Delaware Way

• How Ironic - The Financiers Feel Free To Employ Public Bailout Funds Against The Public Interest Via Lobbyists On The Hill

  Sam Stein says "As the Service Employees International Union reported, all Wall Street institutions -- banks and insurance companies, TARP recipients and non-TARP recipients -- have spent $321 million on lobbying in the first nine months since the bailout.
  From HuffPo ~
  

  In all, during the last quarter" [...]

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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 1:32pm EST
  

• Insurance Commissioner Mandates Virtual Colonoscopy As An Option To Be Offered To All Delawarean In New Or Renewed Policies

  (presser)Virtual Colonoscopy as Health Insurance Mandate
  Procedure Provides Additional Option for Colorectal Cancer Screening
  Dover – November 4, 2009. Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart, CIR-ML, has announced that all health insurance policies issued, delivered, or renewed after December 1 , 2009 must include Virtual Colonoscopy as an approved [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 1:09pm EST
  

• Markell's Tax Amnesty Nets Over 22 Million With Help Of Sallie Mae

  (presser)Delaware Tax Amnesty Exceeds Goal; Generates $22 Million
  NEWARK – Delaware’s one-time tax amnesty program is anticipated to net more than $22 million for the state, Gov. Jack Markell announced Thursday.
  
  The two-month long partnership between the Delaware Division of Revenue and the General Revenue Corporation, a subsidiary of [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 12:58pm EST
  

• Think Progress Writes: Biden Hosts Panel On Middle Class Families At The Center For American Progress

  Vice President Biden is at the Center for American Progress today to host a panel of leading scholars on the unique challenges facing America's middle class in the 21st century economy. View the live webcast here from 10:30 a.m. -- 12:00 p.m.

  White House Task Force on Middle [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 12:52pm EST
  

• Norm Cohen Writes: On The Salem/Hope Creek Relicensing - NRC Hearings Today

  My weekly column in the Current and Gazette, Cape May and Atlantic Counties:
  Guinea pigs. Cute little creatures, even starred in a movie recently. Folks in South Jersey might be interested to know that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will be turning all of us in South Jersey into [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 12:11pm EST
  

• Call Now To Demand That Rep. Castle Vote Yes On Rep. Weiner's Single-Payer Amendment

  Dear Healthcare-NOW! Supporter:
  

  We just got word from Congressman Weiner's office that because of your phone calls, faxes, and demonstrations, Speaker Pelosi is keeping her promise to allow the Weiner single-payer amendment a full debate and vote on the floor of the House.

  After nearly being shut [...]

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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 12:04pm EST
  

• Winterthur Benefit - 46th Annual Delaware Antiques Show This Weekend At The Chase Center On Wilmington's Riverfront

  (WNJ photo - 1935 Elutherian Mills' ruins of colonnade garden from Maggie Lidz' "The du Ponts: Houses and Gardens in the Brandywine.") WNJ reports ~
  WHAT: 46th annual Delaware Antiques Show, benefitting Winterthur Museum and Country Estate
  
  WHEN: 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday and Saturday; [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 10:27am EST
  

• Win-Win In DNREC-NVF Land Deal

  WOW, Collin O'Mara is starting to really be our 'boy genius" (no offense Collin)! The reported NVF Yorklyn plant deal is one of many bits of good news coming out of Jack Markell's Department of Natural and Environmental Resources these days.
  
  This WNJ depiction" [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 8:33am EST
  

• Election Results? Progressives Demanding Howard Dean Back As DNC Chair And Establishment GOP Promises No Primary Funding For 2010

  (HuffPo image)
  From the right, unable (or unwilling?) to prevent a 2010 mass-following of Palin's tea baggers, David Dayen reports ~
  Cornyn Forced By Teabagger Base To Keep NRSC Out' [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 7:51am EST
  

• I Don't Think ACORN Knew How Powerful They Were Until The Wingnuts Started In

  How confusing! What's the GOP to do? Wingnut crime-by-association defines an astroturf purity standard that no moderate Republican could hope to maintain. (h/t Whiskeyfire)
  DeFOX America gets some pushback ~ How NY23 Revealed the Republicans' ACORN Problem quotes from the National Legal and Policy Center ~
  “The' [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 6:04am EST
  

• Secret Internet Copyright Treaty Will Put An End To Delaware Way Blog?

  Nice. Obama made a deal to destroy the intertubes that helped him get elected. The terms of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement will effectively shut down "services like Flickr or YouTube or Blogger" and Much Much Worse.
  BoingBoing reports ~ (click over to their site for the full monty [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 5:36am EST