FIX WHAT’S WRONG: Restore CONFIDENCE Something’s wrong. We all feel the disappointment. The needed confidence isn’t there to spark job-creation by investors and employers. Since more jobs are created by small business, we must restore small business confidence in particular. Hopefully both liberals and conservatives would agree. But here’s the key: To restore small business [...]
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March 28, 2011 by David Stevenson used with permission see the CRI blog for this and more great information. The nuclear crisis in Fukushima, Japan shows, beyond a doubt, the time has come to open existing, secure nuclear storage facilities in the United States to avert a similar tragedy. Stored fuel is the biggest [...]
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Posted in Energy, Environment, Guest Opinion, Jobs on Mar 21st, 2011
RE: Where are the Green Jobs? repost from CRI DATE: 3/16/11 Green jobs will make the economy grow, or so the often repeated mantra goes. Actually there are fewer green jobs in Delaware now than in 2003 (750 in 2003, 650 in 20111) and significant job growth appears to be unlikely. Furthermore, [...]
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Kent County residents…………… In just ten years, Kent County’s cost for providing employee benefits has risen nearly 400%. If Levy Court wants a future that enables its current employees to rely on a defined-benefits package, we must make changes that look into the future and begin to reduce costs associated with “new” employee benefits. [...]
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Posted in Guest Opinion, Taxes on Dec 5th, 2010
By Rick Manning Republished with permission ALG News Bureau Nancy Pelosi is taking one last upper cut to our nation’s job creators before she goes back to being the leader of a ragtag group of inconsequential leftists in January 2011. Pelosi clearly is not content with having the jobless rate rise during her four year tenure [...]
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Posted in Colin Bonini, Guest Opinion on Oct 28th, 2010
I am supporting Colin Bonini for state treasurer this year. It is not just because of his state senate record of looking out for the taxpayers or his sound record as a common sense conservative leader. I like his proposals for more transparency in state spending and his fight to bring transparency to state government. [...]
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Guest Opinion by Donald Ayotte September 4, 2010 O’Donnell For Senate Republican Conservative, Christine O’Donnell’s bid for Delaware’s US Senate Seat seems to defy the law of gravity as she wages battle, not only against entrenched Republican Candidate, Mike Castle but against the entire echelon of the republican hierarchy and the media. Although her run [...]
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Posted in Guest Opinion on Jul 14th, 2010
Contact Representative Castle and encourage him to support House Discharge Petition Number 11 (he has not signed on yet). National polls show that the majority of Americans oppose Obamacare. Let’s see how serious Mike Castle really is about representing the best interest of the people of Delaware. Post your responses from him in the Letters [...]
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Posted in Guest Opinion, Guest Posts on Jul 12th, 2010
Real pulse of families points to Glen Urquhart for Congress My first Tea Party event (4/09) at the River Front was exciting and noteworthy. Inside the build- ing another DuPont retiree said: “I am surprised at the large num- ber of young families with children”. Later, a longtime “R”Party official noted: “who are all these [...]
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Dear. Ms. O’Donnell As this is written, it is now but only one hundred days until the Delaware Republican Primary on September 14, 2010. I am writing this because I find the direction that your campaign is running in to be alarming and destructive not just to you, or your beliefs, but to the [...]
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Goodbye Delaware Driver’s License, hello National ID Card? If a small group of Delaware legislators get their way, that’s exactly what will be happening in Delaware soon. Senator Bushweller (Democrat-Dover), has introduced Senate Bill 74 in the Senate (http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis145.nsf/4bda103fb759b88c852574480048a7ee/5e11d5c20173ad3385257583007a01a6?OpenDocument). The main sponsor in the House of Representatives is Representative Mitchell (Democrat-Wilmington). The bill was just [...]
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Posted in Election 2010, Guest Opinion on Jun 1st, 2010
I caught your post earlier about the CA Senate candidates. Having also read Frank Knotts’s post about cap-and-trade and your mention of “global warming” when describing Boxer, I was struck by your embrace of Fiorina, when she repeatedly argued in favor of cap-and-trade just a couple of years ago — see this short video, and [...]
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Posted in Guest Opinion, Guest Posts on May 21st, 2010
Below is the published mantra by the Republican National Committee (RNC) under the Ronald Reagan years in general terms as to” Why We Are Republicans”. In my opinion, the GOP (The Grand OLE PARTY) has a remarkable opportunity, even here in Blue State Delaware, to win some major elections. The disgust and national concern [...]
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the author of this piece is Gerry Saranski. THE WADE EXPLOSION The Wade For Congress campaign is exploding in a fury of activity lately, with the kickoff of a new “Meet and Greet” fundraising event in Sussex County. The event includes catered food and plenty of excitement. Wade staffers are asking for a $25.00 [...]
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Solar-cell manufacturing in Frederick, Maryland, dates back to the mid-1970s. BP Solar, one such company, was so profitable it was in the middle of building a $97 million expansion to create more jobs in the solar panel industry. Now the BP Solar building is being demolished and 320 people in Maryland are unemployed. What [...]
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Guest Opinion Due to a recent flood of talented volunteers, Kevin Wade’s run for Delaware’s lone congressional seat has received a boost of tremendous proportions. The excitement in the Wade camp is tremendous and easily infects those that are anywhere around these newfound volunteers. They rally around waiting to be the next to come up [...]
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Posted in Guest Opinion, Kevin Wade on Feb 19th, 2010
- by Kevin Wade 18 February 2010 Candidate for the People’s Seat for Delaware in the US House My motivating interest in running for Congress is to see that everyday Delawareans get a square deal from a fair deck. For too long, “We The People” seem to get dealt hands with no winning cards. Meanwhile [...]
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by Shaun Fink As this year unfolds, we will hear a lot of talk about creating new “green” jobs to contribute to our state economy. In advance of the cacophony, let’s examine exactly what we are talking about when we use the term “green” before the word “jobs”. As neat and packaged as the [...]
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By John Stossel submitted from getLiberty.org as open source for public distribution to promote their new blog “What disturbs Americans of all ideological persuasions is the fear that almost everything, not just government, is fixed or manipulated by some powerful hidden hand,” Frank Rich wrote in Sunday’s New York Times. That manipulation should disturb us. [...]
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Dear Editor, I have just returned from a health care forum in Lewes. It had been advertised in the Cape Gazette as open to the Public, but we were told at the start that this meeting it was not intended for the public. It had been planned as an information gathering session of the Delaware [...]
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smitty-note: bumped this post up to give it a chance in the sun, rapid posting caused it to get pushed down on the page rather quickly PSSST….Dover…you passed an Onion not an Apple by Joanne Christian Let me applaud the 17 Representatives who “got it” in their decision to vote “NO” to HB 117. HB [...]
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