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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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Ian Turner of East Coast Falcons releases a Harris's hawk on the Ocean City, N.J., boardwalk. The town hires falconers to keep the seagulls at bay during the tourist season. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

Birds of prey protect beachgoers from seagulls in Ocean City, N.J. for fourth year

Hawks, falcons, and an owl are being used to keep seagulls away from humans on the Ocean City, N.J. boardwalk for the fourth year.

5 years ago

City Councilman Isiah Thomas says the surrender clause for Universal Audenreid High School is “another example of an added level of scrutiny for Philadelphia’s Black institutions.” City Council / Isiah Thomas
Education
Chalkbeat Philadelphia

Racial allegations thrown over provision given to one Philadelphia Black-led charter high school

Universal Audenreid’s renewal comes with stiff stipulations in ‘surrender clause’

5 years ago

President Joe Biden speaks on his phone after he and first lady Jill Biden arrived on the Ellipse near the White House, Friday, June 4, 2021, in Washington. Biden returns to the White House after spending a few days in Rehoboth Beach to celebrate first lady Jill Biden's 70th birthday. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Health

Biden turns to Obama to help boost health care enrollment

Biden used his weekly address for a brief Zoom chat with Obama to draw attention to the six-month expanded enrollment period that closes Aug. 15.

5 years ago

FILE - In this June 28, 2018, file photo, a police officer stands outside The New York Times building in New York. The Trump Justice Department secretly obtained the phone records of four New York Times journalists as part of a leak investigation, the newspaper said Wednesday, June 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
Courts & Law

Justice Dept. says it’ll no longer seize reporters’ records

The policy shift abandons a practice decried by news organizations and press freedom groups.

5 years ago

One of the many signs protesting a proposed solar project in Mount Joy Township, Adams County is seen here in front of the Iron Horse Inn on Nov. 24, 2020. Owner Tom Newhart said the project could hurt the tourism industry in the area, just outside Gettysburg. (Rachel McDevitt / StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Planned solar project near Gettysburg denied key permit

The decision comes after more than a year of hearings and increasingly heated debate on whether the community should host such a project.

5 years ago

From left, EU's Economy Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni, Eurogroup President Paschal Donohoe, World Bank President David Malpass, Italy's Finance Minister Daniele Franco, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, Canada's Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Chancellor Rishi Sunak, Managing Director of the IMF Kristalina Georgieva, Germany's Finance Minister Olaf Scholz, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Mathias Cormann, Japan's Finance Minister Taro Aso pose for a family photo as finance ministers from across the G7 nations meet at Lancaster House in London, Saturday, June 5, 2021 ahead of the G7 leaders' summit. (Henry Nicholls/Pool Photo via AP)
Politics & Policy

G-7 nations sign key pact to make tech giants pay fair taxes

The world’s richest countries signed a landmark agreement Saturday.

5 years ago

Philadelphia Fairmount Park's Belmont Plateau (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

Philly hosts summer job fair Saturday aimed at millennials and Gen Z

The goal of the event is to link residents ages 12 to 39 with job opportunities, education resources, and community services.

5 years ago

A Philadelphia parking garage at 8th and Chestnut streets. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Politics & Policy

Philly progressives, urbanists blast $130 million cut to city parking tax

Statements and a petition opposed a bill that would slash the tax rate to 17%, noting there was no guarantee lot workers would benefit, as promised.

5 years ago

Onlookers watch as almost 1,500 quilt panels bearing the names of New York area residents who have died of AIDS are unfolded on the Great Lawn
Health

40 year later: Philly nonprofits help residents living with HIV/AIDS

Saturday marks the first of two awareness days in June that honor people who live with HIV/AIDS, four decades after the first cases of AIDS were reported by the CDC.

5 years ago

Jeff Leatham’s “Habitat” at the 2021 Flower Show
Community

The first outdoor Philadelphia Flower Show kicks off Saturday at FDR Park

The Philadelphia Flower Show is the oldest and largest indoor show in the world, dating back to 1829. Due to COVID, this is its first year outside.

5 years ago

Claire DeMatteis is leaving her post as Delaware corrections commissioner. Monroe B. Hudson Jr. has been nominated to succeed her. (State of Delaware)
Politics & Policy

Delaware’s first female prisons chief leaving to oversee spending of $2 billion in COVID-19 stimulus money

Claire DeMatteis is moving to a new job after guiding the Department of Correction through a tumultuous four-plus years, since a prison riot left a guard dead.

5 years ago

Philadelphia skyline
Arts & Entertainment

A weeklong, pandemic-recovery celebration of Philly arts and culture is set for July

Seven days of events for all ages will span a range of different artistic mediums and cultures, beginning July 5.

5 years ago

A Philadelphia Police Department cruiser is seen traveling down a Philly street.
Courts & Law

Police experimenting with less ‘stop and frisk’ policing in Northwest Philadelphia

A federal judge has ordered the PPD to test what happens when officers change how they handle quality of life offenses like littering, panhandling, and carrying open liquor co

5 years ago

Interim Camden Mayor Vic Carstarphen, at right, who is running in the June 8 primary, shares a podium with US Rep. Donald Norcross, brother of South Jersey political power broker George Norcross, at a June 2 event to announce a $35 million grant to rebuild Ablett Village, a dilapidated Camden housing project. (Photo by April Saul for WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Gov. Murphy officially endorses interim Camden Mayor Carstarphen in Tuesday’s primary

Carstarphen is favored by South Jersey Democratic power brokers, such as insurance executive George Norcross.

5 years ago

(Thibault Camus/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Facebook suspends Trump accounts for 2 years

Facebook also plans to end a contentious policy championed by CEO Mark Zuckerberg that automatically exempted politicians from certain moderation rules on its site.

5 years ago

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