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The Needle Kids Won't Get — And Why Delaware Just Changed That

A quiet committee hearing moved three lead poisoning bills forward. But the story behind one of them exposes a years-long failure to protect Delaware's most vulnerable children.

Delaware's House Education Committee passed three lead poisoning bills in a single afternoon — including one that could finally connect thousands of children to care they've been legally blocked from receiving. The story of how a simple finger prick became a life-or-death policy question.

Mar 12, 2026
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Delaware's Nuclear Gamble: A Task Force Confronts Waste, Water, and a Skeptic in the Back Row

The state's Nuclear Energy Feasibility Task Force opened 2026 with a data-dense, tension-laced session — and one lawmaker who thought the whole thing was rigged from the start.

Delaware's nuclear task force opened 2026 with a stark finding: small modular reactors may produce up to 30 times more waste per megawatt than large reactors — and one lawmaker in the back row thinks the whole framing is rigged against nuclear from the start.

Jan 7, 2026