The New Castle County Council is advancing with a pilot program to install speed cameras on Milltown Road and, most likely, McKennan’s Church Road. Ordinance 25-071 establishes an electronic speed monitoring system that will be piloted for five months. Funded by state legislators Rep. Kim Williams and Sen. Spiros Mantzavinos, using approximately $28,500 in community transportation funds. Council approved the …
GOP reps: Dems never told us about Appropriations bill releases
Republican members of the House Appropriations Committee say they were not notified that Democrats planned to release bills from the House Appropriations Committee they sit on. The bills were signed by the Democrat members Wednesday, maybe during a caucus meeting, and then press releases were sent out saying they had been released by the committee, which never met. Among them …
Teacher’s union gets 1 wish: Pay committee moves meeting
Delaware’s state teachers union got one of its wishes Monday when the state committee charged with adjusting the salaries of public school workers announced it will push its monthly meeting back an hour. Mark Holodick, education secretary and chair of the Public Education Compensation Committee said at the start of Monday’s regular meeting that starting next month, the committee will …
Comical clash of opinions marks House passage of bill to abolish youth, training wage
The bill now moves to the Senate Labor Committee, where a hearing is set May 19.
Bill to kill youth, training wage plows right through committee to House floor
The full House will debate and vote on a bill that would abolish lower pay for youth and for training workers.