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State Treasurer Flowers abandons reelection bid
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Upheaval on the Delaware political landscape this week.
State Treasurer Chip Flowers will not seek reelection, but will finish out the remaining months of his current term. His decision comes days after complaints made to Dover Police by former Deputy Treasurer Erika Benner surfaced. She claims Flowers was harassing her by text and email. Flowers denies those allegations - but Friday morning a tearful Flowers said the drumbeat of questions about his conduct have become too much for he and his fiancé. (More)
2014 Candidate Conversations: State Treasurer
The 2014 election cycle is now moving into full swing with the Delaware primary less than a month away on Tuesday Sept.9th.
As part of our election coverage, Delaware Public Media is offering a series a Candidate Conversations. We’ve reached out to all candidates that have filed to run in a statewide race and invited them to sit down with us. Candidates in each race are being asked the same set of questions to allow you to get to know then and compare them.
This week, we highlight the Democrat candidate for State Treasurer Sean Barney. This interview as taped before incumbent Flowers' decision to exit the race. (More)
Democrat Sean Barney
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Next week: Candidate Conversations with Ken Simpler, Republican candidate for State Treasurer, and David Chandler, Green Party candidate for State Treasurer.
Specialty and small batch sodas finding a place in First State
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Most know about Delaware’s craft beer industry, but local production of another beverage – soda - is starting to gain some notoriety as well. Contributor Pam George of Small Wonder, Big Bites examines if the specialty soda movement that topped the list of non-alcoholic beverage trends in the National Restaurant Association’s 2014 culinary forecast is ready to explode - in a good way - in the First State. (More)
UD College of Health Sciences making most of new STAR campus space
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Walking along the main hallway of the University of Delaware’s Science, Technology and Advanced Research Building is a bit like walking into the future. Except that the future appears to be here already. The building, the centerpiece of the university’s new STAR campus, blend combine academics and research and involve significant partnerships with private, government and nonprofit institutions in Delaware and across the country. The Green speaks to a pair of UD professors now working in the facility. (More)
Enlighten Me: Women's bodybuilding
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Bodybuilding's mainstream popularity exploded when the film "Pumping Iron" hit screens in 1977, igniting the careers of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno. But the impact wasn't just felt by men.
Female competitions were established and in 1982 the International Federation of BodyBuilding and Fitness officially recognized the women’s edition of sport.
Last week, you could find it right here in the First state at 2014 National Physique Committee’s Delaware State Championships and Delmarva Classic event.
Delaware Public Media's Karl Malgiero’s visited the event for this week’s Enlighten Me – and talked to Tracey Greenwood, an associate professor of exercise physiology at Eastern University in Philadelphia, who has competed in numerous fitness, figure and bikini competitions, and is a 9 time IFBB Fitness Champion. (More)
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