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 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 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 In a decisive, dramatic and controversial break with the past, the School District of Philadelphia’s leaders have charted a course that could “blow up” the district’s structure, close 40 schools over the next two years and more each year after that, slash hundreds of administrative jobs, and create entrepreneurial “achievement networks” to compete [...]

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Hour 1 The shocking death of 6-year-old Khalil Wimes, who was allegedly starved and beaten to death by his parents, has outraged and confused many Philadelphians. Why was this young boy removed from a safe foster home and returned to his unstable family? Why did a Department of Human Services worker not report the abuse [...]

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Hour 1 Americans make a lot of trash, more than any other country in the world. In fact, each of us produces around 7.1 pounds of garbage a day, or roughly 102 tons in a lifetime. And trash turns out to be America’s top export; we ship a lot of it to China every year. [...]

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Hour 2 March 18, 1997 began like any normal day in the working class suburb of Warminster in southeastern Pennsylvania. But JIMMY MILEY didn’t take his older brother Buddy to the scheduled eye doctor appointment. Instead, Jimmy and Buddy, who had been paralyzed since a 1973 football game for William Tennent High School, drove to [...]

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Hour 1 In announcing its award for local reporting last week, the Pulitzer Prize committee praised crime reporter SARA GANIM and her colleagues at the Patriot-News of Harrisburg for “courageously revealing and adeptly covering the explosive Penn State sex scandal involving former football coach Jerry Sandusky.” Ganim, who is 24 years old and graduated from [...]

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Hour 2 In his controversial new book, “The Social Conquest of Earth,” which the acclaimed biologist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author presents as the capstone to his legendary career, EDWARD O. WILSON firmly and fundamentally breaks with a theory of evolution that he championed and helped establish as dominant. Wilson’s research leads him to argue that [...]

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