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Education Related Funds Awarded to Former Foster Youth
Date Posted: September 4, 2024
Improper Ambulance Service Payments Result in $363K Penalty Against Highmark
Date Posted: September 3, 2024
The Mezzanine Gallery to Exhibit Julieta Zavala’s “Mercado Kitsch México”
Date Posted: September 3, 2024
Delaware Confirms Initial Cases of West Nile Virus in a Human, Horses for 2024
Date Posted: August 30, 2024
Family Emergency Preparedness Day on September 14 for National Preparedness Month
Date Posted: August 30, 2024
Becoming an Outdoors-Woman Weekend Coming to Killens Pond State Park Oct. 4 to 6
Date Posted: August 30, 2024
Drive Safely as Kids Head Back to School
Date Posted: August 30, 2024
Suspect Identified in a Hit-and-Run Incident Involving a Golf Cart
Date Posted: August 30, 2024
Governor Carney Signs Legislation to Address Food Deserts
Date Posted: August 29, 2024
Governor Carney Orders Lowering of Flags
Date Posted: August 29, 2024
DE, AR, PA, CA, TX, WI and 25 Other States Announce Settlement to End Interstate Unclaimed Property Litigation
Date Posted: August 28, 2024
DNREC Awards Contract Replace Bancroft Bridge
Date Posted: August 28, 2024
DOJ secures life plus ten years for deadly gun offender
Date Posted: August 28, 2024
Summer Enrichment Programs Benefit Delaware Students
Date Posted: August 28, 2024
Delaware’s 2024/25 Hunting Season Just Around the Corner
Date Posted: August 28, 2024
DNREC to Reopen The Point at Cape Henlopen State Park Sept. 1
Date Posted: August 26, 2024
Gov. Carney, First Spouse, Sen. Coons, Sec. Holodick, Pritchett Family Open Doors at New Maurice Pritchett Sr. Academy
Date Posted: August 23, 2024
Delaware Waterfowl and Trout Stamp Art Winners Chosen
Date Posted: August 22, 2024
Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit Arrests Woman Posing as Nurse
Date Posted: August 22, 2024
Delaware State Fire Commission Announces Groundbreaking Ceremony
Date Posted: August 21, 2024
Bridgeville Couple Charged with Animal Cruelty
Date Posted: August 20, 2024
Governor Carney Orders Lowering of Flags
Date Posted: August 19, 2024
Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over National Enforcement
Date Posted: August 16, 2024
Governor Carney Signs Legislation Supporting Safe Communities
Date Posted: August 15, 2024
Governor Carney Orders Lowering of Flags
Date Posted: August 15, 2024
Delaware State Parks Hunting Permits Now on Sale
Date Posted: August 15, 2024
2024 State Assessment Results Show Pandemic Recovery Continuing
Date Posted: August 15, 2024
First Spouse Tracey Quillen Carney to Launch Reading Tour, Host Story Times at Delaware Libraries
Date Posted: August 14, 2024
Delaware Treasurer Colleen Davis Celebrates Inaugural ABLE Savings Day
Date Posted: August 14, 2024
DNREC Prioritizes Equity in Community Environmental Project Fund Grants, Launches New Mapping Tool
Date Posted: August 14, 2024
Delaware Auditor Lydia York Releases Prescription Opioid Settlement Tracker
Date Posted: August 14, 2024
Newark Fire
Date Posted: August 13, 2024
Carney Administration Prioritizes Farmland Preservation, Preserving Highest Number of Farms
Date Posted: August 13, 2024
Delaware Department of Agriculture Issues Warning on Recent Sales of Backyard Poultry and Equipment
Date Posted: August 9, 2024
Delaware Children Wish Smokey Bear Happy 80th Birthday at Dover Public Library
Date Posted: August 9, 2024
Scam Alert: Division Of Revenue Warns Taxpayers Of Fraudulent Letters
Date Posted: August 9, 2024
The Office of Marijuana Commissioner (OMC) to Begin Accepting License Applications on August 19, 2024
Date Posted: August 8, 2024
Governor Carney, Federal Delegation, General Assembly and Community Celebrate Investments in Kingswood Community Center
Date Posted: August 8, 2024
