NEWARK – John Stapleford, a founding member and former director of the libertarian Delaware-based think tank Caesar Rodney Institute (CRI) and the founder of the Delaware Small Business Development Center (SBDC), died Aug. 25 at ...
By John Stapleford As an economist, seeing the slow growth in jobs, wages and personal income in Delaware, it is baffling to see the legislature focus on such things as plastic bags, dogs in restaurants, and ...
By John Stapleford and Dave Stevenson Guest Columnists Editor’s Note: The authors participated in our first Delaware Dialogue, published in the July 23 issue, and offered to write the following on the state of Delaware’s ...
Earlier this summer, if you were offered a public school teaching position in Delaware you would have been mandated to join the Delaware teachers’ union (DSEA). Union dues would automatically deduct from your paycheck, and ...
Over the past century, Delaware has gone from the state with the greatest inequality in the distribution of household income to one of the states with the least inequality. The standard measure of household income ...
By John Stapleford Guest Columnist The governing board of the Diamond State Port Corp has approved a proposed partnership between international port operator Guiftainer and the state to privatize the Port of Wilmington and develop ...
In 1998, New Castle County government enacted the Unified Development Code ““ an anti-growth land use code. That strict code did not apply to incorporated areas such as Middletown. In addition, earlier the county had ...
Over the last decade, including the “Great” Recession, total employment in Delaware has increased at half the rate of total employment throughout the nation, with a lukewarm 0.3 percent compound annual growth rate for Delaware ...
By John Stapleford Guest Columnist Over the last decade (2006-2016) government health insurance money has been flooding into Delaware. Medicare payments to Delaware households have jumped 82 percent and Medicaid payments 104 percent. This can’t ...
The objective of ECONOMIC INSIGHTS is to bridge the gap between the latest economic data and what it means for Delaware businesses. What’s happening? Among the state’s major industries, health care ranks second in total ...
The objective of ECONOMIC INSIGHTS is to bridge the gap between the latest economic data and what it means for Delaware businesses. What’s happening? Within Delaware’s financial services sector the industry of underwriting or selling ...
Alpha Technologies comes to Wilmington Alpha Technologies USA Inc., a U.S.-based global provider of IT solutions and consulting services to Fortune 1000 corporations, is set to move into a six-story office building at 704 N. ...
By Kathy Canavan Ron Russo first heard about the Caesar Rodney Institute about a year ago. He wasn’t quite sure what to think. He met a retired CEO who was so fired up about the ...
