The Patriot Weekly – July 19, 2026
BY PATRIOTS, FOR PATRIOTS
The Patriot Weekly
Where DELMARVA Meets The Nation
Sunday, July 19, 2026 · Published by DTD Media · The Talk of DELMARVA’s 92.7 and 98.5, WGMD.com and RealNewsTalk.com
The Cover Story
DELMARVA Under the Smoke
A week that began as a heat emergency ended with Code Red air, a liberal leave order from Annapolis, cooling centers open across Sussex County, and smoke from Ontario sitting over the beaches.
The compound weather and public health emergency that built across DELMARVA last week is the subject of this issue’s lead report, beginning in the DELMARVA Report.
Also on the Cover
Storms and a Tornado Warning Sweep DELMARVA
Sussex and Caroline counties spent roughly forty minutes under a tornado warning Saturday evening. Thousands lost power from Pocomoke to Wilmington.
Seven Days of Strikes
A United States air and naval campaign against Iran ran the length of the week, from a third consecutive night of strikes on Monday to a seventh on Saturday, with the Strait of Hormuz blockaded and a threat now raised against a second global chokepoint.
A Navy Veteran Asks for a Kidney
Sam Wiley’s living donor appeal aired on Your News Talk America. It is the most actionable thing in this issue.
Who Decides How Sussex Grows?
Sussex County pulled two land use applications and paused hearings on major subdivisions after the General Assembly passed and the Governor signed SB 23. Our alternative cover report.
Campaign 2026, Delaware
The filing deadline has closed. The primary is September 15. Two Republican candidates sat down with us this week.
Editor’s Brief
The shape of this issueThe Week DELMARVA Could Not Breathe, and the Week It Lost the Right to Object
Two things happened to DELMARVA in the same six days, and this issue is built around both of them.
Smoke carried down from wildfires in Ontario settled over the peninsula on top of a heat event that had already pushed the heat index past 107, and by Friday morning the air quality index had gone from Code Orange to Code Red. Cooling stations opened in Georgetown, Greenwood, Milton, Laurel, Seaford, Dover and at South Coastal in Bethany Beach. The Governor of Maryland issued a liberal leave order. Road tests were canceled. It arrived from outside and there was nothing to argue with.
The second thing arrived from Dover. After the General Assembly passed and Governor Meyer signed SB 23, Sussex County announced it would forgo public hearings on two cluster subdivision applications and paused hearings on major subdivisions while its attorneys read the new law. The public hearing, for a category of residential project, is simply no longer part of the process. That one there is something to argue with, except that the argument now happens somewhere other than a county council chamber.
DELMARVA Report
Local news of the weekLead Report
DELMARVA Under the Smoke: A Week of Extreme Heat, Code Orange, and Code Red
A heat emergency and a wildfire smoke event arrived on top of one another, and by Friday the peninsula was breathing the worst air of the year.
The week opened hot and closed hazardous.
A heat advisory was issued for DELMARVA and southern New Jersey with a heat index forecast between 107 and 109, and an extreme heat warning was posted for New Castle County. Sussex County and the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services opened cooling stations for Wednesday through Friday. Choptank Electric called Beat the Peak alerts. DELMARVA Power promoted its conservation programs. The Division of Motor Vehicles canceled road tests. The ultraviolet index reached 10.
Cooling stations operated in Georgetown, Greenwood, Milton, Laurel, Seaford and Dover, and at the South Coastal location in Bethany Beach.
Then the smoke arrived. Haze carried down from wildfires burning in Ontario layered over an air mass that was already stagnant and already hot, and the air quality forecast moved from Code Orange to Code Orange with a Code Red horizon. By the five o’clock alert Friday morning, DELMARVA was Code Red.
Governor Wes Moore issued a liberal leave order for Maryland state employees. The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control forecast a Code Orange day for Saturday. Cooling centers stayed open. On Friday evening the story turned national, when the President said he intended to bill Canada for the smoke through tariffs.
Saturday opened under a local Code Orange advisory, restated at the top of every hour. By evening the peninsula was under severe thunderstorm warnings and a tornado warning, which is a separate story and appears below.
The story ran on every desk of this radio station on Friday. Nothing else last week did that. Editorial note
What it did to the week
Two state governments acted on different timelines and in different ways, which is itself part of the story. Delaware’s cooling station inventory was published in detail and read on the air repeatedly. On the Maryland side of the peninsula, our own hosts spent Wednesday attempting to confirm an equivalent list of Eastern Shore cooling stations and could not obtain one. Readers on the Maryland side of the line were therefore given less service information last week than readers on the Delaware side, and that is a gap this newsroom owns rather than explains.
The community conversation
During Your Turn DELMARVA on Friday, callers spent a full block on how they were coping. A caller identified as Hillbilly connected the smoke to tree canopy. A caller named Joan raised the strain on the power grid. A caller in Laurel, Phil, had spent the previous day assembling a small toolkit of air quality sources and walked listeners through how to read an index number rather than a color. On Thursday, a listener named Pat emailed the Morning Team about the wildfire smoke before most of the region had noticed it. These are caller comments and community conversation. They are not a survey and they do not stand in for the views of the region.
The longest and most substantive call of the day came from Tom in Dorchester County, on forestry and timber management. That conversation appears as its own report in the Local Rule / Home Rule section of this issue, because it deserves to be read on its own terms.
Sources The Talk of DELMARVA News; Sussex County; Delaware Department of Health and Social Services; Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control; Office of Governor Wes Moore; Choptank Electric Cooperative; DELMARVA Power; Delaware Division of Motor Vehicles; Your Turn DELMARVA; Mike Bradley and the Talk of DELMARVA Morning Team.
Storms and a Tornado Warning Sweep DELMARVA
Sussex and Caroline counties were under a tornado warning for roughly forty minutes Saturday evening. No tornado was confirmed. Thousands lost power.
Storms crossed DELMARVA on Saturday evening under severe thunderstorm warnings, with Sussex and Caroline counties placed under a tornado warning that expired at seven o’clock. No tornado was confirmed.
The National Weather Service logged a wind gust of 40 miles per hour at Dover Air Force Base, 53 miles per hour at Dewey Beach and 63 miles per hour at Lewes. A large tree came down in Felton, with multiple wires down reports across central Kent County.
Flash flooding hit Talbot County. The Maryland Department of Transportation closed all lanes of Maryland Route 33 at Hammond Street in Easton, with additional flooding reported on Route 50 west.
Outages were widespread. Delaware Electric Cooperative reported more than 2,500 members without power. Choptank Electric reported more than 1,000 on the Lower and Mid Shore. DELMARVA Power reported more than 7,400 from Pocomoke to Wilmington.
This newsroom carried outage reporting instructions and generator safety guidance through the evening. Readers with generators are reminded that they belong outdoors, well away from windows and doors, and never in a garage.
The storms arrived hours after a Code Orange air quality advisory for the same day, closing a week that had already delivered a heat emergency and the worst air of the year.
