Last fall’s University of Delaware Center for Political Communication’s National Agenda series was called "As We Stand, Divided," focusing on the various divisions the country faces these days – be they gender, geographic, religious, cultural, or political. But in addition to hearing from various speakers about these divides and their impact, the Center for Political Communication also wanted to hear from students.

Opera Delaware, the nation’s 11th oldest professional opera company, is celebrating its 73rd season. And part of that celebration is Opera Delaware’s 2018 Opera Festival, slated for April 28th through May 6th. For this week’s Arts Playlist, Delaware Public Media’s Kelli Steele sat down with Opera Delaware’s General Director Brendan Cooke to talk about this year’s Festival.

Big poultry on the DelMarVa Peninsula began by accident when Delaware homemaker Cecile Steele was shipped 500 chicks to raise instead of the 50 she ordered. She kept them, made a profit and ordered 1,000 the next year. And so, an industry was born and has been growing ever since. But the hundreds of thousands of tons of manure produced each year so close to the Chesapeake Bay and other waterways worries residents throughout the region. Contributor Pamela D'Angelo has more on how some of those

In the wake of the recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida, where a gunman killed 17 students and teachers, the issue of guns and school safety is once again front and center. There’s a renewed, and often heated, debate over what lawmakers at all levels should do, including President Donald Trump and other proposing teachers be armed. And that’s not the only reason teachers find themselves in the middle of this debate. As students nationwide plan school day protests this month and in April,

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Six months into a partnership that could determine the educational destiny of at least 1,400 children in Wilmington, state and Christina School District officials have finally cleared their first hurdle, signing off on a Memorandum of Understanding that provides at least the bare bones of a plan to strengthen programming for students in kindergarten through eighth grade.

Congress is in recess this week. Before the break, lawmakers passed a two year budget deal, but failed to come up with a fix for DACA, and handling the undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children known as Dreamers who face deportation if nothing is done renew the program that allows them to stay in the U.S. That issue and gun control in the wake of last week’s school shooting in Florida are likely to be front and center when the House and Senate get back to work next week. Delaware’s

Listen to this week's edition of The Green or individual stories below: Earlier this month, Congress passed a two year budget deal, but failed to come up with a fix for DACA – and handling the undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children known as Dreamers who face deportation if nothing is done renew the program that allows them to stay in the U.S. When lawmakers return to Capitol Hill next week after a brief recess this week, the DACA debate is likely to resume along with debate over

The Delaware Joint Legislative Council has approved creating a memorial honoring women who served in the U.S. military. The plan is to put the new memorial on the Northwest side of Legislative Hall. The idea for the women’s military memorial came from Delaware City resident Cheryl Dennis. In this week’s Enlighten Me, the former Marine chats with with Delaware Public Media’s Sarah Mueller about the inspiration for it.

Phillip C. Showell Elementary School in Selbyville, is teaming up with local artist John Donato to create a special “History of Selbyville” mural in one of the school’s hallways. Students began painting the mural in January and will continue working on it until its unveiled March 7. And the school is also host a series of related special events leading up to that unveiling. For this week’s Arts Playlist, Delaware Public Media’s Kelli Steele spoke with Laurie Hall, Phillip C. Showell Elementary