The Caesar Rodney Institute is pleased to announce the hiring of Dr. Christopher D. Casscells as Director of the Center for Health Care Policy. CRI made filling this position a high priority after realizing the need to explain sound health care policies to the public in the wake of the Affordable Care Act ruling being upheld. In addition to questions that need to be answered surrounding the Supreme Court’s decision, there will be many additional issues in Delaware addressing

DOVER, DE - Cause of Action, a Washington D.C.-based legal advocacy group, has filed suit today in US Federal Court, District of Delaware, against Governor Jack Markell and five members of the Delaware Public Service Commission. The Caesar Rodney Institute (CRI), a Delaware-based non-partisan think tank, has challenged the merits of utilizing high-cost Solid Oxide Fuel Cells to produce electrical power for sale to ratepayers of Delmarva Power, Delaware's largest energy utilit

Yesterday, the Coastal Zone Industrial Control Board voted to uphold Secretary O'Mara's decision to grant Bloom Energy the right to build their Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, called Bloom Boxes, on nine acres of land near the coastal zone.  Bloom Energy says their boxes will be good for the environment, will lower energy costs, and will create jobs in the state.  The Board decided this was good enough for them, and denied John Nichols standing, despite the fact that five hours earli

The April, 2012 labor market data for Delaware has just been released and the numbers are not encouraging. Compared to April of 2008, four years ago, total employment in Delaware is down by 20,000. Construction jobs are down 40%, manufacturing off 22%, and finance jobs down 6%. Government, of course, is up 2%. Although compared to four years ago the civilian labor force in Delaware is off by 5,000 people, the number of folks unemployed is up by 68%.   Real (inflation-adjusted

Who is Ilya Shapiro? Why Should You Care?             What if someone told you that you have to buy size large seersucker pants?             But maybe you aren’t a large, maybe you don’t like seersucker, maybe you just don’t like being told what to do.             Now instead of pants, it’s healthcare and that someone is the United States government.             Is it really that different?             Does the government have the right and power to tell the American people t

Does America have a government of laws or men? Is Obamacare bigger than Roe v. Wade?   March 14, 2012 Wilmington Country Club Reception - 6:15pm, Dinner - 7:00pm Caesar Rodney Institute 4 th Anniversary Celebration   “I am willing to debate any one, anytime, anywhere, on the constitutional merits of Obamacare.”  - Ilya Shapiro Don’t miss the opportunity to hear Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute, as he brings forth the arguments of wh

With one of the highest renewable energy mandates in the nation, Delaware businesses and residents can expect big losses in economic investment, jobs and income, according to a study released jointly today by American Tradition Institute and the Caesar Rodney Institute. The study found that Delawareans would pay $2.34 billion more for electricity between 2017 and 2026 because of the state's RPS, as alternative energy is more costly and unreliable than conventional sources suc

The state of Delaware can realize significant savings and improve the accuracy of its prevailing wage data by shifting from using Delaware Department of Labor’s prevailing wage survey data for state construction projects to wage data collected semi-annually by the DDOL under contract to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (the OES survey). The savings from shifting to the OES survey data would be on construction costs, the unemployment fund, and staff time. Using Delaware’s F

The Caesar Rodney Institute is a non-profit research and education organization dedicated to the measured improvement in the quality of life, the degree of individual liberty, and opportunity for personal fulfillment for all Delawareans. Mr. Barrett Kidner, CRI Chairman and CEO, recently elected a new member to the CRI board of directors; Mr. Joseph J. Oddo.   Mr. Oddo is a recognized thought leader and an information technology professional with a record of implementing busi

What is Effective National Government?   By Richard Spencer, Ph.D.   A major part of the mission that CRI has taken upon itself is dedicated to the measured improvement for individual liberty and personal fulfillment of each Delawarean. That can be largely accomplished through expanding the personal and economic freedoms for each of us.   One would think that would be easy and that it was always the history of the country. It turns out that it isn’t easy and it wasn’t the his