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A huge win for clean water in Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania Photo courtesy of the Sierra Club Pennsylvania Chapter. The Delaware River Basin, a 13,539-square-mile watershed that cuts through Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania is now off-limits to fracking. In late February, the five-member Delaware River Basin Commission—the interstate government agency that oversees the basin—voted 4–0 to permanently ban the extraction of methane gas in the region. The...

Is Delaware poised to make recreational marijuana legal? Monday, 08 March 2021 Previous efforts to legalize recreational marijuana in Delaware failed to gain traction. But with nearby states moving toward legalization, the First State is feeling some pressure to move on it now. Delaware Public Media’s Roman Battaglia reports a bill to legalize recreational cannabis is coming to the legislature - and this time could actually pass. Delaware Public Medias Roman Battaglia reports o...

Rolling Stone Why Sarah McBride Might Be the Most Inspiring Elected Official in America The 30-year-old Delaware state senator became the highest-ranking openly trans official in the country in November. But it’s how she speaks about the broader fight for equality that really sets her apart By Morgan Levy for Rolling Stone It’s early January, and Sarah McBride is sitting at a desk in her parents’ house in Delaware. A “Sarah McBride for State Senate” yard sign is wedge...

Why Sarah McBride Might Be the Most Inspiring Elected Official in America Hannah Murphy © Morgan Levy for Rolling Stone It’s early January, and Sarah McBride is sitting at a desk in her parents’ house in Delaware. A “Sarah McBride for State Senate” yard sign is wedged between a bookshelf and the wall — already a relic from the election she won two months earlier. “It’s been a whirlwind,” she says, leaning forward and taking off her glasses to rub her eyes. And ...

WHYY By The work of the Twin Poets Nnamdi Chukwuocha and Al Mills was celebrated at Delaware State Universitys Art and Activism event as part of its commemoration of Black History Month. (screengrab/DSU) There’s power in the written word. Twin brothers Al Mills and Nnamdi Chukwuocha of Wilmington are on a mission to get young people to use that power to cope with trauma and start the process of healing. The 50-year-old Wilmington siblings were named Delaware’s Poets Laureate in 2015 by then...

Nanocan Therapeutics Corporation Announces Exclusive Global Licensing Agreement for Immunogenic Smart Radiotherapy Biomaterials Share Article Nanocan Therapeutics Corporation, an early-stage biotechnology company, today announced an exclusive global licensing agreement with Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston, MA), a teaching hospital of Harvard University’s Medical School, to develop and commercialize Immunogenic Smart Radiotherapy Biomaterials (iSRBs) for the treatment of pancreatic, lun...

CBS News LGBTQ rights advocate Sarah McBride "I think its awe-inspiring. I feel a deep sense of responsibility," she said. In fact, this is not the first time McBride has made history, as someone who has packed ages of experience in life and love into just 30 years. "Shes the strongest, most resilient person I know," said Sally McBride. But for many years, she and David McBride did not know that the child they thought of as their youngest son had a secret. Sarah told correspondent Rita Braver...

Senator Sarah McBride Wont Let Hatred Stop Her from Fighting Injustice Audra Heinrichs © Getty Images The countrys first openly transgender senator discusses her political agenda and the continued fight for LGBTQ+ rights. January 12, 2021, was a historic day not just for activist and politician Sarah McBride but also for the United States. McBride was sworn in as a Delaware senator, making her the countrys first openly transgender senator and the highest-ranking elected trans...

Getty Images January 12, 2021, was a historic day not just for activist and politician Sarah McBride but also for the United States. McBride was sworn in as a Delaware senator, making her the countrys first openly transgender senator and the highest-ranking elected transgender official. While the momentous occasion stood in stark contrast to the very different kind of history that was made less than one week earlier, when then president Donald Trump incited an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol...

President Joe Biden’s focus Thursday, his first full day in office, was the pandemic. He signed 10 executive orders aimed at expanding access to testing and vaccines, reopening schools, and getting people back to work.  A majority of Americans are at least somewhat optimistic that President Biden can restore civility and unity to the nation’s politics, according to a bipartisan Battleground Poll released last week by the Georgetown University Institute of Politics and Public ...