Delaware Political Blogwire

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• Apples and oranges of Delaware schools

  —Kilroy's delaware

  Interesting comment I hijacked from Red Clay Now Anonymous said: “I just think it’s clear, many charters and magnets cherry pick. They get better outcomes. When a charter does not cherry pick or targets a low performing group, like Moyer, well…not a pretty sight in the eyes of DOE.” Some charter schools do [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 11:33pm EST
  by kilroysdelaware

• Was Christina’s Strategic Planning process influenced by a poseur?

  —Transparent Christina

  There is an information network building and growing on this as I type. Accolades in public, secrecy in private? Transparency? Stay tuned on this one… Filed under: education Tagged: RTTT [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 11:27pm EST
  by John Young

• Mike Gave Us Quarters

  —DelawareLiberal.Net

  Number of comments: 2
  You will remember when I first came to Delaware Liberal, my new compatriots were kind enough to allow me to bring over a logo I used on my old blog "Daily Delaware," the one with the Caesar Rodney quarter. I did not learn until many months later that our illustrious [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 10:47pm EST
  by Delaware Dem

• School Closings

  —DelawarePolitics.net

  Number of comments: 1
  

     If you have been listening to the news at all in the past couple of days you couldn’t have missed the stories of school districts around the nation that are closing schools in an attempt to cut cost. The reason they are so desperate to cut cost is because [...]

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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 8:55pm EST
  by Frank Knotts

• Tells

  —DelawareLiberal.Net

  Number of comments: 7
  Last week Glenn Beck called on his cult like followers to investigate their church’s website to see if the word “social justice” anywhere. And if they found those words, they were instructed, nee ordered to leave their churches immediately. Because he says those words are code for Nazism and Communism. [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 8:39pm EST
  by Delaware Dem

• Tough Family

  —DELAWARE REPUBLICAN

  Email Friend | Print Article | 3 Comments | // Share March 11, 2010 Obama’s physician cousin angrily denounces health care reform Clarice Feldman Writing in the Washington Times, Barack’s cousin, Dr Milton R Wolf, a physician, blasts this legislative attempt to take over health care: “Primum nil nocere.”First, do no harm. This guiding principle [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 8:18pm EST
  by Liberal Failures

• Spot the error

  —The Colossus of Rhodey

  Unbelievable.... [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 8:16pm EST
  by Hube

• CCCP: Christine, Castle, Coons, Primary

  —kavips

  Best thing that ever happened to Castle is having Christine throw her hat in the ring… On the morning after the September Primary, News Journal readers  will see the headline:   Castle Conquerors Christine. If they read the small print down far enough and have good eyes, they just might see that [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 8:13pm EST
  by kavips

• 67 Year Old Vietnam Vet Gets Harrassed By A Punk On The Bus - HA!

  —Delaware Way

  Watch it ~
  (you may need a facebook account to view this)
  
  
  67 year old Vietnam Vet gets harrassed by a punk on the bus ``(h/t Woody)`~*~ [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 8:13pm EST
  

• Twisted Scheme

  —DelawarePolitics.net

  Number of comments: 1
  

  How do you pass a bill without voting on it? I do not know if this would survive a court challenge, but it is bound to doom the Democrat party like nothing else. They are attempting to pass a bill while claiming not to vote for it. This twisted [...]

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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 7:59pm EST
  by David Anderson

• DCOG Event "The Annual Delaware Budget Bind" --Featuring The Sponsors Of Open Government Bills-- Set For March 17th At 7PM In Dover

  —Delaware Way

  
  Delaware Coalition for Open Government
  
  presents
  
  March 17
  DELCOG Program `
  "The Annual Del. Budget Bind:Show Me the Money(Before You Take the Vote)"`Panel Discussion in conjunction withSunshine WeekLevy Court Building555 Bay RoadDover, Delaware`7 - 9 p.m.`FREE~*~
  
  [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 7:56pm EST
  

• FOUNDERS VALUES TO HOST U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PRIMARY DEBATE

  —DelawarePolitics.net

  Number of comments: 1
  

  Founders Values will be hosting a Democrat primary debate between former Lt. Governor John Carney and Scott Spencer. Both individuals are vying for the U.S. House of Representatives seat being vacated by Congressman Mike Castle. Invitations have been delivered to both candidates and as of the writing of this [...]

