edited by: G. A. Harrison,
Delmarva Editor
So sayeth candidate for Governor Larry Hogan. I can just picture him tapping his foot expectantly and saying, “Well…”
Obviously he makes some good points or I would have skipped making the post, so here goes:
Martin O’Malley’s latest stunt designed to mask his failed record on jobs and small business, elicited a [...]
...The Recovery Act made a down payment for clean energy jobs, primarily through public spending. But the creation of a carbon market would drive private investment away from pollution and into clean [...]
Treasury's mortgage modification program has produced zero permanent repayment plans. CalculatedRisk comment rescue ~
After requesting in March for help, I was offered a modification in late July. I made trial payments, accepted it, got it notarized per instructions, and sent [...]
We’re coming into a slow news period, so it’s time for some thought provocation as we glide into the Thanksgiving holiday (not to mention Christmas and New Years’ Day right on its heels.) A lot of people are writing off the remainder of 2009 as a lost cause and looking forward [...]
The Oil Refinery that produces 70% of the gasoline for the Delmarva Peninsula is shutting down. The Delaware City Refinery which has provided high paying jobs to Delawareans for decades has been losing money to the tune of $1 million dollars a day in 2009. 550 Workers will be [...]
At the Daily Kos, Meteor Blades grabs this graph from CalculatedRisk today.
The Government Accountability Office released a report (PDF) today criticizing the quality of the data used to calculate how many jobs have been generated by the stimulus.
Welcome to the club, GAO. Here are some of the highlights:
Nearly 4,000 reports filed [...]
Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein feels bad about crashing our economy. To make up for it, he's said he's sorry and has decided to give back $500 million of the money his company has made to small businesses. It's a gesture so empty, it's insulting. Never [...]
1. Castle voted against the Stimulus (jobs)
2. Castle voted against the Lily Ledbetter Act (wage equality for women)
3. Castle voted for the Stupak-Pitts Amendment (anti-choice)
4. Castle voted against health care reform
5. Castle’s amendment to the GOP health care bill would allow insurance [...]
It’s bad enough that we’ve off-shored our factories and technology and jobs over the past 20 years. We’re not off-shoring our Stimulus cash too. In fact, we’re tired of serving as the schoolyard wimp of the world. We need our [...]
Republicans were upset that Senator Boxer was determined to push her bill capping “greenhouse” emissions before the analysis was complete. The bill was much more radical then the house passed bill and is likely to supplanted by another bill. Why vote it out if only the more radical fringe [...]
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), flanked by economists who attended his economic roundtable on Thursday, slammed the White House and Congressional Democrats for promoting policies that he said have only cost 
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