Monthly Archives: May 2009

Amendment Helps Ease Passage Dewey Beach may yet have a 35-foot height limit written into its charter. After much contention between Rep. Pete Schwartzkopf, D-Rehoboth Beach, and Dewey officials and citizens, a charter change to limit building height to 35 feet passed unanimously in the House May 14. Despite being passed by referendum with 86 [...]

Representative Charges Interference Dewey Beach’s controversial 35-foot height limit charter change moves forward in the General Assembly – the passage, however, is fraught with contention between Rep. Pete Schwartzkopf, D-Rehoboth Beach, and Citizens to Preserve Dewey, a civil action group composed of property owners. Schwartzkopf, House majority leader, said Citizens to Preserve Dewey (CPD) takes [...]

Lawmakers Give Table Games Green Light A hard-fought battle in the Legislature ended when Gov. Jack Markell signed a measure this week that expands gambling in Delaware. The bill allows sports betting in Delaware and is expected to bring an estimated $50 million to state coffers its first year. It also tentatively approves table games, [...]

Expansion of gambling facing tough battle Late Thursday, May 7, the House passed new gaming legislation that increases the state’s share of gambling revenues. In an 30-4 vote, the House passed a measure Gov. Jack Markell estimates could bring in an estimated $52 million in new state revenues. The compromise measure calls for increasing the [...]

The Delaware legislature took the first step toward establishing sports gambling in the state, approving a bill early Friday morning that was opposed by every major sports league in the USA along with the NCAA. Days after a similar bill failed to garner enough votes in the state’s house of representatives, the reworked bill — [...]