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Brandywine Hospital in Chester County.
Health

Facing 2nd hospital closure in as many months, Chester County EMS Council puts forth solutions

The county’s EMS Council has released a ‘white paper’ that raises new pressing issues affecting the state of emergency medical care.

4 years ago

In this 1960 file photo, Martin Luther King Jr. speaks in Atlanta. The civil rights leader had carried the banner for the causes of social justice — organizing protests, leading marches and making powerful speeches exposing the scourges of segregation, poverty and racism
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

Celebrating a King, Harriet Tubman’s 200th birthday, dino domination, and a ‘Streetcar’ stops in Philly in this week’s ‘Things to Do’

Martin Luther King Jr. and Harriet Tubman are celebrated, and dinosaurs roam again in weekend event highlights in and around Philadelphia.

4 years ago

Listen 4:59
The dome of the Pennsylvania Capitol is visible in Harrisburg.
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

The (arcane, unlikely) doomsday redistricting law looming over Pennsylvania’s map impasse

It’s a vision of election overload that would undercut Pennsylvania’s proportional, local representation in Washington, D.C.

4 years ago

Family members of those that died in the Fairmount row home fire held pictures of their lost loved-ones at a candlelight vigil at 22nd and Brown Streets in Philadelphia on Jan. 6, 2022. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Philly has few affordable homes for multigenerational families. There are no plans to change that

Philadelphia Housing Authority has some five- and six-bedroom apartments to its name, but they are “exceedingly rare,” CEO Kelvin Jeremiah said.

4 years ago

The Justice for Fanta Bility silent march
Courts & Law

Call to action planned for Fanta Bility outside Delaware County Courthouse

Social justice groups UDTJ and Delco Resists plan a rally to coincide with a hearing for one of two teens whose shots did not kill the 8-year-old.

4 years ago

Three of Deepwater Wind's five turbines stand in the water off Block Island
Money

Huge offshore wind energy lease sale announced for New Jersey and New York

Six parcels encompass almost a half-million acres of ocean off the Jersey and New York coasts, to generate enough wind energy to power 2 million homes.

4 years ago

FILE - Ronnie Spector appears in the press room after performing at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on March 15, 2010, in New York. Spector, the cat-eyed, bee-hived rock 'n' roll siren who sang such 1960s hits as
Arts & Entertainment

Ronnie Spector, ’60s icon who sang ‘Be My Baby,’ dies at 78

Spector died Wednesday after a brief battle with cancer, her family said.

4 years ago

A sign was posted at the front of this CVS pharmacy at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Monday, Jan. 3, 2022. It was widely reported that the at-home COVID-19 tests were in very short supply throughout the state
Health

‘Mad or nah?’: Philly residents react to the scarcity of rapid at-home COVID tests

P.O.C., a partner in WHYY’s News and Information Community Exchange, hit the streets of Philadelphia to see how residents are faring amid the COVID testing crisis.

4 years ago

Listen 5:23
Delaware state Sen. Darius Brown (Darius Brown)
Courts & Law

NAACP, pastors want end of punishment for Delaware senator acquitted of assault

Some Wilmington pastors and the state NAACP say state Sen. Darius Brown should have his senate leadership positions restored after being acquitted of assault.

4 years ago

Philadelphia City Councilmember Cindy Bass. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Germantown residents say their City Council person abused her power to help a political backer win a development contract

A group of Germantown residents filed a complaint against City Councilmember Cindy Bass, alleging the lawmaker abused her power during a community meeting.

4 years ago

Dr. Mehmet Oz watches play during the women's singles final of the US Open tennis championships
Politics & Policy

‘Why lie to me?’: U.S. Senate race rivals attack carpetbaggery

A wide-open race for the swing-state seat has attracted wealthy and well-connected transplants, and homers Jeff Bartos and George Bochetto are seizing on it.

4 years ago

A medical helicopter rests next to the Drexel Hill United Methodist Church after it crashed in the Drexel Hill section of Upper Darby, Pa., on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022. Authorities and a witness say a pilot crash landed a medical helicopter without casualties in a residential area of suburban Philadelphia, miraculously avoiding a web of power lines and buildings as the aircraft fluttered, hit the street and slid into bushes outside a church.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Community

NTSB investigating medical helicopter crash in Drexel Hill

Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board will look at the physical condition of the helicopter itself and the flight conditions.

4 years ago

File photo: Elsa Estrada, 6, smiles at her mother as pharmacist Sylvia Uong applies an alcohol swab to her arm before administering the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a pediatric vaccine clinic for children ages 5 to 11 set up at Willard Intermediate School in Santa Ana, Calif., Nov. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
Health

Kids’ low COVID-19 vaccination rates called a ‘gut punch’

Vaccinations among the elementary school set surged after the shots were introduced in the fall, but the numbers have crept up slowly since then.

4 years ago

People pray near the scene of a deadly rowhouse fire
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

My building has 18 tenants and no fire extinguishers. Preventing tragedy requires more affordable housing

People too often have no choice but to live in overcrowded and unsafe households to avoid homelessness. I know because it happened to me.

4 years ago

Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer
Politics & Policy

Assessing the ways Chester’s Partnership for Safe Neighborhoods program has succeeded

Local, county, and state officials touted the results since the Nov. 2020 launch, including fewer incidents of gun violence.

4 years ago

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