DelawareLive Dec 31 year in review

DelawareLIVE Weekly Review – December 31, 2023

Sonja FreyDelaware Live, Weekly Review

This Week’s Review Includes: Oaths of office open most diverse General Assembly ever EastSide breaks ground on $25 million community STEM hub Heated debate ends in vote to raise teacher pay over 4 years Judge refuses to block state’s assault rifle, magazine law First new Wilmington school in 50 years topped off with joy Jeep to stop sending gas-powered Wranglers …

DelawareLive July 2

DelawareLIVE Weekly Review – July 2, 2023

Sonja FreyDelaware Live, Weekly Review

Click on the image below to view as a PDF This Week’s Top Headlines Include: Headlines Seaford, EV bills pass House, so GOP votes to OK bond bill Ramone: Pass the Seaford bill, or GOP won’t vote on bond bill Christina’s Baqir: Review UD contracts after cop incident Culture Your guide to July 4th holiday in Delaware Feds award $44M …

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Worst kept secret: Longhurst is new House Speaker

Sam HautGovernment, Headlines

On Friday, speaker of the House Pete Schwartzkopf, D-Rehoboth Beach, choked up several times as he announced that he would be stepping down and that Rep. Valerie Longhurst, D-Bear, will succeed him as the new speaker. It will be the first time a woman has been elected the speaker of the House in Delaware. With Lt. Gov. Bethany Hall-Long presiding …

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Bill to reduce mobile home rent seems headed to House

Sam HautGovernment, Headlines

A bill that would lower rent for people living in manufactured housing communities seems headed to the House floor. House Bill 212, sponsored by House Majority Leader Rep. Valerie Longhurst, D-Bear, would prohibit manufactured home community owners from increasing rent by more than 5% each year and require community owners to submit annually to the The Delaware Manufactured Home Relocation …

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Draft bill would strike all references to gender in state law

Sam HautGovernment, Headlines

A legislative council voted Wednesday to create a bill that would allow all references to gender to be removed from Delaware law. The Joint Legislative Council, a bipartisan committee, unanimously approved a draft bill that would remove terms like he, she, his, hers with a noun that does not express gender. For example, in Title 14, Section 170, a student …

DelawareLive Jan 15

Delaware LIVE Weekly Review – Jan. 15, 2023

Sonja FreyDelaware Live, Weekly Review

Click on the image below to view as a PDF This Week’s Top Headlines Include: Headlines Longhurst starts House Day 2 by apologizing to Minor-Brown Right-to-repair bill would make original parts available Culture 8 ways to mark MLK Day in the First State Business Warehouse announced on 28 acres in First State Crossing Read Aloud Delaware unveils new logo, strategic …

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Delaware to add school libraries into statewide catalog

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

The Delaware Library Consortium announced Tuesday that it will spend $1 million to add school libraries into the statewide catalog. The goal is to broaden the First State’s library catalog and provide more students an opportunity to conduct research or read for pleasure. “Over the years it seems like everything around literacy has been tweaked except school libraries, until now,” …

Lawmakers work to ensure low-income, disabled get relief checks

Charlie MegginsonGovernment, Headlines

When Bridgeville resident Debra Dawson learned that Delaware lawmakers had announced a plan to give every Delawarean $300 in direct financial relief, she was elated.  Dawson, 61, relies entirely on Social Security Disability Insurance to live. She worked since she was 16 and paid into the system for decades. In 2012, a series of debilitating health events forced Dawson into …

Bills to add mental health help in schools sent to House floor

Jarek RutzEducation, Headlines

  Two bills moving to the House floor would put millions into mental health positions in Delaware’s middle school and high school.   The House Education Committee on Wednesday unanimously voted to release two bills focused on putting additional mental health resources into Delaware schools. House Bills 300 and 301 serve as an extension of House Bill 100, legislation passed …

State Democrat leaders condemn Brady for racist speech

Charlie MegginsonGovernment, Headlines

House Democratic leaders condemned one of their own Tuesday after an email was uncovered in which he joked about human sex trafficking and referred to women of Asian descent as “chink broads.” Rep. Gerald Brady, D-Trolley Square, sent the message from his state email June 27 in response to a plea from an out-of-state advocate asking Brady to consider decriminalizing …