By Dr. John E. Stapleford
According to Gaming & Resort Development, national casino and racino revenue has emerged from the recession losses to post a modest 1% gain in 2010. Delaware’s racino revenue rose 1.5%.
The combination of the recession and the growth in gaming revenue in Pennsylvania and Maryland has dropped Delaware from an 11% [...]

Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart wants to meet privately in her office with the House and Senate insurance committees at a meeting closed to the public.
By Lee Williams
Caesar Rodney Institute
Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart has scheduled a private meeting with the House and Senate insurance committees to be held behind closed doors, just [...]

After 42 inmates at the Sussex Correctional Institution in Georgetown came forward telling state officials they witnessed an unprovoked assault by three guards on one inmate – an attack they claim was started by the guards – retaliation has begun against the whistleblowers.
The inmates documented the assault on a Department of Correction (DOC) grievance form, [...]

Delaware‘s congressional representation has quintupled since the stimulus bill was enacted, according to Recovery.gov, as $10 million dollars was pumped into 4 congressional districts that did not exist.
It appears that the labels for the districts, including 99 and 35, were chosen at random. It is not clear what geographic entities, if any, the districts refer [...]

A government watchdog in Delaware has drawn the ire of state Attorney General Beau Biden, the son of Vice President Joe Biden.
Biden returned stateside from his tour of duty in Iraq this week — he serves in the National Guard — but his homecoming was not all pleasantries. He has been immediately confronted with several [...]