Georgetown Town Council votes to repeal its cottage home ordinance.
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Bente Bouthier/Delaware Public MediaNemours Children’s Health researchers receive a grant to boost sickle cell disease research. -
Bente Bouthier/Delaware Public MediaAs Delaware’s budget discussions for FY 2028 kick off, child advocates tell Gov. Matt Meyer not to overlook a program to inspect rentals for lead paint.
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The 2026 Midterm Election is over, and the headline is Democratic success across the board locally and nationally.What issues prompted this “blue wave?” What does it mean for politics here in the First State, and across the country between now and the next election in 2028?To do a post-mortem on what we saw at the polls this week, we checked in with Paul Brewer, University of Delaware communications professor — previously Delaware Politics director at UD’s Center for Political Communication — and a voice we’ve leaned on regularly for perspective on the political state of play in Delaware.
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The Kennedy Center's former president Richard Grenell was a paid board member of Ticketmaster's parent company at the same time the two parties were negotiating. -
When ICE agents show up at a school, educators rely on a patchwork of policies to know what to do. This year, many state legislatures tried to update those policies. -
In a 2023 campaign speech, Trump pledged to reclaim universities from what he called the radical left. His Education Department just finalized a rule to help him do it.
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A Supreme Court ruling that further weakened the Voting Rights Act paved the way for a record drop in Black representation in Congress. But a midterm blue wave helped hold off such a decline for now. -
In a state that hasn't had a Democrat in office since 1980 and hasn't sent a Black Senator to Washington since the 1870s, Colom's win represents a massive upset in state politics. -
The text of what lawmakers are considering isn't always made available for public review before it is voted on. A group of open governance advocates is calling on Senate leadership for a change.
