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U.S. Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware hosted a field hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on water quality issues Friday morning
Politics & Policy

U.S. Senate committee travels to Dover to hear water quality issues

Members of the U.S. Senate made a road trip to Dover Friday to hear from community leaders about efforts to improve Delaware’s water quality.

5 years ago

Tamanend Middle School in Warrington, Pa., Bucks County (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Pa. school boards leave national group after it asks Biden for help with violence threats

The decision comes after the National School Boards Association sent a letter to President Biden asking for federal assistance responding to threats against school officials.

5 years ago

Philadelphia Eagles tight end Zach Ertz celebrates a touchdown during the first half of an NFL football game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021, in Philadelphia
Community

Eagles trade Zach Ertz to the Arizona Cardinals

The Philadelphia Eagles have sent 30-year-old Ertz, a three-time Pro Bowler, to the undefeated Cardinals for rookie cornerback Tay Gowan and a 2022 fifth-round pick.

5 years ago

De'Wayne Drummond picks up a grill left behind after a crash at 34th Street and Mantua Avenue
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

After a spike in deadly car crashes, Kenney vows to ‘redouble’ traffic safety efforts

A new report from Mayor Kenney’s administration shows Philly has a long road ahead for efforts to improve traffic safety while making transit more sustainable and equitable.

5 years ago

Kathy McGuiness (left) and AG Kathy Jennings
Courts & Law

Indicted Delaware auditor accuses attorney general of violating her right to fair trial

Kathy McGuiness faces felony charges for abuse of her office. She says AG Kathy Jennings had no right to tell the public she would not answer investigators’ questions.

5 years ago

COVID-19 booster shot is prepared
Health
6abc

Philadelphia vaccine mandate begins today with first shot requirement

If needed, with the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine, a second dose is required by Nov. 15.

5 years ago

Protesters of Sunoco’s Mariner East Pipline kayaked to a clean-up site on Marsh Creek Lake in Chester County, Pa., where the DEP says 8,000 gallons of drilling mud migrated into the stream. (Kimberly Paynter / WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Some Democrats call for halt to Mariner East following charges, but don’t expect action from legislature

The top Democrat on the state senate’s environmental committee says the legislature likely won’t take any action on pipeline safety.

5 years ago

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden arrive on the South Lawn
Politics & Policy

Jill Biden out to flex political muscle in N.J. governor’s race

Jill Biden will attend an early voting rally at Middlesex College in Edison, New Jersey, where Democratic incumbent Gov. Phil Murphy is thought to be comfortably ahead.

5 years ago

A team of medical professionals rehearse how to bring a mock patient in a care bed to another floor during a dress rehearsal of different patient scenarios in the new Pavilion building at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Health

How HUP plans the big move — including patients — to its new Pavilion building

In two weeks, about 400 Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania patients will be wheeled out of their units. Thursday was the final dress rehearsal.

5 years ago

Iresha Picot sits on a stool in her home
Community

Meet Iresha ‘da hood therapist’ Picot, Instagram healer

Iresha ‘da hood therapist’ Picot is a licensed behavioral therapist who has built a community around a practice of self-care that she says she didn’t have growing up.

5 years ago

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In this 2015 file photo, Carol Cole is comfortably settled into her spacious well-lit studio at 915 Art Building on Spring Garden Street. One of the original artists to occupy the space, she had been there since 1981, and was one of the many artist forced out of the buidling in 2015 due to the fire. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Philly artists are opening their studios to the public for the first time since COVID

When the Philadelphia Open Studios Tour kicks off this weekend, one of its largest and most popular stops will reopen to visitors for the first time in six years.

5 years ago

Carli Lloyd takes a selfie with some young soccer fans during a celebration of her storied soccer career in her hometown of Delran, N.J.
Community

Delran throws ‘biggest party’ ever for retiring hometown soccer star Carli Lloyd

As she winds down her playing career, soccer star Carli Loyd was the honoree of the biggest party ever in her hometown of Delran, New Jersey.

5 years ago

In this Jan. 27, 2021, file photo, former President Bill Clinton speaks during funeral services for Henry
Politics & Policy

Bill Clinton in hospital for non-COVID-related infection

A spokesman for Bill Clinton says the former president is in the University of California Irvine Medical Center being treated for a non-COVID-related infection.

5 years ago

Karen Mouzone, a resident of the University City Townhomes, said that she and other affordable housing residents should not be removed from their homes, at a protest at 39th and Market Streets on October 14, 2021. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

‘It’s a part of my life’: West Philly residents protest sale of University City Townhomes

The complex’s owner, Altman Management Company, recently told the government it would not renew a contract to provide affordable housing at the site.

5 years ago

Resident Ann Gelfond stands in front of a pile of rubble behind her yard. She pointed to disturbances she’s experienced for the past few three years of construction of the Lower Merion School District’s new middle school taking place behind her house, as an indication of what the construction of athletic fields in the neighborhood would be like. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

‘Disconcerting to be a taxpayer and not be heard’: Lower Merion residents rebuke school district in open space battle

Opponents say plans to clear a woodland area in Villanova for playing fields would decimate the green space, and bring traffic and pollution.

5 years ago

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