Governor Carney Signs Legislation to Support Youth Mental Health
Date Posted: August 7, 2024
State Releases Guidance on Generative Artificial Intelligence in Classrooms
Date Posted: August 7, 2024
Delaware Division of the Arts Announces First Round of Grants in Support of Arts Projects for FY2025
Date Posted: August 7, 2024
Delaware State Housing Authority Introduces Housing Stability Program
Date Posted: August 7, 2024
DNREC Opens Doors to Environmental Careers With New Internship Program
Date Posted: August 7, 2024
Delaware Tourism Office Launches the Tournaments, Events, and Athletic Meets Sponsorship (TEAMS) Program
Date Posted: August 5, 2024
Governor Carney Announces Appointments to State Board of Education
Date Posted: August 2, 2024
USACE and DNREC Sign Agreement for Bayshore Beaches
Date Posted: August 1, 2024
DMV Introduces New Chatbot, Della
Date Posted: August 1, 2024
Scuse Honors UD’s Dr. Mark Isaacs at Delaware State Fair for Service to Agriculture
Date Posted: August 1, 2024
DNREC Sets Information Meetings for Draft State Energy Plan
Date Posted: August 1, 2024
Early Childhood Professionals to Earn up to 12 College Credits for CDA under New Agreements
Date Posted: July 31, 2024
DNREC Announces Opening of New Boat Ramp at Records Pond near Laurel
Date Posted: July 31, 2024
Grants to Support Rural Education Achievement Programs
Date Posted: July 30, 2024
Delaware’s First 2024 Evidence of West Nile Virus Detected in DNREC’s Sentinel Chickens
Date Posted: July 26, 2024
Governor Carney Honors DNREC’s 2024 Young Environmentalists, Youth Anglers at Delaware State Fair
Date Posted: July 25, 2024
DelDOT Announces EPA Climate Pollution Reduction Grant Award
Date Posted: July 24, 2024
Health Equity Institute of Delaware Offers Training to Clinical and Public Health Workers
Date Posted: July 24, 2024
Cape Henlopen State Park Community Workshop to be Held July 31
Date Posted: July 24, 2024
Delaware Tourism Office to Reopen the Sports Tourism Capital Investment Fund
Date Posted: July 24, 2024
Governor Carney Signs House Bill 125
Date Posted: July 23, 2024
Commissioner Navarro Launches Office of Long-Term Care Insurance
Date Posted: July 23, 2024
Use Extreme Caution Traveling through Work Zones
Date Posted: July 22, 2024
DSHA Celebrates $500 Million in Mortgage Financing with Discover Bank, Launches New Mortgage Products
Date Posted: July 22, 2024
DNREC Sinks Two Vintage Vessels on Delaware Reef Site 11, ‘The Redbird Reef,’ to Enhance Recreational Opportunities
Date Posted: July 22, 2024
AG Jennings takes action against financial adviser for charging unreasonable fees
Date Posted: July 19, 2024
Fire Commission Releases New Updates for EMS Protocols
Date Posted: July 19, 2024
DOJ secures significant prison time for habitual shoplifter turned robber
Date Posted: July 18, 2024
Application Period for Tree-Planting Project Funding Open
Date Posted: July 18, 2024
DNREC Highlights Boating Safety with New Life Rings at Woodland Beach
Date Posted: July 17, 2024
Volunteers Needed to Clean Up the Coast
Date Posted: July 16, 2024
DPH Urges the Public to Attempt to Reunite Stray Pets
Date Posted: July 16, 2024
Box Tree Moth Found at Private Residence in Kent County, Delaware
Date Posted: July 15, 2024
DNREC Unveils Delaware’s First Publicly Available All-Terrain Wheelchair
Date Posted: July 12, 2024
Delaware Students Excel at National STEM Conference
Date Posted: July 12, 2024
Grants to Support Students Experiencing Homelessness
Date Posted: July 12, 2024
DOJ secures lengthy prison sentence for violent gun offender
Date Posted: July 11, 2024
DNREC Again to Offer Popular ‘Life in the Bay’ Educational Seining Program for Families of All Ages
Date Posted: July 11, 2024
Delaware and r4 Technologies Launch Innovative Project to Address Food Insecurity and Food Waste
