It has been a busy week in national politics. Former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee, selected Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate – and introduced that pick here in the First State. Meanwhile, talks between the White House and Congressional leaders on a new COVID-19 relief package remains stalled. Delaware’s senior Senator Tom Carper joins us to discuss these topics and more.

The Grand Opera House and the Riverfront Development Corporation (RDC) partnered this summer to offer a drive-in concert series on the Wilmington Riverfront.

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The Wilmington-based biopharmaceutical company Incyte is set to begin clinical trials for a drug that may be able to treat patients with severe cases of COVID-19. The drug Jakafi, or more commonly Ruxolitinib, is used to treat blood cancers among other things and made Incyte almost $1.7 billion last year. Delaware Public Media’s Nick Ciolino recently spoke with Incyte Vice President of Oncology Targeted Therapeutics Peter Langmuir, MD about how it may fit in with the list of different therapies

Nationwide protests over police brutality have renewed outrage over the 2015 killing of wheelchair-user Jeremy McDole by Wilmington police. Time is running out to reconsider charging the officers involved.

We return this week to Brandywine Creek for another update on a story we’ve been following all year. In January, contributor Jon Hurdle reported on how a series of dams along the Brandywine dating back some 200 years were targeted for removal or modification - hoping to allow American shad to their ancestral spawning grounds again for the first time in two centuries. In May, Jon told us initial evidence showed the effort is paying off. Now he reports there’s even more good news this summer.

The upcoming 2020 Mid-Atlantic Teaching Artist Virtual Retreat brings arts educators together from across the region to build a network of qualified teaching artists.

The Delaware Alliance for Nonprofit Advancement (DANA) holds a conference later this month to help nonprofits connect, especially as they seek ways to overcome the COVID-19 crisis and address racial equity issues.

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Delaware has been in Phase 2 of its reopening plan for over a month – with no firm indication when it could move to Phase 3. That uncertainty means many Delaware businesses are seeing their recovery efforts stall as they also wrestle with how to navigate a post-COVID world. The Delaware State Chamber of Commerce hosted a virtual conference this week addressing these issues and contributor Jon Hurdle sat in on it.