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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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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

Vehicles arrive at the Delaware toll plaza
Courts & Law

Speed cameras to monitor I-95 work zone and issue fines

After a nearly 50% increase in crashes in the I-95 work zone through Wilmington, Delaware state police will launch the state’s first speed cameras to slow traffic.

4 years ago

School District of Philadelphia Superintendent William Hite
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Hite cites staffing shortfalls and crumbling infrastructure as proof of unconstitutional school system

Plaintiffs say Pennsylvania’s school funding model is inadequate and inequitable, and that the state discriminates against students in poor districts.

4 years ago

Springfield Hospital in Delaware County.
Health

Delaware County is down an emergency room in the face of COVID-19’s ‘perfect storm’

Hospital parent Crozer Health says patients looking for care will be directed to other emergency departments and urgent care centers.

4 years ago

File photo: New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy attends an event in Newark, N.J., Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Politics & Policy
6abc

N.J. Gov. Murphy reinstates public health emergency in fight against omicron variant

Under the Emergency Health Powers Act, the Public Health Emergency will expire after 30 days, unless renewed.

4 years ago

Former Bordentown Police Chief Frank Nucera Jr.
Courts & Law

Judge: Ex-South Jersey Police Chief Frank Nucera Jr. can delay prison sentence

Citing health issues and coronavirus concerns, a judge allowed former Bordentown Twp. Police Chief Frank Nucera Jr. to delay the start of his prison sentence.

4 years ago

Delaware Gov. John Carney speaks to the press
Health

Gov. Carney defends waiting until Delaware hospitals were ‘bursting at the seams’ to order masks indoors again

The governor acknowledged that hospital leaders had been urging restrictions, but said the business community is already pushing back.

4 years ago

File photo: Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings (Cris Barrish)
Courts & Law

Delaware AG sues city of Seaford over abortion ordinance

The complaint asks Chancery Court to make permanent a stay on the ordinance’s enforcement imposed by the city itself in hopes of thwarting a lawsuit.

4 years ago

Officials gather by a response vehicle
PlanPhilly
Community

Fairmount rowhouse fire that killed 12 began when a Christmas tree ignited

“We are left with the words of that traumatized 5-year-old child to help us understand how the lighter and tree came together with tragic consequences,” said Thiel.

4 years ago

A statue of Harriet Tubman is unveiled on the North Apron of City Hall
PlanPhilly
Community

Harriet Tubman statue arrives in Philadelphia in time for her 200th birthday

The nine-foot-tall sculpture will reside on the apron of City Hall until the end of March when the city will celebrate the anniversary of her birth in March of 1822.

4 years ago

Listen 1:26
The coal-fired Homer City Generating Station. Planned shutdowns could leave Homer City as the last large, traditional coal-fired power plant in the state still operating by decade’s end. (Reid R. Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Gov. Wolf vetoes measure to block Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative entrance

In his veto message, Wolf said the regulation “is a vital step for Pennsylvania to reduce carbon emissions and achieve our climate goals.”

4 years ago

A medical helicopter rests next to the Drexel Hill United Methodist Church
Community

Infant, 3 crew members suffer non-life threatening injuries in medical helicopter crash

Officials said it is a "miracle" no one on board was critically injured.

4 years ago

People line up for free COVID-19 tests outside Cibotti Recreation Center
Health

Philly hospitals ‘extremely stretched’ with COVID patients, but health officials see some hope

COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are still high in Philly overall, straining hospitals, city health officials said, but new positive cases are down slightly from last week.

4 years ago

FILE - Norway's Vibeke Skofterud, left, escapes a crash involving Sweden's Norgren Johansson, right, and Poland's Paulina Maciuszek in the women's 15-kilometer pursuit cross country skiing event at Whistler Olympic Park on February 19, 2010, at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games in Whistler, B.C. Many top Nordic skiers and biathletes say crashes are becoming more common as climate change reduces the availability of natural snow, forcing racers to compete on tracks with the manmade version. (AP Photo/Andrew Vaughan, CP, File)
Weather

Climate change: Athletes noticing the danger of manmade snow

Skiing crashes are becoming more common as climate change reduces the availability of natural snow, forcing racers to compete on tracks with the manmade version.

4 years ago

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