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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 7:19pm EST
  by David Anderson

• Filibuster Reform on the Horizon?

  —DelawareLiberal.Net

  This sounds like welcome news to me. Via Ezra Klein and Sam Stein of HuffPo, there is starting to be some serious talk about filibuster reform. Yesterday at a reporters' briefing, Harry Reid had some interesting comments about the present and future of Senate procedure.' [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 7:00pm EST
  by Scott P

• John Covington is closing schools like crazy in Kansas City…..

  —Transparent Christina

  Close 1/2 the schools? That would require quite a detailed plan huh? Not if you learn to think under a billionaire’s tutelage it seems….. Covington said he has been working on the transition plan for several weeks and that it would be in place for the start of the school year. He gave few [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 6:23pm EST
  by John Young

• WDEL News Listens to Rick Jensen Too Much

  —DelawareLiberal.Net

  Number of comments: 4
  WDEL, in its story on Carper's not-shocking-at-all-to-anyone-paying attention announcement that Senate Democrats will be using reconciliation, WDEL wrote this: "Senator Carper says Democrats will be opting for a rarely used practice to push a health care reform measure through." Rarely used?? [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 6:07pm EST
  by Delaware Dem

• Congress and the Exchanges

  —DelawareLiberal.Net

  Number of comments: 3
  No, it's not a new indie band, it's an aspect of the health care reform debate that just might end up being important. Remember back to last summer? Of course you do. Tiger Woods was a respected public figure, Beau Biden was going to announce his candidacy any day now, [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 5:30pm EST
  by Scott P

• Please Welcome Scott P to Delaware Liberal

  —DelawareLiberal.Net

  Number of comments: 10
  Many of our regular readers will recognize Scott P as a thoughtful, intelligent and regular commenter here. He also has his own fantastic blog, The Palmer Lyceum. If you have been reading the Lyceum this week, you may have been in on a secret: Scott P is the newest contributor [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 5:11pm EST
  by Delaware Dem

• The Queen Bee?

  —DELAWARE REPUBLICAN

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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 5:11pm EST
  by Liberal Failures

• Senator Kaufman Touts Finance Reform On Senate Floor And MSNBC Today --Break Up The Banks And Promote Consumer Protection And Transparency

  —Delaware Way

  ~ It was great to see Ted talking about his finance reforms on the Dylan Ratigan show today!! ~(presser)
  Kaufman Says Mega-Banks Too Large for Any Regulator to Handle
  Says old rules that kept commercial banks separate from investment banks were best rules
  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Ted Kaufman [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 5:02pm EST
  

• Kaufman or Sanders

  —DelawarePolitics.net

  I will be glad when our unelected Fabian socialist senator is gone. What an embarrassment.

  [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 4:35pm EST
  by David Anderson

• Tom Carper Trying to Help Kill Public Option Effort in the Senate

  —DelawareLiberal.Net

  Number of comments: 5
  According to this article in The Hill, Dick Durbin is thinking that the entire caucus needs to come to grips with the idea of voting down any amendments to the HCR reconciliation fix, even the Public Option. And here is Tom Carper -- working on his centrist cred, no [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 4:32pm EST
  by cassandra_m

• Delaware's Insurance Commissioner Gets After Allstate Insurance Company For Denying Thousands Of Customers Their Defensive Driving Credits

  —Delaware Way

  (presser)INSURANCE COMMISSIONER STEWART ANNOUNCES $428,355 REFUND TO 2,445 DELAWARE POLICYHOLDERS
  Allstate to Issue Refunds to Policyholders Who Did Not Receive Defensive Driving Discount
  Dover, March 11, 2010 – Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart announced today that the Allstate Insurance Company will be providing refunds or credits totaling $428,355 to 2,445 [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 4:30pm EST
  

