Karl Baker

3 weeks ago | spotlightdelaware.org | Karl Baker

Why should Delaware care? Constitutional challenges have emerged to a state law that changed the rules for Delaware’s influential business litigation, making it more difficult to sue powerful, rich owners of companies. Proponents of the bill say it is necessary to ensure that Delaware remains the incorporation capital of America, which contributes about a third of the state budget independent of taxpayers.

3 weeks ago | spotlightdelaware.org | Karl Baker

Why should Delaware care? Hospital costs in Delaware are some of the highest in the nation, which impacts residents’ pocketbooks and the state’s, with its obligation to fund Medicaid and retiree benefits. In response, Delaware lawmakers last year created the Diamond State Hospital Cost Review Board with the authority to veto hospital budgets if they deemed them excessive. But that authority has opponents saying it damages Delaware’s chief brand as a regulator of corporate governance.

3 weeks ago | spotlightdelaware.org | Karl Baker

Why Should Delaware Care? Government works best when its citizens are knowledgeable and engaged. Delaware’s government has scores of commissions, working groups, agencies and legislative committees. All must hold meetings that are open to the public. A string of consequential public hearings will occur in Delaware this week that could determine how schools get funded, whether Wilmington bars stay open later, and how a long-standing legal and political drama involving the Bidens may come to an end.

3 weeks ago | spotlightdelaware.org | Karl Baker

Why Should Delaware Care? Hospital costs in Delaware are some of the highest in the nation, which impacts residents’ pocketbooks and the state’s, with its obligation to fund Medicaid and retiree benefits. In response, Delaware lawmakers last year created the Diamond State Hospital Cost Review Board with the authority to veto hospital budgets if they deemed them excessive. But that authority has opponents saying it damages Delaware’s chief brand as a regulator of corporate governance.

1 month ago | spotlightdelaware.org | Jake Owens |Karl Baker

Why Should Delaware Care? Electricity rates have skyrocketed in the mid-Atlantic region since COVID, but a proposed offshore wind farm near Ocean City, Md., has sparked widespread opposition from many Sussex County businesses and residents. The debate has become one of the thorniest political issues on the Delmarva Peninsula – on both sides of the state line.