Sources The Talk of DELMARVA News; National Weather Service; Maryland Department of Transportation; Delaware Electric Cooperative; Choptank Electric Cooperative; DELMARVA Power.
The Dredge Murden Works the Inlet Ahead of the White Marlin Open
The Army Corps has a deadline, and it is a fishing tournament.
The United States Army Corps of Engineers dredge Murden is working the Ocean City Inlet, with the work timed to finish before the White Marlin Open.
The tournament has expanded to six days. WGMD is the official talk station of the White Marlin Open.
The Inlet is the single point of access between the Ocean City fleet and the Atlantic, and its depth is a working constraint on a tournament that brings several hundred boats to a town of a few thousand year round residents.
Sources The Talk of DELMARVA News; United States Army Corps of Engineers; Mike Bradley and the Talk of DELMARVA Morning Team; Your News Talk America.
Photo Essay
Greenwood Marks School 222-C
A new historical marker was unveiled Friday for a school that served African American children in Greenwood for forty years.
A historical marker recognizing Greenwood School 222-C was unveiled on Friday, July 17.
The school was built in 1922 with support from Pierre S. du Pont and served African American children in Greenwood for forty years. It was one of a program of schools built across Delaware in that period, in a state whose public education system was segregated by law.
The unveiling had been on this region’s calendar since Monday, when it was first read on the Morning Team. It is the kind of event a community weekly exists to record: a fixed date, a physical object placed in a specific town, and a piece of history that until Friday had no marker on it.
Sources The Talk of DELMARVA News; Mike Bradley and the Talk of DELMARVA Morning Team; Your News Talk America.
The World Cup Final Lands on DELMARVA’s Sunday
The 2026 World Cup final is played today at the New York and New Jersey stadium, and it lands squarely in the middle of a DELMARVA summer Sunday.
For the beach towns this is a hospitality question as much as a sporting one. During Your Turn DELMARVA on Friday, callers discussed what a Sunday afternoon final does to a shore economy already at peak season, with a caller identified as Outstanding Bill, in Pensacola, weighing in on watch party culture. That is community conversation, not a forecast.
Restaurants and bars along the coast are running watch parties.
Sources Your Turn DELMARVA; Fox Sports reporting carried on The Talk of DELMARVA.
Nanticoke Harbor Closes for a Fuel Spill, Reopens by Afternoon
Nanticoke Harbor closed early Saturday after a small fuel spill was discovered in a sunken boat. Wicomico County Executive Julie Giordano said officials closed the harbor until cleanup was complete. It reopened around one o’clock.
Emergency Services, Parks staff, local fire personnel and other agencies worked from Friday night into Saturday to remove the boat.
Fenwick Island Puts Red Flags at the Crosswalks
Fenwick Island has installed red pedestrian crosswalk flags in bins at street crossings. Walkers carry a flag across the road and deposit it in the bin on the far side.
It is a small, cheap and highly visible piece of summer safety engineering in a beach town where the pedestrian and the driver are frequently the same person twenty minutes apart.
The Delaware Dignity Project Collects Roughly 11,000 Products
The Delaware Dignity Project collected approximately 11,000 products in a menstrual product drive, according to reports carried on the Morning Team and Your News Talk America this week.
Readers who wish to contribute, or who want to know where the collected products are distributed, should contact the organization directly.
River Fest Returns to Snow Hill
River Fest returned to Sturgis Park in Snow Hill on Saturday, featuring a raft race on the Pocomoke.
It is one of the fixed points of the Worcester County summer and one of the few events on the peninsula where the entry requirement is a raft you built yourself.
From the Standing Features
The recurring features ran all week and produced most of the original photography in this issue.
The Talk of DELMARVA Fishing Report, contributed by Eric Burnley, ran every day of the week, including a sheepshead citation and yellowfin reports. On Fridays the report is joined at 8:20 in the morning by Scott Lennox of Fishinoc.com.
Picture of the Day submissions from listeners across the peninsula supply the Pictures of the Week gallery in this issue.
The Radio Flea Market carried listener classifieds daily.
Local youth sports scoreboards ran through the week, including American Legion and Little League tournament results.
Sources The Talk of DELMARVA News; Mike Bradley and the Talk of DELMARVA Morning Team; Your Turn DELMARVA; listener submissions.
Local Rule / Home Rule
A new standing sectionThe Alternative Cover
SB 23 and the End of Sussex County Land Use Control
A housing bill signed in Dover removed the public hearing from a category of residential development. Sussex County pulled two applications and paused the rest while its lawyers read the law.
After the General Assembly passed and Governor Matt Meyer signed SB 23, an affordable housing law, Sussex County announced it would forgo public hearings on two cluster subdivision applications because they may now be approvable by right if they meet comprehensive plan and zoning criteria. The county also paused hearings on major subdivisions while its attorneys interpret the new law.
SB 23 permits up to 12 units per acre where at least 25 percent of the units are affordable, against a current limit of 2 units per acre, and it removes the public hearing requirement for qualifying residential projects.
Council President Douglas B. Hudson said the State had ripped away the public hearing process, and that it had done so for major subdivisions and not only for affordable housing.
This is not a change in what gets built. It is a change in who gets to say anything about it before it does. The shape of the story
Three bills, one direction
In an extended edition of Councilman’s Corner on Mike Bradley and the Talk of DELMARVA Morning Team, Sussex County Councilman John Rieley of District 5 spent forty minutes placing SB 23 inside what he described as a troubling trend of state clawback of local zoning authority.
He tied SB 23 to two other recent events. The first was the Delaware Supreme Court’s ruling on SB 159, which allowed the state to reverse the County Council’s denial of a conditional use for a US Wind substation. The second was the roughly three o’clock in the morning override on July 1 of Governor Meyer’s veto of SB 75, on the siting of recreational marijuana businesses.
Councilman Rieley’s remarks are the opinion of a sitting elected official and are reported here as such. The underlying sequence of legislation, ruling and override is a matter of public record.
The other side of the building
State Senator Brian Pettyjohn and State Representative Valerie Jones Giltner both appeared in studio on the Morning Team the following morning and discussed SB 23 from the legislative side, alongside a walk through the closed candidate filing list.
A caller, Chris Mills, engaged the subject on the air shortly after 7:40 that morning. Listeners Pat and Joe wrote in. On the same day, the county’s pause was confirmed again during Your Turn DELMARVA.
What happens next
The Sussex County Council meets on July 28. The county’s legal interpretation of SB 23, and whatever compliant process it produces, will determine how the two paused applications proceed and how the next ones are handled. Whether the other Delaware counties follow Sussex in pausing is an open question this newspaper intends to follow.
Sources The Talk of DELMARVA News; Sussex County Council; Councilman John Rieley, Sussex County Council District 5, on Councilman’s Corner; State Senator Brian Pettyjohn; State Representative Valerie Jones Giltner; Office of Governor Matt Meyer; Delaware Supreme Court; Mike Bradley and the Talk of DELMARVA Morning Team; Your Turn DELMARVA.
