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...
Which stories / issues / topics grab your attention as we enter the weekend?
One more blow to the arts in Delaware: Wilmington's Grand Opera House has laid off a quarter of its staff and the austerity drive isn't over...
While I was gone for a few days (Chicago area, where it was just as cold & windy as here; still saw snow in the higher elevations of Maryland & West Virginia, plus in lower terrain in Indiana where that monster storm struck a week ago!), I see Mayor Williams and County Executive Gordon collaborated on a letter about the high (minority) drop-out rate from our public high schools; one-way busing from city to suburbs; and related issues...
So which stories / issues / topics grab your attention this weekend?
Legislation expanding background checks to cover most private transactions involving firearms has cleared the Delaware House of Representatives by 7 votes, now heading to the upper chamber...
As the United States grapples with gay/lesbian marriage and equality (seemingly moving inexorably in that direction), just like Europe and Latin America, it's instructive to note the hold-outs: Vast swaths of the Middle-East, Africa, and south Asia, whether Muslim or Christian, and surprisingly to some, today's Russia...
So the legislation to abolish capital punishment in Delaware has squeaked through the Delaware Senate, albeit with an amendment that preserves the death penalty for the 17 inmates already on death row...
Vice President Biden today dedicates the First State National Monument, which our Congressional delegation fervently hopes is a precursor to full national park status...
I don't know if you caught our follow-up story - which we ran Friday afternoon/Saturday morning - from my interview with Wilmington's new Mayor Dennis Williams, immediately after his short speech in City/County chambers...
So which stories / issues / topics are of interest to you this weekend?
After announcing cutbacks in Delaware, AstraZenecA announced another 23-hundred lay-offs around the world by 2016...
The pressure mounts in Washington for President Obama to take a more forceful course in Syria -- on behalf of the rebels, of course.
The Chair of the House Intelligence Committee - Representative Mike Rogers (R-MI) says the time is now...
Tom Gordon delivered the first budget address of his new county administration.
Unlike his two immediate predecessors, no texts were provided media or council members...
Difficult to believe: It's been a decade since the United States invaded Iraq.
139 U.S. soldiers killed during the initial invasion; 4,485 by the time the United States officially withdrew...
Social media erupted with condemnation of the way CNN covered the guilty verdicts returned against two Steubenville High School football players.
The rap: The network seemed to be much more concerned with the impact on the just-convicted football players, not on the victim...
So which stories / issues / topics draw your attention here at the end of the week?
Here in Delaware, State Representative Greg Lavelle (R-Sharpley) has offered an alternative to Governor Markell's push for background checks on most private gun sales...
Have you heard about the new audio series, "Being Biden", coming from the White House?
Here's an amusing account from TIME magazine, with a link to the official site...
The new Bishop of Rome, and hence the Pope, is Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who has taken the name Francis (in English). He becomes Pope Francis. (By the way, the Vatican says he's Pope Francis, not Pope Francis I...
It came a little late compared to some other states, but a bipartisan group of Delaware lawmakers and religious leaders has launched a major push to abolish the death penalty in Delaware...
The heavy wooden door to the Sistine Chapel has been closed and locked, marking the start of the conclave to elect Benedict XVI's successor.
I've run the following analogy past Vatican watchers / journalists:
In a criminal trial here in the United States, if the jury returns a verdict quickly, more times than not the prosecutiion wins; the defendant is found guilty...
