Hour 1 Last month, leaders of the School District of Philadelphia unveiled a radical reorganization plan that would transform – or “blow up” – the district’s structure, closing 40 schools over the next two years and more each year after that, slashing hundreds of administrative jobs, and creating entrepreneurial “achievement networks” to compete to lead [...]

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HR 2 Pulitzer Prize-winning author BUZZ BISSINGER takes a road trip with his 24 year old son to get to know him better. This is not your usual father-and-son bonding story – Bissenger’s sons, Gerry and Zach are twins, but they live in very different worlds. Gerry, three minutes older, is attending graduate school at [...]

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Hour 2 [REBROADCAST] SUZZY ROCHE and her sisters, Maggie and Terre, have been touring together and recording for over 30 years. Suzzy, the youngest, has recently written her first novel, "Wayward Saints," about the music industry, family and small-town ghosts of the past. Marty talked to Roche about performing, writing in a different medium for [...]

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Hour 1 We present a recorded and lightly edited broadcast of Marty’s Tuesday interview with Pennsylvania Gov. TOM CORBETT at The Prince Music Theater. Marty asked the governor about cuts he's made to education and public welfare programs, the impact fee for Marcellus Shale natural gas extraction, taxes, gay marriage and gay adoption, among other [...]

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Hour 2 Twenty-five years ago, TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS’ mother died of ovarian cancer, and she left Terry 54 journals, one for each year of her life. Later, when Terry went to read them, longing to hear her mother’s voice again, she found that each one was blank. In her book, "When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four [...]

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Hour 2 Last week, in a decision that may come with real political risks, President Obama publicly announced his support for gay marriage.  Since taking office, the President had frequently expressed his personal struggles with the issue but at the same time had signaled his support of gay rights through a variety of policies in [...]

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Hour 2 JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS helped The Washington Post win the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 with his coverage of the Virginia Tech massacre, and covered the 2008 campaign. But the heralded reporter isn’t covering this campaign, though he is deeply engaged in the coverage of a key political issue this year: illegal immigration. In a [...]

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Hour 1 According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, full-time working women earned 81 percent of what full-time working men earned in 2010, but over the past three decades women's wages have been steadily increasing. And now, more women than men are graduating from college, the number of single women under 30 who earn more [...]

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Hour 2 Writer ANNA QUINDLEN is on the verge of turning 60 and she says that one of the best part of getting older is that she just doesn't care what people think about her anymore.   She's raised three children, was a columnist for both Newsweek and The New York Times, has written several novels [...]

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Hour 1 Three years before he died, Khalil Wimes was living in the happy, healthy, loving home of ALICIA NIXON,  her husband J. Evans, and Alicia's mother La REINE NIXON. The family took Khalil in just one week after he was born at the request of his birth parents Tina Cuffie and Floyd Wimes.  Khalil [...]

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