A State Dashboard Advertises a Project the County Has Never Voted On
Cool Spring Crossing is one of three launch projects on Delaware’s new permitting tracker. The Sussex County Council record does not show a vote.
Governor Matt Meyer launched the Jobs First dashboard, a permitting tracker portal, with three projects at launch: a private broadband build across Kent and Sussex counties valued at $150 million, four community solar sites for Clayton and Seaford, and Cool Spring Crossing.
Reading the dashboard on the air, Mike Bradley noted that Cool Spring Crossing has never had a Sussex County Council vote. By his account of the procedural record, the record was left open for two weeks after hearings in November, closed in December, announced in old business on January 6, and has been off the agenda since.
That sequence is checkable against Council records, and it raises a straightforward question: why does a state tool built to advertise permitting progress list a development the county has not voted on.
Sources Mike Bradley and the Talk of DELMARVA Morning Team; Office of Governor Matt Meyer; Sussex County Council records.
Community Conversation
A Master Class in Timber, From a Caller in Dorchester County
The longest and most substantive call on Your Turn DELMARVA on Friday came from Tom in Dorchester County, and it was about trees.
With the peninsula under Code Red air from Canadian wildfire smoke, Tom walked the audience through forest management and timber practice, and connected the two subjects the newsroom had been running separately all week: how a forest is managed, and what happens when one burns.
Separately, on the DIAL, a participant using the name Timber Cruiser had spent part of Tuesday on woody biomass. The Digital Interactive Audience Lounge (DIAL) is the listener question layer of Your News Talk America.
Sources Your Turn DELMARVA; Digital Interactive Audience Lounge (DIAL), Your News Talk America.
Sussex County Sets a Hearing on Forest Preservation
Sussex County has scheduled a public hearing on forest preservation ordinance 26-05.
The ordinance arrives in a week when land use, forest cover and air quality all landed on the same peninsula at the same time, and in a month when the county is already reworking how it handles residential applications.
Separately, the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control has expanded its deer damage assistance program for landowners.
Sources The Talk of DELMARVA News; Sussex County; Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control; Mike Bradley and the Talk of DELMARVA Morning Team; Your Turn DELMARVA.
Two Beach Towns Rewrite How They Will Look
Rehoboth Beach opened its zoning code to the public and heads to a municipal election on August 8. Lewes is surveying residents for its 2027 comprehensive plan.
Rehoboth Beach opened its zoning code to public participation this week through the Reimagined Rehoboth charrette, a working session format in which residents sit with planners rather than testify at them.
It comes ahead of a contested municipal election on August 8. Four candidates are running for mayor and three are running for two commission seats. The Rehoboth Beach Homeowners Association held a candidate forum on Saturday.
In Lewes, the city has launched a community survey for its 2027 Comprehensive Plan.
Separately, First Baptist Church of Lewes has relocated its sanctuary off King’s Highway, a zoning matter this newsroom is still working to document from the record.
With four candidates for mayor and three weeks to the election, The Patriot Weekly is inviting all seven municipal candidates to sit for interviews before August 8. Contact Mike.Bradley@wgmd.com.
Sources The Talk of DELMARVA News; City of Rehoboth Beach; City of Lewes; Rehoboth Beach Homeowners Association; Mike Bradley and the Talk of DELMARVA Morning Team; Your Turn DELMARVA.
Delaware Politics
State governmentDelaware Creates an Office of Surgeon General
Governor Matt Meyer has signed an executive order creating an Office of the Surgeon General within the Department of Health and Social Services, and has named the state’s first Surgeon General, with the office effective August 3.
The role is defined as chief physician advisor, principal public health communicator and chief health advocate. Delaware becomes roughly the seventh state with a physician led office of this kind.
The Patriot Weekly is withholding the appointee’s name until we hold the executive order. We will publish the name, and a profile of the appointee, when we have the document in hand.
Sources The Talk of DELMARVA News; Office of Governor Matt Meyer; Delaware Department of Health and Social Services.
An Ethics Order for the Unclaimed Property Task Force
Governor Matt Meyer has signed Executive Order 26, requiring executive branch members of the Unclaimed Property Task Force to certify that they hold no financial interest in the unclaimed property industry, and to publicly disclose conflicts.
The order adds ethical standards without changing the task force’s statutory membership or duties, and it urges legislative appointers to adopt the same standard for their own appointees.
Unclaimed property is a significant revenue stream for the State of Delaware, which makes the composition of the body reviewing it a matter of more than procedural interest.
Sources The Talk of DELMARVA News; Office of Governor Matt Meyer.
Around the Statehouses
Twenty government actions from Dover and Annapolis that affect DELMARVA readers directly.
Delaware
$4.5 Million for Storefronts
Governor Meyer has directed $4.5 million toward DELMARVA commercial corridor storefronts, aimed at small business occupancy in downtowns.
Georgetown Overpass
The Route 113 and Route 404 overpass at Georgetown is set to break ground.
Legislative Hall Veto
Governor Meyer line item vetoed a $35 million expansion of Legislative Hall.
Rural Health Funds
Delaware is receiving $157 million in federal rural health transformation funds.
Landlord and Tenant Code
Changes to the landlord and tenant code were discussed on the air this week, with hosts and callers connecting them to rents.
23andMe Settlement
Delaware’s share of the 23andMe bankruptcy settlement is reported at roughly $160,000.
PILT for Prime Hook
Sussex County received a federal payment in lieu of taxes of roughly $39,000 for Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge.
Emergency Powers
Delaware lawmakers advanced guardrails on emergency powers through House Substitute 1 for House Bill 329.
Sober Ride
Roughly 900 Delawareans have used the Sober Ride program since Thanksgiving.
Unemployment Split
Sussex County unemployment rose in June while the Delaware statewide rate fell.
Mosquito Control
Downstate mosquito control spraying is underway.
Water Affordability
Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester discussed the Water Resources Development Act and water affordability in a Morning Team segment.
Maryland
$20 Million for Waterways
Governor Wes Moore announced $20 million for 24 Maryland waterway improvement projects.
$7.5 Million in Health Grants
Governor Moore announced $7.5 million in health equity grants.
Onshore Wind
Attorney General Anthony Brown has intervened to protect onshore wind projects.
Worcester Tax Bills
Worcester County reported delays in tax bills, with online payment options available.
Shorebird Stadium Lights
Lights from Shorebird Stadium are headed to Winter Place Park in Wicomico County.
Buy Local Week
Maryland Buy Local Week runs July 17 through 25.
Both states
AARP Community Challenge
AARP Community Challenge grants were announced for local grantees.
The No-BOSS Bill
A bipartisan self employment assistance bill described on the air as the No-BOSS Act was reported this week.
DELMARVA Power Programs
DELMARVA Power promoted energy saving programs during the heat event.
