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Delaware will spend $50 million in federal funds to help re-train workers for new careers and make sure students are ready to hit the ground running after high school. WHYY’s Mark Eichmann has more from the Delaware Desk.
From WHYY: Musk calm, but does not hold back in Tesla-Solar City trial The business magnate was calm and composed in court Monday, even when calling his legal antagonist “a bad human being.” The man on the witness stand was Elon Musk. He’s the entrepreneur and visionary who co-founded the Tesla electric car company and the SpaceX exploration enterprise, among other ventures. Musk is also one of the world’s wealthiest humans, prone to loquaciousness and confrontation. All eyes were on the South African-born entrepreneur when he appeared Monday in Delaware Chancery Court before more tha...
Delaware's courts will start the long slog through a backlog of hundreds of criminal cases starting next week. The pandemic has halted jury trials since March 2020.
Mark Eichmann / WHYY Since February, Dover International Speedway has hosted Delaware’s mass vaccination events with nearly 80,000 people getting their COVID shots in the track’s parking lot. But the focus recently moved to racing with the “Monster Mile,” when NASCAR’s top drivers returned for the first time since October 2019. WHYY’s Mark Eichmann has more from the Delaware Desk. Listen
WHYY By U.S. Sen. Tom Carper (in blue) of Delaware talks with members U.S. Border Patrol near El Paso, Texas. (courtesy Carper's office) As hundreds of migrants seek refuge from the poverty and violence in Central America, U.S. Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware says America’s appetite for drugs is partly to blame. “We are complicit in their misery,” Carper said Wednesday morning outside the Latin American Community Center in Wilmington. U.S. Sen. Tom Carper talks about his visit to the southern border during a news conference at outside the Latin American Community Center in Wilmington Wednes...