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Friday | Daily Times

DELAWARE: DelTech delivers zero-growth budget

Delaware Technical & Community College leaders presented the zero-growth budget requested by state officials Thursday, but President Orlando George warned that absorbing greater cuts might lead to eliminating class sections for courses that already have long waiting lists The Office of Management and Budget asked Cabinet departments and state ...

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Friday | National Parks Traveler

Is There a First State National Historical Park in Delawarea s Future?

Delaware is the only state without an NPS unit. A bill recently introduced in the U.S. Senate aims to fix that.

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Related Topix: Delaware Government, Oceania, American Samoa, World News

Wed Nov 04, 2009

News Journal

Obama's campaign manager talks about Delaware, election in memoir

President Obama's 2008 campaign manager says the conventional wisdom on Obama that he's governing as an incrementalist rather than a visionary leader is "ridiculous" and won't hold up if Congress passes health care and energy-saving legislation.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, John McCain, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Wilmington, DE

Tue Nov 03, 2009

1450 WILM NEWSRADIO

Forty-Seven Airmen From The 166th Airlift Wing Of The Delaware Air...

Twenty-three airmen left New Castle on Friday, aboard a C-130, and another twenty-four departed on Saturday.

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92.9 WDSD

state health officials reach out to those at "high risk"

As flu season makes the rounds, some Delawareans are more vulnerable than others.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Influenza, H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Delaware Government

Mon Nov 02, 2009

Delaware Coast Press

Delaware hosts first federal offshore renewable energy task force meeting

Recently, the State of Delaware became the first state in the nation to host a U.S. Department of the Interior Minerals Management Service offshore renewable energy Task Force meeting.

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Related Topix: Delaware Government, Alternative Energy, Science / Technology, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy

Sat Oct 31, 2009

News Journal

Delaware files suit to block dredging

Attorney General Beau Biden went to federal court Friday to block the Army Corps of Engineers from deepening a section of the Delaware River within Delaware's borders without state permits.

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Thu Oct 29, 2009

1290 The Ticket

Delaware Police Are Giving Out More Tickets.

Delaware Police issued 53 tickets last week to state drivers for not wearing seat-belts. Office of Highway Safety spokesperson Andrea Summers says that brings the total number of seat belt citations to 595 since the OHS kicked off it's safety initiative last August.

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Tue Oct 27, 2009

News Journal

Swine flu vaccine coming to classrooms

Delaware schoolchildren will begin receiving free swine flu vaccine next week, though state officials still are determining how they will prioritize distribution of the voluntary vaccinations.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Medicine, Influenza, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Education Etc.

About.com

Delaware, All of it, a National Park?

Delaware, the first US state, is the only state without a national park. That does not set well with Delaware's US Senator Tom Carper , who has introduced a bill that would designate virtually the entire state as a national park.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Thomas Carper, US Senate, Democrat, Everglades National Park, US National Parks

Sun Oct 25, 2009

The Daily Times

DELAWARE: Chief of state veterans home resigns

Dean C. Reid has resigned as administrator of the Delaware Veterans Home in Milford, about five months after a Sunday News Journal story exposed problems there.

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Related Topix: Life, Veteran Affairs

Fri Oct 23, 2009

WDOV-AM Dover

The First Death Of H1N1 Reported In Kent County.

Delaware Public Health Officials have confirmed the state's first Swine Flu death.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health

Wed Oct 21, 2009

1450 WILM NEWSRADIO

As unemployment continues to rise so do Delaware's uninsured

The consumer group, Families U-S-A is out with a report that shows approximately 8-thousand 8-hundred Delawareans lost their jobs in 2009 .

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Related Topix: Delaware Government, Health Care Policy, Health

Tue Oct 20, 2009

News Journal

Beach repair funding chopped

Delaware came up short this year in the annual grapple for federal beach replenishment funds, a victim of a sharpening debate over taxpayer spending to repair the ocean's ceaseless attacks on shorelines.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Rehoboth Beach, DE

Sun Oct 18, 2009

Delaware Beachcomber

Delaware News: Flooding causes road closures

The following roads have been closed because of flooding, the Delaware Department of Transportation reports this morning: New Castle County Del.

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Related Topix: New Castle County, DE, Sussex County, DE, Slaughter Beach, DE, Milton, DE

Sat Oct 17, 2009

The Daily Times

Smoking down in Delaware

DOVER -- A recent study has found that more Delawareans are choosing to live a healthy, smoke-free lifestyle.

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Related Topix: Smoking, Medicine, Health, Delaware Government

Thu Oct 15, 2009

1290 The Ticket

The Smoking Rate For Adults In Delaware Is At Its Lowest Since The 1980's.

According to the Behavioral Risk Factor Survey, which is an ongoing telephone-based survey of adult Delawareans and is run by the University of Delaware, cigarette smoking among adults in Delaware is at its lowest level since 1982.

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Related Topix: Delaware Government, Smoking, Medicine, Health, University of Delaware

Wed Oct 14, 2009

Seattle's WB

Delaware GOP Rep. Mike Castle to run for VP Biden's former Senate seat, may face Biden son

Republican U.S. Rep. Michael Castle announced Tuesday he will run for the U.S. Senate seat Democrat Joe Biden left to become vice president.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Michael Castle, Delaware Government, 2008 Presidential Election, Joe Biden, Charlie Crist, US Governors

Mon Oct 12, 2009

WDOV-AM Dover

A Wilmington woman charged with leaving her son, alone at Delaware Park

A Wilmington woman is charged with leaving her son in a car while she gambled at Delaware Park.

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Sun Oct 11, 2009

Associated Content

Delaware's Christmas Craft Shows

Shoppers and crafters look forward to the Christmas crafts season. Craft shows are held all over Delaware, in fire halls, churches, community centers and schools.

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Christmas, Harrington, DE, University of Delaware

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