Sources The Talk of DELMARVA News; Office of Governor Matt Meyer; Office of Governor Wes Moore; Office of the Maryland Attorney General; Sussex County; Worcester County; Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester; AARP; DELMARVA Power; Mike Bradley and the Talk of DELMARVA Morning Team; Your News Talk America; Your Turn DELMARVA.
Maryland Politics & Eastern Shore Government
Annapolis and the ShoreOcean City Wants Social Media Promoters Held Accountable
Mayor Rick Meehan spent twenty nine minutes on the Newsmaker Line and produced five separate governance stories.
Ocean City is pursuing a legislative effort to hold social media influencers and promoters accountable for calling car takeovers in the town, Mayor Rick Meehan said in an extended interview on the Newsmaker Line of Mike Bradley and the Talk of DELMARVA Morning Team.
The mayor described a letter to the Governor and to legislators, a presentation to the Maryland Municipal League, and a virtual meeting with 37 participants convened by a Lower Eastern Shore delegate. He said the matter may be raised at a coming special session.
He also called the Fourth of July the biggest weekend of the year in Ocean City and said it passed with no major incidents, crediting preparation and a large State Police contingent.
A town of a few thousand year round residents is proposing to legislate against people who post. The tension in the proposal
Sources Mayor Rick Meehan, Ocean City, Maryland, on the Newsmaker Line, Mike Bradley and the Talk of DELMARVA Morning Team; Town of Ocean City; Maryland Municipal League.
Redistricting, the State Party, and a Bill Coming Back in 2027
A Maryland redistricting special session was in prospect this week, discussed on Mike Bradley and the Talk of DELMARVA Morning Team alongside the Maryland Political Review segment with Dirk Herr and an interview with Maryland Republican Party Chairwoman Nicole Harris.
Separately, the Maryland Fairness in Girls Sports Act is to be reintroduced for the 2027 session. This newspaper will report the bill and the arguments on both sides of it when it is filed, rather than the characterizations of either.
Adjacent to both: the United States Department of Justice has sued the State of Maryland over the Community Trust Act, the state’s sanctuary policy statute. The suit is active litigation and is reported here from the filing.
Neither the Maryland Democratic Party nor the office of the Attorney General appeared on any of our programs this week to respond on the redistricting question or the Community Trust Act suit. The Patriot Weekly has requested comment from both and will publish their responses.
Sources Nicole Harris, Chairwoman, Maryland Republican Party; Dirk Herr, Maryland Political Review; United States Department of Justice filing; Mike Bradley and the Talk of DELMARVA Morning Team.
Maryland Rolls Out Chip and Tap EBT Cards
Maryland has begun rolling out chip enabled and tap to pay Electronic Benefit Transfer cards as an anti skimming measure.
Card skimming at point of sale terminals has been a persistent problem for benefit recipients, who in most cases have no practical way to recover stolen benefits. The chip and tap technology is the same protection that commercial debit and credit cards received years ago. This is a story about protecting recipients from theft, not about recipients as a source of fraud.
Recipients should watch for their replacement card and should not discard mail from the program. Delaware has no equivalent announced program that this newsroom has been able to confirm.
Sources The Talk of DELMARVA News; State of Maryland; Mike Bradley and the Talk of DELMARVA Morning Team; Your News Talk America.
Public Safety
Crime Watch and community safetyWicomico Jury Convicts Dagsboro Man of Child Sexual Abuse
A three day trial ended in conviction on ten counts. Sentencing is pending.
A Wicomico County Circuit Court jury has convicted George Harry, 48, of Dagsboro, Delaware, following a three day trial.
The jury found him guilty of sexual abuse of a minor, two counts of second degree rape, four counts of third degree sexual offense and two counts of sexual solicitation of a minor. Court records show that between 2019 and 2023 Harry sexually abused a minor in his household who was under the age of 11.
The court deferred sentencing pending a mandatory pre sentence investigation and a mental health assessment. Harry remains in custody.
This newspaper is publishing no detail of any kind about the child.
Sources The Talk of DELMARVA News; Wicomico County Circuit Court records; Office of the State’s Attorney for Wicomico County.
Ocean City Corporal Placed on Administrative Leave Amid State Police Investigation
The Ocean City Police Department has confirmed that Corporal Benjamin Berry is the subject of a Delaware State Police investigation.
Berry had been on paid administrative leave since early June for an unrelated internal matter. A second administrative investigation was opened within the past week after the department learned of the Delaware State Police probe. His police powers, database access and building access have been suspended.
No charges have been reported. Administrative leave is not an accusation and is not a finding. The nature of the state police investigation has not been disclosed.
The Patriot Weekly has filed records requests with the Ocean City Police Department and the Delaware State Police.
Sources The Talk of DELMARVA News; Ocean City Police Department; Delaware State Police.
Cyclospora, a Lettuce Advisory, and How to Wash Your Produce
A Michigan centered outbreak passed 2,600 cases and was later described as the worst United States season on record. The FDA followed with a warning on shredded lettuce in five states.
A cyclospora outbreak centered in Michigan topped 2,600 cases this week and was described in reporting carried on our air as the worst season on record in the United States.
The Food and Drug Administration subsequently issued a warning regarding Taco Bell shredded lettuce across five states, and case counts continued to escalate through the end of the week.
Whether the advisory affects distribution on DELMARVA has not been established. This newsroom has asked the Delaware and Maryland health departments and will report their answers.
The strongest community response of the week to any story came on Your Turn DELMARVA on Tuesday, when five callers, from Millsboro, Laurel, Milton and Maryland, worked through produce washing. Their contributions are community conversation, not medical guidance.
Sources United States Food and Drug Administration; Your Turn DELMARVA; Fox News Radio reporting carried on The Talk of DELMARVA.
Traffic and Public Safety Roundup
A Maryland State Police trooper and a driver were flown out following a crash near Berlin.
The Delaware State Police have opened an internal review of a Dover arrest video.
The Delaware Office of Highway Safety reported the results of a Sussex County driving under the influence checkpoint: 983 vehicles screened, four arrests.
A 62 year old Harrington man was identified as the victim of a fatal pedestrian crash on Whiteleysburg Road.
The Office of Highway Safety issued a motorcycle safety alert following the death of a rider.
Sources The Talk of DELMARVA News; Maryland State Police; Delaware State Police; Delaware Office of Highway Safety.
National Affairs
The nation, from DELMARVASeven Days of Strikes, a Reimposed Blockade, and a Threat to a Second Chokepoint
A United States air and naval campaign against Iran ran the length of the week, moving from punitive strikes to a blockade to the interdiction of third country shipping to the targeting of infrastructure.
The campaign advanced from a third consecutive night of strikes on Monday to a seventh on Saturday.
Across the week, United States forces struck Iranian air defense, coastal radar, missile, drone and small boat targets. Monday brought the first reported operational use of one way attack sea drones. A naval blockade of Iranian ports was reimposed, described on Tuesday as effective as of four o’clock that afternoon.
