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Dogfish Head Brewery founder Sam Calagione won a prestigious Beard award Monday night, named the nation’s most outstanding beer, wine or spirits professional. It’s an honor that’s been a long time coming. Calagione had been nominated in each of the last six years, but did not win. About a year ago – Delaware Public Media’s James Dawson sat down with Calagione to discuss craft brewing and his business approach as outlined in his book Off-centered Leadership: The Dogfish Head Guide to Motivation,

Almost a year ago, Matt Howe and Sam Carter were walking across The Woodlands at Firefly Music Festival, a slight breeze in their face and the sound of hip-hop artist Ludacris wowing the crowd with a particularly entertaining rendition of “Southern Hospitality.” But instead of “throwin’ bows” with the massive mob, the pair continued on slowly to their post.

Lawmakers had some hot button topic to address this week. An effort to reinstate the death penalty, ruled unconstitutional by Delaware Supreme Court last year, was before a House committee. And a bill to allow physician-assisted suicides in the First State was reintroduce after going nowhere a couple of years ago. Our political reporter James Dawson covered both of those stories and more this week at Leg Hall and joins us again this week to offer some context and perspective.

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One of the highlights of the year in the state capital is the annual Dover Days Festival. The 84 th edition of the event is next week – Friday May 5 th and Saturday, May 6 th . And this year’s Dover Days has a bit more significance since it kicks-off the celebration of Dover’s 300 th birthday. The event is organized by Kent County Tourism and for this week’s Enlighten Me, we sat down with its executive director Wendie Vestfall and marketing and communications director Danielle Jonigan to get a

March’s History Matters featured an image of Estella’s Beauty Shop on Wilmington's East Side from 1939. Here in April, we focus on the man behind that photo and hundreds of others and the memories they evoke.

For Fearless Girl sculptor Kristen Visbal , who works from her studio in Lewes, Delaware, the last two months have been an overwhelming frenzy of love and criticism.

Lawmakers returned from Easter break this week to find the budget shortfall they need to overcome got even larger while they were gone. This month DEFAC revenue estimates pushed the deficit to 396 million dollars. And that got people talking --- from state employees to GOP leadership. And as our political reporter James Dawson has been reporting, they have some ideas they want Gov. John Carney and the Democratic majority at Leg Hall to hear. We also saw this week a new proposal to clean up

Delaware officials are considering making deeper cuts in carbon emissions from state power plants as part of a nine-state plan that is pressing ahead with its emissions program while the Trump administration rolls back climate policy.