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Delaware Business Now Bouchard Delaware Chancellor Andre G. Bouchard informed Gov. John C. Carney and his judicial colleagues that he plans to retire effective April 30, 2021. Bouchard said it was time to step back, enjoy more time with his family, and pursue other interests, according to a release from the state court system. He did not announce any specific plans after he retires from the bench. Chancellors and vice-chancellors often return to practice corporate law. “It has been an honor o...

Frank Bruni: Joe Biden’s withering olive branch We’ll either seize this fresh chance to get along, just a little. Or we’ll blow it. (Andrew Harnik | AP file photo) President-elect Joe Biden leaves after speaking at The Queen theater, Monday, Dec. 28, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. By Frank Bruni | The New York Times   | Dec. 29, 2020, 4:28 a.m. The year will turn, Joe Biden will take the oath of office, and we’ll heal. That was the fundamental promise of his campaign, no? ...

Is calm a mirage? Is normalcy obsolete?

on what life will look like in 2021. The year will turn, Joe Biden will take the oath of office, and we’ll heal. That was the fundamental promise of his campaign, no? That was the hope. But I’m struggling mightily to hold on to even a sliver of it. Like President-elect Biden, I believe in common ground, in comity, in identifying where we intersect rather than where we diverge. I was drawn to him, as were a critical mass of other Americans, because he represented the calm after the storm, t...

Reflections on 2020 and the Future of Work At the beginning of the year, it was impossible to imagine what would unfold over the course of 2020. As the year comes to a close, we are confronting the ever-worsening tragedy of a global pandemic, and hoping that 2021 brings relief and recovery from the health and economic toll that it has taken on our country and the world. The pandemic has dramatically accelerated many of the trends shaping the future of work, from e-commerce to automation to remo...

Planned to take 10,000 syrian refugees over the next year, i believe 65,000 over time. im joined right by one of the few who says hes comfortable admitting refugees to his state. jack markell of delaware. thank you for joining us. explain your positive position about refugees from syria. >> well, first of all, i mean an all governors, the thing we care the most about is keeping our people safe. that is a given. and so the refugees who come here from overseas go through the most secure, the most ...

the second suspect theyre after over there. >> yeah, good day to you, there, chris. we have new information, unconfirmed by nbc news, of a ninth individual. we do not know whether that is actually factual. however, the news agency is saying that this ninth person coming from a spokeswoman, from the prosecutors office, that is involved in the case. but when we got up this morning, here in paris, it was eight individuals, as you know, over the weekend, it was seven, and then they increas...

experience. these are people that never met a payroll. these are people that have never done it before, and they dont know what theyre doing. now, president trump, president trump! so hillary, they said, you know, when you did "saturday night live" four weeks ago that was the opening show. that traditionally would be their big show. and she had miley cyrus who i think is terrific. i would say that miley would have an advantage, wouldnt you think, with ratings? it was very interesting b...

Prosecutor son, husband father. joining us jack markell. beau biden was reelected attorney general in 2010 with 80% of the vote and was expected to run for governor in 2016 and governor markell, you assumed hed follow in your footsteps. >> yes. we expected him to run. had he run, he would have won. and when he won, he would have been a very effective governor. this is a huge loss for all of delaware. not just because of how good he was as an elected official, but just because of what an incredib...

>> i think he needs to announce so he stops his hypocrisy with the money. thanks. great to have you on. still ahead on "morning joe," delaware governor jack markell says he expected beau biden to succeed him. hell join us as tributes continue to pour in for the vice presidents son. plus, how should the united states balance privacy rights with national security threats? independent senator angus king joins us. also the latest on the scandal involving former house speaker depend dennis hastert. w...