I have said it often and I will say it again: I believe you learn to read when you are young, then read to learn for the rest of your life.

So I promise you that this State of the State, like a good pizza, will be delivered in 25 minutes or less.

Medicaid provides health care to our neediest citizens. While other states have had to cut Medicaid rolls and benefits already, Delaware has not. But the President's proposed budget would shift tens of millions of dollars of cost to the states, raising the real possibility of program cuts.

Our world and our state have been transformed, but, in contrast, we as people have not been.