The Delaware Liberal blog has an ongoing, interesting exchange about Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart. Their story has already spawned more than 70 comments.
Archive for March, 2010
An interesting discussion about the DOI
Posted in Uncategorized on March 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
An appointed position?
Posted in Uncategorized on March 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In today’s column, Ron Williams, The News Journal’s assistant editorial page editor, proposes making the Insurance Commissioner’s post an appointed position.
Insurance Commissioner responds
Posted in State Spending on March 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart called in to WDEL’s Rick Jensen Show yesterday, while Jensen was interviewing CRI. An audio recording of this show is available here.
Delaware Dept. of Insurance: Not in the public interest
Posted in Budget, Economy, FOIA, Government Spending, State Spending on March 30, 2010 | 18 Comments »
(Editor’s note: a high-resolution PDF version of this story can be found in CRI’s Special Reports section.) A nine-month investigation by the Caesar Rodney Institute has uncovered lucrative no-show jobs and no-bid contracts for campaign donors, allegations of fraud and a systemic misuse of millions of taxpayer dollars. By Lee Williams Attorney Steve Kinion receives [...]
Why So Angry?
Posted in Uncategorized on March 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Guest Blog by Dr. John E. Stapleford, Director of CRI’s Center for Economic Policy and Analysis Pundits on both the left and the right agree that there is a great deal of anger over the recently enacted healthcare reform. Typically people are angry when they don’t get what they want. So, what are people not [...]
Low Carbon Equals High Cost
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Energy; Environment on March 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Proud of its historical status as the first of the original 13 colonies to ratify the Constitution, Delaware has certainly earned the right to proudly display our first-state motto anywhere and everywhere we can fit it. Recently Delaware signed another historic pact with many of those same states – this one, aimed at implementing a [...]
Teaching fiscal responsibility to tomorrow’s leaders
Posted in Uncategorized on March 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The financial world has recently experienced one of the most significant downturns in its history. Pundits argue and try to find explanations for this world crisis, most often entirely missing the point – the economy is experiencing a breakdown of personal and social financial responsibility. A father allowing himself to slip $50,000 into debt, or [...]
“Race To The Top” – of What?
Posted in Education, Race tot he Top on March 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
By Shaun Fink All across the fruited plain, state governments are scrambling around trying to scrounge their portion of the $1.35 billion expansion of the “Race to the Top” (RTTT) program funds that the Obama administration has added in its FY 2011 budget. This is in addition to the $4.35 billion for RTTT included in [...]
