Tag: The Delaware Way
More Markell Cronyism
First was Blevins appointment and there is also Secretary of Finance Tom Cook becoming the new director of the Delaware River and Bay Authority as reported by Matt Bittle at Delaware State News.
We Miss Deadlines All The Time
The Dover Post via the Community News has an article about the Video and Sports Lottery Study Commission meeting for the first time yesterday to begin their mandate of “investigating the possible effects of new gambling venues on state revenues, business at existing casinos, the horseracing industry, the job market and local communities.” One of […]
CRI An Honest Broker? — Part 3
Here we take a look at the connection of CRI to the llarge and highly networked institutional apparatus that is the conservative think tank business.
CRI An Honest Broker?-Part 2
Please allow El Somnambulo to apologize to the (presumably) fine folks at the Caesar Rodney Institute. Yesterday’s article was, by necessity, incomplete. He feels confident that, upon further examination, the Institute will be revealed as a great place where good folks do great things in a non-partisan manner for the citizens of Delaware. In typically […]
Caesar Rodney Institute an Honest Broker? We Report–You Decide
PART ONE: The Caesar Rodney Institute, aided and abetted by the usual suspects like David Burris, has been working overtime to portray itself as some sort of non-partisan good government honest broker. Kinda like Common Cause or the League of Women Voters. Do the facts warrant this narrative? Let’s take a closer look. In its […]
Pushing The Issue: HB253
John Kowalko chairs the Joint Sunset Committee and he’s trying to challenge the Delaware Way from that vantage point. Case in point: HB253 (restructuring the Victims Compensation Board). From the presser: House Bill 253 is identical to Senate Bill 144, which was developed by and sponsored by the members of the Joint Sunset Committee, a […]
Del-Tech Has the Joint Finance Committee Wired. Here’s How…
“DTCC Grunt”, over at the Delawareonline board, posted the following from Delaware Technical & Community College President Orlando J. George, Jr.: I am pleased to share with you that on Tuesday, June 2, the Board of Trustees unanimously passed the Employee Compensation Resolution, giving them the flexibility to preserve College employee salaries at existing levels […]
Cris Barrish’s Story on Lonnie George is Must-Reading
Anyone who truly wants to understand the Delaware Way simply must read Cris Barrish’s superb piece on Orlando J. George, Jr. from Sunday’s News-Journal. Lonnie George is an exceedingly brilliant and accomplished person. That is not the issue. However, like Orson Welles, he is a man of gargantuan appetites, and he has demonstrated his need (and […]
Paying Delaware’s Civil Servants
Today’s NJ has a long story on the salary of the President of DelTech — Lonnie George. It’s a long article, but worth the read. George is not only the state’s top earner, but apparently at the top of the salary list for community college presidents nationwide. I’m not so interested in whether or not […]
DOI Wired RFP Saga Episode III
Intro: Let me start by saying that I’m not crazy about the fact that I let myself fall into the DOI’s rabbit hole. Nevertheless, by viewing the RFP I drank from the little bottle labeled “drink me” so there appears to be no turning back now. Anyway, here is the latest in what will no […]
Quote of the Day
Now we are seeing the credit card banks — one of Delaware’s most important industries — pleading poor mouth and dire financial straits if Congress put a cap on the top interest rates they charge customers. And in typical Delaware Way special interest response, Sens. Tom Carper and Ted Kaufman voted against the idea. [snip] […]
Only in Delaware: Guess Who’s Handling the Gambling Bill Signing Logistics?
Gov. Markell will sign the Sports Gambling bill into law at Delaware Park (?!) tomorrow at 11:30 a.m. The person handling the logistics from Delaware Park’s side is…Jennifer Oberle, daughter of Rep. Bill Oberle. She is the Director of Advertising and Public Relations at the Park. Jennifer Oberle is an accomplished professional. She may well […]
Jeff Montgomery’s ‘Must-Read’ on Harrington and the Delaware State Fair
El Somnambulo believes that nothing demonstrates the moral and ethical decay at the core of the ‘Delaware Way’ more than the cozy relationships between the Delaware State Fair/Harrington Raceway and the state’s political powerbrokers. In today’s News-Journal, Jeff Montgomery writes an essential investigative piece outlining what’s there once the rocks are lifted. It is must-reading […]
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