Click here to view on Delaware Public Media The Wilmington Green Box is a new initiative created by friends and business partners John Naughton and Jason Aviles to provide areas of Wilmington classified as food deserts with healthier options this summer, while at the same time employing youth who might otherwise be have little to ...
Click here to view on Delaware Public Media Local author and writer Autumn Johns was among those deeply saddened by the death of Howard High School student Amy Joyner-Francis, and she wrote a poem called “My Sister of Howard High School.” Click here to listen to Autumn Johns read her poem “My Sister of Howard ...
Click here to view on Delaware Public Media Gov. Jack Markell is known to be an avid cyclist, but this week he took a different kind of bike ride: on a rail bike. It’s one of the new attractions helping kick off environmental and economic revitalization efforts at the old NVF site in Yorklyn and ...
The integration of primary care physicians with behavioral health specialists is a practice that’s starting to catch on across the country, and in the First State. A program piloted at Christiana Care over the past year has worked to integrate mental health professionals into the primary care setting. https://cpa.ds.npr.org/wdde/audio/2016/04/collaborative_care_mixdown2.mp3 Delaware Public Media\'s Megan Pauly reports [...]
Click here to view the story on WAMU After the recent Paris attacks, anti-Islamic sentiments and racial profiling are at risk of rising in the United States. Sikh men wear turbans for religious reasons, and are sometimes wrongly mistaken for Muslims and even terrorists. A local Montgomery County group is trying to change this by ...
This September the Arlington Public School District plans to open the doors of a brand new elementary school, pegged to be the first net zero school in Virginia and the largest net zero school in the Mid-Atlantic region. At 7:30 a.m. on a Thursday morning the construction site of the Discovery Elementary School in Arlington ...
Click here to view story on WAMU Suzanne is the vice president of a large bank. She’s been living with — and managing — her bipolar disorder for years. But Suzanne, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, also allowed clutter to accumulate in her house and eventually it got so bad that ...
Click here to view story on WAMU Stephen has been living with schizophrenia since he was in his teens. He’s 36 now, and for years, his story was one of delusions, misdiagnoses, hospitalizations, and brushes with the law. “I’ve had my ups and downs,” Stephen says. “But that’s the context of how things happen, there ...
Click here to view story on WAMU The Flying Circus in Bealeton, Virginia was started in 1970 by a group of guys who wanted to pay homage to the barnstorming era of the 1920s, when pilots would fly throughout the country selling airplane rides, usually operating from a farmer’s field. For 44 years, the Flying ...