For those folks who believe America is too litigious a society - that we have too many lawyers - delicious irony abounds: Eight alumni of Widener University's School of Law recently slapped a lawsuit against their alma mater, and their suit has so far overcome the university's attempts to get it thrown out...
So which stories / topics / issues have captured your attention as we reflect on the week?
Efforts to abolish capital punishment in Delaware stalled in a House Committee...
The story of insulting internet postings about customers' behavior and tipping at Hockessin's Padi restaurant now appears in London's DAILY MAIL, with many more photos than in the NEWS JOURNAL's original story...
On the "Rick Jensen Show" here on WDEL - and in a NEWS JOURNAL Page One story - we get more about the April 13th fight at Pastabilities restaurant in Wilmington's "Little Italy" section...
To many Americans, it may be a moot or irrelevant point, but the Federal criminal complaint against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev accuses him of "unlawfully using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction...
So many questions remain about the Boston Bombing brother suspects:
Did they hatch their plot alone, albeit, with ideological encouragement from Islamist sites?
Did something happen during their lives in the U...
Finally, the Boston area's long ordeal APPEARS to be over.
Check out the latest from The BOSTON GLOBE & WBZ/CBS News.
The BOSTON GLOBE's website:
http://www...
Even a diluted, compromise expanded background check measure could not clear the United States Senate, albeit, with the 60-vote threshold.
In contrast, the Delaware State Senate has passed expanded background-check legislation by a 13--8 vote...
Media reports Wednesday afternoon indicated an arrest was imminent in the Boston Marathon bombings, or that a bombing suspect was already in custody. Then came a lot of backpedaling...
After an agonizing period of uncertainty about a possible perpetrator, no arrests, but authorities late Wednesday reported making progress in their investigation, isolating an image of the bombing suspect...
Alec MacGillis at The NEW REPUBLIC notes Boston has been a hub for research into explosives detection, and one of the main research centers in Boston was closed Monday for Patriot Day, like many other institutions...
The Boston Marathon will never be the same. It will now be forever associated with yesterday's twin bombings.
That we know.
But, at the time of posting this blog (just after 8 a...
Explosions have killed at least three people and injured more than one hundred people at or near the finish-line of today's Boston Marathon.
Going into the 4 p...
If you care about improving people's health care choices AND reducing the upward spiral of health care costs, YET fear government and/or your employer infringing on your personal freedom AND the burden of wellness programs particularly on poor people...
So what's on your mind as we enter this weekend?
A Republican congressman from Colorado created a stir when he read aloud from what he said was an unclassified paragraph from a secret Defense Intelligence Agency report given to some members of Congress...
Kentucky's junior U.S. Senator Rand Paul - his national stature elevated with his recent old-fashioned filibuster on drone attacks - took his libertarian strain of Republican outreach to Howard University...
Tuesday's spasm of bloodshed at Lone Star College in Texas - where the assailant wielded a knife rather than a handgun - almost immediately provoked reaction on blogs and in social media from people persuaded that this latest violence obviously vindicated their positions...
Ironically, as Congress and lawmakers in several state capitals grapple with gun constraints, a tragedy in Tennessee may demonstrate the psychological divide...
If Hillary Clinton decides to seek the Democratic Presidential nomination, is she the prohibitive favorite?
Does she seemingly take all the oxygen away from her (potential) rivals for the Democratic nomination?
Will she have learned from the mistakes of her last campaign?
A conventional wisdom seems to be crystallizing that the former Secretary of State, former Senator, and former First Lady WOULD be the prohibitive favorite, and might force potential opponents to stay along the sidelines...
Scanning various newspaper and magazine websites, this column got my attention:
From NATIONAL JOURNAL's Michael Catalini, about Joe Biden's failure to join other high-profile members of the Administration in giving back some of his salary...