• The Altar

  —The Colossus of Rhodey

  Wilmington News Journal report of a bank robbery in Hockessin: On Tuesday, the man, dressed in a black Philadelphia Flyers sweatshirt with an orange-lined hood, black hat and sunglasses, brandished a revolver and ordered customers to the ground. The bandit... [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 4:27pm EST
  by Hube

• Quick -- name the movie that this scenario is from

  —The Colossus of Rhodey

  Via Reason.com: Several Oregon government and law enforcement agencies are patting themselves on the back for preventing a possible mass shooting incident by sending a SWAT team to arrest a recently laid-off employee of the state's Department of Transportation. A... [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 4:23pm EST
  by Hube

• Surprise, surprise

  —The Colossus of Rhodey

  "A new study shows that diversity training programs have roundly failed to eliminate bias and increase the number of minorities in management, despite the fact that many corporations have spent increasing amounts of money on them since the 1990s." “For... [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 4:13pm EST
  by Hube

• Senator Carper 'Sees The Light" And Is Prepared To Vote For Health Care Insurance Reform Via Reconciliation

  —Delaware Way

  Update: The Hill reports a HCR wrinkle ~ House Democrats' 'no' votes are piling up as healthcare reform moves forward
  
  And teddysanfran
  New Health Care Whip Count: 189 Yes, 202 No
  [fdl.me] from @firedoglake
  ~~~~~
  Just don't expect him to [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 4:02pm EST
  

• Senate Leadership Tells Rank And File Democrats To Vote Against Anything That Will "Slow Down" Reconciliation...Like Sanders' Public Option Amendment

  —Delaware Way

  Almost as soon as Greg Sargent reported this ~ Bernie Sanders: I’m Prepared To Introduce Public Option Amendment
  
  

  Senator Bernie Sanders, in a brief interview in the Capitol just now, confirmed to me that he’s willing to commit to introducing [...]

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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 3:25pm EST
  

• Today in "What is Racist and What is Not"

  —The Colossus of Rhodey

  Los Angeles Angels outfielder Torii Hunter claims Dominican and Venezuelan baseball players are "imposters" -- racial imposters, that is: "People see dark faces out there, and the perception is that they're African American ... They're not us. They're impostors." "Even...'" [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 3:24pm EST
  by Hube

• Markell’s school turnaround unfair to minority teachers

  —Kilroy's delaware

  Number of comments: 6
  Going into the so-called failing traditional public schools targeted for turnaround  and firing all the teachers will have greater impact on African-American teachers.  The Kilroy unofficial turnaround schools have higher percentage of African-American teachers than counterparts. (Markell does know the name of the turnaround school but is refusing to release information) Percentage of [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 1:51pm EST
  by kilroysdelaware

• Kaufman Takes on Too Big To Fail

  —DelawareLiberal.Net

  Number of comments: 15
  I really wish Senator Kaufman made no Shermanesque statements upon accepting former Governor Minner's appointment. He is experienced, passionate, more than capable, intelligent, and has served Delaware well over the last year and a half as our junior Senator. And I say that because I want Senator Kaufman to remain [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 12:52pm EST
  by Delaware Dem

• Thursday Open Thread

  —DelawareLiberal.Net

  Number of comments: 15
  Welcome to Thursday and welcome to your open thread. As usual, I’ll provide a couple of links for you to talk about if you wish but there is nothing that is off-topic in an open thread. A story spread all over the rightwing news media about a ban on fishing by [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 12:00pm EST
  by Unstable Isotope

• Spring Images From The 1st Monthly Photography Contest On Facebook

  —Delaware Way

  
  
  
  ``My niece, Marielle Solan, entered a few photos in the 1st Monthly Photography Contest on facebook by Keith and David, Captured Concepts, [www.capturedconcepts.com]. `(first two images [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 10:24am EST
  

• A Bill We Should All Support – Medicare Buy-In

  —DelawareLiberal.Net

  Number of comments: 6
