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3 weeks ago | 
delawaretoday.com | Andrew Sharp
Newly elected Delaware Gov. Matt Meyer is a familiar figure on New Castle County’s bike trails, so it was no surprise that he included a bike tour of Main Street in Newark in his inaugural events. Here, he chats about his pastime and his hopes for the state’s cycling infrastructure. *This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity. What sparked your interest in cycling?
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1 month ago | 
delawaretoday.com | Andrew Sharp |Ashley Breeding
Light’s cheap during the day. It’s when it starts to vanish as the sun slips below the horizon that it really becomes golden. Hang around until true darkness falls to get the diamondlike brightness of a full moon or the exhilarating flash of a shooting star. Under the moonlight, a whole collection of creatures emerges while the rest of us crawl into bed.
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1 month ago | 
delawaretoday.com | Andrew Sharp
Owning a set of wheels can mean freedom to get around town, see friends, or travel to and from a job. At the Urban Bike Project (UBP) in downtown Wilmington, they believe two wheels is all you need. Laura Wilburn, the nonprofit’s executive director, knows from experience; she has never owned a car. Her mission is to introduce residents in nearby neighborhoods to the joys and benefits of cycling and, more importantly, help them afford and maintain their bikes.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
delawaretoday.com | Andrew Sharp
As a summer afternoon in Middletown wore into evening, a small team at Volunteer Hose Co. relaxed around a small table amid fire trucks and racks of gear. There was casual chitchat and good-natured razzing as they waited to see if anything would happen on this evening watch. Before long, something did. An ambulance crew had responded to a local hair salon after a report of a person having seizures and they called for backup.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
delawaretoday.com | Andrew Sharp
It’s finally here—the time of year when men can skip grooming and be trendy at the same time. Now celebrated worldwide, #NoShaveNovember was created to increase awareness of men’s health issues, especially cancer, and to raise money to support research. While no governing body regulates this, two well-known nonprofits lead the way. Australia’s Movember emphasizes growing a mustache as a way to draw attention to men’s health issues like prostate and testicular cancer, along with mental health.
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
pcronline.com | Andrew Sharp
In this special report, learn about The Essentials of Hypertension Hypertension is the number one cause of years of life lost, and, perhaps more importantly, years of healthy living lost. It causes at least half of all heart attacks and strokes and is the major driver of heart failure. As cardiologists, much of our working life is spent dealing with the downstream consequences of hypertension...
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
delawaretoday.com | Andrew Sharp
It seemed like things were going so well, and Toni Hickman was worried. Hickman had found it difficult to find a good social outlet for her daughter Tanner. The Wilmington girl enjoys being around others. She’s also on the autism spectrum and has challenges at times with social interactions. “She’s super friendly and is nice to everybody,” Hickman says, “and would get some pretty negative feedback, and it was kind of shocking to her.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
delawaretoday.com | Andrew Sharp
Most of us use money every day, and it strongly shapes the course of our lives. It’s a little mystifying, then, that we don’t discuss it more with our children, says Scott Bacon, assistant director of the Center for Economic Education and Entrepreneurship (CEEE) at the University of Delaware. Parents might be embarrassed to discuss trouble with bills or limited income, he posits.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
delawaretoday.com | Andrew Sharp
Every hobby has its passionate standouts, those aficionados respected and acknowledged by others in the know. At the top of his particular field is Wilmington’s Henry Voigt, who curates one of the most prominent collections of American menus, spanning well over 150 years of vibrant dining history. Food writers, historians, academics and journalists call on Voigt, thanks to his fascination with menus from the past and what they can tell us.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
udel.edu | Margo Mcdonough |Molly Schafer |Andrew Sharp |Adam Thomas
Every summer, some of the world’s most promising mid-career foreign policy scholars come to the University of Delaware to learn from foreign policy experts as part of the Study of the U.S. Institute on Foreign Policymaking (SUSI), sponsored by the U.S. State Department. But the learning is a two-way street, and the knowledge gained is often shared far beyond the UD campus.
Case in point: SUSI scholar Lucas Lima, a Brazilian professor of international law, joined forces with UD professor M. A.