A Curacao flagged tanker, the Belma, was disabled with Hellfire missiles. Marines boarded and seized a crude carrier from the previously sanctioned shadow fleet in the Gulf of Oman. Road and rail bridges near Bandar Abbas were struck, described by United States officials as an effort to sever the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from the Strait of Hormuz. On Saturday, a large observation tower at the port of Chabahar was toppled, which Central Command said the IRGC had used to track commercial vessels.
President Trump declared the United States the Guardian of the Strait of Hormuz. A 20 percent transit fee on cargo was announced on Monday and abandoned on Tuesday in favor of Gulf state investment, with the blockade on Iranian linked cargo maintained. The President warned that power plants and bridges would come next.
Iran counterattacked United States allied states, including Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Jordan and Iraq, and struck commercial shipping. Kuwait said it intercepted missiles and drones and that a water desalination plant was hit. Iraq downed drones over Erbil. Reuters reported that Iran had ordered the Houthis to close Bab-el-Mandeb if United States forces struck Iran’s power infrastructure. The IRGC warned through Tasnim that countries hosting United States forces should expect corresponding consequences.
An American woman wrongfully detained since December 2024 was released during the week.
A White House spokesperson said Saturday that strikes had been exclusively on military targets including military logistics infrastructure, denying Iranian claims that civilian infrastructure had been hit.
A note on the numbers
Casualty figures on both sides shifted repeatedly within single days across the week’s reporting. The Patriot Weekly is not publishing a casualty count. When we hold a figure from a named primary source with a date attached, we will print that figure and say where it came from.
The DELMARVA transmission
The mechanism by which a war seven thousand miles away reaches this peninsula is the pump. Gasoline prices climbed all week. That report appears in Economy & Business.
Local engagement with the campaign was constant on Your Turn DELMARVA and in the Digital Interactive Audience Lounge (DIAL). The single sharpest DELMARVA security contribution of the week came from a listener in Milton, Eric R, who asked about drone proximity to the Port of Wilmington.
The question nobody in Washington answered
On Your News Talk America on Friday, Dr. Murray Sabrin raised the war powers question directly: seven days of sustained combat operations, a naval blockade and the seizure of third country flagged shipping, without a congressional authorization debate. It is the constitutional question sitting underneath every day of this campaign, and it has not been taken up.
Sources United States Central Command; the White House; Reuters; Tasnim; Fox News Radio reporting carried on The Talk of DELMARVA; Dr. Murray Sabrin and Commander Brigham McHown, USN (Ret.), Senior Fellow and Director, Hudson Institute, on Your News Talk America; Your Turn DELMARVA; Digital Interactive Audience Lounge (DIAL).
DHS and ICE Have No Written Vehicle Pursuit Policy
Three fatal encounters, a nationwide pause, a reversal within a day, and then a reporter established that the policy everyone was arguing about does not exist on paper.
The most checkable national story of the week came on Friday morning, when Anna Giaritelli, Homeland Security reporter for the Washington Examiner, told Your News Talk America that the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have no written vehicular pursuit policy at all.
That is an institutional finding rather than a political claim, and it sits underneath a five day arc.
Following fatal ICE involved incidents, a roughly 50 year old Mexican national in Houston on July 7, a 26 year old Colombian delivery driver in Biddeford, Maine on July 13, and a 28 year old struck and killed by a tractor trailer while fleeing an encounter at a gas station in St. Augustine, Florida, ICE suspended most non urgent vehicle stops nationwide pending new agent training.
Senator Susan Collins was reported to have requested the pause. Senator Angus King said the Department of Homeland Security had told him the Maine driver killed was not the removal target.
Within roughly 24 hours, President Trump reversed the pause, describing traffic stops as one of the agency’s most effective tools.
A joint congressional field hearing on the Houston killing is set for July 24. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Maine Attorney General are investigating the Biddeford shooting. An ICE officer has since been charged in the Maine killing; this newspaper is not publishing the officer’s name or the charges until it holds the court record.
Todd Bensman of the Heritage Foundation appeared on Your News Talk America twice during the week, on Wednesday and again on Thursday, and argued that a rise in vehicle rammings is connected to communities understanding that agents cannot pursue.
Sources Anna Giaritelli, Homeland Security reporter, Washington Examiner, and Todd Bensman, Senior Research Fellow, Heritage Foundation, on Your News Talk America; the White House; Senator Susan Collins; Senator Angus King; Fox News Radio reporting carried on The Talk of DELMARVA.
Two Justices Testify on Threats Against the Court
Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett testified about a sharp rise in threats against the Supreme Court.
Justice Barrett recounted being advised to wear a bulletproof vest after the Dobbs decision, and having to explain that to her 12 year old. She described a swatting incident, and menacing pizza deliveries sent in the name of the murdered son of a federal judge, in order to intimidate.
Fox News legal analyst Greg Jarrett, appearing on the Hannity program carried on our air, cited threat statistics rising by roughly 25 percent and then 38 percent, and more than a thousand credible threats over five years. Those are his figures and his analysis.
Sources Testimony of Justice Elena Kagan and Justice Amy Coney Barrett; Greg Jarrett, Fox News legal analyst; Fox News Radio reporting carried on The Talk of DELMARVA.
Grassley and Johnson: Jack Smith’s Team Reviewed the Texts of 44 Lawmakers
Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson published Justice Department documents indicating that former special counsel Jack Smith’s team reviewed text messages belonging to 44 members of Congress between October 2020 and December 2021, along with those of Trump administration officials.
Among those named in reporting on the release were Senator Grassley himself, Senator Tom Cotton, Senator Susan Collins, and Democrats Cory Booker and Karen Bass.
Senator Rand Paul accused Smith of lying. Senator Grassley described the probe as a runaway train. Those are allegations and characterizations by named senators. Perjury is a criminal charge that has not been brought, and this newspaper is not asserting it.
On Friday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan carried the matter forward in an interview on the Levin program, discussing a referral and a weaponization framing.
Fox News legal analyst Greg Jarrett outlined two statutes as potential civil bases and noted that any recovery would likely be borne by the government rather than by an individual.
Sources Senator Chuck Grassley; Senator Ron Johnson; Representative Jim Jordan, Chairman, House Judiciary Committee; Greg Jarrett, Fox News legal analyst; The Mark Levin Show; The Sean Hannity Show.
At Blanche’s Confirmation Hearing, a Delaware Senator Presses on Independence
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was pressed at his confirmation hearing on the Epstein files, including the release of unredacted victim names, which he called mistakes he took responsibility for.
Senator Dick Durbin urged him to meet with victims. Blanche said Justice Department representatives could do so but that he could not meet those with counsel.
Blanche rejected claims that he would politicize the Justice Department given his prior role as the President’s personal attorney. He cited falling crime statistics, including a claim of the lowest murder rate since 1900 and roughly 5,000 predators and traffickers arrested. Those are his figures.
