Delaware Talk Radio will be going off the air while we re-structure our business and move to another location.
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Delaware Talk Radio will be going off the air while we re-structure our business and move to another location.
[...]A career environmental program manager at Natural Resources and Environmental Control has filed a grievance with the state over the hiring of former gubernatorial adviser Lee Ann Walling as chief of planning, according to DelawareTalkRadio.com.
Walling was a land use adviser to Gov. Ruth Ann [...]
Gov. Jack Markell signed his first executive order Friday, limiting the acceptance of gifts from lobbyists by members of his administration. Under the executive order, members of Delaware’s executive branch are also limited from accepting gifts from vendors and potential vendors to state government.
 ”When selecting my cabinet and staff, I [...]
Dude, I’m just playing. Dave tells me that other bloggers have lowered the bar so much that putting a person’s name in a blog title is okay.
The liberal media is folding. The Huffington Post has links to all the mainstream media outlets going under. And FYI, just in the last [...]
From thehill.com:
Okay, you might want to consider the source, but it does show support for the stimulus package.
Voters in the 40 of the most competitive Democratic-held congressional districts favor the economic stimulus legislation passed by the House this week, according to a new Democratic poll.
Democracy Corps sampled 1,200 people combined [...]
The Illinois Senate voted to remove Gov. Rod Blagojevich from office on Thursday after an FBI investigation revealed he tried to sell a U.S. Senate seat to the highest bidder.
In a long-shot attempt to save his job, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich insisted Thursday he had done nothing wrong and shouldn’t [...]
The current stay on Work Force Housing approved by New Castle County Council on December 8, 2008 expires this Saturday. All restrictions to the Work Force Housing ordinance have been tabled by Councilman Penrose Hollins. That means the original Work Force Housing ordinance stands and will be back in effect [...]
DelawareTalkRadio.com has learned that Dave Carter, an Environmental Program Manager Level II at the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) has filed a grievance over the hiring of Lee Ann Walling as Departmental Chief of Planning at the agency.
The grievance alleges that Ms. Walling does not meet [...]
President Barack Obama signed a new pay-equity measure into law Thursday, effectively overturning a 2007 Supreme Court decision that made it harder to sue for pay discrimination.
All four female republican Senators voted for the bill. Last year, the Bush Administration and Senate Republicans blocked the bill, calling it anti-business.
The Lilly [...]
Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) has vowed to use all legal means available to confiscate Wall Street bonuses paid out at the end of last year.
Dodd, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, told reporters that he would press the Treasury Department to recoup the more than [...]
ThinkProgress has kept a running tab of Congressional leaders on the cable networks this week, and found that far more Republicans got to plead their case on air.
Most interestingly, the CAP-run site - a persistent critic of Fox News - credits Murdoch’s network as being the most balanced.
In [...]
Updated: Live Version of Sweet Home Alabama/GOP base rocks out
From NBC:
Given last night’s House Republican vote, as well as tomorrow’s RNC chair contest and even the recent GOP fealty to Rush Limbaugh, it’s worth pointing out that the Republican Party is about as unpopular now as [...]
From ABC News:
For all the talk about grim times on Wall Street, for all the bailing out the nation has done of the banks, for all the lost revenue of shareholders, for all the implosion of risky investments these banks made, Wall Street still gave out $18.4 billion in bonuses [...]
DelawareTalkRadio.com has learned that Dave Carter, an Environmental Program Manager Level II at the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) has filed a grievance over the hiring of Lee Ann Walling as Departmental Chief of Planning at the agency.
The grievance alleges that Ms. Walling does not meet [...]
For the second time in a week, the Obama administration has violated its no-lobbyists-in-the-Administration rule. While it’s better to set a high standard and occasionally fall short than to not set it at all, it’s best not to fall short with a lobbyist from Goldman Sachs.
Newly installed Treasury [...]
Former Merrill Lynch CEO john Thain has been subpoenaed by New York’s Attorney General, as part of an inquiry into executive compensation. The move comes just five days after Thain resigned following disclosures that he doled out as much as $4 billion in bonuses a month ahead of schedule and on [...]
The first installment of the $350 billion that was handed out to banks and financial institutions under TARP drew widespread criticism from Congress for its lack of transparency and lack of conditions or regulations with respect to how the money would be used. The Obama Administration has said that will [...]
The high-flying execs at Citigroup caved under pressure from President Obama and decided today to abandon plans for a luxurious new $50 million corporate jet from France. Officials of the Obama administration called Citigroup about the company’s new $50 million corporate jet and told execs to “fix it. Now.”
Our new Lt. Governor seems to think so:
The middle of an economic crisis is the wrong time to restrict local governments’ ability to pursue economic development, Lt. Gov. Matt Denn said Monday, calling on state legislators to meet with business leaders before passing a bill designed to restrict powers [...]
New York Fed Chairman and TARP co-creator Timothy Geithner was sworn in moments ago by Vice-President Joe Biden as Treasury Secretary.
[...]The Illinois Senate on Monday convened a historic impeachment trial that will determine whether Gov. Rod Blagojevich is removed from office. Chief Justice Thomas Fitzgerald began the trial by reminding senators they face “a solemn and serious business.”
Blagojevich is refusing to take part in the trial, [...]
It is just amazing the arrogance and ignorance of corporate America, using taxpayer money to pay CEO bonuses, stockholder dividends and now purchase a corporate jet. Beleaguered Citigroup is upgrading its mile-high club with a brand-new $50 million corporate jet - only this time, it’s the taxpayers who are [...]