  Progressive hero Alan Grayson has introduced a short 4-page bill to allow Americans to buy into Medicare coverage (without subsidies). Think Progress’s Wonk Room describes the bill, called the “Public Option Act” or “Medicare You Can Buy Into Act”: Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) has provided the White House with a real [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 10:00am EST
  by Unstable Isotope

• Hurt Locker Star Is A Big Joe Biden Fan; Says The VEEP "Looks Kind Of Punchy" And Wants To Meet Him

  —Delaware Way

  My housemate told me that Hurt Locker deserved its "Best Picture" Oscar. It was a 180 change from yesterday's opinion when he popped out of his room, a third way through it, saying that it wasn't anything special. By the end, its superior storyline had kicked' [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 9:49am EST
  

• Genius! N.Y.C. School Built Around Unorthodox Use of Time

  —Children and Educators First!

  Okay, but what's really Genius is the THE SMALL CLASS SIZES! The mantra of teachers nationwide and right here in Delaware.  And this school has found a way of providing the small classes with more support for students and teachers while not exceeding the 180 day work year in teacher contracts [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 9:43am EST
  

• Strangely Appropriate FOIA Palette Cleansor

  —Children and Educators First!

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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 8:34am EST
  

• A Bad Plan Can’t Be My Fault

  —DELAWARE REPUBLICAN

  Watch the blame game.  Obama’s plan is a failure so it must be the fault of the insurance industry. Really? http://www.pbs.org/newshour/video/module.html?s=news01s3c97qe3a [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 8:04am EST
  by Liberal Failures

• Jack “Butcher” Markell agent for new world order

  —Kilroy's delaware

  Tougher U.S. math, English standards proposed: Delaware among states endorsing effort SEATTLE — Math and English instruction in the United States  moved a step closer to uniform — and more rigorous — standards Wednesday as drafts of new national guidelines were released. Delaware fails to meet it’s own education standards and now [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 8:02am EST
  by kilroysdelaware

• Republicans Want To Raise Your Taxes

  —DelawareLiberal.Net

  Number of comments: 5
  Paul Ryan is a Wisconsin Republican and a rising star in the party. He’s the ranking member of the House Budget Committee and several weeks ago he unveiled his plan for balancing the budget. It was a Republican plan on steroids – huge tax cuts for the wealthy, elimination of [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 8:00am EST
  by Unstable Isotope

• Perkins Grant, Computers, and DCAS

  —Red Clay Now

  Number of comments: 0
  I attended the State Board of Education Meeting last night in Dover, Mike Jackson from DOE spoke about the proposed FY 2011 budget as did Dr. Lowery.
  
  Dr. Lowery briefly spoke at the end of the night about the Perkins Grant and the schools can use these computers [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 7:55am EST
  by Red Clay Now

• “Shall Not Be Infringed”–Not Even by Chicago (excerpt)

  —Slavens Says

  The following is an excerpt from a recent column for Liberty Features Syndicate, which I write for on a weekly basis. Columns are provided exclusively to editors for a week or so, which is why I do not immediately post them on this blog. Does the Bill of Rights apply to [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 7:00am EST
  by Chris Slavens

• Christine O’Donnell Announces — A Good Look at the Hypocrisy Train

  —DelawareLiberal.Net

  Number of comments: 15
  So have you had a chance to see this announcement? (Link opens up to WDEL video.) It is completely choice: nonstop wingnut dog whistles and none of it made any sense. AND we see Ms. O'Donnell try to spank Mike Castle for his age, his liberalism, and for not' [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 7:00am EST
  by cassandra_m

• Creating Clean Energy Jobs in Delaware

  —TommyWonk

  Jack Markell yesterday presented a new proposal to boost and extend the renewable portfolio standard and promote the development of green energy jobs in Delaware. Markell went to the Motech Americas solar panel plant in Newark to announce the Delaware Clean Energy Jobs Act. The proposal would [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2010, 6:57am EST