Date Posted: July 10, 2024
DNREC Soliciting Project Proposals For Surface Water Matching Planning Grants
Date Posted: July 10, 2024
SkillsUSA Students Earn National Recognition
Date Posted: July 9, 2024
“Odd Little Creatures” Take Over The Mezzanine Gallery This Summer
Date Posted: July 8, 2024
Governor Carney Announces Selections to Delaware Women’s Hall of Fame for 2024
Date Posted: July 8, 2024
AG Jennings launches portal to help businesses prepare for Personal Data Privacy Act enforcement
Date Posted: July 8, 2024
Governor Carney Orders Lowering of Flags
Date Posted: July 8, 2024
Delaware Division of Child Support Services Holding Town Hall Meetings
Date Posted: July 8, 2024
Explore Delaware’s Public Health Data Portal During National Environmental Public Health Tracking Awareness Week
Date Posted: July 8, 2024
Grants to Support Community Learning Centers
Date Posted: July 5, 2024
Free and Reduced-Price Meal Policy: Annual Announcement
Date Posted: July 5, 2024
Future Health Professionals Bring Home Honors
Date Posted: July 5, 2024
DNREC to Hold Virtual Joint Public Hearing July 9 on Proposed Offshore Wind Project
Date Posted: July 3, 2024
Mark Short Named Administrator of Delaware Standardbred Breeders’ Fund
Date Posted: July 2, 2024
Warning: Be Cautious of Predatory Practices related to Social Equity Licenses
Date Posted: July 2, 2024
Smyrna future educators bring home second consecutive national win
Date Posted: July 2, 2024
DPH Releases 2024 Burden of Chronic Disease Report
Date Posted: July 1, 2024
Groundbreaking Study Reveals Economic and Social Impact of Non-Profit Arts and Culture Sector in Delaware
Date Posted: July 1, 2024
Registration is Now Open for Delaware EARNS Retirement Benefit Program
Date Posted: July 1, 2024
DNREC Announces Arrival of 2024/25 Delaware Hunting and Trapping Guide
Date Posted: July 1, 2024
Hall-Long Highlights Historic Investments, Action for Delawareans
Date Posted: June 30, 2024
Governor Carney Shares Highlights from the Legislative Session
Date Posted: June 30, 2024
Governor Carney’s Statement on the Delaware Supreme Court Ruling
Date Posted: June 28, 2024
In unanimous ruling, Court sides with Jennings on voting rights
Date Posted: June 28, 2024
Why Should Delaware Care?
As lawmakers face their final working day of the year, a slew of significant bills have yet to be considered. Any bill that is not approved by both chambers as of midnight June 30 is officially marked dead, and must be reintroduced in the next General Assembly that begins in January.
As the final day of the 2026 legislative session approaches on Tuesday, several bills face uncertain futures, including a slate of property tax reforms and legislation that seeks to rein in healthcare costs.
Also pending is the state’s often-contentious capital budget that would distribute nearly $1.26 billion dollars to state building projects.
The list of pending legislation remains despite a lively penultimate week in Dover during which lawmakers passed immigration enforcement reform, gun control legislation, and affordable housing requirements for municipalities.
Lawmakers also shockingly failed to advance a proposed amendment to the Delaware Constitution that would enshrine the rights to gay and interracial marriage in the state. Both are currently legal in Delaware, but an amendment would make it considerably harder for lawmakers to remove those protections.
In all, the final days of the 2026 legislative session cap off a generally subdued year of lawmaking – particularly when compared to last year’s fights over the state’s corporate franchise, the Port of Wilmington and control of zoning rules for marijuana shops and a wind-farm substation.
The session also heads toward a close as several lawmakers prepare for what is expected to be hard-fought campaigns for reelection.
