Delaware Chamber of Commerce is Wrong About the Minimum Wage
Surprise, right? The current President of Delaware’s Chamber of Commerce took to the Opinion Page of the News Journal toContinue Reading
Category: General Assembly
Second Time’s a Charm – Stephanie Barry announces run for the 21st RD
And this time, she is starting early, which is what all prospective candidates seeking to topple longtime incumbents should beContinue Reading
Kyle Evans Gay to challenge Cathy Cloutier in SD5
Attorney Kyle Evans Gay has announced that she will be running for the Delaware Senate in the 5th Senate District,Continue Reading
End of Session Vote Tracker
So here is how the bills we were following fared at the end of the first half of the 150thContinue Reading
Transparency in Transportation Funds
State Representative Andria Bennett’s House Bill 59 passed the House 40-0-1 and the Senate 21-0 in the final week ofContinue Reading
In a Surprise, Solar Panel Bill Passes
When we profiled House Bill 65 a few months ago, pondering its prospects in committee, State Representative Kim Williams commentedContinue Reading
Delcollo and Ennis oppose democracy
When a person or a political party makes voting difficult or less available to all eligible voters, it can beContinue Reading
Aviation Jet Fuel Tax Passes
Hey, look at that. Democrats and Republicans in Delaware can vote on imposing a new tax on something that mayContinue Reading
No More Voting by 16-17 year olds
Senate Bill 10 addresses a loophole in our state’s election laws that was discovered back during the special election inContinue Reading
Cloutier and Delcollo obstruct electric vehicles in Delaware
HB177, which would have allowed public charging stations for electric cars on state properties, failed to pass the Senate onContinue Reading
Second Chances
The General Assembly has passed three bills by nearly unanimous margins that will seek to give some former convicts aContinue Reading
School Redistricting and the Redding Consortium Bills are approved
Senator Tizzy Lockman’s Senate Bill 148 – the bill to establish the Louis Redding Consortium for Educational Equity (RCEE) toContinue Reading
Bill passes allowing unmarried cohabitants to jointly adopt
From the department of “I can’t believe this isn’t already a law,” Senator Bryan Townsend’s Senate Bill 94 allows personsContinue Reading
We are now teaching consent
Senator Nicole Poore can do something good once and a while when she is not killing gun safety legislation andContinue Reading
Public Transit Bus Passes for Students
Senate Bill 166 passed the Senate again 21-0 after the House amended the bill to require District and Charter SchoolsContinue Reading