Politics

Accomplished writers appear in the Politics column every Tuesday on a rotating basis to explore the dynamic world of politics at the local, county, state, national and world levels.

Politics

Right wing talks about democracy, doesn’t believe in it

Don Flood
11 years ago
In 1943, with World War II still raging, writer E.B. White was asked to explain what democracy is...
Politics

Bill dealing with guns, mental health should be...

Don Flood
11 years ago
As a boy, I watched old B movies about Hercules, the great mythological hero. Even as a 7-year-old...
Politics

Potential airstrike made for strange bedfellows

Don Flood
11 years ago
On a pleasant, late-summer evening in Lewes, it seemed as if President Obama had accomplished one...
Politics

Reopened plant good news for many, but residents...

Don Flood
11 years ago
Sometimes it seems business people can barely say the acronym “DNREC” without gritting their teeth...
Politics

‘Un-American’ is a weak charge, if that’s all you’ve...

Don Flood
11 years ago
Jim DeMint, the former Republican senator from South Carolina, came to Delaware last week to trash...
Politics

Elder Biden made comeback; now it’s his son’s turn

Don Flood
11 years ago
In 1988, following a potentially deadly brain aneurysm, Sen. Joe Biden made his first public...
Politics

Not surprisingly, sea level report has its dissenters

Don Flood
11 years ago
The state’s Sea Level Rise Advisory Committee recently approved its final list of recommendations...
Politics

Lopez finds partisanship worse than he expected

Don Flood
11 years ago
Here’s how Sen. Ernie Lopez’s day was shaping up: breakfast at the Lewes Chamber of Commerce;...
Politics

Call it anything, but don’t call it ‘global warming’

Don Flood
11 years ago
Tooling around the web recently - I never could surf - I came across a headline that would appear...
Politics

Supporters appear unsure whether class is supposed...

Don Flood
11 years ago
On Thursday, the Cape Henlopen School District Board of Education once again addressed the...
Politics

Crane: Unless Democrats build party blue Delaware...

Don Flood
11 years ago
There’s talk, nationally, of Texas - once considered the reddest of Republican red states - turning...
Politics

Delaware’s Castle Doctrine better than Florida’s...

Don Flood
11 years ago
On Aug. 24, thousands will gather to mark the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, which...
Politics

Rally was fine; run-up to event was needlessly divisive

Don Flood
11 years ago
A line drawn in the sand. Various versions of this headline were too perfect not to use for the...
Politics

Board would be wise to take staff’s advice on Bible...

Don Flood
11 years ago
At last month’s meeting of the Cape Henlopen School District Board of Education, people lined up...
Politics

Markell’s tactic cited as way for Democrats to save GOP

Don Flood
11 years ago
Who will save the Republican Party? According to one writer, Democrats. Last week a friend sent a...
Politics

Wary of government? Yes, but we need some level of...

Don Flood
11 years ago
In the early 1800s, after the dissolution of the Federalist Party, the United States entered what...
Politics

Saddled up and ready to tilt at windmills

Don Flood
11 years ago
Sometimes I feel out of step. (My wife might say I’m always out of step.) But I don’t get the big...
Politics

Next election, if necessary, gay issue likely to be...

Don Flood
11 years ago
A few weeks before November’s election, Marie Mayor was feeling good about her chances. Mayor, a...
Politics

What’s proper role for board of education?

Don Flood
11 years ago
An educated person is familiar with the Bible,” said Jennifer Burton at the May 9 meeting of the...
Politics

Board should go slow before voting to opt out of reform

Don Flood
11 years ago
Nothing is certain except death and taxes,” wrote Benjamin Franklin more than 200 years ago. If he...
Politics

State reaches out on sea-level rise; county not...

Don Flood
11 years ago
Outreach, outreach, outreach,” said Susan Love, repeating perhaps the state’s No. 1 strategy for...
Politics

Common Cause raises concerns about money and...

Don Flood
11 years ago
On May 1, Common Cause began an effort to build local interest in the organization, inviting the...
Politics

Prime Hook residents leave for sunnier, drier clime

Don Flood
11 years ago
Rick and Diane Allan have left the house they once considered their dream home. The Prime Hook...
Politics

Lopez shows independence with gun background vote

Don Flood
11 years ago
Last spring, I first sat down with Ernie Lopez, then a candidate running to be the Republican...
Politics

New Republican party chair hopes to keep party rolling

Don Flood
11 years ago
How do you keep building on success? That might be the question John Rieley, newly elected chair of...
Politics

League helping to keep an eye on local government

Don Flood
11 years ago
You probably know about the League of Women Voters: It’s a women’s group that every four years...
Politics

More than most, death penalty issue crosses party lines

Don Flood
11 years ago
When Rep. Darryl Scott of Dover told me a couple of months ago that the death penalty might be...
Politics

Two scientists question sea-level rise, but we face...

Don Flood
11 years ago
Two Delaware organizations, Positive Growth Alliance and the Caesar Rodney Institute, held a...
Politics

Politicians should listen to constituents on all...

Don Flood
11 years ago
The message is simple and to the point: “Attn Politicians Hands Off Our Guns.” The Hudson...
Politics

For Sussex native, Rosa Parks was more than...