What passed this week?
Lawmakers passed a slew of significant bills this past week relating to land use, immigration, education funding and part of the state’s 2027 fiscal year budget.
Those bills now will all advance to Gov. Matt Meyer’s desk to be considered for signatures or vetoes.
Senate Bill 23, which generated substantial pushback from local governments across the state, passed the House on Tuesday with an unusual mix of bipartisan support. If signed into law, the bill would require municipalities to increase housing density and incorporate additional affordable housing reforms in their comprehensive plans.
Lawmakers also passed Senate Bill 13, which would greatly increase the number of patients eligible to receive free or reduced-price treatment – often called charity care – from the state’s nonprofit hospitals.
That bill was introduced months after a Spotlight Delaware investigation called into question the charity care practices at the state’s largest healthcare system, ChristianaCare.
A pair of immigration reform bills passed the Senate on Thursday, following a lengthy debate about the role of local law enforcement in federal immigration policy.
House Bill 368 would prohibit local and state law enforcement officials from detaining individuals simply because of their immigration status. People accused of serious crimes could still be held for prosecution. House Bill 94 would ban law enforcement from cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in specific spaces — schools, churches and healthcare facilities.
Two bills focused on the funding structure for public schools unanimously passed the House on Wednesday, following up on long-debated changes to how education is funded in Delaware.
Senate Bill 302 allows the state to begin implementing the new hybrid school funding formula, which allocates more money for schools with more low-income or English-language learning students. Senate Bill 303 charges the Public Education Funding Commission to continue studying education funding in future years.
Both chambers also passed the fiscal year 2027 operating budget with relatively little fanfare. The budget includes a 6.3% spending increase from last year, above the 5% growth that Gov. Meyer called for in his original budget proposal in January.
What’s left to do?
Several bills are left to be considered during the General Assembly’s final working day on Tuesday, including the state’s billion-dollar capital budget.
That bill, which requires a three-fourths majority vote in order to pass, presents a rare opportunity for Republicans to exert power over the negotiations. Democrats are currently one seat short of a three-fourths majority in the Senate and four seats short in the House, requiring them to receive at least some Republican buy-in on the final proposal.
There could be a few sticking points in bond bill negotiations, including $35 million earmarked for the expansion of Legislative Hall. It would be the third largest appropriation anywhere in the bond bill.
John Flaherty, a director of the Delaware Coalition for Open Government, decried the lack of public notice or input for such a massive project in the waning days of the legislature.
“The Delaware General Assembly is in full session for just 43 days out of the entire year. Spending $35 million to expand a complex that sits largely empty or underutilized for more than 300 days a year is an indefensible use of state revenues, especially when community-facing infrastructure projects face strict funding limits,” he said in a statement.
Other bills left to be considered include a slate of property tax reforms that were introduced earlier this month in response to the fallout from last year’s first-in-a-generation property reassessments.
Those bills, which were filed following months of committee hearings to investigate what exactly went wrong in the aftermath of reassessment, include a proposal to indefinitely extend New Castle County school districts’ controversial ability to tax commercial and residential properties at different rates.
Another healthcare-focused bill, Senate Bill 1, also remains up for consideration in the House.
A primary care reform bill that also includes price caps for government-regulated insurance plans, SB 1 was scaled back from its original form through months of negotiations with the state’s healthcare lobby.
Those changes would delay the implementation of price caps on hospital procedures, limit some state oversight in setting those caps, and completely exempt some hospitals from the law altogether.
The bill unanimously passed in the Senate last month, but it has not yet been considered in the House.
Lawmakers in both the House and Senate are set to reconvene for the final time this year at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, June 30. Those hearings could extend long into the night depending on how readily legislators can strike deals, reach consensus or find compromise on any number of the proposals remaining before them.
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The Hagley Museum and Library houses a collection of patent models
The Hagley Museum and Library houses the nation’s second-largest collection of patent models, many of which the public never gets to see.
For most, 41 years of service is more than enough. For State Librarian Annie Norman, though, even retirement can’t slow her down.
