Delaware Department of Labor
The DOL Division of Unemployment Insurance spent approximately $26 million on modernization efforts.
Southside Investment Partners
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Southside Investment Partners
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Joe Irizarry/Delaware Public MediaThe bill, introduced last April and passed without opposition by the State Senate in May, requires all school districts and charter schools in Delaware to create a policy to limit student cell phone use. -
Delmarva Power files an application with the Delaware Public Service Commission to increase rates for Delaware customers.
This Week on "The Green"
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Delaware Public Media
Ongoing efforts to address the substantial need for more affordable housing suggest multiple solutions are necessary to build the needed level of available housing stock.One approach that could help is something called “upper floor housing,” or upper floor redevelopment projects. They are a way some communities are utilizing underused spaces, like empty office buildings or unused historic buildings, to meet the demands for housing while preserving their downtown facade.Upstairs Downtown is an organization that seeks to help upper floor redevelopers through workshops like one last month at the Smyrna Opera House.Delaware Public Media’s Isreal Hale spend time with historic preservation architect Mike Jackson and Carmody Consulting principal consultant Dan Carmody to learn how Delaware communities could benefit from upper floor redevelopment.
NPR National and World Headlines
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The four members of NASA's Crew-11 mission are heading home from the International Space Station. Their journey is ending a month early due to an astronaut with a "serious medical condition."
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The Trump administration has cut nearly 2 billion dollars in funding for programs that serve people with mental illness and substance abuse issues. Providers say the cuts are devastating.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with law professor David Cole of Georgetown University about the accountability of federal officers, after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Macklin Good in Minnesota.
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President Trump is dismantling the global system the U.S. built in the 20th century. Foreign policy experts say he wants a world that looks more like the 19th century.
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Lifting weights isn't the only way to build strength and muscle. Experts say bodyweight exercises can go a long way and are a great way to get started if you don't feel like going to the gym.
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In 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin, a student from a Black high school in Montgomery, Ala., refused to move from her bus seat. The forgotten civil rights activist died this week.