Delaware Senator Chris Coons pressed him on the department’s independence. Blanche told him the Justice Department is part of the executive branch. Senator John Cornyn was told there is no anti weaponization fund. Senator Amy Klobuchar questioned him on deploying agents to polling places.
The Coons exchange is the most direct Delaware connection to any national story in this issue.
This newspaper publishes no victim identifying detail from the Epstein file discussion.
Sources Senate confirmation hearing record; Senator Chris Coons; Senator Dick Durbin; Senator John Cornyn; Senator Amy Klobuchar; Fox News Radio reporting carried on The Talk of DELMARVA.
A Bill to End Birthright Citizenship
Senator Jim Banks has introduced the Citizenship Act of 2026, which would end birthright citizenship, tied to a Supreme Court ruling. He discussed the bill in an interview on the Hannity program carried on our air.
Separately, Senator Marsha Blackburn has advanced a Ban Birth Tourism Act, citing a figure of 33,000 cases per year. The two bills are separate legislation addressing different questions and are reported here separately.
Steven Miller, Deputy White House Chief of Staff and senior adviser, discussed record deportations, commercial driver’s license fraud and banking integrity in a separate interview the same evening.
Sources Senator Jim Banks; Senator Marsha Blackburn; Steven Miller, Deputy White House Chief of Staff; The Sean Hannity Show; Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.
The House Votes to Stop Changing the Clocks
The Sunshine Protection Act passed 308 to 117 and moves to the Senate. On DELMARVA, this was the most engaging story of the week.
The House of Representatives has passed the Sunshine Protection Act, which would make daylight saving time permanent, by a vote reported at 308 to 117, following committee approval 48 to 1 in May. States would be permitted to opt out. The bill moves to the Senate.
It generated more community participation across our programs than any other national story of the week, and the interesting thing is that the participation did not divide along the lines anyone expected.
An anonymous caller to the Morning Team just before seven in the morning was on one side. A Dover area chicken farmer known to Your News Talk America listeners as Farmer Dave was on another. Greg Burns in Ocean City and an unnamed caller to Your Turn DELMARVA split between clock change fatigue and dark morning safety, with one caller proposing splitting the difference at a half hour.
For DELMARVA this is not abstract. Sunrise and sunset times drive the beach economy, the school bus schedule and the working day on a farm, and they do it differently at Fenwick Island than at Middletown.
Sources United States House of Representatives; floor remarks of Representative Pete Sessions and Representative Madeleine Dean; Mike Bradley and the Talk of DELMARVA Morning Team; Your News Talk America; Your Turn DELMARVA; Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.
Maine Democrats Scramble for a Nominee
Graham Platner, who won Maine’s June Democratic Senate primary in a landslide, has withdrawn from the race after being accused of rape. He denies the accusation.
The accusation is an allegation. It has not been established, and Platner denies it. This newspaper is not publishing the surrounding claims that circulated on talk radio this week, because none of them have been established either.
With the state’s nominating convention approaching and a July 27 deadline to fill the slot, eight of twelve candidates seeking to replace him debated for the first time on Thursday night.
A generic ballot analysis attributed to Harry Enten was reported to show Democrats’ chances of unseating Senator Susan Collins rising from roughly 50 percent to 63 percent.
That is the publishable core of a story that filled a great deal of air this week. The rest of it was allegation, and repetition across three nights of programming does not convert an allegation into a fact.
Sources Fox News Radio reporting carried on The Talk of DELMARVA; Maine Democratic Party; analysis attributed to Harry Enten.
Catastrophic Flooding in the Texas Hill Country
Catastrophic flooding struck the Texas Hill Country in the Camp Mystic region, with more than 30 inches of rain reported and the Guadalupe River cresting around 17 feet. A disaster declaration was issued and more than 200 people were rescued.
Death tolls reported at the county level differed across the week and were not reconciled. The Patriot Weekly is not publishing a toll until we hold a confirmed figure.
For scale: more than 30 inches of rain is roughly what DELMARVA has received in some entire calendar years.
Sources Governor Greg Abbott; Fox News Radio reporting carried on The Talk of DELMARVA.
What the Evening Hosts Argued About the Democratic Left
The dominant commentary theme across five evenings on our national programming was the Democratic Party’s leftward movement, discussed through Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, James Talarico in Texas, and Democratic Socialists of America positions on abolishing the Senate, the Supreme Court and ICE.
Pollster Mark Penn argued the party has been taken over by its far left. Bill O’Reilly described it as leaderless. Both were speaking as commentators, not reporting.
Adjacent economic claims circulated about wealth leaving New York and other blue states, and about record New York City rents. Figures cited for the wealth exodus varied by billions across programs within the same week, which is a reason to treat all of them as contested rather than to pick one.
Several allegations made on the air about named individuals during this thread are not published here. They were not established, and in at least one case the host acknowledged on the air that no investigation exists.
This is a summary of opinion expressed on our programs. It is not reporting and it is not the position of this newspaper.
Sources The Mark Levin Show; The Sean Hannity Show; Clay Travis and Buck Sexton; Your News Talk America; Mark Penn; Bill O’Reilly.
Israel, Antisemitism, and the Aid Debate
A sustained commentary thread ran across five days on our evening and midday national programming, covering Israeli aid reporting from COGAT, the state of American public opinion, and a dispute over Representative Ro Khanna’s account of a West Bank incident.
Two developments in the thread are reportable rather than commentary. Senator John Fetterman warned Democrats against becoming what he called the anti-Israel party. Representative Adam Smith of Washington reported that his home was vandalized and a staffer assaulted over Israel aid.
EJ Kimball, Director of Policy at the US Israel Education Association, and Bruce Pearl, the former Auburn head coach who chairs the U.S.-Israel Education Association, both appeared as interview guests during the week.
A substantial volume of what was said in this thread consisted of characterizations of named living individuals, and of a faith community, that were not established and in several cases were disputed on the air as they were made. None of that is published here. Where a claim of that kind was made about a person, this newspaper’s standard is that the person gets asked before it is printed, and none of them had been asked.
Sources Senator John Fetterman; Representative Adam Smith; EJ Kimball, Director of Policy, US Israel Education Association; Bruce Pearl, Chairman, U.S.-Israel Education Association; The Mark Levin Show; The Sean Hannity Show; Your News Talk America.
Election Security 2026
A new standing sectionThe Prime Time Address, the Response, and What Can Actually Be Checked
The President spoke for roughly 24 minutes on Thursday night and announced the declassification of intelligence he said shows major vulnerabilities in United States election infrastructure. This is what we can establish, and what we cannot.
The event
President Trump delivered a roughly 24 minute prime time address from the White House on Thursday, July 16, at approximately nine o’clock Eastern.
He announced the immediate declassification of intelligence he said demonstrates vulnerabilities in United States election infrastructure, said the supporting documents were being posted at whitehouse.gov, and framed five areas of concern. He tied the announcement to a demand that Congress pass the SAVE Act.
