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Archive of Delaware on Monday June 29, 2009
DE: Budget ax aimed at fix-up program
The upcoming state budget would give lawmakers less than half the money they got this year for a controversial program to fix streets, plant trees and pave parking lots in their districts, a legislative committee recommended Sunday. Read More
DE: Tax hikes run risk of public outrage
A push by the General Assembly to hike personal and business taxes at a time of record unemployment could generate a powerful political backlash. Read More
US: National sex offender registry delayed a year
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. has given states and American Indian tribes another year to feed a national Internet database set up to protect children by showing where possible predators live and work. Read More
DE: State looks for uses for ex-MBNA building
When legislators bought a shuttered MBNA building in downtown Wilmington for $13.4 million two years ago, officials first said it would be used as a training facility. Read More
DE: Deadline looms for sex-abuse cases
The two-year window of Delaware's 2007 Child Victim's Act is about to close, putting an end to a steady stream of civil lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse that dates to the 1950s and reaches to churches, schools and private homes. Read More |
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