“The work is never done; there’s always something to do,” she said. “I’m going to have to continue to help in other ways.”
Norman will step away this fall after 24 years as the Delaware state librarian and director of the Delaware Division of Libraries.
Throughout her tenure, Norman made waves; the director helped create the Delaware Library Consortium, which allowed all of Delaware’s Public libraries to share items, and brought the library system along during a wave of technological change. For these achievements, she was named to the Delaware Women’s Hall of Fame in 2016 and appointed by President Joe Biden as a member of the National Museum and Library Services Board.
We spoke with Norman as she wraps up an accomplished career about her proudest achievements, and the state of libraries in 2026.
Question: As you look back on your tenure, what was your proudest accomplishment?
Answer: What I’ll be known for more than anything is probably the statewide library catalog and consortium. The politics of bringing all of those libraries together, after years of there being four separate library catalogs in Delaware, took about eight years. More recently, I think bringing the school libraries into that catalog is going to be really significant. We’ve got more than 50 school libraries to be a part of the statewide catalog, something we think can really help with the literacy crisis in this state.
One of the biggest challenges of your tenure was adjusting to the large wave of technology that came about. How have you and the Delaware libraries handled it?
It’s been very systematic. We have a great IT team that helps manage for us, as well as the state funding 100% of library technologies. The growth of the iPhone has certainly had a huge impact on literacy, but we’re really just working hard to bring back the excitement of reading.
The Delaware libraries’ programming have always been a popular resource. How important do you view these offerings to local communities, and will they continue to expand?
Yes, libraries are about enrichment, which means helping support people in things like entrepreneurship, education and innovation. We’ve had libraries start up job centers, which were so successful we could expand to entrepreneurship, and even help with more basic social needs, by starting a “social innovation team” to help with more of the social services-type work.
Where we still struggle is we can only help people access Delaware systems to help with their needs, not fix things within those systems. For that reason, we always encourage these systems to work with us, so the Delaware library system can fit everyone’s needs.
Cuts toward libraries just occurred in New Castle County, with the potential for more to come. How will the library system look to stay afloat?
Because of the economy, because of federal changes, things can get difficult, it’s not the first time we’ve experienced budget cuts. We’ve progressed significantly over the years, but there is much more work to do, and I don’t know that the public understands how critical libraries and librarians are to literacy.
The power of walking into a library and being able to choose what you want to read for a child is powerful, and until people understand that, we can’t achieve our literacy goals.
Adam Denn is an intern reporter for Delaware Online/The News Journal. You can reach him at apdenn@delawareonline.com.
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DELAWARE COUNTY, Ohio — People in Delaware County said it feels like new housing developments are popping up on every corner.
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“What haven’t you noticed, right? The whole area just exploded,” said Scott Shonebarger.
Scott Sanders, the executive director of the Regional Planning Commission, said companies like Intel and other industries are a main driver for thousands of people moving to Delaware County.
With the big boom comes an urgent need for more housing.
John Wicks is the developer at Real Property Design and Development.
He has spent over a decade building homes for families in Delaware County.
Wicks said the Olentangy School District is one of the hottest spots for new homes.
“I started with one high school up until the 90s, then now we’re up to four up to five different high schools so it’s just a big draw,” said Wicks. “It’s a beautiful community.”
The district has grown into the fourth largest in Ohio with a new elementary school opening next year, and a fifth high school in 2028.
Wicks said the growth has presented some challenges over the years like labor shortage and some opposition.
“It’s become a big issue for a lot of people that live in and around these areas. They tend to oppose new growth and new development, so restrictions have gotten a little bit harder. Costs have obviously gone up over the last 20 years,” said Wicks.
The planning commission says between 275,000 and 350,000 people could call Delaware County home by 2040.
That’s up from 214,000 in 2020.
Scott Shonebarger said he supports growth but wonders when is enough.
“I mean to a certain extent I think you know at some point right you have to have some sort of boundaries I think, getting into the fact that now you have five high schools,” said Shonebarger. “What’s the limit?”
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