Networks were reported to have declined to carry the address, which prompted a threat regarding broadcast licenses.
The response
Democratic officials and several state election authorities responded within the hour. By Saturday, the Secretary of Homeland Security announced voting machine enhancements for all states.
Also on Saturday, two outgoing Republican senators who had lost their primaries broke with the President at the Aspen Security Forum. Senator John Cornyn said there was not a whole lot new in the address. Senator Bill Cassidy argued the focus should be on kitchen table issues.
What can be checked
The address happened. The response happened. The Department of Homeland Security announcement happened. Those are the three things in this story that this newspaper can currently stand behind.
The specific quantitative claims made in the address are a different matter. The declassified documents referenced in the speech, and the White House transcript, were not available to this newsroom at the time this issue closed. We have requested both.
Until we hold them, The Patriot Weekly is not reprinting the figures. Reporting on the address on Thursday night noted that a January 2021 intelligence assessment concluded that China considered but did not deploy efforts to change votes, with a dissent recorded from the Central Intelligence Agency. That context was part of the same night’s coverage and belongs in the same story.
The interviews
Five guests discussed the address and its aftermath on Your News Talk America on Friday, and one on The Mark Levin Show.
John Solomon, founder and editor in chief of JustTheNews.com, discussed the documents. Mark Meckler, president and co-founder of Convention of States Action and chief executive of Just the Network, discussed federalism and election administration. John O’Connor, a former Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of California and a Watergate author, discussed legal history and precedent. Jack Tomczak of Americans for Citizens Voting discussed the SAVE Act.
Joe Hoft and Kevin Jackson also appeared and advanced claims about election administration that this newspaper is not repeating, for the same reason it is not repeating the figures from the address.
Sources The White House; United States Department of Homeland Security; Senator John Cornyn; Senator Bill Cassidy; John Solomon, JustTheNews.com; Mark Meckler, Convention of States Action; John O’Connor; Jack Tomczak, Americans for Citizens Voting; Representative Jim Jordan; Your News Talk America; The Mark Levin Show; Fox News Radio reporting carried on The Talk of DELMARVA; Digital Interactive Audience Lounge (DIAL); Your Turn DELMARVA.
Election Special: Campaign 2026, Delaware
A new standing sectionThe Filing Deadline Closes and the Field Is Set
Delaware’s candidate filing closed at 4:30 on Tuesday afternoon ahead of a September 15 primary. Two Republican candidates sat down with us this week.
Delaware’s candidate filing deadline closed at 4:30 on Tuesday afternoon, July 14, ahead of a primary on September 15. Roughly eleven filings came in over the final two days.
On Wednesday morning, State Senator Brian Pettyjohn joined Mike Bradley in studio and walked through the closed list.
The Republican field for the United States House grew to three and then to four with Lee Murphy’s entry on Friday. A contested Democratic primary for Senator Chris Coons’s seat, an open treasurer’s seat, and several General Assembly primaries are also in play.
Dr. Michael Katz
Dr. Michael Katz, the state party endorsed Republican candidate for the United States Senate, gave the marquee local political interview of Thursday morning on Mike Bradley and the Talk of DELMARVA Morning Team, discussing the primary and the endorsement.
Lee Murphy
Lee Murphy entered the Republican primary for Delaware’s United States House seat and came into the studio on Friday morning for roughly twenty five minutes, discussing the field and his campaign.
What is still open
This newspaper is building a verified candidate matrix from elections.delaware.gov rather than from broadcast transcripts, and will publish it as the primary approaches.
An unverified claim circulated in the Digital Interactive Audience Lounge (DIAL) on Wednesday describing a three way Democratic primary against Senator Coons. It conflicts with the field described on our own air, it has not been established, and this newspaper is not publishing it.
Sources The Talk of DELMARVA News; Delaware Department of Elections; Dr. Michael Katz; Lee Murphy; State Senator Brian Pettyjohn; Mike Bradley and the Talk of DELMARVA Morning Team; Your Turn DELMARVA.
Economy & Business
The pocketbookGas Climbs Toward $4 as the Gulf Races to Bypass Hormuz
A blockade seven thousand miles away arrives on DELMARVA as a number on a sign in Sussex County.
With the Hormuz blockade reimposed, an energy and defense panel on Your News Talk America forecast unleaded regular reaching $4 a gallon within days and crude possibly retesting $100, with West Texas Intermediate then in the mid $80s.
Kenny Stein of the American Energy Alliance said the United States faces higher prices but not shortages. He noted that the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is at its lowest level since the 1980s, and described Saudi and Emirati overland pipelines expanding within roughly two years to move nearly all of their exports around Hormuz, while Kuwaiti, Iraqi and Iranian crude stay trapped inside the Gulf.
Sam Romain of Americans for Energy Dominance and Ryan Morgan of The Epoch Times appeared on the same panel with distinct views, and Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Distinguished Fellow at the Energy Policy Research Foundation, added an energy dominance frame on Thursday.
The national average approached $4 during the week. Prices in Sussex County reached roughly $3.95 by Friday.
Sources Kenny Stein, American Energy Alliance; Sam Romain, Americans for Energy Dominance; Ryan Morgan, The Epoch Times; Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Energy Policy Research Foundation, on Your News Talk America; AAA fuel price data; The Talk of DELMARVA News.
Twelve States Sue to Block the Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery Merger
Twelve states have filed suit to block the Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery merger, and the Writers Guild has filed a separate action. Both are reported here from the filings.
CNN’s future has been raised as a consequence of the transaction. Talk of a studio relocation to Tennessee followed later in the week, with Nashville named as a possible destination and state incentives discussed.
Sources Court filings; Writers Guild of America; Fox Business reporting carried on The Talk of DELMARVA.
Military & Veterans
Service on the peninsulaA New Commander Takes Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay
Captain Roberto Rivera assumed command of Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay on Thursday at a change of command ceremony in Philadelphia, relieving Captain Kate Higgins-Bloom, commander since 2023.
Captain Higgins-Bloom moves to Coast Guard headquarters as force design implementation team leader. Rear Admiral Zeita Merchant presided over the ceremony.
The sector oversees more than 815 personnel and roughly 2,100 Auxiliary volunteers across 11 field units. Its area of responsibility covers much of Pennsylvania and New Jersey and all of Delaware, and extends 200 miles offshore. The marine transport system within it is valued at more than $141 billion annually.
The Patriot Weekly has requested an interview with Captain Rivera and will publish it.
Sources The Talk of DELMARVA News; United States Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay.
Salute the Troops: A Navy Veteran Needs a Kidney
Salute the Troops ran every weekday on Your News Talk America, honoring a different service member each day.
Thursday’s edition was different, because its subject is living and is asking for something.
Sam Wiley, a Navy veteran, is seeking a living kidney donor. The appeal aired on Your News Talk America with details of a donor drive through DOVE Transplant.
Living kidney donation is a serious medical decision with real risks, and nothing in this report constitutes medical advice or a medical claim. Readers considering it should speak with a physician and with the transplant program directly.
