Transcripts
- Governor's Weekly Message Transcript: Celebrating Prom and Graduation Season Safely It’s prom and graduation season in Delaware and many families are celebrating together the milestones they and their teenagers have achieved. We, meanwhile, are working hard to make sure there will be jobs available for our young people when they are ready for their careers. Whether they are going to college, into the military service, onto employment training or travel, our young people will be moving in many new directions.May 11, 2012
- Governor's Weekly Message Transcript: Making Delaware’s Case to Major Employers This week, Delaware had two new chances to make its case in the national debate on how to get people working, make our schools even stronger and better prepare our nation for what is emerging as a global war for talent and jobs.May 4, 2012
- Governor's Weekly Message Transcript: Bloom Energy: Helping to Power Delaware's Future For generations, the Chrysler plant in Newark built cars that powered down our nation’s highways. Just down the street, the University of Delaware was building on its campus generation after generation of innovations and innovators to help power our nation’s economy.April 27, 2012
- Governor's Weekly Message Transcript: Volunteerism Brings our Community Together Recognizing the tough financial times our state and our fellow citizens faced, Carla and I replaced the traditional Inaugural Ball each Governor gets with a statewide weekend of service. April 20, 2012
- Governor's Weekly Message Transcript: When It Comes to Child Abuse – See the Signs, Make the Call Our children rely on us for so much – guidance, support, safety. We have a tremendous opportunity to be a positive force as they navigate through childhood and build a foundation for their future. But it’s more than an opportunity – it’s our responsibility. Children look to us to be role models, to make good choices, to be champions for what’s best for them. This responsibility is most critical when it comes to their safety and well-being.April 13, 2012
- Governor’s Weekly Message Transcript: STEM Council Aids Students in Competing for Global Jobs During some particularly challenging times these last few years, our state has made clear – again and again – that whether it was meeting the challenge of the federal race to the top contest, or trying to reopen the shuttered refinery at Delaware City, or tackling rapidly rising pension and health care costs, or putting our state back on the path to financial stability – Delawareans come together to fight alongside each other FOR things that matter, instead of AGAINST each other over trivial issues.April 5, 2012
- Governor's Weekly Message Transcript: Make Government More Transparent Through Lobbying Reform Bill Former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once said, “Sunlight is the best disinfectant,” and that’s as true today as it was when he first said it.March 30, 2012
- Governor's Weekly Message Transcript: Helping Veterans with Jobs In the last ten years, millions of Americans have served their nation in Iraq or Afghanistan. In answering the call to action, these brave men and women volunteered to put themselves directly in harm’s way, thousands of miles from home. And when they came home, so many found – and are still finding - the recession that had years of devastating effects on our national economy hit veterans who served in those foreign conflicts even harder.March 16, 2012
- Governor's Weekly Message Transcript: Finding Common Ground on Jobs, Schools and Curbing Costs Education, energy, health care and jobs. When it comes to high profile public policies, there’s enormous amount for some pretty substantial fights on those and other issues. March 2, 2012
- Governor's Weekly Message Transcript: "I Love to Read" Month Kids across Delaware know there’s probably no Hat on their actual Cat, or Socks on a Fox. They know Where the Wild Things Are, when to say “Goodnight, Moon!” and to say “no” when the Pigeon wants to Drive the Bus.February 24, 2012
- Governor's Weekly Message Transcript: Focus on Jobs in Delaware and at NGA We got some great news this week, when one of our major employers agreed to add several hundred new jobs here in Delaware.February 17, 2012
- Governor's Weekly Message Transcript: Helping Small Businesses Succeed Dupont, Perdue, W-L Gore may be large employers now, but each began as the passionate project of some inspired entrepreneurs. People pushed forward by the powerful idea that they had something unique to offer the marketplace. February 10, 2012
- Governor's Weekly Message Transcript: Federal Agriculture Secretary Pledges Support to Delaware Farmers Most Delawareans, and a growing number of Americans, know that our largest industry is actually agriculture- which drives around $8 billion dollar of economic impact each year.February 3, 2012
- Governor’s Weekly Message Transcript: Budget Priorities: Growing Jobs, Investing in Education, Governing Responsibly Someone said to me after my State of the State address last week that it seems like I spend most of my time focused on jobs, schools and governing responsibly. That so much of what we do – whether its budget or policy - seems to focus largely on those three issues. January 27, 2012
- Governor’s Weekly Message Transcript: Delaware’s Time to Lead This is Delaware’s time to lead. Creating more and better jobs. Improving our quality of life.January 20, 2012