (with Rep. Keeley as prime co-sponsor) and [...]
SB 20 — Reapportionment of the General Assembly
Kudos to are due to Senator Blevins and Representative Kowalko and all of the co-sponsors of this bill to create an The Redistricting Commission for the State of Delaware — an independent commission to supervise the reapportionment of the GA after the next census. Really, this approach to reapportionment is all kinds of steps [...]
30Jan2009 | cassandra_m | 28 comments | Continued
HB 51 – Accommodation Tax for Dewey Beach
Rep. Hocker (R-Ocean View) has introduced legislation to allow Dewey Beach to add a 3% accommodation tax on short term rentals. Sen. Bunting (D – Bethany Beach) is an additional sponsor.
Dewey Beach, like many communities, is finding that its budget is out of whack — approximately a $500,000 budget shortfall, but even worse, spending $200,000 [...]
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