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...
Perhaps they're just growing pains - the inevitable slips for a new mayoral administration in Wilmington - but it seems Mayor Williams has suffered more than his share of missteps since taking office...
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...
With the goal of saving lives, the National Transportation Safety Board proposes states tighten the blood-alcohol limit for motorists from .08 to .05.
However, I have seen nothing about the Feds threatening a loss of Federal highway funding to states that don't comply...
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...
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...
When I first met Vance Phillips many years ago at a political debate, he came across as a nice enough guy... but way too conservative a Republican for most of upstate Delaware...
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"...
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...
A trio of State Department officials offered a House committee intense accounts of last year's deadly attack on U.S. installations in Benghazi, Libya
The officials again criticized the Obama Administration's early hesitation to characterize the attacks as premeditated terrorist acts...
For a time it looked as though ex-South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford was so damaged, his Democratic challenger Elizabeth Colbert Busch (sister of comedian Stephen Colbert) might actually beat him in South Carolina's special Congressional election...
For several weeks, I had been hearing gay marriage was more likely to clear the Delaware General Assembly than capital punishment abolition.
And indeed it has...
A downstate lawmaker - State Senator Gerald Hocker (R-Ocean View) - wants Delaware's public schools to start classes AFTER Labor Day. He wants a task force to study the issue...
'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...
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...
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)...
We've covered on this blog before how the current establishment Republican push for some type of immigration reform might never deliver the G.O.P. the ultimate goal - Hispanics giving the Republicans a second look - because the Democrats almost inevitably would be perceived as the more immigrant-friendly political party...
Until now, only Russia had warned the United States about accused Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
Still unclear: How seriously U.S. officials treated the Russian warning, particularly if they assumed the Russians were driving their own agenda in Chechnya and Dagestan quite apart from international terrorism...
A judge sentenced a former Essex County (New Jersey) "Teacher of the Year", Erica DePalo, to life on probation for having sex with a 15-year-old student...
In a televised interview on "Morning Joe", New Jersey Governor Chris Christie declared President Obama followed through on promises to New Jersey after Hurricane Sandy delivered widespread devastation along the coast...
