By Jeff Montgomery, The News Journal (New Castle-Wilmington)
Ron Wyche restlessly scanned a jumble of readouts and video displays on Thursday as he summed up life in the driver's seat of a controversial $28 million dredging job along the Delaware River near Pea Patch Island.
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By James Merriweather, The News Journal (New Castle-Wilmington)
The proposal to install a solar power plant atop Woodburn, a 212-year-old house that serves as the state's official governor's residence, Thursday breezed to unanimous approval by the city's Historic District Commission.
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By Adam Taylor, The News Journal (New Castle-Wilmington)
The average city resident would pay $216 more in property taxes and water-sewer fees under a budget proposed Thursday by Mayor James M. Baker.
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By Edward L. Kenney, The News Journal (New Castle-Wilmington)
Delaware public school students and teachers won't have to make up some of the class days missed earlier this year because of inclement weather, the State Board of Education decided Thursday.
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By Staff Reports, The News Journal (New Castle-Wilmington)
Legislation to make it possible for people to have their state tax refunds deposited directly into a Delaware College Investment Plan account passed the House unanimously Thursday.
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By J.L. Miller, The News Journal (New Castle-Wilmington)
Legislation to strengthen Delaware's system for protecting victims of domestic violence from further abuse was unveiled Thursday by Gov. Jack Markell and Attorney General Beau Biden.
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Public pensions are increasingly asking a question that has haunted investors since the financial crisis: When is an alternative investment really more of the same?
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WASHINGTON—Republicans are looking beyond Sunday's expected vote on the Democrats' health-care overhaul to focus on strategies for striking back should it pass, ranging from challenges to the measure by individual states to a national repeal campaign.
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New York Governor David Paterson replaced a governor caught up in a scandal. Now Paterson is accused of wrongdoing himself and has declined to run for election. Facing a myriad of challenges, including a $9 billion budget shortfall, Paterson is finding it difficult to be effective in his final months in office.
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Gov. Jack Markell (D) Elected: November 2008 Term expires: January 2013
State capital: Dover
State nickname: The First State
Lt. Gov. Matt Denn (D)
Secretary of State Jeffrey W. Bullock (D)
Attorney General Beau Biden (D)
Senate President Pro Tempore: Anthony J. DeLuca (D)
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