As AI enters Delaware classrooms, educators face an important question: Is it helping students learn or doing the thinking for them? CRI examines the benefits, risks, and need for statewide safeguards that protect critical thinking, independent learning, and student privacy.

Delaware needs more doctors, especially in Kent and Sussex counties—but simply sending more Delaware students to medical school won’t solve the shortage. The real opportunity comes after medical school: residency training. Physicians are more likely to practice where they complete their residencies, build professional networks, and become part of the community. If Delaware wants more doctors practicing in rural Delaware, the answer may be simple: train more doctors there.

CRI and other plaintiffs are heading to Delaware Superior Court to challenge DNREC’s approval of permits for the US Wind Maryland Offshore Wind Project. The case raises questions about the public review process, potential impacts to Delaware’s beaches and dunes, and how the project was handled under state law. CRI argues Delawareans deserve transparency and the opportunity to review information used before decisions affecting the state’s coastline are made.

Delaware has an abundant renewable energy resource that is often overlooked: wood. Creating a market for lower-value wood could support healthier forests, strengthen Delaware’s forest-products industry, provide a locally available energy source, and give landowners another reason to keep forestland from being lost to development.