Dr. John Stapleford, taking over as CRIs new President, spoke to Dace Blaskovitz on "Money and Politics in Delaware" about his new role as CRIs president and on what was going on with the states economy. The show airs Saturdays from 9-10 on WILM.com 1450 AM and WDOV.com 1410 AM.   Click HERE to listen.

With the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the national health policy debate has entered a new phase. Washington has embarked on an effort to exercise control over the entire health care sector of the economy, which now accounts for one out of every six dollars in American wallets. Washingtons agenda is to transfer both private and state health policy decision-making to the federal government, particularly the U.S. Department of Health and Human Ser

Over the past five fiscal years the operating budget of the Delaware Department of Transportation (DELDOT) has grown 18% while inflation rose 7%. So, DELDOT has been living large, yet the winners and losers inside the Department are curious.   The big winner with a 45% budget increase over the five years is the Motor Vehicles administration. Curiously, for those of us who have visited the DMV during the past year, according to their mission statement the DMV embraces “high st

Friday August 5, 2011 will likely be remembered as “the NEW Black Friday” or “THE” Black Friday. On that day, after markets closed, Standard and Poor’s (S&P) fulfilled its previous warning and downgraded the sovereign credit rating of the USA to AA+ from the fifty-years-old AAA.   On Monday the 8 th , the stock market took a tremendous dive in excess of 6% and all the pundits and talking heads blamed it on S&P’s downgrade. Clearly, the downgrade came in handy to justify the s

It appears more and more each day that the ultimate goal of the ACA is the institution of a single payer national healthcare delivery system similar to those of all socialized countries.  While the purported driver of healthcare reform was the uninsured population and the effort to provide something similar to Medicare or Medicaid to that population, the underlying economic driver of healthcare reform was, in fact, the overwhelming demographic data that both Medicare and Medi

Delaware is ranked number one in economic freedom among the states in the 6 th edition of the Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom of North America. Why is this important?

Thanks to no sales tax and low property taxes, Delaware has a competitive business tax climate.

Our comparisons of per capita costs for solid waste handling with other states showed Delaware was 159% higher

Over the past 10 fiscal years the Delaware Economic Development Office’s Delaware Strategic Fund has awarded over $201 million to firms and organizations in Delaware. Over $126 million of the awards have been outright grants, while $38 million has been in the form of loans, almost $34 million in convertible loans, and the remainder in preventure and equity funding. Has there been a logic to this largess?   The answer is mixed.   Are the disbursements used to offset the busine

For a number of years the state of Delaware has using capital funds to cover operating costs.