The Green - October 2, 2020

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An already partisan and polarized election season saw a new, unexpected issue emerge.

The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg leaves a vacancy on the Supreme Court with a little more than month before Election Day

The decision to try to fill that seat immediately, and President Trump’s choice to replace the liberal Ginsberg – conservative Amy Coney Barrett – created new battle lines and have implications for cases heard in the new term and years to come.  

Widener Univ. Delaware Law School professor and H. Albert Young Fellow in Constitutional Law John Culhane joins us to discuss the Supreme Court vacancy and what lies ahead.

Like most other states,  Delaware has received a flood of unemployment claims since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

The state’s monthly unemployment rate was 10.5 percent in August after peaking at 15.8 percent in May.  And it is still much higher than the 3.9 percent rate reported this time last year.

Delaware Public Media’s Nick Ciolino recently spoke with Delaware Division of Unemployment Director Daryl Scott about the state’s various efforts to pay jobless benefits.

This summer, two statues were taken down in the City of Wilmington.

One, of Christopher Columbus. The other, of Declaration of Independence signer and slave-owner Caesar Rodney.

The city has promised community conversations about the future of these monuments. Not everyone has been happy about their - at least temporary - removal.

In this week’s Enlighten Me, Delaware Public Media’s Sophia Schmidt talks with David Young, director of the Delaware Historical Society, about what monuments really say about history—and why they tend to stir up controversy.

The 2020 Big Draw Festival is underway with events planned throughout October.

This year, the City of Milford is partnering with the Mispillion Art League to reinvent the community festival in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the need for social distancing.

And in this week’s Arts Playlist, the festival’s chair Rosemary Connelly joins Delaware Public Media's Kelli Steele to discuss this year’s largely virtualevent and its theme, “A Climate of Change.”