Allowing the sales, and outdoor tables to stay, are ways of helping restaurants rebuild from COVID shutdowns, restrictions
New COVID cases numbers flatten, deaths decrease as vaccine sprint continues
Delaware’s number of new COVID-19 cases flattened out in recent weeks and the number of deaths has decreased, but the number of hospitalizations rose, the state said Friday. Gov. John Carney also announced Friday he has extended his emergency order another month, and that the state will reopen a rental assistance program for those whose income has …
Bill to strip state of ability to force vaccinations, quarantines, isolations killed in committee
The state’s right to enforce public health is based on 1905 U.S. Supreme Court case considered a legal landmark
Review recommends shrinking powerful state Health Resources Board, making it advisory only
Opponents of keeping the Resources Board say it prevents real competition in the market and keeps prices high.
$15 minimum wage bill easily passes Senate, 14-7
Sen. Marie Pinkney said many of the people who worked on the bill wanted to to go much further.
Will minimum wage hike to $15 help banish poverty or destroy business?
It was a tale of two minimum wage hikes Wednesday during a hearing on a bill that would raise Delaware’s to $15 an hour by 2025. Those in favor of the bill said raising it from $9.25 an hour would raise tens of thousands of Delawareans out of poverty, including a large number of women and minorities; help …
Two-hour hearing on minimum wage ends without public vote being taken
Senate Bill 15 was already listed on the full Senate agenda for Thursday before the hearing took place.
Delaware to open vaccines Wednesday to all over 50; and those 16-64 with underlying conditions
The new rules also will allow caretakers of people who have underlying conditions to be vaccinated.
Delaware’s surplus for 2022 set at $669 million; comes with warning to look ahead
Delaware’s major revenue sources are real estate transfer taxes, corporate franchise income, unclaimed property and COVID government benefits.
County, UD team up to track COVID in sewage; start hunt for variants
The process that New Castle County, CEWER use also has been used to check sewage for alcohol and narcotic drugs.