Between May of 1997 and March of 2008 (over 10 years), Delaware’s unemployment rate was between 3 and 4%. But for the last four years, unemployment has stubbornly stayed above 7%. Today, it is 7.3%. And, if you look at the data, that number is not coming down. It looks stuck. If you are older…
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WALKABLE BIKEABLE DELAWARE 2013 SUMMIT Active Transportation, Healthy Families May 1 | Dover, Delaware REGISTER HERE SUMMIT PROGRAM The Walkable Bikeable Delaware 2013 Summit will be chock full of awesome elected officials, engineers and public health professionals charting a course for making Delaware the most walkable and bikeable state in America. But it doesn’t matter how…
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LEGISLATORS RIDE ORGANIZED BY DELAWARE BICYCLE COUNCIL May 1 | To Dover, Delaware REGISTER HERE FOR LEGISLATORS RIDE The Delaware Bicycle Council is a sponsor of the 2013 Walkable Bikeable Delaware Summit and is organizing the Legislators Ride that takes places the same day. What is the Delaware Bicycle Council? The Council is a commission of state…
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WALKABLE BIKEABLE DELAWARE 2013 SUMMIT Active Transportation, Healthy Families May 1 | Dover, Delaware REGISTER HERE SUMMIT PROGRAM The Walkable Bikeable Delaware 2013 Summit would be impossible without its sponsors. What’s another way of saying that? They rock. Check out their awesomeness:
Working group formed to study trend of rising fatalities in Del. by Melissa Nann Burke The News Journal Published April 11, 2013 [P]edestrian deaths statewide rose by 6.4 percent last year to 30 fatalities, compared with 19 in 2011. Five pedestrians have been killed on Delaware roads so far this year – nearly a third of…
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WALKABLE BIKEABLE DELAWARE 2013 SUMMIT Active Transportation, Healthy Families May 1 | Dover, Delaware REGISTER HERE SUMMIT PROGRAM If you are passionate about cycling and creating a more bike-friendly Delaware…bring that passion to Dover on May 1. If you are passionate about reversing the epidemic of obesity-related chronic disease, especially in kids, through everyday…
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The only thing cyclists like more than cycling is categorizing ourselves. Credit: Bikeyface
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR New York Times April 8, 2013 Rick Bowmer/Associated Press Exposure in the first two months of pregnancy to air pollution from traffic sharply increases the risk for birth defects, a new study has found. Researchers used data from two large studies carried out in eight counties in the San Joaquin Valley in…
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WALKABLE BIKEABLE DELAWARE 2013 SUMMIT Active Transportation, Healthy Families May 1 | Dover, Delaware REGISTER HERE SUMMIT PROGRAM DelDOT Secretary Shailen Bhatt will speak at the Walkable Bikeable Delaware 2013 Summit on May 1 in Dover. Secretary Bhatt spoke at the National Bike Summit in Washington DC in 2012. His agency also proposed over $10…
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The Wilmington Grand Prix returns to Delaware May 17-19, highlighted by world-class racing, a six-block free family street festival, and one of Delaware’s most scenic bike rides. The Grand Prix, now in its seventh year, was recently named one of the Top 10 criterium races in the country by U.S.A. Cycling. The action begins on…
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