News Journal archives week of March 2: students honor shooting victims, gas price $1.67
March 2, 2018, The News Journal
Enough, Delaware high school students are saying this month as they organize simultaneous school walkouts to take place at 10 a.m. March 14.
Enough to gun violence. Enough to assault weapons. And enough to school shootings like the one that killed 17 people in Parkland, Florida Feb. 14.
'It's our turn to take a stand and change our community,' said Ellen Schlecht, a sophomore at Wilmington's Ursuline Academy. 'Change the way people view us as teenagers. Change the way people see the guns in our world. Change the gun laws within our cities, states and country. But most importantly, we are making sure this never happens again.'
Schlecht and students at close to 20 Delaware schools are organizing student walkouts for the one-month anniversary of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. ...
They will be part of a national movement. At 10 a.m. in every time zone, organizers are encouraging teachers, students, administrators, parents and allies to walk out for 17 minutes – one minute for every person killed. ...
March 3, 2004, The News Journal
In the last three months, prices have climbed steadily, reaching levels in Delaware this week that match prices in the middle of the summer last year.
'It's unusual,' said Bill O'Grady, director of futures research at investment firm A.G. Edwards. 'It raises great fears that we'll have even higher prices this summer.'
Prices for regular unleaded gasoline in Delaware have risen from $1.46 in early December to $1.67. ...
O'Grady said one cause is uncertainty about the chemical MTBE, usually added to gasoline in the summer in most urban areas on the East Coast, to help cut pollution. He said there's speculation that MTBE will be banned in some states over environmental concerns, causing refineries to delay production of the lower-polluting summer gasoline.
More recent news on energy prices: Delaware Senate committee investigates causes of spike in Delmarva Power bills this winter
March 5, 2000, The News Journal
Educators and lawmakers have labored for nearly a decade to improve Delaware's public schools, but now the final piece of the plan is nearly dead in the General Assembly.
What has gone wrong?
The effort to create academic standards for students and hold teachers accountable has fallen apart for many reasons, according to lawmakers, teachers, lobbyists and others. ...
The final steps in the process – how to hold students, teachers, administrators and parents accountable for a student's performance – have proven difficult.
The majority House Republican leadership lost control of its own members, whose refusal to back a compromise bill worked out in part by their own leadership threatens to leave the issue unresolved.
Politically powerful special interests in the education community each have their own ideas for improving education.
Gov. Tom Carper, who took the lead on education reform but now is nearing the end of his final term, has lost influence over lawmakers.
With statewide offices and some House and Senate seats up for grabs, this year's election has convinced some legislative leaders that waiting until next year would be best. ...
'There's no way we can make it work for this [2000-2001] school year with the time lines in the bill,' said Senate President Pro Tem Thomas B. Sharp, D-Pinecrest.
Catch up on history: News Journal archives, Dec. 29 to Jan. 4: celebrating the year 2000, car factory layoffs
March 6, 1981, Evening Journal
By Bill Hayden, staff writer
After tonight, the world will be a little bit different. No longer will Walter Cronkite be around to assure us – as he has done for the past 19 years – 'that's the way it is' as he closes the nightly CBS Evening News.
At the end of tonight's newscast, Cronkite is putting himself out to pasture. He's leaving the anchorman post to follow less strenuous pursuits at CBS News, including hosting its prime-time science series, 'Universe,' this summer.
Here is a man who has become a father figure for an entire nation, whose recounting each day's events has come to be seen as the way things actually took place, whose perceived image as the country's most trusted man has been carefully guarded.
Cronkite's reputation for putting the chaos of the world in electronic perspective, thus reassuring viewers that there will be a tomorrow, was earned in November 1963. In shirtsleeves, he appeared on the nation's television screens the afternoon of Nov. 22 to tell us President John F. Kennedy had been shot by an assassin. Over the next several days, with dignity and sensitivity, Cronkite guided his network's coverage of the aftermath and mourning.
Because of that exemplary performance, a generation of Americans came to accept him as a member of the family, the trusted uncle who could be counted on in times of stress.
Reach reporter Ben Mace at rmace@gannett.com.
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