The substance abuse and mental health problem we are facing will continue to grow until we find an aggressive, comprehensive solution that has proven success and long-term benefits for this community.

Delaware’s government has made decisions in successive legislative sessions with regard to energy that impact the poorest of our citizens most negatively. Those families in our state that struggle with the costs of basic necessities, such as food and housing, are now going to face additional costs for electricity and transportation.

On behalf of the members of the Delaware Association for Home & Community Care and the tens of thousands of medically complex children and adults who rely on home care services, thank you to the Delaware legislature for supporting home care in the 2025 budget.

The cost of health care is out of control. In the current fiscal year, the state of Delaware is spending nearly $2 billion on Medicaid and insurance plans for state employees and retirees — a $200 million increase over fiscal year 2024. Gov. John Carney has repeatedly called the growth of health care expenditures “unsustainable,” and he’s right.

In the First State, the summer is peak time for locally grown produce and grains. However, the recent drought has impacted farmers getting food from the fields to the tables. As of June 30, the crop with the poorest conditions in Delaware has been corn. Ten percent of the crop conditions were very poor, and 22% were poor, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Crop Progress and Condition Report for Delaware. However, all the farmers’ prayers were answered. After the dry spell, rainfall hit. How has this summer’s weather impacted you?

After reading through all the material about Policy 6103, I find it hard to believe that the Milford school board would even consider this. Do we really need to revert back to the times of censorship, when books were being burned, and we were restricted to what we could say, write or read?