All Posts Tagged With: "Wilmington"
Reminder! — First Wilmington Mayoral Town Hall Tonight
Just received notice from WDEL that they will be hosting the first Town Hall (titled the Future of Wilmington) featuring the current crop of Wilmington Mayoral candidates next Monday, 30 January 2012 at 6PM at the Wilmington campus of Delaware Technical & Community College.
30Jan2012 | cassandra_m | 15 comments | Continued
City of Wilmington Mayoral Cattle Call — New Year 2012 Edition
The new year sees some firming up of plans for this race, and there has been some intersting movement since the last time we did this, in the Fall. For those of you following the broader narrative, you can see the first Cattle Call from 2010.
9Jan2012 | cassandra_m | 16 comments | Continued
Scott Who?
You all remember Scott Spencer, the guy who claimed he was running for Congress in 2010, but after all his bluster and hubbub about rockets and trains, didn’t even file for the Democratic primary? Apparently he’s now running for Mayor of Wilmington. While he passed himself off as a progressive, his true colors came out during numerous appearances on the Fatman’s show down here in Sussex, where he espoused his anti-abortion rights and anti-labor stands.
5Jan2012 | MJ | 30 comments | Continued
Tuesday Lunch With Dean Baker and Alan Rosenblatt
On Tuesday, I will be attending a lunch discussion with Dean Baker and Alan Rosenblatt at an event sponsored by DCRAC, The West End Neighborhood House and The YWCA. DCRAC describes the event this way:
Baker will discuss how the Washington press corps misreports economic issues and why the federal government needs to invest in [...]
20Jun2011 | liberalgeek | 3 comments | Continued
Reducing the Size of Wilmington City Council
The NJ reported on this proposal by Councilman Bud Freel to reduce the size of City Council from 13 members to 9 on Monday. This evening, there will be a City Council meeting where there will be a debate and vote on a Resolution (pdf) from Charles Potter that opposes any reduction. His resolution has 7 co-sponsors, meaning that any plan to reduce the size of the City Council is probably dead. That doesn’t mean that there won’t be fireworks tonite.
7Apr2011 | cassandra_m | 6 comments | Continued
Ignite Wilmington Tonight
There’s still time to buy tickets!
Ignite Wilmington is a night of presentations with a twist. Presenting on a subject of their choice, speakers have exactly five minutes to teach something, enlighten us, or simply inspire—backed by twenty slides auto-advancing every fifteen seconds. Quick, fun, and smart, Ignite sells out the largest venues in [...]
The Wilmington State of the City Tantrum
Last night, Mayor Jim Baker of Wilmington was scheduled to deliver his annual State of the City Address to the City Council and the public. As always, he had prepared remarks and started with an overview of the state of the city’s budget and his plan to deal with the budget shortfall. He pretty quickly abandoned those remarks to deliver an explosive tantrum at the Wilmington City Council, castigating them (and blaming them) for the increased tensions and difficulties in getting administration initiatives passed.
25Mar2011 | cassandra_m | 2 comments | Continued
Liberal Things To Do
If you have an open evening on Saturday, you may consider heading over to Theatre N for a screening of Inside Job at 8:30, followed by a Q&A session about the current state of Financial Regulation. One of the people that will participate in the discussion is Greg Wilson, Communications Director with the Delaware Community Reinvestment Action Council. Greg is a great resource for all things FinReg. If you can’t make Saturday night, there are other showings throughout the weekend, but the discussion after the Saturday showing promises to be interesting and enlightening.
24Feb2011 | liberalgeek | 12 comments | Continued
Guest Post From Mark Brunswick: What Chris Bullock Doesn’t Say
Reverend Christopher Bullock has an interesting opinion article on African-Americans and the November elections in the News Journal today. Here’s the link, http://www.delawareonline.com/comments/article/20101011/OPINION07/10110313/African-Americans-increasingly-disillusioned-with-political-process. I agree with most of what he says but I think there’s more.
12Oct2010 | liberalgeek | 14 comments | Continued
Wilmington City Council Meetings (and Other Programming) Is Now Online
The effort to bring the viewing and documentation of City Council proceedings into the 21st century is finally live and running here:
22Jun2010 | cassandra_m | Comments Off | Continued
City of Wilmington Mayoral Race Cattle Call — Spring 2010 Edition
Adam Taylor of the News Journal does the work of rounding up the declared and the rumored, so I can do this without appearing to betray any confidences. This list fairly humorous, especially if looking a this field in its entirety. But many kudos to Adam for doing this and for having this story picked up everywhere — I first heard it this AM on WHYY.
