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I am sitting here in the Delaware Democratic Party headquarters with time to kill before the Progressive Democrats of Delaware meeting this evening. So I thought I would pass along two press releases from Beau Biden's campaign and then from John Daniello, the illustrious chairman of the state party, concerning the GOP's failure to field a candidate of their own to challenge Beau Biden for reelect...
DelawareLiberal.Net - Wed 4:04 p.m. - 6 clicks 
Once dismissed as a fringe kook, teabagger Christine O'Donnell has picked up a boatload of momentum and credibility in the wake of the shocking Alaska Republican Senate primary results. The Delaware Republican establishment is near panicked : Republican leaders in Delaware describe their 2008 Senate nominee with open contempt, calling her a perennial candidate who runs for office instead of...
DailyKos (Delaware) - Wed 4:04 p.m. - 5 clicks
The original plan was for Mike Castle to just ignore Christine O'Donnell, just as Joe Biden had done twice before. And in so doing, he would conserve his campaign war chest to blow Chris Coons out of the water in October. Well, Castle is no longer ignoring Old Christine. He is going on air before the primary . ...
DelawareLiberal.Net - Wed 12:49 p.m. - 7 clicks
Speaker Greg Lavelle (in his dreams anyway) will get a challenge from Josh Schoenberg, the current Executive Director of the Delaware Democratic Party. Schoenberg was previously involved in Governor Markell's 2008 campaign. ...
DelawareLiberal.Net - Wed 12:21 p.m. - 4 clicks
Hurricane Watch issued for the Delaware beaches and Sussex County. And the latest models show the storm moving west, or closer to the shore. ...
DelawareLiberal.Net - Wed 10:05 a.m. - 3 clicks
Today we find out if Beau Biden has an opponent for reelection. The general consensus is that the GOP will let Biden be reelected unopposed. Republicans have been both mocked and praised for this move. ...
DelawareLiberal.Net - Wed 7:08 a.m. - 7 clicks
Conservative Christine O'Donnell has been building some momentum in her Senate primary bid against Rep. Mike Castle. Castle has a reputation as a moderate, which plays well in heavily Democratic Delaware. Unfortunately, it doesn't necessarily play well in a Republican primary. Still, O'Donnell's primary was still seen as the longest of long-shots by most observers. Post-Alaska, however, it...
DailyKos (Delaware) - Mon 12:07 p.m. - 10 clicks
David Stevenson of the Caesar Rodney Institute has weighed in on offshore wind for the Institute's new Center for Energy Independence . The piece is critical of the proposal by governors Jack Markell of Delaware and Martin O'Malley of Maryland that the federal government be brought in as a buyer of offshore wind. This "factual analysis" offers several unsourced assertions. Let's lo...
TommyWonk - Aug 3
Climate change won't just affect ice caps and polar bears. As the News Journal reports, the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary has released a report detailing some of the impacts of global warming on the Delaware watershed : The levees and dikes that hold in fresh water to create waterfowl habitat and protect communities like historic Old New Castle from flooding wouldn't stand up t...
TommyWonk - Jul 22
The Delmarva Community Wellnet Foundation is holding a fundraising event for the EDEN (Energize Delaware Now) project this Friday night at the Milton Theater. Collin O'Mara is the keynote speaker. EDEN, which promotes green entrepreneurship, environmental education and sustainable markets, is led by some veteran activists, including Kim Furtado, whom I got to know through Citizens for C...
TommyWonk - Jul 15
