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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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For the sixth day in a row, protesters demanded racial justice in the city of Philadelphia on June 4, 2020. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community
Eyes on the Street

Creating safe communities in Philly starts with listening to communities impacted by violence

In order for Philadelphia to make a real change when it comes to disinvestment, leaders listen to the wisdom of the people who live here.

5 years ago

Stacy Levy, eco-artist, at Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

How better access to Philly’s two rivers could open spaces of welcome on now-hidden shorelines

The city is tucked between the Delaware and Schuylkill. To appreciate their relationship to each other, and to us, we need to reach them, Stacy Levy says.

5 years ago

Listen 5:47
Former Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Mike Stack (Jose F. Moreno/Philadelphia Inquirer)
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

Voters may never again get to choose Pa.’s lieutenant governor candidates

A proposed constitutional amendment would allow a gubernatorial candidate to choose their running mate after the spring primary, much like the presidential race.

5 years ago

About 215 gallons of oil from an unknown source washed ashore at Broadkill Beach in Delaware in October 2020. Julie McCall was surveying Beach Plum Island when she saw blobs of oil. (Courtesy of Julie McCall)
Community

Who spilled oil along Broadkill Beach? Officials and residents still don’t know

The Coast Guard sampled the oil. It queried 96 vessel arrivals and departures, in hopes of finding the source. Here’s what the investigation yielded.

5 years ago

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy speaks during his 2021 budget address
Politics & Policy

Here’s what’s in Murphy’s $45 billion N.J. budget plan

This year’s $45 billion budget proposal is a bit of a return to form for the first-term Democrat, who is up for reelection, though with some notable changes.

5 years ago

Samantha Rise leads a march demanding arts funding in a giant unicorn puppet
Arts & Entertainment

Philly Councilmembers Thomas and Richardson propose $1M for the arts

The intention is to prioritize individual artists and small arts organizations that do not have the same access to financial resources as larger cultural institutions.

5 years ago

Health care workers prepare to give COVID-19 vaccinations at a former Sears store turned in to a vaccination site, in Rockaway, N.J.
Community

Here’s how to sign up to get the COVID-19 vaccine in New Jersey

Trying to sign up for the coronavirus vaccine in Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem, or Mercer counties? WHYY has answers.

5 years ago

A nurse administers the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Guy’s Hospital in London
Health

Here’s how to sign up to get the COVID-19 vaccine in Delaware

Trying to sign up for the coronavirus vaccine in New Castle, Kent, and Sussex counties? WHYY has answers.

5 years ago

A person receives a COVID-19 vaccine
Health

Here’s how to sign up to get the COVID-19 vaccine in Pennsylvania

Trying to sign up for the coronavirus vaccine in Bucks, Berks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, or Philadelphia counties? WHYY has answers.

5 years ago

Philly Fighting COVID CEO Andrei Doroshin inside his apartment building
Health

Philly Fighting COVID CEO lashes out at ‘competitors’ in apology email to donors

Andrei Doroshin did not elaborate on what he was sorry for. Instead, he pointed to unnamed “minor administrative decisions” as fodder used to discredit PFC.

5 years ago

Anthony Voci speaks at a podium.
Courts & Law

White Philly prosecutor ‘lost nothing’ after exploiting his position to arrest Black driver

Prosecutor Anthony Voci still makes the same six-figure salary after he was reassigned amid criticism that he abused his power to have a Philly woman arrested.

5 years ago

Listen 2:28
Doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine are prepared at the Liacouras Center, where the Black Doctors Consortium held a 24-hour mass vaccination clinic on Feb. 19, 2021. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

Pa. coronavirus update: Philadelphians with HIV/AIDS now eligible for vaccine

Cases have continued to fall over the past two months, and the city has seen an 80% decrease in weekly case counts since the peak in mid-December.

5 years ago

A mural of Ahmaud Arbery is on display
Community

Memorials, lawsuit mark death anniversary of Ahmaud Arbery

A year later, as three men await trial in the Feb. 23, 2020 slaying, those closest to the 25-year-old Black man sought to make sure Arbery's death isn't overlooked again.

5 years ago

Tiger Woods was injured Tuesday in a vehicle rollover in Los Angeles County, authorities said. (NBC10)
Community

Tiger Woods seriously injured in crash on steep LA-area road

Woods had to be extricated from the vehicle with the “jaws of life” tools, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said in a statement.

5 years ago

A nurse administers the COVID-19 vaccine to a health worker.
Health

‘They spread nurses dangerously thin’: Pa. nurses unions unite to back bills on staffing levels

Unions from around Pennsylvania that represent health care workers are throwing their support behind a set of safe-staffing measures.

5 years ago

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