President Barack Obama’s decision to freeze top White House staff salaries may force members of Congress to do something they never want to do — block their own automatic pay increase. But what Obama could do by executive order, Congress would have to accomplish by a [...]
A slew of American heavyweight companies, including Caterpillar, Pfizer, Sprint Nextel and Home Depot announced thousands of job cuts Monday. What’s more, a group of business economists predicted many more job losses in the year ahead. Many economists predict a 9-10 percent unemployment rate within the next six months.
President Barack Obama, [...]
Plunging into energy and climate change policies, President Barack Obama on Monday moved to give states a freer hand in curbing greenhouse gas emissions from cars, and to get his government moving on fuel-efficiency standards that could remake the auto industry.
“Year after year, decade after decade, we’ve chosen delay over [...]
Gigapan.org has posted a 1,474 megapixel photo of the inaugural. You have to see it to believe it.
Imagine this:
[...]According to TheInqusitr.com, nearly 70 million people watched the inauguration of Barack Obama via streaming video on the Internet, while 37.8 million watched it on broadcast television. Allowing for multiple stream loads per viewer, it still leaves a 1:1 ratio. A watershed moment in the transition from traditional media [...]
I want to thank my guests from today’s show about transparency in government. For those of you who might have missed it, here are the podcasts:
Ed Martin, Former CoS to Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt
Here are a few recent quotes from John McCain on a variety of subjects. Sounds like Mac wants to get to work with the democratic majority.
“I remind all my colleagues: We had an election,” McCain noted. “I think the message the American people are sending us now is they want [...]
Multiple news organizations are reporting New York Governor David Paterson has picked Democratic Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand to fill the state’s vacant U.S. Senate seat, a day after Caroline Kennedy abruptly withdrew from consideration.
Gillibrand, a second-term lawmaker from upstate New York, will be named to fill the seat vacated when Hillary [...]
The Senate on Thursday flexed its bolstered Democratic majority and passed an equal pay measure that Republicans blocked last year. The bill could be the first measure signed into law by President Obama.
Senators voted 61-36 for the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, after a day of beating back eight GOP [...]
Former Merrill Lynch & Co. CEO John Thain resigned from Bank of America Corp. Thursday following news that Merrill had moved up its yearend bonuses, paying them just before BofA completed its acquisition of Merrill and sought more government bailout money. Thain approved moving up the bonuses prior to the [...]
NCC Council President Paul Clark and County Councilman Penrose Hollins joined Randy Nelson moments ago. Here is the podcast of that interview.
[...]Here are the podcasts from today’s guests on the Employee Free Choice Act:
Save Our Secret Ballot’s Tim Mooney
South Carolina State Rep. Eric Bedingfield
[...]In a meeting with retired military officers today, President Obama signed three new executive orders, one of which calls for shutting down the controversial Guantanamo Bay detention center in a year’s time. He also signed an executive order to require that all U.S. interrogations of terror suspects must now conform [...]
Caroline Kennedy tonight withdrew her name from consideration to replace Hillary Clinton in the U.S. Senate after learning that Gov. David Paterson wasn’t going to choose her, The Post has learned.
[...]Obama was just re-sworn in, the White House map room. Roberts readministered the oath. Gregg Craig there to oversee.
Whew…we just avoided four years of bickering over whether or not Obama really was President since the word “faithfully” was out of place in the Oath of Office….
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Paul Clark & Penrose Hollins LIVE 1pm
Employee Free Choice Act Discussed 11am-1pm
Friends of DTR — We strive every day to bring you hard-hitting, issue-based radio, but let’s face it: some days just stand out. Today is one of them.
Today at 1pm, New Castle County Council President [...]
It seems all Washington was dancing in the streets on Tuesday, but that night at the Neighborhood Ball, the spotlight was on 14-year-old Victoria Lucas.
No shrinking violet, the 9th-grader from Dover, Del., went right up to President Barack Obama — and challenged him to [...]
New Castle County Council President Paul Clark will appear on Delaware Talk Radio Thursday at 1 pm to discuss Work Force Housing. Penrose Hollins will also be on the program.
[...]Unveiling ethics rules that he portrayed as the fulfillment of a major campaign promise, President Obama said that “the way to make government responsible is to hold it accountable.” The [...]
Delaware Talk Radio has learned that Dave Small will be named acting Secretary of DNREC, possibly as soon as today. Small, currently the deputy secretary at DNREC, will fill the position while Governor Markell continues his national search for a permanent replacement for outgoing Secretary John Hughes. Sources tell DTR.com that Governor [...]
One of President Barack Obama’s first acts Tuesday was to put the brakes on all pending de-regulations that the Bush administration tried to push through in its waning days. One of the more difficult tasks for the Obama Administration and for democrats will be to undo the Administration’s midnight de-regulations that [...]
Make no mistake about it, the Internet has been a huge advantaqge for the Democratic Party. Over the last two election cycles, the Democrats used the Internet to get their message out and raise money. But President Obama took it to a new level in his historic run for the White House; and the [...]
Check out this “Word Cloud Analysis of Obama’s Inaugural Speech Compared to Bush, Clinton, Reagan, Lincoln’s” from ReadWriteWeb.com.
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Yeah, that's Vice President Joe Biden, President Obama, half of Beau Biden's head and *gasp* RUTH ANN MINNER!
This morning on the air I asked local bloggers LiberalGeek (DelawareLiberal.net) [...]
Obama has arrived at the White House. Eight years of failed foreign and economic policy is nearly over.
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LAME.
So I waited like two years for my Bush’s Last Day countdown clock to go off, and it finally did today a little after midnight (I know it was premature, but I didn’t feel like resetting it to the exact time), and all it did was [...]
