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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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Mengistu and Richard Koilor are the owners of Two Locals Brewing Company. (Courtesy of FCM Hospitality)
Lifestyle
The Philadelphia Tribune

Philly Black-owned brewery debuts its first beers

Two Locals Brewing Company, owned by brothers Mengistu and Richard Koilor, launched the beers in partnership with FCM Hospitality and Mainstay Independent Brewing.

5 years ago

Voters wait in a long line in the cold to cast their vote on election day Tuesday, November 3, 2020, at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School in Newark, Del. (Saquan Stimpson for WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Delaware moves closer to automatically registering voters at DMV

Delawareans would be automatically registered to vote after visiting the Division of Motor Vehicles under a bill approved by the State Senate Tuesday afternoon.

5 years ago

Merakey’s Fresh Start recovery program on Frankford Avenue in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood arranged for the Philadelphia Health Department to administer the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to residents on March 30, 2021. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Health

A Kensington clinic brings vaccines to people recovering from substance use disorder

Individuals recovering from substance use disorder can be at higher risk for COVID-19. A residential program in Kensington brought vaccines to them.

5 years ago

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw speaks at Olney Transportation Center, where a mass shooting occurred on Feb. 17, 2021. She joined local and state officials in calling for legislative and executive action to stop gun violence. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Courts & Law

Philly police chief says agency can’t fund violence prevention even as spending grows

Philly is spending more on policing now than in the past, yet PPD can’t budget for anti-violence work amid a homicide crisis, the Commissioner Outlaw said.

5 years ago

People wearing face masks wait in line to receive COVID-19 vaccines
Health

Pa. coronavirus update: Farley says pandemic ‘returning to where it began a year ago’

Philadelphia Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley says COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are rising significantly.

5 years ago

Employees work inside an Amazon fulfillment center
Community

‘Lighting a fuse’: Amazon vote may spark more union pushes

The two sides are fully aware that it's not just the Bessemer warehouse on the line. Organizers hope what happens there will inspire workers nationwide to consider unionizing.

5 years ago

New Jersey voter casts ballot
Politics & Policy

‘A big day for democracy’: Murphy signs N.J. in-person early voting into law

The state now requires counties to hold nine days of early, in-person machine voting ending the Sunday before Election Day in November.

5 years ago

Workers at Amazon's fulfillment center in Staten Island, N.Y., gather outside to protest work condition
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Primed: New Amazon warehouse derails land deal for SEPTA trolley facility

SEPTA’s trolley modernization project faces a setback after Amazon outbid the agency on a Southwest Philadelphia parcel it wanted to turn into a trolley barn.

5 years ago

Philadelphians gathered on 10th street in Chinatown for a solidarity rally and march against violence directed at Asian Americans on March 25, 2021. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

Donations for Asian American groups surge after killings

About $25.8 million has been pledged for such groups or causes by nearly 30 philanthropic donors in the aftermath of the shooting.

5 years ago

A jogger can be seen in the distance running in Wilmington
Health

Carney to expand Del. vaccine eligibility to residents 16 and older; outdoor restrictions eased amid rise in cases

Carney is opening up registration well ahead of President Joe Biden’s deadline. He’s also easing outdoor restrictions as cases and hospitalizations rise.

5 years ago

Malaysia Hammond places flowers at a memorial mural for George Floyd in Minneapolis on Sunday. Police brutality has sparked days of civil unrest. But the sparks have landed in a tinderbox built over decades of economic inequality, now exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic.
Courts & Law

Witnesses: Onlooker anger increased as Floyd stopped moving

Donald Williams returned to the stand Tuesday, a day after he described seeing Floyd struggle for air and his eyes rolling back into his head as he slowly faded away.

5 years ago

Kadi Schwinghammer (left) poses for a photo with her daughter Ava
Politics & Policy

Months into a new presidency, election tensions are still raw in this Bucks County school district

A battle over school board control is reflecting much larger political divisions in the Pennridge School District in upper Bucks County.

5 years ago

Listen 5:32
Legislative Hall in Dover. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Bill aims to assist Delawareans with disabilities who are paid ‘subminimum’ wage

Paying people with disabilities only a fraction of the legal minimum wage is a vestige of a pre-World War II program.

5 years ago

Listen 1:47
Desks are spaced out 6-feet apart in a classroom.
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Some higher-income families leaving Philly public schools in search of in-person learning

Losing these families could set Philly schools back in cash and political support as it faces the unprecedented challenge of recovering from a year of virtual classes.

5 years ago

Listen 4:31
Golf and Social Bar (NBC10)
Courts & Law
NBC10

L&I shuts down Philly social club where 7 people were injured in mass shooting

An L&I spokesperson told NBC10 Monday that they closed Golf and Social Bar due to coronavirus violations.

5 years ago

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