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Allan Loudell
June 19, 2013
Governor Markell's casino bail-out appears to be picking up support in Dover; Del. House & Senate pass amended transgender bill

If callers to our talk shows (on both 1150 A.M.-WDEL & Delaware 105.9 F.M.) and those commenting on this blog could vote on the matter, Governor Markell's 8-Million-dollar casino bail-out plan would go down in flames...
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Allan Loudell
June 19, 2013
"Gasball" - The new national sport of Turkey?

A Bulgarian journalist I know now covering the clashes in Istanbul e-mailed me this video of anti-government protesters going after tear gas cannisters, almost as if playing a game...
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Allan Loudell
June 18, 2013
Bailing out Delaware's three casinos: Coddling them?

Facing increased competition and still a tough economic climate, Delaware's three casinos have been pleading for a tax break. The Markell Administration - facing revenue constraints of its own - has resisted...
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WDEL Sports
June 17, 2013
What's Charlie to do?

I'm glad I'm not Charlie Manuel. He sounds like a broken record, insisting his team will start to hit and finally get a winning streak going that will get him back into the post-season race...
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Allan Loudell
June 17, 2013
New Iranian President unlikely to alter the calculus

An Iranian-American professor I've known for more than a quarter of century knows new Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Is Rouhani a reformer? Well, sort of...
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Allan Loudell
June 14, 2013
Open Friday / Weekend Forum

So what's on your mind this weekend? Delaware lawmakers appear to be balking at Governor Markell's plan to hike taxes and fees for various projects up & down the state...
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Allan Loudell
June 13, 2013
U.S. Supreme Court rules unanimously against patenting isolated human genes

I confess to being surprised by this one: The U.S. Supreme Court - which so often has taken the side of Corporate America, with Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission as the ultimate example - has ruled that human genes cannot be patented...
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Allan Loudell
June 13, 2013
POLITICO: Former President Clinton splits with President Obama on Syria

Ex-President Clinton signals his impatience with President Obama's reluctance to get too involved in Syria, by aiding the rebels. So Bill Clinton joins Senator John McCain in pressing for a more forceful U...
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Allan Loudell
June 13, 2013
Haunting photographs from Philly (and elsewhere)

The DAILY MAIL on line carries some haunting photographs from Philadelphia photographer Matthew Christopher (whom I've interviewed in the past) of crumbling structures: "Abandoned America: Haunting images of the crumbling schools, decaying churches, and rusting prisons that have been lost in time" I guess we all realize that such decaying structures exist, but it's sobering to see them all together, one after another after another...
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Allan Loudell
June 13, 2013
Big storm falters by the time it gets to Delmarva

Delaware suffered damage and power outages, to be sure, but we got off easier Thursday than initial forecasts suggested. For many of us, I suspect the meteorological term, "derecho", entered our vocabularies last year when a devastating storm hit the Chicago area, then, the Washington, DC--Baltimore corridor...
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Allan Loudell
June 12, 2013
European indignation over NSA surveillance scandal (But please share intel with us!)

The battle lines seem to have hardened among U.S. politicians: "Establishment" senators and representatives - whether Republicans or Democrats - defend the massive surveillance; civil libertarians of all stripes decry such surveillance...
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Allan Loudell
June 11, 2013
Delaware Judge strikes down 2011 rezoning of Barley Mill Plaza

Shortly before the National Weather Service issued a tornado warning in northern New Castle County, and shortly before we received the first reports of uprooted trees and damaged homes in the south Newark/Glasgow area, a sort of judicial twister struck...
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Allan Loudell
June 10, 2013
Governor Markell defends Common Core curriculum in Washington Post

Governor Markell has a published piece in The WASHINGTON POST defending Common Core state standards against the critics. The headline: "The Tea party is wrong on the Common Core curriculum"...
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Allan Loudell
June 10, 2013
Deja vu: NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden = Daniel Ellsberg

For those of us above a certain age, the fury over the leaking of the NSA surveillance story parallels Daniel Ellsberg's role in the release of the Pentagon Papers...
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Allan Loudell
June 7, 2013
Open Friday / Weekend Forum

So, which stories / topics / issues grab your attention this weekend? Legislation designed to protect transgender people against discrimination in employment, housing, insurance, and public accomodations narrowly clears the state Senate, now headed to the Delaware House of Representatives...
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Allan Loudell
June 6, 2013
Republicans pan Governor Christie; Christie appoints NJ A.G. Jeff Chiesa to Senate seat

Predictably, conservative Republicans are blasting New Jersey's Governor Chris Christie for calling an early election to fill that Senate seat... http://therun2016...
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Allan Loudell
June 5, 2013
Colonial referendum barely passes; the mirage of charter schools

As reported elsewhere, voters in the Colonial school district barely passed the district's property tax increase. You can hear my interview with Colonial school district superintendent Dorothy Linn...
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Eclectic Hobbies with Allan Loudell
June 4, 2013
Incredible archive excerpts from Czech Radio over 90 years

If you're into European history and/or international radio, you may want to listen to a podcast from Radio Prague in late May. May 18th marked the 90th anniversary of radio broadcasting in what was then Czechoslovakia...
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Allan Loudell
June 4, 2013
Intrigue surrounding Governor Chris Christie's pick for U.S. Senate; special election called for Oct.16th

The death of New Jersey's Democratic U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg puts Republican Governor Chris Christie in a box, because of the conflict between his gubernatorial re-election needs and his presumed 2016 Presidential ambitions...
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Allan Loudell
June 3, 2013
Divided Supreme Court rules in favor of routine DNA testing without warrant

It's not the lead story from the Associated Press or the networks but one could argue that this story has greater, longer-term implications than many others: U...
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