WDEL Blogs
| Allan Loudell |
May 21, 2013 |
Oklahoma tornado beyond words...
What can be said about that devastating Oklahoma tornado - now confirmed as an EF5 - that underscored the fragility of life and temporarily made most of America's political battles and scandals look so utterly trite in comparison?
(Indeed, one expects the Oklahoma disaster coverage to dominate over-the-air & cable news for at least a couple of news cycles...
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| WDEL Sports |
May 20, 2013 |
Fun day at the ballpark
Who says you can't have fun at a Phillies game? Certainly the Phillies haven't been an exciting team for the most part this year, with their anemic offense...
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| Allan Loudell |
May 20, 2013 |
Perfect storm for schools
In his weekly radio address this past weekend, Governor Markell addressed the issue of ongoing work-force education, as he celebrated the opening of a construction job training facility in Newark...
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| Allan Loudell |
May 17, 2013 |
Open Friday / Weekend Forum
So which stories / topics / items galvanize you this weekend?
As expected, Wilmington City Council members approved their modified 2014 budget - which Mayor Dennis Williams promises to veto - setting up a veto override...
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| Allan Loudell |
May 15, 2013 |
Could Supreme Court be influenced by quickening pace of states legalizing gay marriage?
It was Delaware a week ago. Now it's Minnesota.
Minnesota has made it a dozen states that have so far sanctioned gay & lesbian marriage.
Now comes the intriguing question: At some psychological, subliminal, or even overt level, could the quickening pace of states approving marriage equality influence the high court's ruling on the gay marriage cases before it?
But if so, in which direction? That the high court can't afford to put itself on the "wrong side of history"? I know some Supreme Court watchers who believe the Chief Justice of the United States, John Roberts, in particular feels such a historic tug; he doesn't want to be remembered as someone presiding over a high court which went BACKWARDS...
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| Allan Loudell |
May 14, 2013 |
Stephen Hawking boycott of Israel draws fire, praise
It's not exactly a headline-grabbing story, but it's intriguing on so many levels:
World-renowned physicist & cosmologist Stephen Hawking's refusal to attend a prestigious scientific conference in Israel hosted by Israeli President Shimon Peres...
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| Allan Loudell |
May 14, 2013 |
Associated Press decries seizure of phone records
The Associated Press is protesting the Obama Administration's snooping into the phone records of 100 journalists.
The Justice Department got a subpoena for records covering a two-month period for 20 phone lines linked to the AP's New York, Washington, and Hartford offices...
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| Allan Loudell |
May 13, 2013 |
IRS debacle: 2nd term curse?
What is it about Presidential 2nd terms? A President gets re-elected, and all hell seems to break loose.
Witness the mushrooming scandal over the Internal Revenue Service singling-out certain non-profit groups for its magnifying glass, searching out key words such as "Tea Party" and "Patriots", but later, shifting criteria such as "organizations involved with political lobbying or advocacy", or "political-action type organizations involved in limiting/expanding government, educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, social economic reform/movement"...
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| Allan Loudell |
May 10, 2013 |
Open Friday / Weekend Forum
So, which stories / topics / issues grab you this weekend?
The second time proved to be the charm for the Appoquinimink school district. On the second try, about sixty-and-a-half percent of those voting approved the Appoquinimink tax referendum...
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| WDEL Sports |
May 8, 2013 |
Phils at a crossroads
We may know later today (Wed. 5/8) whether Roy Halladay will need surgery, whether he'll pitch again this year, or maybe whether he will pitch again at all...
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| Allan Loudell |
May 6, 2013 |
3D Printers ushering in new era
'Tis the season (or era) for 3D printers.
For good and/or bad.
From Scotland recently came word scientists had printed stem cells, meaning researchers are that much closer to reproducing human tissue...
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| Allan Loudell |
May 3, 2013 |
Open Friday / Weekend Forum
So what's on your mind this weekend?
New Castle County Executive Tom Gordon is catching heat for his plan to give the Wilmington Fire Department a 225-thousand-dollar grant, part of the Gordon Administration's proposed budget for 2014...
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| Allan Loudell |
May 2, 2013 |
What were they thinking at PepsiCo?
In this modern world of marketing & audience research, one wonders HOW PepsiCo could have unleashed such a repugnant advert for Mountain Dew (created by the founder of a hiphop group)...
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