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The Delaware General Assembly reconvenes next week and a week later Matt Meyer will be sworn in as Delaware’s next governor. One issue they’ll need to tackle together is education, but in fact, addressing education really requires working on a myriad of issues and topics simultaneously.Education funding, teacher pay, and school climate are just a few of the areas Gov.-elect Meyer and state lawmakers will be delving into in the coming months.This week, contributor Larry Nagengast reports on the state of play on education in Delaware.

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Homelessness is a persistent issue in Delaware, including in its largest city Wilmington.Wilmington continues to grapple with a rising unhoused population, exacerbated by a lack of resources and affordable housing, and advocates say new Mayor John Carney faces a steep challenge in solving the crisis.Delaware Public Media’s Kyle McKinnon recently spoke with Stephen Metraux – Director of the Center for Community Research and Service and Associate Professor of Public Policy at the University of Delaware – about how Wilmington can address homelessness under new leadership.

Delaware recently signed an agreement to lease land at 3Rs Beach in Delaware Seashore State Park to US Wind to serve as the power access point for its planned Maryland offshore wind project. While that project has received all necessary federal and Delaware permits, Sussex County denied a conditional use permit for the substation and the project faces a pair of lawsuits targeting the permitting process and the environmental impacts.These flashpoints and the larger discussion of the potential benefits and drawbacks of offshore wind raise questions: how well do Delawareans understand offshore wind and how can that understanding be improved?This week, Delaware Public Media’s Tom Byrne sat down with Kathryn Lienhard – an Offshore Wind Energy Research Associate for Delaware Sea Grant's Marine Advisory Service – to discuss offshore wind literacy and the debate over offshore wind in the First State.

The Delaware Art Museum is adding weekly film screenings to an increasingly dynamic catalog of arts programming.The ‘DelArt Cinema’ series aims to engage audiences in a whole new way; blending the visual arts with the power of cinema in the museum’s 160-seat auditorium where the screenings will take place starting this month.For this edition of Arts Playlist, Delaware Public Media’s Martin Matheny is joined by ‘DelArt Cinema’s’ Film Curator Tom Cavanaugh to learn more about the weekly film series and what he hopes it brings to the community.

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The Brandywine Valley Trail Plan at First State National Historical Park is moving forward.The plan designates a 27.8-mile shared-use trail network encouraging hiking and bicycling, among other activities, while promoting habitat preservation. After extensive environmental review and public input, the plan is now set to roll out over the next five years.Delaware Public Media’s Martin Matheny is joined this week by Samantha Baranski – Visual Information Specialist for First State National Historical Park – for more on how the trail system is shaping the park’s future and connecting local communities.

Recreational adult-use marijuana in Delaware became legal in April 2023, but the First State has yet to establish a legal market.That process has been underway for more than a year and a half, but the Office of the Marijuana Commissioner has made significant headway, including distributing business licenses for cultivation, manufacturing, and testing facilities.This week, Delaware Public Media’s Sarah Petrowich starts her series Delaware’s High Hopes, which will follow three of the license awardees as they launch their businesses. In this first installment “Cultivating a Cannabis Industry,” they discuss what it’s like trying to establish a new industry in Delaware, particularly with several towns and counties working against them.

For the better part of four decades, American sculptor André Harvey did much of his work in the Brandywine Valley; in Rockland. He created realistic and contemporary sculptures of all sizes, mostly depicting animals, cast in bronze using the lost wax method. Harvey also worked in granite, made collages, painted, and designed sculptural jewelry cast in 18K and 22K gold.Harvey passed away in 2018 at the age of 76 and in the new book “André Harvey Sculptor,” Bobbie Harvey, André’s wife, maps out his journey as an artist and their life together.For this edition of Arts Playlist, Delaware Public Media’s Kyle McKinnon sat down with Bobbie Harvey at her Rockland home to reflect on André Harvey’s work and indelible legacy.

Christmas cookies are an age-old tradition that spans generations, kitchens, and continents.They tell stories about our backgrounds and our past, and making Christmas cookies isn’t just about baking, it’s about connection.In this edition of Enlighten Me, Delaware Public Media’s Kyle McKinnon caught up with award-winning Rehoboth-based Pastry Chef Dru Tevis to explore the magic of Christmas cookies and why these sweet treats are as much about memory as they are about flavor.