Readers who want to learn what is involved, or to be screened as a potential match, should contact DOVE Transplant.
Sources Your News Talk America; DOVE Transplant.
Talk of DELMARVA
What the community discussedWhat Was Said on the Phones This Week
Your Turn DELMARVA exists to document what members of this community discussed during the week. What follows is community conversation. It is not a poll, it does not represent all residents of this region, and it is not reporting.
MJ Powell hosted Monday through Wednesday. Bill Reddish substituted on Thursday and Friday. Framing on those two days is Bill Reddish’s.
Produce, and how you wash it
Tuesday’s cyclospora conversation drew the highest participation of that day, with five callers from Millsboro, Laurel, Milton and Maryland, including a first time caller. It ran alongside, and separately from, the news of the outbreak itself.
The clocks
Three separate caller communities on three separate programs took up permanent daylight saving time, and they did not reach the same place. A Dover area farmer, a caller in Ocean City, an anonymous early morning caller and a listener proposing a half hour compromise were four distinct positions from four distinct kinds of DELMARVA life.
Iran, and what to call it
Friday’s Your Turn hour on the Iran campaign ranged across the difference between the Iranian army and the Revolutionary Guard, raised by Kim in Georgia, and the risk of escalation, raised by Danny in Easton. Hosts and callers used the phrase kinetic diplomacy.
Voter identification
Kathy in Lewes carried a Friday conversation on voter identification and paper ballots. It is the local end of the national story in the Election Security 2026 section of this issue.
Sources Your Turn DELMARVA; Mike Bradley and the Talk of DELMARVA Morning Team; Your News Talk America; Digital Interactive Audience Lounge (DIAL).
Pictures of the Week
Submitted by listeners of The Talk of DELMARVA
Picture of the Day is a listener submission feature of The Talk of DELMARVA. To submit a photograph, contact The Talk of DELMARVA News.
Week Ahead
On the calendar| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| Sunday, July 19 | The 2026 World Cup final, at the New York and New Jersey stadium. |
| Monday, July 20 | Follow up expected on the election security documents referenced in Thursday’s address. |
| Monday, July 20 | Delaware Republican Party interview scheduled on the Morning Team. |
| Week of July 20 | Senate confirmation vote expected on Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. |
| July 17 to 25 | Maryland Buy Local Week. |
| Friday, July 24 | Joint congressional field hearing on the Houston immigration enforcement incident. |
| Monday, July 27 | Deadline for Maine Democrats to name a replacement Senate nominee. |
| Tuesday, July 28 | Sussex County Council meeting. The county’s process under SB 23 is expected to be taken up. |
| Late July | The White Marlin Open, expanded to six days, Ocean City. |
| Date to be set | Sussex County public hearing on forest preservation ordinance 26-05. |
| Date to be set | Maryland redistricting special session. |
| Date to be set | Maryland special session on social media promoter accountability, as described by Ocean City’s mayor. |
| Monday, August 3 | Delaware’s Office of the Surgeon General takes effect. |
| Saturday, August 8 | Rehoboth Beach municipal election. Four candidates for mayor, three for two commission seats. |
| Tuesday, September 15 | Delaware primary election. |
| 2027 session | Maryland Fairness in Girls Sports Act to be reintroduced. |
| Ongoing | Living kidney donor drive for Navy veteran Sam Wiley, through DOVE Transplant. |
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Source Library
What this issue was built fromPrograms
- First Light DELMARVA
- Mike Bradley and the Talk of DELMARVA Morning Team
- Your News Talk America
- Your Turn DELMARVA
- The Mark Levin Show
- The Sean Hannity Show
- Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
- Fox News Radio and Fox Business, as carried on The Talk of DELMARVA
- Digital Interactive Audience Lounge (DIAL), RealNewsTalk.com
- The Talk of DELMARVA News
Named guests and contributors
- Councilman John Rieley, Sussex County Council District 5
- Mayor Rick Meehan, Ocean City, Maryland
- Dr. Michael Katz, candidate, United States Senate, Delaware
- Lee Murphy, candidate, United States House, Delaware
- State Senator Brian Pettyjohn
- State Representative Valerie Jones Giltner
- Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester
- Nicole Harris, Chairwoman, Maryland Republican Party
- Dirk Herr, Maryland Political Review
- Anna Giaritelli, Homeland Security reporter, Washington Examiner
- Todd Bensman, Senior Research Fellow, Heritage Foundation
- John Solomon, Founder and Editor in Chief, JustTheNews.com
- Representative Jim Jordan, Chairman, House Judiciary Committee
- Mark Meckler, President and co-founder, Convention of States Action
- John O’Connor, former Assistant United States Attorney
- Jack Tomczak, Americans for Citizens Voting
- Commander Brigham McHown, USN (Ret.), Senior Fellow and Director, Hudson Institute
- Dr. Murray Sabrin
- Kenny Stein, American Energy Alliance
- Sam Romain, Americans for Energy Dominance
- Ryan Morgan, The Epoch Times
- Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Energy Policy Research Foundation
- EJ Kimball, Director of Policy, US Israel Education Association
- Bruce Pearl, Chairman, U.S.-Israel Education Association
- Greg Jarrett, Fox News legal analyst
- Senator Jim Banks
- Senator Marsha Blackburn
- Steven Miller, Deputy White House Chief of Staff
- Mark Penn
- Bill O’Reilly
- Eric Burnley, Talk of DELMARVA Fishing Report
- Scott Lennox, Fishinoc.com
- Dave Jones, Atlantic Refrigeration
Government, agencies and public records
- Office of Governor Matt Meyer, Delaware
- Office of Governor Wes Moore, Maryland
- Sussex County Council and Sussex County government
- Delaware General Assembly
- Delaware Supreme Court
- Delaware Department of Health and Social Services
- Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control
- Delaware Department of Elections, elections.delaware.gov
- Delaware Office of Highway Safety
- Delaware Division of Motor Vehicles
- Delaware State Police
- Maryland Department of the Environment
- Maryland Department of Transportation
- Maryland State Police
- Office of the Maryland Attorney General
- Wicomico County Circuit Court records
- Office of the State’s Attorney for Wicomico County
- Wicomico County government
- Worcester County government
- Town of Ocean City, Maryland
- City of Rehoboth Beach
- City of Lewes
- Ocean City Police Department
- National Weather Service
- United States Army Corps of Engineers
- United States Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay
- United States Central Command
- The White House
- United States Department of Homeland Security
- United States Department of Justice
- United States Food and Drug Administration
- United States House of Representatives
- United States Senate confirmation hearing record
- Maryland Municipal League
Outlets and organizations cited
- Reuters
- Tasnim
- Washington Examiner
- The Epoch Times
- JustTheNews.com
- Writers Guild of America
- AAA fuel price data
- Delaware Electric Cooperative
- Choptank Electric Cooperative
- DELMARVA Power
- DOVE Transplant
- AARP
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