Hour 1 This year’s election for Philadelphia Sheriff is more interesting than most. Sheriff John D. Green retired under fire on December 31st as investigations and audits revealed a missing paper trail documenting the revenues from the Sheriff’s sales of foreclosed properties. Acting Sheriff Barbara Deeley struck a deal accepting increased oversight of her office [...]

Filed under: Philadelphia, criminal justice, economy, law enforcement, politics |

Hour 2 One’s a rock star, bassist for the all-female band Antigone Rising. The other’s the VP of Real Simple Magazine. When KRISTEN HENDERSON and SARAH KATE ELLIS fell in love and decided to start a family, they joined the approximately 1 million same-sex families raising 2 million kids in the United States. But after [...]

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Hour 1 Most of us go to hospitals when we’re sick and expect to be healed, cured and mended but we don’t expect that the hospitals will make us sicker.  Every year 100,000 patients die of hospital-acquired infections.  You’ve probably heard of MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, but MRSA is just one of a growing number [...]

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Hour 2 If you’re accustomed to the zany TV host-in-a-chair-in-front-of-a-studio-audience antics of Comedy Central’s John Stewart and Stephen Colbert, they’re part of the long tradition of Trenton-born TV pioneer Ernie Kovacs. Kovacs’ daily two-hour morning program produced for NBC affiliate WPTZ came out of a Center City Philadelphia studio starting in 1950. The radio personality introduced [...]

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Hour 1 The first debate of Republican presidential contenders is scheduled for May 5th in South Carolina and the race is wide open with no clear front-runners emerging.  In Washington, Republican legislators are declaring success in the ongoing budget battles.  But back at home, some, particularly those serving their first terms, have been greeted by [...]

Filed under: economy, politics |

Hour 2 Politics can be pretty divisive these days.  We see it in Congress and on cable news, but what about closer to home?  Has partisan politics affected our relationships with our friends, families or co-workers?  And how do you maintain a friendship with someone on opposite sides of the political aisle?  This hour, we'll [...]

Filed under: author, family issues, politics |

Hour 1 CHRIS COONS is Delaware’s newest Democratic U.S. Senator, defeating Republican candidate Christine O’Donnell in November and taking office immediately. He joins Marty in studio to discuss some of his early votes, including repealing the military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy, to the budget battle now underway, to the change in political culture from [...]

Filed under: Delaware, LGBTQ, economy, politics, world |

Hour 2 Award-winning poet NIKKY FINNEY says if you have a good sense of yourself, you’ll have a good sense of your work. She should know – she’s been teaching writing for over 25 years. Finney joins us to discuss and read some of her poetry featured in her new book, Head Off & Split. [...]

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Hour 1 In recent months, amidst uprisings in their countries, Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has become a "guest" of Saudi Arabia, Ivory Coast's outgoing president Laurent Gbagbo was arrested, Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh is in limbo as the Arab Gulf states and the Yemeni opposition debate what to do with him, [...]

Filed under: criminal justice, history, military, politics, world |

Hour 2 Over 5 million Americans suffer from Alzheimer's and as the baby-boomer generation ages those numbers will increase with one in eight of them expected to be diagnosed with the disease.  As a result, more and more families will be overwhelmed with care-giving demands and the cost of care to the health care system, [...]

Filed under: health, medicine, science |