Don Flood
11 years ago
Last month, a statue of Rosa Parks, the woman who became a civil rights leader by refusing to move...
Politics

Mayor, newly elected district chair, plans to stay...

Don Flood
11 years ago
Following election defeats, some politicians fade away. Some take stock and ponder the future. Some...
Politics

Gun issues are too big not to talk about

Don Flood
11 years ago
Among the big issues this year is gun control or gun safety. The following are a few quick points...
Politics

Smyk says background helped him tackle gambling,...

Don Flood
12 years ago
The first - and sometimes only - job for a freshman legislator is getting up to speed. For Rep...
Politics

Coalition hopes Latino outreach will broaden...

Don Flood
12 years ago
Lise Haupt, president of the Sussex County Democratic Coalition, wants to prove Vice President Joe...
Politics

Lopez faces politicians’ toughest task: unlimited...

Don Flood
12 years ago
Newly elected state Sen. Ernie Lopez said he was told that as a new legislator he would get a 100-...
Politics

Living life on the edge - of Delaware Bay

Don Flood
12 years ago
When Rick and Diane Allan first discovered their Prime Hook home in 2006, they thought they had...
Politics

It’s time for election year signs to come on down

Don Flood
12 years ago
Election year 2012 is over, which means: Take down those signs. Most came down pretty quickly, but...
Politics

Progressive Democrats lost, but they’re not giving up

Don Flood
12 years ago
Upstairs at Irish Eyes in Lewes, the room was filling up with happy volunteers. It was Election...
Politics

Republican official: Democratic voters key to Sussex...

Don Flood
12 years ago
For Cape Region Republicans, 2012 was a good year. Statewide, not so much. As Duke Brooks,...
Commentary

Survey seems intrusive; should you fill it out?

12 years ago
To say that some people are suspicious of the federal government is an understatement. At times, it...
Politics

Election may be over, but work on next one begins

Don Flood
12 years ago
You may be glad that the election is over and that we can all forget about politics for a while. If...
Politics

Director says technology helped ease Election Day...

Don Flood
12 years ago
When Ken McDowell, director of the Sussex County Department of Elections, counts his blessings this...
Politics

National Republican leaders could look here for...

Don Flood
12 years ago
Nationwide, many Republican leaders are looking at ways to help their party deal with its...
Politics

In a disaster, people expect government to respond

Don Flood
12 years ago
Walking the Rehoboth Boardwalk Tuesday morning after Superstorm Sandy, I saw one of those funny/...
Politics

Mailers highlight difference between two state...

Don Flood
12 years ago
It didn’t take long for things to heat up at a recent candidates night. Ernie Lopez, Senate...
Politics

Election will affect coastal Delaware, even if...

Don Flood
12 years ago
For residents of coastal Delaware, the year’s most important election may well be one in which they...
Politics

Circumstances thrust candidate into the limelight

Don Flood
12 years ago
Speaking at a Meet Our Democratic Candidates Fair Oct. 14, Rep. Pete Schwartzkopf, D-Rehoboth Beach...
Politics

Was Smyk lucky not to have primary opponent?

Don Flood
12 years ago
No candidate wants a primary. Especially in Delaware. Not held until after Labor Day, primaries...
Politics

Why are some Constitutional rights more important...

12 years ago
We hear a lot about Constitutional rights, but it seems some rights are more “Constitutional” than...
Politics

When it comes to billboards, keep it simple

Don Flood
12 years ago
There’s an art to designing a good political billboard. Forget about art and forget about design...
Politics

Study addresses issues of saving bayfront communities

Don Flood
12 years ago
All politicians worry about the shifting sands of politics. Amy J. Reed Parker, mayor of Slaughter...
Politics

Keeping alive the golden goose of free enterprise

Don Flood
12 years ago
Rich Collins of the Positive Growth Alliance took exception to my Aug. 28 column where I said that...
Politics

Before the primary election, there’s the race for money

Don Flood
12 years ago
Money alone doesn’t decide elections, but it sure helps. For a class he was teaching, Republican...
Politics

People at meeting concerned about losing property...

Don Flood
12 years ago
The event could have been titled “Democracy in Action.” Or perhaps, “Democracy: Inaction.” Either...
Politics

We don’t need ‘spiritual war’ at Sussex County Council

Don Flood
12 years ago
This is not a political battle, but a spiritual war.” Such was the rallying cry of the Rev. John...
Politics

Say what you will about politicians, most work...

Don Flood
12 years ago
Ever wonder who puts up all those campaign signs that seem to spring up overnight like weeds? (And...
Politics

Jobs, healthcare among top issues in 6th Senate...

Don Flood
12 years ago
With Primary Day looming, about 65 Democrats gathered for a meet and greet at Irish Eyes in Milton...
Politics

It’s not enough to simply invoke the Constitution

Don Flood
12 years ago
Before taking his oath of office as president of the United States, George Washington wrote, “I...
Politics

Dirty trick mars Republican primary race in Sixth...

Don Flood
12 years ago
Type in “ glenurquhartforsenate.com ” on your browser and naturally you’ll find a website...
Politics

Only the fortunate don’t realize health insurance...

Don Flood
12 years ago
Many readers have ripped apart the mistakes and distortions in Michael Hurd’s commentary on the...