The following is Doug Beatty’s “interview” of Lacey Lafferty, the so called candidate for governor of Delaware in 2016.

    http://www.delawareright.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/lacey-lafferty-on-beatty.mp3

Notice the third grade attempts to get me to call in and add actual content to the show.

The rumor is, and it has also been mentioned in the media at noon, that the current Secretary of DNREC, Collin O’Mara will be holding a conference call within DNREC today at 1:30 p.m. to announce his departure.

Of course any speculation at this time is premature, however the most likely reason for him leaving would be that he has been offered some cushy environmental position in D.C.

This is likely merely the first of this type of departure from the Markell administration. Setting up his people with jobs while he still has influence left in his last term.

I will update this story as more information becomes available.

   To be honest I had read an announcement of the upcoming candidate forum, to be held tonight in Georgetown, and had forgotten all about it. That was until I was on my way home and happened to be coming through Georgetown and remembered.

Maybe it slipped my mind because it wasn’t a forum for  candidates running for the U.S. Senate, or Congress. It wasn’t for candidates running for a Delaware statewide office like governor, or even treasurer.  It wasn’t even for candidates running for the Delaware Legislature. Continue reading →

    It seems as though Delaware Governor Jack Markell has only one arrow in his quiver of ideas on how to, well how to solve any problem facing Delaware. Continue reading →

   I happened to be on vacation this week, and since I had completed most of my honey-do list, I had time to ride down to Laurel, Delaware this morning to see the first leg of Lacey Laffferty’s “Walk For Liberty”. Continue reading →

The following is a repost of an article originally posted on “The Imaginative Conservative” by, Stephen Turley

   “What’s wrong with Earth Day?” my student asks incredulously from the back of the classroom. “What issue could you possibly have with being good stewards of our environment?” “There’s simply no point to it,” I respond. “We have Easter.” My student furls her brow; “What on earth does Easter have to do with saving the environment?” Continue reading →