Being evicted can mean homelessness, as well as losing access to food assistance and employment. Legal aid groups say the court process makes it too easy for landlords to evict tenants they consider undesirable. But a new state pilot program aims to provide more people facing eviction with lawyers.

A University of Delaware professor is making her research more accessible by partnering with the Delaware Museum of Natural History to connect it with kids. Dr. April Kloxin’s team is currently working on ways to engineer cultures for studying disease progression - like creating mock-tissues to study cancer cell growth. UD intern contributor DJ McCauley tells us Kloxin’s exhibit at the museum takes some of the same principles of biomimicry that inform that work and shows young people where they

Going to the beach is supposed to be fun -- but sometimes hauling toys, chairs, towels, coolers, and more across the hot sand and even to and from your favorite spot, can give you an unwanted headache. It's an issue that caught the eye of Sussex County inventor Jennifer Schultz.

The school year is almost over, and one concern during the summer is keeping kids engaged in things like reading. The Wilmington Public Library is trying something different to encourage young people to pick up a book. And in this week’s Enlighten Me, Delaware Public Media’s Sophia Schmidt has more about this effort to use a familiar place to get youngsters in the state’s largest city to read.

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A vast divide in the amount of wealth accumulated by white families and families of color persists in the U.S.— and by some reports, has grown in the past few decades. That divide is reflected in Delaware’s largest city, where the median household income for black and Latino households is half that of white households— according to a study by D.C.-based nonprofit Prosperity Now.

Imagine living at the beach as a teenager and working at an amusement park. Takoma Park, Maryland resident Chris Lindsley, a former employee at the Funland Amusement Park in Rehoboth Beach, is offering a glimpse at that life in a book chronicling his six summers working at Funland in the 1980’s.

This week, we bring you the debut edition of the Direction Democracy podcast from the University of Delaware Center for Political Communication. This podcast is part of the Center for Political Communications' upcoming National Agenda series – Direction Democracy – which this fall will examine where we’ve been, where we are going, and the current state of democracy in the United States.

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Over the past seven years, the University of Delaware’s Horn Program in Entrepreneurship has seen good early results in its effort to serve as a springboard for promising start-up ventures. Contributor Larry Nagengast recently spent some looking at the program, how it works and where it’s heading.