I must, again, be missing something here. In a New Castle County high school things are well, unsettled. So unsettled that parents are looking for alternatives. Meeting after meeting with district brass have produced no results. Furthermore, the parents have been told basically, “get over it’. The parents want discipline and in particular want 4 unruly students put [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Marketing 101
Posted in Uncategorized on October 31, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Somewhere between $138,888 and $476,190 per job “created or saved”
Posted in Delaware, Democrats, Economy, Government Waste, Taxes, Tea Party on October 31, 2009 | 23 Comments »
Early last week, the Governor along with Senators Carper & Kaufman held a press conference to “celebrate” the fact that over $1 billion in Federal “stimulus” money (aka taxpayer money taken by the Feds for the purposes of redistribution in a more fair and equitable fashion) was or would soon be spent in Delaware. Later [...]
Thanks! State Workers.
Posted in Delaware, Energy, Government Waste on October 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
After an exhaustive review of the state budget there could be no more cuts to be found last year and the state employees had to absorb a 2.5% pay cut in order to continue essential state services. Today I discovered one of those essential state services. A $240,000 grant to a private retirement home for [...]
This has to be a typo. Has to be.
Posted in Uncategorized on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Did the NJ really say there will be no job growth in our little state until 2015? 2015? Please tell me my edition had a bad press run. Gov’t can’t grow anymore and taxes will be raised. We’ve bottomed out.
No “post-partisanship” in Delaware, that’s for sure
Posted in Delaware, Democrats, General Assembly, GOP, Jack Markell on October 29, 2009 | 15 Comments »
I received the letter found below from State House Minority Leader Dick Cathcart and House Minority Whip Danny Short. The press release comments on a closed-door meeting recently held by the Governor with only Democratic Lawmakers discussing the newly-minted budget crisis facing the State (another $400 million shortfall? Already? Who’s doing the forecasting, anyway?) Sadly, [...]
Democrats agree that tax cuts drive business growth
Posted in Delaware, Democrats, Economy, Jack Markell, New Castle County, Taxes on October 28, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Let me start by repeating that I think that bringing Fiskers to Delaware was well-done by Governor Markell and DEDO Director Alan Levin. Having a Vice-President from Delaware probably didn’t hurt, but the Governor deserves congratulation. However… Next year, Americans of all economic levels will be facing tax increases to pay for the gigantic and [...]
The Billion Dollar Press Conference – no not Fiskers
Posted in Delaware, Democrats, Economy, General Assembly, Government Waste, Jack Markell, Open Government, Taxes on October 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday, Senators Carper and Kaufman organized a press conference with Governor Markell to announce that Delaware has received or will receive $1 billion in stimulus money (The article can be found here). I suppose that they needed this press conference because the Fiskers announcement today wouldn’t garner enough press (that’s a joke, btw). I suspect [...]
Hmmmm, the liberals are surly.
Posted in Uncategorized on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The New Republic does a piece I saw today in which it says the D’s are close to careeening off the cliff due to spending. It claims the Gallup firm says over 50% of Americans say over half of each federal tax dollar is wasted. Hmmm……. Also the latest figure for DE’s economic issues is [...]
It’s time for downstate commuter rail service
Posted in Delaware on October 27, 2009 | 8 Comments »
There are some capital and infrastructure projects that are worth supporting even in a time of financial belt-tightening in Dover. Downstate commuter rail service is one such project. Bringing commuter rail to Middletown, Townsend, Smyrna/Clayton, and even all the way south to Dover, is, in my view, a vital investment in Delaware’s transportation infrastructure. Lower [...]
Analysis of Delaware Searching for a way to recover
Posted in Delaware, Democrats, Economy, Gambling, Government Waste, Jack Markell, New Castle County, Taxes, Tea Party on October 25, 2009 | 11 Comments »
The News Journal had a very good piece on Delaware’s economy in today’s paper. The article can be found here. Regrettably, there is nothing in the article that I haven’t been saying, publicly, for over 3 years. Let me go through some of the points… “There’s no doubt we had a lot of eggs in [...]