26Apr2010 | cassandra_m | 9 comments | Continued
City of Wilmington to Live Stream City Council Meetings
I was at City Council last Thursday where Bud Freel brought up an ordnance (pdf) that would allow the City to sign a contract with a firm that would take he video recorded by WITN of Council Meetings and live stream them over the internet.
18Apr2010 | cassandra_m | 7 comments | Continued
Wilmington City Council Approves Protester Buffer Zone for Health Facilities
John Manifold noted this in the Open Thread yesterday, but it is worth its own post.
And this is good news too — the ordinance that the Wilmington City Council approved would require protesters within 100 feet of health care facilities to stay at least 8 feet away from people coming and going into the facility. [...]
PSA Press Release: Lake is Exonerated
Nancy Willing sent me this press release sent out by Frank Murphy today:
The Board of the Peoples Settlement Association today announced that Keith Lake, its Executive Director of 16 years, has been cleared of all allegations of misconduct. After a special investigation lasting more than one year, the State Auditor of Accounts provided Peoples Settlement with a report finding no evidence of illegal conduct or missing state funds. Representatives of Peoples Settlement recently met with the Auditor’s Office, and confirmed that Mr. Lake was exonerated of any wrongdoing.
It is funny how the same people keep popping up at all of these McDowell influenced organizations.
22Nov2009 | liberalgeek | 4 comments | Continued
UPDATED: Of Cops and Recovery Funds
Yesterday, VP Joe Biden traveled to Philly to announce the awardees of grants from the Recovery bill designed to bolster funding for law enforcement in states, counties and cities. These funds, as I understand it, are meant to be a backstop for governments facing cuts in law enforcement due to budget shortfalls. Delaware was awarded $5M in these grants yesterday. UPDATED with info from a Community Advisory from the mayor’s office.
29Jul2009 | cassandra_m | 3 comments | Continued
Silly Stimulus Games — Wilmington Edition
The NJ reported the other day on the award of $11M of Recovery money to the state for public safety projects — of which both NCCo and the City of Wilmington got $1.5M each.
In Wilmington, 17 police officers and 8 firefighters are planned to be laid off since their unions have not agreed to a [...]
Two Delaware Programs Included in Harvard Top 50 Innovation List
Two Programs from Delaware — the City of Wilmington’s Instant Ticketing Program and the State of Delaware’s K-5 Early Intervention Program — have made it to Harvard’s Top 50 Government Innovation List for 2009. The list is developed by the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the John F. Kennedy School of [...]
2Apr2009 | cassandra_m | 3 comments | Continued
Let My People Know Coalition Meeting – Thursday, March 5th
Let My People Know Coalition Agenda
Thursday, Mar 5th, 2009
6:30pm -7:30pm
ING Direct Cafe
Ground Floor at ING Direct Building
802 Delaware Ave
PARKING: Between Jefferson and 12th Behind Artisan Bank
This meeting is to discuss the up coming (in 3 wks.) city Budget Hearings and will be most interesting to city residents, however, all are welcome – Susan Regis Collins
Marches and MLK Day
The NJ reports that Councilman Kevin Kelley, Councilman Sam Prado, Father Mike Tyson of St. Paul Church and Reverend Christopher Bullock, pastor of Canaan Baptist Church have organized a march on Wilmington’s West Side to honor Dr. King and to “promote racial harmony and nonviolence in the city” today.
I have alot of respect for [...]
QOTD: Sundays in Wilmington
I live in downtown Wilmington, where almost everything is closed on Sundays. Things I know that are open:
The Exchange
Washington St. Ale House
McDonald’s on 4th
Dunkin’ Donuts (but only until like 2pm)
Also, for the month of December only, the Happy Harry’s on Market will be open. We went there today and we were the only ones in [...]
7Dec2008 | xstryker | 25 comments | Continued
City of Wilmington Races and Issues
Andrew C in the Commenter’s Endorsement thread wanted to know why we were so limited in our endorsements and discussion of candidates — specifically that we did not cover Wilmington candidates.
Both Pandora and I live in the City, but I don’t have a sense that there are many readers and commenters here interested in [...]
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