Gov.-elect Matt Meyer said his plan for Delaware includes less focus on taxpayer-backed grants for companies and more attention to entrepreneurship support.
Former U.S. Sen. Tom Carper, a lifelong public servant that was elected to serve Delaware in state and federal positions for more than 40 years, was honored Monday night with the Delaware State Chamber of Commerce’s Marvel Cup award.
US Wind was offered another green flag by the state of Delaware as it prepares to install more than 100 wind turbines off of Delaware’s Sussex County coastline amid already turbulent waters.
CJ Bell has spent a year and a half supporting small business growth in New Castle County as Meyer’s economic development director. Now the governor-elect wants him to do the same on a statewide basis.
The state of Delaware has found success in removing barriers to employment access, replacing mandatory bachelor’s degree requirements with relevant work or life experiences in many state level jobs.
Delaware and Nemours are paving the way as the first in the nation to create a pediatric global revenue budget model, one that could benefit the state’s 120,000 children who are currently enrolled in Medicaid.
Two weeks before Delaware’s new governor takes his oath of office, “an unemployed Matt Meyer,” as he put it, sat down for a fireside chat with Spotlight Delaware and a room full of Delawareans eager for news.
As Delaware dug itself out from a snowstorm that covered the state, its 75th governor was sworn into office at the Old State House in Dover on Tuesday.
