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ARCHIVES -- JANUARY 2003
THE CAMPAIGN THAT WOULD NOT
DIE
Posted: Jan. 31, 2003
After the votes were counted in the
congressional race, Republican Rep. Michael N. Castle returned to
Washington as expected for his sixth term, but it took a couple of
Democrats involved in the race a little longer to retire from the
field. One of them is reluctant to go yet.
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A WOMAN'S PLACE
Posted: Jan. 28, 2003
When John C. Carney Jr. spoke at the Women's
Democratic Club of Delaware, there was a thorough going-over of the
lieutenant governor himself along with a discussion on a rising
controversy about abortion rights.
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SMOKE SCREEN
Posted: Jan. 26, 2003
A couple of state representatives are doing
what they can to bring smokers out of the cold. During the first
month of the legislature, the maneuvering to roll back the smoking
ban has been fast and furious and not always up to civic-book
standards.
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SHARP TO THE END
Posted: Jan. 23, 2003
State Sen. Karen E. Peterson has discovered
that retired Sen. Thomas B. Sharp, the legislator she replaced, gave
himself a farewell present before he left. She would like it back.
What does a New Castle County senator want with the Fenwick Island
Lighthouse, anyway?
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POLI-TICKING
Posted: Jan. 22, 2003
It's the little things that make politics
tick. This is a column about that. Political scientist James R.
Soles and some ex-students resurrect the spirit of Caesar Rodney.
Calvin L. Scott Jr. and the Delaware bar look for favor with the
General Assembly.
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KING OF BREAKFASTS
Posted: Jan. 20, 2003
State Rep. Hazel D. Plant rang the bell Monday
morning for a buffet and speeches, and hundreds came out for the
19th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast in Wilmington. If
the coffee didn't wake them up, then guest speaker Lisa
Blunt-Bradley did.
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"HARDBALL" WITH JOE BIDEN
Posted: Jan. 15, 2003
Not Chris Matthews, not a national audience,
not an exuberant hometown crowd could get U.S. Sen. Joseph R. Biden
Jr. to budge on the question about running for president. It could
be seen live Wednesday night on the "Hardball College Tour" as it
rolled into the University of Delaware, where Biden went to school.
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CALVIN SCOTT TAPPED FOR
JUDGESHIP
Posted: Jan. 15, 2003
Calvin L. Scott Jr., a deputy attorney
general, received a telephone call Wednesday afternoon that most
lawyers only dream about, the Delaware Grapevine has learned. It was
the governor on the line to tell him she was nominating him for a
Superior Court judgeship.
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PEACE FOR A TIME?
Posted: Jan. 14, 2003
The Delaware Senate was a model of goodwill as
its members voted unanimously during the General Assembly's opening
day to make Thurman G. Adams Jr. the president pro tem and pledged
cooperation, but some of the senators may have had their fingers
crossed.
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MINNER AT MID-TERM
Posted: Jan. 13, 2003
For the first time in 30 years, the party out
of power isn't quaking at the prospect of taking on a governor going
for a second term. But that governor, Democrat Ruth Ann Minner,
isn't quaking about the Republican charge, either.
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MAKING HISTORY IN D.C.
Posted: Jan. 7, 2003
Delaware's three-member congressional
delegation began the 108th Congress on Tuesday with a flourish, but
no one more than U.S. Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. The Democratic
senior senator set a state record with his sixth term and also
slipped in another of those coy presidential winks.
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A JUDGE JUMP-STARTS THE NEW
YEAR
Posted: Jan. 3, 2003
The judicial branch is the first to begin a
round of January political ceremonies as Kent A. Jordan takes his
oath as a federal judge, but the legislative and executive branches
are set for some festivities of their own, as well.
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