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Guest Essay: Adoptees need to know their roots
With the State Legislative Session scheduled to end June 20, which means things sometimes move pretty quickly as the session winds down, there is legislation pending in the New York State Assembly and State Senate, known as the Adoptee Bill of Rights. Comment?
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Author Lacey Lafferty has written a picture book aimed at inspiring parents and children going through medical issues to persevere through life's roadblocks and challenges. Comment?
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Public asked to report sick or dead wild birds
DNREC's Division of Fish and Wildlife Mosquito Control Section is again asking the public's help in monitoring West Nile virus in Delaware by reporting sick or dead wild birds of certain species that may have contracted the virus. Comment?
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NAMI Delaware introduces Joshua Thomas-Acker as new executive director
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National Alliance on Mental Illness in Delaware Delaware welcomes Joshua Thomas-Acker, PhD as its new executive director, effective immediately. Comment?
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NOW celebrates SB 97's passage for transgender Delawareans
The transgender community is often overlooked and misunderstood. As we continue to encourage civil dialogue about these issues and educate one another, understanding and acceptance of our diverse community is hastened. Comment?
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Wants to come home to state accepting transgender individuals
Throughout my entire life, I have struggled with who I really am. I knew from the age of 5 or 6 that I was really a girl. Comment?
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Is there such a thing as a clean smell? Home cleaning manufacturers certainly would like you to think so, judging by the myriad scents found in the cleaners and soaps available on store shelves. Comment?
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Sierra Club, Delaware Chapter And Delaware Audubon Society File...
Crude oil transfer operation being built at Delaware City Refinery as allowed under Secretary's Order 2013-A-0020 violates Russell's Peterson's landmark 1971 Coastal Zone Act Delaware and Delaware Audubon Society filed appeals with the Environmental Appeals Board and the Coastal Zone Industrial Control Board of Secretary's Order 2013-A-0020 dated ... (more) Comment?
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DNREC's latest Wetlands 101 video now available on YouTube
Visitors to DNREC's website are invited to check out the second installment in the Wetlands 101 video series on YouTube's Delaware DNREC channel, produced with the Division of Watershed Stewardship's Wetland Monitoring and Assessment Program. Comment?
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Child advocates urge safety for children this summer
Attorney General Beau Biden has joined representatives from the Siegel JCC Delaware, YMCA of Delaware, Darkness to Light Foundation, and Prevent Child Abuse Delaware to discuss steps summer youth programs can take to help keep children safe from harm and announced progress in the Stewards of Children child abuse prevention program, a statewide ... (more) Comment?
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2 re-enactments give Gettysburg a new skirmish
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For the first time in at least a decade, two re-enactments, planned and organized by different groups, will take place on farms outside Gettysburg during the 150th anniversary of the battle. Comment?
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New website aims to aid struggling homeowners
There is a new website that aims to help Delawareans facing foreclosure - www.DelawareHomeownerRelief.com. Comment?
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Investment in early education may be best crime-prevention tool
As the News Journal's Sunday lead story made clear, crime has a high cost for us all. Comment?
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Why Lewes is the reason Delaware is not part of Maryland
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Mention the boundaries of Delaware and chances are the conversation will turn to the Mason-Dixon line. Comment?
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Vulnerable, needy feel disconnected
Esther's daughter wanted nothing to do with Connections Community Support Programs - the state's largest provider of services to those living with mental health problems, substance abuse issues and homelessness. Comment?
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Heed the warning - Delaware's casinos need new strategy
These relationships have translated into jobs, state revenue and healthy communities. Comment?
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Scaling back could benefit Connections
Probably, considering that it has doubled its size in just five years, creating testy relations with its residential neighbors living just blocks away from its downtown Wilmington headquarters. Comment?
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editorial: Tapping in, a century later
It's brown! It's black! It's alive! Those are some of the exclamations that Katonah and Bedford Hills residents who live in the Consolidated Water District have cried over the years. Comment?
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Nurses turn to pro-life community after epic failure of the state
In her recent Delaware Voice, Ruth Lytle-Barnaby, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Delaware, belittles former PPDE nurses Jayne Mitchell-Werbrich and Joyce Vasikonis for turning to pro-life advocacy groups like A Rose and A Prayer and Delaware Right to Life to speak up for the patients in Delaware's abortion clinics. Comment?
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Spotlight on Unclaimed Property: ACTION Required - Delaware...
Delaware has earned the reputation as one of the most aggressive enforcers against businesses of unclaimed property/escheat obligations. Comment?
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